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Gal Young Un (1979)
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Original name: Gal Young 'Un
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mattie, a widow living in the backwoods of Florida during Prohibition, meets Trax, a charming man much younger that herself. Trax is a womanizing, lying bootlegger who needs money and he sets his sights on Mattie who can support him. After energetically courting her, Mattie marries Trax, who before long brings home a young woman to be their housekeeper, but it is obvious that she is to be his mistress. When Trax leaves on business, the two women each contemplate how they are being exploited and Mattie comes up with a plan of her own.
Style:
independent film, humorous, serious, realistic
Plot:
forest, smuggler, woods, age-gap relationship, love triangle, betrayal, love and romance, couples, infidelity, contests and competitions, siblings relations, courtroom drama, dishonesty, couple relations, dog, gambling, poker, cat, hunting, party, seduction, womanizer, mistress, recluse, fire ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about couples, love and romance, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, family relations and love triangle mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Gal Young Un: The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Double Standard (1988), Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010), Gilles' Wife (2004), All Fall Down (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
duel, betrayal, love triangle, couples, rivalry, human nature, uninhibited rivalry, couple relations, tragic hero, dishonesty, downfall, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
russia, black sea, caucasus
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
black and white, social, retro, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
ohio, florida, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic
Plot:
social differences, infidelity, boss and employee, workplace romance, rivalry, introspection, culture clash, love triangle, save the day, obsessive quest, couples, siblings relations ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
north carolina, usa
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80%
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315
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself ...
Style:
erotic, touching, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
77%
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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155
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
64%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, contemplative, gloomy
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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