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Origin (2023)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, writer Isabel Wilkerson sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
caste system, female writer, class system, society, relationships, life is a bitch, love affair, male female relationship, social problems, relationship problems, love story, love interest, social issues, nazi germany, african american, segregation, interracial marriage, death of mother, lynching, black american, white male black female relationship, asian indian, travel, rape, slavery ...
Place:
india, germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling and disturbing films with plots about male female relationship, love affair, relationships, love story, couple relations, love interest and relationship problems mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like Origin: Max and Helene (2015), And Then There Was You (2013), The Astronot (2018), Felicitas (2009), Sour Apples (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Love, passion, and murder haunt a passionate romance in this drama. When the young soldier meets Helene, a torrid affair begins. 15 years after the war has ended, Max finds out that the love of his life was murdered in a concentration camp, setting ...
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forbidden love, investigation, nazi, social problems, love story, love and romance, love interest, romantic relationship, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, couple relations ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Newly divorced Natalie, who’s soured on relationships, meets a new man who challenges the boundaries of her trust and her ability to fall in love again.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
It was 1969 and America was embarking on the biggest adventure known to man - a voyage to the moon. Daniel too was pursuing the unknown; leaving the path of isolation he had traveled for so many years to embrace the love of another. The only ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, sincere, psychological, independent film
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
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168
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and ...
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, captivating, psychological, period piece
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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88%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In ...
Style:
political, epic, non-linear, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
civil rights, african american, racism, slavery, black, plantation, discrimination, journalism, slave trade, blaxploitation, female protagonist, black history ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1860s, 1940s, 1870s ...
Place:
america, southern usa, louisiana, usa, ohio ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In an eastern Turkish town, suitors knock on the door of the mayor and father of three beautiful daughters who choose to follow their own paths.
Style:
romantic, entertaining, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The relationship between a gaana singer and his girlfriend goes topsy-turvy after they realise a shocking truth about their respective fathers.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
A historical drama about the tragic fate of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, a woman who remained in the shadow of her husband Joseph Stalin. In 1918, 16-year-old Nadezhda married 38-year-old Joseph Stalin, a close friend of the Alliluyev family. The love of ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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104
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story with style and lyricism, with black and brown youth at the heart of it all.
Style:
psychological, captivating, romantic, thrilling
Plot:
shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragedy, relationships, romantic relationship, love story, love and romance, in love, family disapproval, star crossed lovers, family conflict, relationship problems, family feud ...
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63%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada, Senegal, Italy, Mali
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic
Plot:
relationships, male female relationship, romantic relationship, couple relations, dancing, forced marriage, love story, life is a bitch, fall in love, loveless marriage, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Following six years of love, longing & togetherness, Arun and Divya start to drift apart.Will their love endure their differences, or does love really need to endure so much?
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
relationship problems, abusive relationship, problem, family relations, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, marriage, love and romance, marital problem, couple relations ...
Place:
india
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62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A marriage is put to the test when an interracial couple are forced to quarantine together through the Covid pandemic and 'Black Lives Matter' movement.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, independent film
Plot:
black lives matter, white male black female relationship, quarantine, interracial romance, marriage, interracial marriage, love, pandemic, coronavirus, interracial couple, interracial relations, couples ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
iron curtain, cold war, repression, political oppression, society, social issues, life is a bitch, social problems, resistance, realism, emigration, refugee ...
Place:
german democratic republic, east germany, germany
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Story:
The love story of 2 youths during the '700s. Fabrizio, a boy who was supposed to be a noble and part of Napoleons army, and Clelia a beautiful girl of a important Noble of the high society of Parma in that era. Their love became impossible ...
Style:
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Plot:
forbidden love, napoleonic wars, love triangle, relationship problems, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, family life, relationships, male female relationship, social problems, love story ...
Time:
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296
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
race issues, forbidden love, racial slur, interracial relations, star crossed lovers, interracial couple, interracial romance, racial segregation, interracial friendship, gypsy, racism, love affair ...
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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romantic, psychological, captivating, thrilling
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Place:
india
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49%
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
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Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, political, talky
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
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Place:
italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sri Lanka
Story:
This mythological film depicts the romantic relationship between Hindu god Kartikeya and the aboriginal princess Valli.
Style:
psychological, captivating, romantic, thrilling, romantic drama ...
Plot:
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45%
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Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, realistic
Plot:
love story, couple relations, love affair, male female relationship, relationship problems, family relations, love interest, relationships, life is a bitch, fight, family problems, longing ...
Place:
india
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, romantic ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Germany, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China
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Story:
In the year of 1926, Mu Wan Qing brings her mom's ashes back to China burial. On the pretense of surrendering to her father, Mu Wan Qing has an actual motive in finding the true reason why her parents separated and her siblings died. Meanwhile, ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
racism, civil rights, segregation, african american, friendship, ku klux klan, women, black history, racial discrimination, social commentary, race issues, black ...
Time:
1950s, year 1955, 20th century, 50s
Place:
america, usa, alabama, southern usa, new jersey
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
A Javanese royal and half-Dutch woman fall in love as Indonesia rises to independence from colonial rule.
Style:
captivating, psychological, romantic, disturbing, period piece ...
Plot:
colonialism, culture, love story, love affair, male female relationship, relationships, love and romance, romantic relationship, couple relations, lifestyle, colonization, courtroom ...
Time:
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