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The Dust of Time (2008)
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The Dust of Time (2008)
Original name: Η Σκόνη του Χρόνου
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.
Style: sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, postmodern, slow cinema, aesthetic, epic, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, love triangle, politics, parents and children, love and romance, couples, society, starting over, introspection, political unrest, hopes, state affairs, couple relations, bittersweet, immigrant, dialogue, existentialism, international relations, misfit, family relations, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, lovers reunited, immigrants
Time: 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 21st century ...
Place: kazakhstan, greece, italy, new york, russia, usa, canada ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about hopes, couples, society, love and romance, couple relations, family relations and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Dust of Time: Eternity and a Day (1998), Irene (2009), The Weeping Meadow (2004), Personal Belongings (2006), Vanished Empire (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Eternity and a Day (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
Style: slow cinema, road movie, philosophical, art house, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, immigrant, coming of age, art, dialogue, storytelling, writers, destiny, hospital, greek, refugee, journey ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 1910s
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Irene (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, dealing with death, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, filmmaking, unfulfilled love, loss of loved one ...
Time: year 2009, year 1972
Place: lyon, europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Weeping Meadow (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot: refugee, greek, village, wartime life, tragic love, on the run, orphan, political unrest, genocide, politics, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: year 2004, 1920s, year 1945, year 1936, 1940s ...
Place: greece, ancient greece, europe, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We All Want What's Best for Her (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, starting over, estrangement, introspection, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, accident, escape, society, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Personal Belongings (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot: love affair, impossible love, immigrant, couples, introspection, fall in love, hopes, society, couple relations, love and romance, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Vanished Empire (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with ...
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: love triangle, friendship, youth, politics, society, lifestyle, university, young lovers, hopes, idealism, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Same Same But Different (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: fall in love, love affair, unlikely couple, couples, interracial relations, society, life is a bitch, hopes, culture clash, social differences, terminal illness, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cambodia, europe, germany, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Greece, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he is an important Greek politician who disappeared ...
Style: slow cinema, metafiction, aesthetic, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: refugee, greek, underground, filmmaking, journalist, capitalism, anti fascism, love, time travel, chaos, reporter, immigrant ...
Time: 90s
Place: albania, greece, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Eden (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: disability, multiple sclerosis, housewife, boarding school, waking up, teacher, infatuation, family relations, power relations, couples, unfulfillment, youth ...
Time: year 1996, 60s, 20th century
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 334
Love Come Down (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: family relations, self discovery, interracial relations, drug abuse, addiction, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.9
 466
The Off Hours (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot: diner, small town, hopes, unfulfillment, bittersweet, dull life, love and romance, introspection, society, fall in love, love affair, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
 562
Paju (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style: touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Labour of Love (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Heaven on Earth (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada, india, asia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Maddened by His Absence (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Faith (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict with deeply-rooted ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, sincere, thinking ...
Plot: self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, hopes, society, youth, rebellion, against the rules, forbidden love, love and romance, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, hopes, couple relations, redemption, misfit, starting over, family life, culture clash, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children ...
Time: year 2007
Place: china, usa, asia, washington d.c., persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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A Family (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, new york, europe, usa, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The World (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Japan, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: “The World” is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital, designed around scaled representations of the world’s famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.The site is seen ...
Style: touching, psychological, sentimental, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot: self discovery, fall in love, social relations, society, amusement park, wedding, couples, bittersweet, immigrant, prostitute, artists and showbiz, misfit ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: china, tibet, new york, usa, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Common Ground (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, clever, realistic ...
Plot: couples, family relations, family life, destiny, love and romance, human nature, college, family in crisis, social worker, student life, society, parents and children ...
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Daybreak (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style: realistic, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, family problems, vengeance, crumbling marriage, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, redemption, introspection ...
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Dance Town (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: social differences, starting over, couples, injustice, political corruption, forceful separation, life is a bitch, state affairs, couple relations, dishonesty, society, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, north korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 369
Cet amour-là (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Plot: destiny, wartime life, soldier, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, family relations, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Few Days of Respite (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
World Traveler (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous ...
Plot: midlife crisis, self discovery, obsessive quest, introspection, starting over, society, human nature, love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, family life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
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The Big Dream (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer, Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among students against the government, Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, politics, rebelliousness, state affairs, against the rules, follow your dream, love and romance, secret movement, double life, mole, student life, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1968
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Becoming Redwood (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A quirky coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy named Redwood who dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Master's of golf he'll reunite his parents.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: youth, golf, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, estrangement, daydreamer, family relations, parents and children, disorder, hopes, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
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Phantom Pain (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: cyclist, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, disability, parents and children, human nature, human spirit, redemption, misfit, family relations, new love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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