Movies like Barbara 1997
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Barbara (1997)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
Style:
romantic drama, atmospheric, melancholic, historical drama, period drama
Plot:
priest, forbidden love, love triangle, moral dilemma, island, passion, seduction, isolation, temptation, clergy, religious conflict, moral ambiguity, mystery woman, loneliness, jealousy, femme fatale, tragic romance, character study, love, yacht, boat, girl, forgiveness, widow, mysterious woman
Time:
18th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, romantic drama, atmospheric and art house films with plots about love triangle, jealousy, obsession, betrayal, psychological drama, character study and forbidden love mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Barbara: The Tomorrow Man (2019), Pan (1995), The Sacred Mound (1993), The Perfect Husband (1992), Seduction by the Sea (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, social, romantic comedy, romantic, melancholic
Plot:
loss of child, survivalist, lovers, love, loneliness, second chance, character study, realism, intimate, midlife crisis, everyday life, slice of life ...
Place:
usa
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287
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very ...
Style:
bleak, romantic drama, tragic ending, period drama
Plot:
emotional manipulation, tragic romance, obsessive love, regret, melancholy, character study, heartbreak, jealousy, loneliness, male protagonist, mature, isolation ...
Place:
arabia
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, art house
Plot:
coming of age, island, wedding, fire, lighthouse, sexual awakening, obsession, jealousy, loneliness, character study, sexual tension, isolation ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, UK, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her.
Style:
intense, romantic drama, atmospheric, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, seduction, affair, infidelity, jealousy, forbidden love, character study, duel, obsession, guilty, lonely, literary ...
Time:
turn of the century, 90s
Place:
prague
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.
Style:
romantic drama, sensual, intercultural
Plot:
seduction, island, seaside, sexual tension, love triangle, deception, escape, loneliness, isolation, manipulation, mother son relationship, getting home ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Style:
romantic drama, period piece, tragic ending, sensual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, love triangle, seduction, femme fatale, passion, romantic rivalry, fascism, jealousy, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1920s, year 1975
Place:
italy
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, sinister, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
femme fatale, seduction, suicide, obsession, character study, fatal attraction, tragedy, love triangle, betrayal, jealousy, femininity, sexual tension ...
Place:
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Similarity:
39%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
36%
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389
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
Style:
romantic drama, intense, suspense, tense, period drama
Plot:
love triangle, redemption, moral dilemma, moral ambiguity, double life, iranian, character study, cultural conflict, desperation, male protagonist, realism, reformation ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, atmospheric
Plot:
small town life, character study, class conflict, arranged marriage, poverty, bittersweet, isolation, social realism, loneliness, young lovers, forbidden love, tragic romance ...
Time:
70s, year 1977
Place:
caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
To watch a rare bird and at the same time be alone with Lotta, Anders goes to Gotland.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic
Plot:
ornithologist, infidelity, affair, love triangle, introspection, moral dilemma, character study, betrayal, adultery, bittersweet, island, jealousy ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
32%
127
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
VICTOIRE traces the story of Victoire Du Sault, founder of the shoemaking industry at the origin of the Dufresne fortune, better known for the castle that bears their name in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Although the entrepreneurial spirit and ...
Style:
historical drama, thrilling, psychological, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
family secret, love, secret, female protagonist, forbidden love, romantic triangle, relationship problems, love interest, love triangle, love affair, problem, love and romance ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple gets into trouble when the husband discovers that his wife still has feelings for her ex-boyfriend. What will the consequences of this love triangle be? To what extent will he go to win his wife's love forever?
Style:
romantic drama, serious, tense, melancholic
Plot:
domestic drama, jealousy, newlyweds, love triangle, jealous husband, confrontation, passion, heartbreak, loyalty, ex lover, intimate, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
31%
649
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, historical drama, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cholera, nun, forbidden love, female protagonist, religious conflict, forbidden romance, young love, unrequited love, tragedy, coming of age, literary, madness ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
love triangle, erotica, extramarital affair, mother daughter relationship, infidelity, betrayal, deception, jealousy, secrets, moral ambiguity, desire, loneliness ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
31%
226
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, Dave foolishly attempted to rob a bank with a water pistol, and ended up in jail for eight years. ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, intense, neo noir, independent film
Plot:
adultery, boarding school, love triangle, infidelity, family drama, ex convict, temptation, betrayal, moral dilemma, family conflict, second chance, jealous husband ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Carmilla falls for her stepfather and seduces him. When he is killed in a car accident, she decides to take revenge against the driver, but this only leads to a deeper tragedy.
Style:
erotic drama, intense, dark, art house, period piece
Plot:
revenge, stepfather, seduction, car accident, tragedy, forbidden love, female protagonist, obsession, jealousy, love triangle, moral ambiguity, sexual awakening ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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175
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, art house, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
small town, escape, isolation, fishing village, identity, alienation, longing, exile, sea voyage, self discovery, jealousy, romantic obsession ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
newfoundland, canada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Det är 1500-tal, och den unge adelsmannen Inge rider genom Sverige sökandes efter sin tvillingbror Arild. Han träffar en grupp zigenare som välkomnar honom, i tron att han är Arild. Snart blir Inge förälskad i den mystiska flickan Isis.
Style:
atmospheric, enigmatic, melancholic, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
twin brother, mistaken identity, mystery woman, misunderstanding, longing, brotherhood, identity crisis, forbidden love, outsider, obsession, isolation, folklore ...
Time:
19th century, medieval times, 16th century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, ambiguous ending, moody ...
Plot:
seduction, older woman younger man, dysfunctional family, character study, moral ambiguity, isolation, class conflict, repression, obsession, slow burn, tragic romance, claustrophobia ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.
Style:
melancholic, romantic drama, art house
Plot:
chance meeting, loneliness, language barrier, passion, amor, music and dance, moral ambiguity, hollywood, wife, telegram, young
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, tension, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female nudity, accusation, gestapo, jealousy, love, political persecution, political oppression, victimization, totalitarianism, nazi germany, forbidden love, social injustice ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Muezzin Musa falls for his neighbor, the Catholic nurse Clara. The story gets even more exceptional when Musa meets Yakup, who turns out to be connected with Clara.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, independent film, ambiguous ending, art house ...
Plot:
interfaith relationship, loneliness, character study, social realism, religious conflict, male protagonist, unrequited love, forbidden love, identity crisis, humanism, bittersweet, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.
Style:
intercultural, reflective, melancholic, atmospheric, tension ...
Plot:
friendship, character study, grief, empathy, memory, healing, gardening, loneliness, mourning, social class, isolation, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Adam is a dashing young priest who catches the eye of Eve. Adam is having trouble fighting his desires to be with his young pursuer, and before long, finds himself in a steamy affair with the woman. Homosexual dancer Jason can't hide his ...
Style:
romantic drama
Plot:
sex with a priest, love triangle, priest, infidelity, sexual tension, forbidden romance, passion, jealousy, religious conflict, moral dilemma, sexual desire, temptation ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, grim, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, greek island, guilt, moral ambiguity, redemption, literary, remote island, moral dilemma, religion, survival, isolation, widow ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between ...
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, melancholic, atmospheric, period drama ...
Plot:
geisha, jealousy, mother and daughter, forbidden love, tragedy, yakuza, prostitution, identity, family feud, female rivalry, patriarchy, pimp ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1933, 1910s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Style:
art house, dread, black and white, period drama
Plot:
love triangle, betrayal, high society, romantic rivalry, jealousy, adultery, seduction, tragic romance, decadence, manipulation, literary, social satire ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Ding tells the story of his life and how it was shaped by three women which includes his godmother, her adopted daughter and his wife.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, forced marriage, childhood sweetheart, separation, foster home, lie, sex, coming of age, sexual awakening, love triangle, betrayal, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
25%
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