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The Call of the Toad (2005)
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Original name: Unkenrufe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, humorous, emotional
Plot:
fascism, family relations, love and romance, society, nazi germany, stereotypes, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, mother son relationship, christmas, cemetery, theft, singing, funeral, berlin wall, catholic priest, widower, woman, widow, funeral home, auto repair, prejudice, toad, flashback ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany, poland
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Most similar movies to The Call of the Toad
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, family relations, society, couples, parents and children, love and fall in love mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Call of the Toad: The Quack (1982), Summer Rain (2006), The Magnificent Ambersons (2001), Love Is Blind (2013), Noukadubi (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
memory loss, life is a bitch, surgeon, losing-it hero, prodigy, daughter, love and romance, witch doctor, healer, polish, village life, amnesia ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
buddies, coming of age, obsession, love and romance, best friend, teenage life, teenage love, older woman younger man relationship, fascism, male female relationship, friends, youth ...
Time:
70s
Place:
spain, europe
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25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As ...
Style:
touching, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, downfall, mischievous children, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, society, human nature, parents and children, dysfunctional family, social differences ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, edwardian era, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
america
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24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, parents and children, unlikely couple, society, social misfits, village life, self discovery, family relations, drunkenness, summer, tourism, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
estonia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Rameshchandra Chaudhry, a lawyer by profession, is in love with Hemnalini, and is displeased when he finds that his father wants him to marry Sushilla, the daughter of a widow. He initially refuses despite of his father disowning him, but changes ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, touching
Plot:
true love, fall in love, unfulfilled love, mistaken identity, family relations, dishonesty, moral dilemma, love and romance, unfulfillment, disorder, parents and children, husband ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
kolkata, india, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
adoption, couple relations, family relations, society, hopes, city life, love, rivalry, indian woman, culture shock, spirituality, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, kolkata
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
Style:
independent film, captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family relations, lone wolves, society, culture clash, wilderness, family life, against the odds, progress, horse, horse riding, technology, australian outback ...
Time:
1920s, year 1978
Place:
ireland, australia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, love and romance, couples, family problems, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, heartfelt
Plot:
christmas, fall in love, love and romance, estrangement, estate, xmas, parents and children, youth, legal action, family relations, foster child, blind girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheating wife, marriage proposal, society, couple relations, family relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, introspection, village, village life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage love, love affair, family problems, love and romance, society, lifestyle, family life, life turned upside down, teenage life, farm ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot:
opera singer, family relations, introspection, performer's life, uncover truth, life turned upside down, artists and showbiz, parents and children, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, dead mother, american abroad ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, germany, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, psychological, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
letter, funeral, love affair, master and servant, fall in love, family relations, secret love, society, woman, voice over narration, autobiography, platonic ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1941
Place:
japan, asia, pearl harbor, hiroshima japan
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Bollywood film about the famous courtesan of the title. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
Style:
captivating, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, impossible love, life is a bitch, social differences, courtesan, society, destiny, curses spells and rituals, medieval, abduction, brothel, rebellion ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, impossible love, lovers reunited, couples, fall in love, tragic love, relationships, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, betrayal, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
20%
224
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Loving husband Lino is on a mission: His wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers wh make their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, tagalog ...
Plot:
missing person, fall in love, couples, infidelity, couple relations, society, dangerous attraction, love and romance, travel, wife, woman, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, the philippines, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, love, deaf, starting over, boarding school, dealing with death, youth, single parent, hopes, love and romance, couples, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Madhava's love life troubles him for his life goals accomplishment, How will he achive his goal along with his partner ?
Style:
realistic, sincere, romantic drama, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
relationships, love, husband wife relationship, couple relations, fall in love, couples, friends, friendship, love and romance, love affair, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, against the rules, couples, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, society, infidelity, bittersweet, indian woman, wedding, best friend ...
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Emmi would like to cancel her subscription to "Like" magazine via e-mail. But due to a typo, her messages land in Leo Leike’s inbox. When Emmi repeatedly sends mails to the wrong address, Leo decides to inform her of her mistake. This ...
Style:
realistic, romantic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love story, couple relations, romantic relationship, in love, love affair, love and romance, male female relationship, relationships, unhappy marriage, wedding ceremony, fall in love, introspection ...
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, homecoming, love and romance, society, husband wife relationship, seduction, infidelity, father son relationship, lovers reunited, family business, nude bathing ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Ravi and Masha are just children when they were sold into labour by their parents. When they meet, friendship blossoms between them but when the factory manager threatens to sell Masha, possibly into sex slavery, Ravi gives up his hard earned ...
Style:
captivating, touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
bribery, love affair, factory, innocence lost, love and romance, young heroes, obsessive quest, adultery, meditation, young love, society, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is ...
Style:
historical romance, independent film, erotic, sexual, touching ...
Plot:
sensuality, gypsy, virgin, family relations, best friend, unfulfilled love, tragic love, social differences, forbidden love, small town, looking for love, village life ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
england, europe, northern england
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When friendship deepens into what veterinarian Keng hopes could become love, he learns that beautiful Fai still harbors feelings for her ex-husband who also happens to be Keng's best friend.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
unfulfillment, friendship, unfulfilled love, family relations, elderly, aging, friends, parents and children, true love, fall in love, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
pregnancy, family relations, forbidden love, parents and children, society, life turned upside down, honor, student, love, rivalry, couples, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the bayou. When Caleb tries to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, couples, family relations, miraculous event, hopes, christmas romance, love, comeback, hometown, christmas eve, christmas time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A secret and deep passion marks the life of a young doctor, and threatens the existence of those around him.
Style:
realistic, serious, sexual, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
love triangle, tragic love, woman, dull life, family relations, family problems, couples, dishonesty, unsupportive spouse, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, young lovers ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
galicia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Despite his best intentions, billionaire Jason Stevens can’t find enough time to keep his beloved Alexia a priority. But when he discovers his late grandfather’s journal, he is transported back to Red Stevens’ incredible world. With everything ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
sent to the past, destiny, rags to riches, christian, self discovery, introspection, wisdom of life, family relations, teaching the ways of the world, once in a lifetime opportunity, lawsuit, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tibet, haiti
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, couples, unfulfilled love, teenage life, hopes, society, friendship, male female relationship, looking for sex, youth, loss of virginity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, murder, betrayal, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, female protagonist, masturbation, psychopath, stealing ...
Time:
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