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The Last Lear (2007)
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The film starts with the veteran thespian Harish Mishra, he is gravely ill. The punishments of a film shoot have left the old man in a coma. His co-star, Shabnam, is wracked with worry, but their director, Siddharth, keeps strangely distant and refuses to visit his ailing star. In flashbacks, their story emerges.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, poignant, reflective, art house, existential, atmospheric
Plot:
movie business, movie star, actor, actor's life, character study, relationships, society, relationship problems, filmmaking, husband wife relationship, spectacle, movie actor, shakespeare, adaptation, mortality, illness, hospital, tragedy, memory, legacy, introspection, bittersweet, reminiscence, intimate, literary ...
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Most similar movies to The Last Lear
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, melancholic and art house films with plots about intimate, relationships, bittersweet, character study, male female relationship, relationship problems and regret mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Last Lear: Shamitabh (2015), Before the Vigil (2013), The Rehearsals (2013), Wandering Home (2010), The Voice (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A mute, aspiring actor joins forces with a man who has a powerful voice. Together they take the film industry by storm, but will their egos get in the way?
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
actor, film industry, ambition, success, ego, egoism, deaf mute, mute, price of fame, ego clash, selfishness, power struggle ...
Place:
mumbai india, india
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
cancer, husband wife relationship, infidelity, terminal illness, married couple, family relations, fighting illness, marriage, coping, life is a bitch, couple relations, illness ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Igor and Alexandra are 30 -years old lovers.She is a theater production designer.He is an actor.She works hard,he drinks.They cannot leave and cannot get on.This story is about eternal problem of choice and talent to listen to ones heart .About a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
relationships, male female relationship, choice, character study, meaning of life, family problems, relationship problems, middle age romance, marital problem, lifestyle, middle aged, love affair ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
russia, moscow russia, soviet union
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, thrilling, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, relationships, alcoholic, alcohol abuse, recovery, addiction, alcoholism, character study, dysfunctional family, drinking, alcoholic father, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An actress (Natalia Sayko) is faced with the job of dubbing her voice after the final version of her movie is wrapped. (All actors dub their lines for the master copy of a film.) But she is overcome by her own life-crisis that alters her plans -- ...
Style:
dramatic, existential, melancholic, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
character study, illness, mortality, terminal illness, identity crisis, transformation, actor's life, humanism, bittersweet, intimate, showbiz, resilience ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
memory, memories, relationships, flashback sequence, introspection, lifestyle, past, self discovery, bittersweet, longing, loss, love story ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, male female relationship, writers, female protagonist, alcoholism, marital strife, character study, man-woman relation, family problems, social problems, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dylan Derringer, a lonely dentist in Florida, is confronted by a figure from the past bringing news that sends him on an eventful and ultimately life-altering journey of discovery.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, loneliness, character study, personal growth, relationships, haunted by the past, changing lives, relationship problems, lifestyle, male female relationship, lifestyle change, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
florida
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The lives of four people from different walks of life is affected by a disastrous road accident. The regret, remorse and realisation these characters undergo makes the crux of the film.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
accident, regret, road accident, guilt, remorse, multiple storylines, social differences, society, crisis of conscience, tragic event, changing lives, social problems ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
Style:
anthology, psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
relationships, multiple storylines, lifestyle, parents and children, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, family life, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, storytelling, slice of life ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs.
Style:
disturbing, romantic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
relationships, actor, theater, autumn, couples, couple relations, romantic relationship, love affair, love and romance, love story, male female relationship, actor's life ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
adaptation, father son relationship, relationships, family relations, lifestyle, family life, mortality, aging, dark humor, loneliness, character study, love ...
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Arun, a famous Bengali actor, approves Shuvobrata's proposal of remaking Satyajit Ray's famous film 'Nayak'. Problems arise when Shuvobrata requests his live-in girlfriend Shrin to act opposite Arun.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic drama, meta ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
celebrity, filmmaking, behind the scenes, cinema, multiple storylines, lifestyle change, changing lives, actress, filmmaker, conflict, tribute, fame ...
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Die Tomorrow entails six short segments about the impermanence of life, all inspired by deaths reported in Thai daily newspapers.
Style:
anthology, realistic, sad, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
death, newspaper, mortality, social problems, near death experience, life, ordinary people, slice of life, realism, intimate, social realism, urban ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is also a documentary, a portrait of the consequences of passing time, and an occasionally very funny ...
Style:
captivating, meta, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
loss of child, ex husband ex wife relationship, relationship problems, relationships, male female relationship, ex couple relations, marital problem, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems, couples, husband wife relationship, ex wife ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Ghawre Bairey Aaj is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's novel 'Ghawre Bairey' (Home and the World) and is a contemporary retelling of love triangle involving Tagore's characters Nikhilesh, Sandip and Bimala.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, romantic drama, art house ...
Plot:
love triangle, love, adaptation, literary, love affair, love story, relationships, couple relations, problem, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance ...
Place:
india, kolkata
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Abhiram aka Abhi is a successful entrepreneur who calls himself ‘self-made’ and doesn’t believe anyone but himself is the reason for his success. But when he’s forced to look back on life, what does he realise?
Style:
reflective, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, personal growth, entrepreneur, self discovery, love and romance, life is a bitch, love story, problem, life, moral dilemma, ego, memory ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Andrew Scott brings multiple characters to life in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, filmed live in West End, London. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.
Style:
melancholic, poignant, existential, reflective, period piece ...
Plot:
introspection, literary, character study, monologue, bittersweet, family drama, regret, nostalgia, midlife crisis, unrequited love, jealousy, dark humor ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
west end london
Similarity:
53%
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172
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to ...
Style:
independent film, disturbing, psychological, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
filmmaking, self discovery, director, actor, surrealism, creative process, lifestyle, social problems, life philosophy, filmmaker, existentialism, character study ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
Style:
realistic, thrilling, psychological, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
relationships, family relations, couple relations, couples, male female relationship, love interest, love affair, relationship problems, lifestyle, love story, multiple storylines, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, paris france, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A classical musician travels to the South of France to escape his demons and wait for his new love, a younger woman named Sophia. Trying to come to peace with his new life in these slow, peaceful surroundings, his seemingly chance meeting with ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, reflective ...
Plot:
classical music, love story, changing lives, male female relationship, problem, relationships, couple relations, love and romance, love interest, love, relationship problems, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to start a new life. Until destiny forces them to reconnect and understand, they never really stopped ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, disturbing, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
loss of child, couples, love story, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, husband wife reunion, ex couple relations, family reunited, family relations, marital problem ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Azerbaijan, Mexico, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The love story of Davud, a young man in search of his ‘true’ family, who completes his life cycle in a single day. When he does find Love, it's in the place he has always lived. But perhaps it is too late.
Style:
art house, thrilling, psychological, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
love, relationship problems, family problems, love story, family relations, relationships, homecoming, getting home, soul searching, loneliness, regret, mortality ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The budding romance of a wannabe filmmaker, disturbed marital life of a techie, business troubles of the manager of the coffee shop are dealt with in detail.
Style:
romantic drama, suspense, disturbing, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
relationships, love and romance, love story, love affair, romantic relationship, male female relationship, couple relations, family relations, star crossed lovers, in love, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After Yoon, a professor of philosophy, fell from a heart attack, his wife brings in Sookhee, a care attendant. She treats her patient like her child as well as giving him sexual excitement.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, erotic, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual arousal, male female relationship, relationships, sexual relations, sexual desire, care, relationship problems, nursing, sexual attraction, co worker co worker relationship, employer employee relationship, sick ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations.
Style:
existential, melancholic, surreal, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
narcolepsy, gay, illness, isolation, terminal illness, alienation, mortality, character study, relationships, minimalism, sexuality, identity ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Diego is hosting a farewell party in his house before he leaves on a trip that no one knows about.
Style:
reflective, emotional, melancholic, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
secrets, house party, introspection, intimate, relationships, bittersweet, friendship, regret, single, identity, character study, slice of life ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
unrequited love, tragedy, tragic romance, forbidden love, tragic love, unfulfilled love, officer, life is a bitch, countess, suicide, love affair, love and romance ...
Time:
victorian era
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman breaks things off with her boyfriend but finds out the universe has other plans. Desperate to move on, she is forced to literally relive the memories they’ve shared together. Pin-balling through time and space, she attempts to ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
relationship problems, marital problem, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, marital crisis, family relations, tragic love, dysfunctional family, breakup, male female relationship, relationships, travel ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen
Style:
bleak, tense, art house, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
secrets, family drama, character study, lie, betrayal, literary, moral dilemma, illegitimacy, adaptation, trust, guilt, loss ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
46%
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