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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
Original name: 봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This South Korean film takes place on an isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, melancholic, meditative, spiritual, art house, touching, stylized, scenic, lyrical ...
Plot: buddhism, life & death, coming of age, isolation, meditation, existentialism, buddhist monk, monk, buddhist, beautiful scenery, nature, life changing experience, guilt, temple, lust, solitude, lake, childhood, loneliness, fish, boy, life, philosophy, snake, cat ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: south korea, korea, east asia, tibet, asia, india
Keyword: korean, educational film, retrospective, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and touching films with plots about love and romance, love story, couples, love, moving, hopes and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring: In the Mood for Love (2000), 3-Iron (2004), The Fountain (2006), The Island (2006), Samaritan Girl (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, melancholic, visually stunning, artsy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, unrequited love, love, newspaper, food, tragedy, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
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100%
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3-Iron (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style: lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: golf, loneliness, motorcycle, relationships, abusive husband, jealousy, love triangle, art, love story, love, existentialism, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place: korea, east asia, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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The Fountain (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Style: surreal, melancholic, artsy, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: metaphysics, spirituality, afterlife, cancer, buddhism, immortality, surrealism, multiple storylines, obsession, loneliness, love, death ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2006, 16th century, 21st century
Place: spain, tibet, latin america, europe, central america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 7.8
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The Island (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, cerebral, spiritual, breathtaking ...
Plot: christian, religion, redemption, forgiveness, loneliness, island, monk, life philosophy, solitude, monastery, church, philosophy ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Samaritan Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. ...
Style: captivating, touching, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: prostitute, coming of age, murder, couples, vengeance, parents and children, revenge, female friendship, illegal prostitution, family relations, love and romance, redemption ...
Place: korea, east asia, europe, germany, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
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The Bow (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange ...
Style: serious, realistic, contemplative, captivating, spiritual ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, isolation, love affair, confined, age difference, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, couples, sailing, boat, sea ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Talk to Her (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Style: psychological, emotional, surreal, sexy, sincere ...
Plot: rape, tragic love, friendship, suicide, loneliness, female nudity, obsession, impossible love, tragic event, hospital, sex, women ...
Time: near future, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, jordan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 8K
Samsara (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, spiritual, captivating, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: buddhism, self discovery, monk, zen, buddha, human nature, buddhist monk, culture clash, buddhist, social differences, lifestyle, humanity ...
Time: year 2001
Place: tibet, asia, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Her (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. ...
Style: melancholic, philosophical, futuristic, touching, clever ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: loneliness, artificial intelligence, existentialism, philosophy, love, computer, cyberspace, impossible love, relationship problems, psychology, human nature, unlikely relationship ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Castaway on the Moon (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Mr. Kim is jobless, lost in debt and has been dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by jumping into the Han River - only to find himself washed up on a small, mid-river island. He soon abandons thoughts of suicide or rescue and begins a ...
Style: touching, philosophical, romantic, psychological, scenic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: loneliness, isolation, suicide attempt, island, survival, society, wilderness, redemption, castaway, suicide, love story, self discovery ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, east asia, seoul, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style: psychological, surreal, melancholic, romantic, mind bending ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: memory, surrealism, dream, love, love story, memory loss, existentialism, loneliness, couples, amnesia, relationships, introspection ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place: persia, america, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: life & death, philosophy, life philosophy, mentally challenged, destiny, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, storytelling, life, journey ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., vietnam, china, alabama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Yi Yi: A One and a Two... (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
Style: touching, art house, philosophical, depressing, lyrical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, first love, existentialism, wedding, children, dysfunctional family, coma, lovers reunited, love, photography, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, marital crisis ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: japan, taipei, east asia, asia, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What Time Is It There? (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, art house, stylized, non-linear ...
Plot: obsession, isolation, death in the family, estrangement, lifestyle, unfulfillment, loneliness, drinking, father son relationship, drinking alcohol, death, hotel ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, east asia, asia, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Good Will Hunting (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. ...
Style: psychological, emotional, philosophical, sentimental, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: mathematics, professor, genius, prodigy, philosophy, psychology, life philosophy, life, university, psychotherapy, mentor, existentialism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, 2010s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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The Way Home (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The story begins on a fine summers morning, when San-woo and his mother board a bus to the country. It is soon clear that the unsophisticated rural passengers annoy the seven-year-old urban boy. His mother is taking him to live with his 78-year-old ...
Style: touching, sentimental, stylized, rough, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, childhood, parents and children, grandmother grandson relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, love, life & death, children, generation gap, friendship, village life, adolescence ...
Time: year 2002
Place: korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the ...
Style: realistic, psychological, thought provoking, cynical, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: teacher, alcohol abuse, adultery, teachers and students, school, friendship, youth, hopes, introspection, flirting, infatuation, rafting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the old master; Yong Nan, a young man who has left his extended family in the city to seek enlightenment - Hyegok calls him Kibong!; and, an orphan lad Haejin, whom Hyegok ...
Style: spiritual, slow cinema, thinking, psychedelic, aesthetic ...
Plot: buddhism, zen, buddhist monk, buddhist, monk, spirituality, mountain, meditation, religion, minimal dialogue, spirit, journey ...
Time: year 1989
Place: tibet, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Against the background of an Australian desert landscape, so much space and so few people, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the ...
Style: emotional, stylized, captivating, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: culture clash, love story, desert, journey, interracial relations, interracial romance, road trip, love affair, opposites attract, unlikely couple, couples, wilderness ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
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100%
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: forbidden love, love and romance, youth, student life, professor, college, society, friendship, age difference, daughter, college life, student ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Certified Copy (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Iran
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, stylized, sincere, serious ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: South Korea, France
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Story: Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, lyrical ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Before Sunrise (1995)
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Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: philosophical, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Days of Heaven (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1910, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish ...
Style: art house, breathtaking, visually stunning, visual, visually appealing ...
Plot: impossible love, farm, farmer, love triangle, love, loneliness, train, autumn, harvest, class differences, childhood, photography ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 1910s, turn of the century, pre world war one
Place: usa, chicago, austin texas, midwest, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Mr. Nobody (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style: psychological, surreal, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: time, philosophy, destiny, alternate reality, surrealism, butterfly effect, depression, choice, utopia, twists and turns, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 2011, distant future, 2010s ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style: sad, uplifting, inspirational, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: childhood, coming of age, friendship, first love, filmmaking, cinema, nostalgia, haunted by the past, adolescence, breast feeding, village, funeral ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, rome italy, corsica
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.9
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Before Midnight (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 109 min.
Story: We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Style: meditative, philosophical, sentimental, romantic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: marriage, summer vacation, writers, hotel room, hotel, midlife crisis, couple relations, existentialism, relationships, love story, divorce, conversation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, paris france, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Wings of Desire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, meditative, lyrical, cerebral ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, immortality, dream, circus, love, existentialism, philosophy, mortality, library, loneliness, love story, visceral ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, east germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: afterlife, heaven and hell, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, redemption, reincarnation, spirituality, love, hell, metaphysics, life after death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
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