Movies like Baaria
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Baaria (2009)
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Original name: Baarìa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, sad, epic, sentimental, clever, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
politics, family relations, fascism, world war two, social differences, family life, small town, communism, election, mafia, love and romance, injustice, small town life, hopes, state affairs, child, youth, husband wife relationship, boy, chaos, italian history, traumatic childhood, magic realism, world war, fall in love ...
Time:
1940s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, sicily italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and humorous films with plots about family relations, father son relationship, coming of age, dancer, friendship, dancing and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Baaria: Cinema Paradiso (1988), 1900 (1976), Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style:
sad, inspirational, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, first love, friendship, filmmaking, nostalgia, cinema, haunted by the past, philosophy, flashback, movie theatre, village ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, sicily, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style:
epic, disturbing, thought provoking, controversial, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, italian history, politics, world war two, revolution, brutality, friendship, socialist, communism, class struggle, worker, peasant ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. Radu Jude (Aferim!) delivers an ...
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Time:
future
Place:
romania, rome italy, bucharest
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Accio (Elio Germano) and Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio) are working class brothers who live in Italy in the 1960s. While his brother becomes drawn into left-wing politics, Accio, the hotheaded younger brother, is taken under the wing of a market ...
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Time:
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Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
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thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Time:
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Goran Markovic, known more for his dramatic work, achieved something that's eluded many great filmmakers - both smart and funny comedy. Based loosely on his own life as a kid growing up in Tito's communist Yugoslavia in the 1950s, the ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the ...
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Country: Italy, France
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Story:
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