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:
fascism, politics, communism, world war two, social differences, family life, small town, election, mafia, love and romance, injustice, small town life, hopes, state affairs, child, european, youth, husband wife relationship, boy, capitalism, chaos, italian history, traumatic childhood, anti fascism, magic realism ...
Time:
1940s, 70s, 60s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, sicily italy
Keyword:
movie theatre, watching a movie, poster, salute
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sentimental, touching and crying films with plots about family relations, father son relationship, coming of age, friendship, cigarette smoking, photograph and death mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Baaria: Cinema Paradiso (1988), Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), 1900 (1976), Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979), My Brother Is an Only Child (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 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.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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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.
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epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, world war two, revolution, italian history, politics, communism, class struggle, friendship, peasant, socialist, worker, resistance ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, paris france, europe, france
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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, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
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Place:
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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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Plot:
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italy, europe, rome italy
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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