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Forgotten Love (2023)
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Original name: Znachor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
surgeon, love, healer, amnesia, surgery, long lost daughter, memory loss, father daughter reunion, new identity, village, ambulance, jealousy, steam train, father daughter relationship, wife, professor, piano, class differences, jail, husband wife relationship, double wedding, sabotage, bribe, romantic rivalry, wedding ring ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
poland
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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:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 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, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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atmospheric, touching, period piece, stylized, lyrical ...
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Audience:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 133 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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Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, atmospheric, sensual, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
1930s
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
poland, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
Style:
touching, realistic, compassionate, psychological, novela ...
Audience:
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Plot:
mental institution, diary, destiny, female protagonist, tragic love, false accusation, world war two, obsession, priest, psychotherapist, life is a bitch, motorcycle ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
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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Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 118 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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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
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Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Iran, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 95 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, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic
Plot:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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