Movies like Lara
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Lara (2019)
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It is Lara's sixtieth birthday and it is surely no coincidence that her son Viktor is giving the most important piano concert of his career – since it was her who mapped out and forced Victor's musical career in the first place. Yet the day does not go as expected and Lara has to discover that Viktor is using the concert to finally free himself from her grip.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, melancholic, depressing, visual, wistful
Plot:
mother son conflict, classical music, ex husband ex wife relationship, loneliness, depression, musician, music, birthday, composer, girl, taxi driver, mother daughter relationship, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt, mother daughter conflict, piano teacher, pianist, birthday cake, taxi ride, concert hall
Time:
90s, year 2019
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Most similar movies to Lara
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about musician, music, musician's life, artists and showbiz, classical music, family relations and concert mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like Lara: Four Minutes (2006), Lisbon Story (1994), Beyond Silence (1996), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Berlin Calling (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
women's prison, pianist, classical music, prison, lgbt, prodigy, lesbian, female friendship, musician's life, hopes, teachers and students, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
germany
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100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lisbon Story is Wim Wender’s homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterous postcard of a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, musician, road trip, filmmaker, art, on the road, rock ...
Time:
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Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sad, spiritual, crying ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, sign language, deaf mute, deaf, brother sister relationship, aunt niece relationship, love, bicycle, audition, deafness, music ...
Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, germany, italy
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60%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Style:
depressing, atmospheric, bleak, meditative, clever ...
Plot:
music, homeless, musician, loneliness, cat, musician's life, financial problem, road trip, aspiring singer, depression, art, eccentricity ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, somalia, indiana, chicago ...
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59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
techno, techno music, drug abuse, mentally unstable, rehabilitation, dj, mental institution, musician's life, lifestyle, cocaine, party, clubbing ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Serbia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
Style:
rough, bleak, melancholic, serious, atmospheric
Plot:
single mother, haunted by the past, uncover truth, isolation, death of father, depression, surrealism, post traumatic stress disorder, paranoia, feminism, woman, family relations ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
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58%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom, Wisconsin. The Greens share musical aspirations, but daughter Rachel (Madeline Zima), a talented ...
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, sincere, touching
Audience:
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Plot:
small town, family life, culture clash, musician's life, dull life, performer's life, supportive spouse, family relations, music, music conductor, choir, orchestra ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Iran, Tajikistan, France
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Khorshid lives with his mom in a house near a river somewhere in Tajikistan. Th landlord comes around every morning to ask for the rent. Khorshid has to provide the money or else they'll have to leave. His blindness has given him an amazing ...
Style:
islamic, independent film, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
middle east, iran, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.
Style:
psychedelic, art house, bleak, intense, lyrical ...
Plot:
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Time:
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57%
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Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, period drama
Plot:
classical music, composer, musician, art, musician's life, male female relationship, life, changing lives, historical figure, king, relationship problems, historical character ...
Time:
victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, stylized, atmospheric
Plot:
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Time:
year 1979, 18th century, 17th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The drummer Tommy is known for being the local Casanova, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
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eastern europe
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56%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland, UK, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new ...
Plot:
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Place:
eastern europe
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56%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
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Plot:
world war two, musician's life, performer's life, artists and showbiz, older man younger woman relationship, nazi germany, desire for fame, rise and fall, showbiz, human nature, music, lifestyle ...
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to ...
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Place:
seattle, usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The movie is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), where we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still ...
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Plot:
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55%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, stylized, uplifting, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father son relationship, youth, music, coming of age, prodigy, rise to the top, musician's life, teenage life, hopes, teachers and students, humanity, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
china, beijing china, asia
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55%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years ...
Style:
realistic, intense, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
classical music, aging, music, musician's life, rehearsal, musician, intrigue, ego clash, friendship, life is a bitch, rivalry, under the surface ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, UK, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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germany, europe, austria, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. However, Lydia's elaborate facade begins to unravel, revealing dirty secrets and the corrosive nature of power.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, powerful, dorama ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional ...
Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, marriage, autumn, child neglect, mother daughter estrangement, pianist, reconciliation, classical music, family relations, bad mother, existentialism, women ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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55%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Place:
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55%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
disability, multiple sclerosis, tragic hero, life is a bitch, family problems, musician's life, crumbling marriage, couples, life turned upside down, family in crisis, violin, extramarital affair ...
Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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54%
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