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Of Love and Other Demons (2009)
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Original name: Del amor y otros demonios
Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, Colombia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel, this is the unsettling story of 13-year-old noble Sierva and the dog bite that changes her life forever. Abandoned, displaced, in the midst of a sexual awakening and finally exorcised, Sierva finds an unlikely ally in a young priest and together they discover passion.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, stylized, gloomy
Plot:
forbidden love, secret relationship, fall in love, convent, against the rules, obsession, priest, youth, rebellion, isolation, society, sexual awakening, life is a bitch, confined, clergy, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, male female relationship, young love, latinos, exorcism, love and romance, child illness, coming of age, disorder ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
latin america, colombia
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Most similar movies to Of Love and Other Demons
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and gloomy films with plots about society, love and romance, youth, family relations, life is a bitch, coming of age and forbidden love mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Of Love and Other Demons: Into Temptation (2009), Araf/Somewhere in Between (2012), Here Below (2012), Shanghai Dreams (2005), Raja (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
woman in danger, prostitute, priest, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, society, clergy, illegal prostitution, sin, catholic priest, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their empty, monotonous ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
forbidden love, against the rules, teenage life, rebelliousness, love and romance, dull life, adolescence vs adulthood, deadend life, pregnancy, miscarriage, women's issues, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
impossible love, nun, german occupation, love affair, wartime life, forbidden love, fall in love, clergy, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In 1980s China, the country is beginning to reform and workers who had been moved with their families to the provinces in the 60s now long to return to Shanghai. For one displaced family a conflict arises when their 19-year-old daughter finds love ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, forbidden love, family life, immigrant, life is a bitch, obsession, family relations, parents and children, family drama, female protagonist, young love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
china, shanghai, asia
Similarity:
59%
437
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Plot:
opposites attract, unlikely couple, social differences, fall in love, couples, obsession, love and romance, youth, society, orphan, destructive relationship, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
colonial america, forbidden love, infidelity, immigrant, love and romance, couple relations, clergy, dishonesty, society, betrayal, life is a bitch, couples ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, spain, salem massachusetts
Similarity:
57%
139
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sixteen year-old girl living with her widowed father in the Ardennes forest befriends a twenty-two year old orphan whose manipulative aunt contrives to keep him immature in the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Stéphan Carpiaux. A tragic ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
fall in love, teenage life, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, family problems, single parent, unfulfillment, confined, youth, woods, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Isaac and Angel are two young Latinos involved in a south side Chicago gang. They have a secret in a world where secrets are forbidden.
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
lgbt, confession, gang, gay, injustice, youth, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, showbiz, interracial relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Truman Capote's semi-autobiographical first novel about coming of age in the Deep South during the 1930s centers on 13-year-old Joel Sansom (David Speck), who reunites with his estranged father at the family's shabby plantation, where he ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
coming of age, 13 year old, teenage boy, lgbt, glbt, family relations, forbidden love, best friend, family problems, under the surface, estate, estrangement ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
53%
866
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
forbidden love, physical appearance, losing-it hero, family relations, mysterious character, love and romance, couple relations, family problems, wilderness, human nature, isolation, obsession ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe
Similarity:
53%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
A wrongdoer is caught red-handed and he is not going to forgive the man who exposed him.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, romantic, captivating, inspirational
Plot:
priest, frame up, teenage love, love, young love, teenage life, revenge, youth, starting over, fall in love, clergy, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
52%
689
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Nick and Evy are in love. Knowing that Nick is deaf, Evy’s parents do not consent to their relationship. They run away and move into an abandoned submarine, hidden from judgmental eyes. Their runaway love brings them new opportunities and new ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, stylized, atmospheric
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mute or deaf, forbidden love, young lovers, love affair, love and romance, youth, coming of age, rebelliousness, sign language, deaf, women, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, scandinavia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, contemplative, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers apart, against the rules, self discovery, rebellion, social decay, love and romance, couple relations, religions or cults, love triangle, society, life is a bitch, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
52%
177
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Everybody has a little murder in their heart... somewhere.
Style:
sexual, independent film, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
female nudity, rape, blind woman, blindness, sexual awakening, disability, family relations, friends, hopes, misfit, confined, youth ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
pension, colonel, hopes, small town, parents and children, family relations, downfall, couple relations, haunted by the past, small town life, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
52%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new place by building a new home for himself on the delta. But ...
Style:
erotic, atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
incest, forbidden love, illicit affair, brother sister sex, brother sister incest, sexual relations, parents and children, incestuous relationship, family problems, obsession, life is a bitch, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
52%
431
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict with deeply-rooted ...
Style:
serious, sincere, atmospheric, touching, thinking ...
Plot:
rebellion, forbidden love, introspection, self discovery, haunted by the past, hopes, society, youth, love and romance, against the rules, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, culture clash, haunted by the past, forbidden love, estrangement, couples, family problems, missing child, parents and children, on the run, danger, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film centers around a young French widow and her two adolescent children attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930's. Their efforts are hampered each year ...
Style:
sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
nudity, corruption, dam, lack of money, landowner, social differences, righting the wronged, fighting the system, parents and children, interracial relations, teenage life, rich and poor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
cambodia, indochina, asia
Similarity:
50%
239
Genre: Drama
Country: Albania, Greece, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian movie directed by Buyar Alimani. It’s a story about two people who meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but relationship has ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
prison, forbidden love, love affair, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, pardon, legislation, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
albania, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
18-year-old Hannah Yoder is ready to become an Amish adult - which means baptism into the Church and marriage to her boyfriend, Samuel. However, her friends convince her to visit Hollywood for Rumspringa where she meets Josh and the two hit it off ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, forbidden love, amish, religions or cults, couples, youth, society, love and romance, culture clash, love affair, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, young lovers, unlikely couple, love affair, interracial relations, life is a bitch, social differences, society, terminal illness, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, europe, asia, germany
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
youth, rabbi, racism, friendship, culture clash, bittersweet, anti semitism, life is a bitch, injustice, haunted by the past, society, gang ...
Place:
new york, czech republic
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
workplace romance, family relations, forbidden love, culture clash, workplace, immigrant, parents and children, fall in love, unfulfillment, society, family drama, immigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
372
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, life is a bitch, teenage life, redemption, shoplifting, mistaken identity, society, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A French football playing exchange student falls in love.
Style:
sexual, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
white male black female relationship, interracial couple, interracial romance, age difference, interracial, interracial relations, college, couples, love and romance, fall in love, self discovery, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
virginia, paris france, france, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, sex with a minor, high school student, coming of age, older man younger woman sex, teenage sex, age difference, sexual awakening, nudity, male female relationship, young love, sexual content ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
During the final winter of WWII, as displaced persons return to their former homes in the Soviet Union, an 8-year-old boy is left alone when his mother dies en route.
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, little boy, on the road, wartime life, life is a bitch, human nature, society, world war two, death of mother, social injustice, boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style:
touching, bleak, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, parents and children, life turned upside down, single parent, disorder, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, youth, parents, children, addiction ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young adolescent girl Jenna's mother is dying, while at the same time Jenna is turning from a young girl into a young woman. So it is difficult for her to admit that she is afraid to lose her mother; instead she behaves contrary to how one ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, coping, terminal illness, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, youth, loss, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
50%
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