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Occident (2002)
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black humor
Plot:
change of luck, misfit, life is a bitch, couples, society, social decay, hopes, racism, artist, chaos, coming of age, visceral, unfulfillment, love, prison, love triangle, swimming, hospital, father daughter relationship, memory, mother daughter relationship, migration, frenchman, grave, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
balkan, transylvania, romania, europe, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, love, society, family relations, friendship and couple relations mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Occident: A Previous Engagement (2008), Tales from the Golden Age (2009), The Blue Diner (2001), Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity (2001), The Attractive One (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, Malta, UK
Duration: 118 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: Comedy, History
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Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 90 min.
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semi serious, humorous, touching, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
hong kong
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67%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 105 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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66%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, touching, stylized, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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59%
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742
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
looking for love, lifestyle, gender, unfulfillment, breakup, love, friendship, society, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, singleness ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, witty, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 94 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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Similarity:
59%
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Country: UK, Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
couple relations, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, womanizer, looking for love, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, city life, friends, buddies, love and romance, marriage ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, romantic comedy ...
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sitcom ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, clever
Plot:
social differences, best friend, opposites attract, battle of the sexes, couples, looking for love, couple relations, lifestyle, thirtysomething life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, captivating, light ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy, UK, Australia, France
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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