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The End Is My Beginning (2010)
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The End Is My Beginning (2010)
Original name: Das Ende ist mein Anfang
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press correspondent in Southeast Asia, about the political and social changes which he has seen, and about the spiritual transformation he has experienced in recent years. But for him the most important is to show his son how he is preparing for the last great adventure of a lifetime.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky
Plot: elderly, introspection, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, terminal illness, unfulfillment, dealing with death, biopic, writers, poet, son, village
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: italy, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, biopic, parents and children, terminal illness and hopes mostly in Drama, Biography and Mystery genres. Some movies like The End Is My Beginning: Stopped on Track (2011), Nicholas' Gift (1998), When the Night (2011), Brazuca (2009), Last Call (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stopped on Track (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
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Nicholas' Gift (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to ...
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Time: 90s
Place: italy, europe
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When the Night (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, serious, sincere, contemplative
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.
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Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 125 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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48%
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