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Jules and Jim (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the ...
Style: art house, black and white, philosophical, lyrical, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: marriage, friendship, love triangle, unrequited love, love, relationships, menage a trois, love story, storytelling, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, year 1962, 1930s, post world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany
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Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, art house, black and white, serious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, religion, insanity, psychology, existentialism, dysfunctional family, nordic, mental disorder, illness, spirituality, island ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of ...
Style: art house, contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Plot: cancer, soldier, superstition, feminist, feminism, anxiety, women, storytelling, art, character study, hospital, night ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, czechoslovakia, algeria, europe
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy's reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his ...
Style: political, social, black and white, realistic, serious ...
Plot: prison, kitchen sink realism, runner, running, loser, juvenile delinquent, rebellion, working class, prison life, angry, social realism, coming of age ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: london, england
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The Silence (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen ...
Style: art house, black and white, sexual, erotic, cerebral ...
Plot: existentialism, female orgasm, religion, dysfunctional family, female masturbation, illness, translator, war zone, room, sibling rivalry, lesbianism, hotel room ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, neo noir, postmodern, talky ...
Plot: robbery, love triangle, gunfight, alienation, caper, crime gone awry, danger, louvre, teenage girl, modernism, isolation, time travel ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
Style: political, spiritual, educational
Audience: kids
Plot: boy, children, female nudity, spirituality, modernism, summer, youth, bare butt, nudity, girl, family relations, summer vacation ...
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Lemonade Joe (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Style: parody, fast paced, cult classic, twisted, funny ...
Plot: acid, modernism, abstinence, bar fight, marketing, partner, friends, disorder, social relations, good versus evil, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: czech republic, europe, prague, arizona
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, stylized, emotional, psychedelic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, wedding, medieval, true love, marriage, religion, friendship, rivalry, forbidden love, couple relations, couples, rain ...
Time: 19th century, year 1965, medieval times
Place: ukraine, soviet union, ussr, europe
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Alphaville (1965)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, futuristic, cerebral, detective ...
Plot: dystopia, surrealism, distopia, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopian future, spy, obsession, utopia, imagination, existentialism, satire ...
Time: future, year 1965
Place: france
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Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, cerebral, art house, psychological ...
Plot: surrealism, infidelity, art, spiritualism, hermaphrodite, insanity, memory, medium, eccentricity, female protagonist, extramarital affair, mistress ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: italy
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The Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and ...
Style: art house, cynical, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: working class, factory worker, one night stand, boys and girls, blonde, female protagonist, love, female nudity, small town, satire, youth, male nudity ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: prague, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, balkan, europe
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Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets ...
Style: witty, feel good, light, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: construction worker, warehouse, workplace, petty criminal, community service, goofy hero, misfit partners, nothing goes right, disorder, burglary, rivalry, university student ...
Time: 1950s, 60s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
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Pearls of the Deep (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ...
Style: anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
Plot: surrealism, gypsy, insurance agent, modernism, satire, renaissance, fiancee, motorcycle race, singer, lie, painter, flashback ...
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague, central europe
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Zelda (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Story: Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson
Plot: writers, art, girl, poet, alcoholism, eccentricity, mental illness, husband wife relationship, marriage, schizophrenia, modernism, mental patient ...
Time: 1920s
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The Raven (1977)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he tries to remember where he saw it before. His wife Asieh is a ...
Plot: photography, lost girl, diary, lost, old woman, sexual harassment, alcoholic, loveless marriage, iranian, journey, innovation, modernism ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, 1930s
Place: iran, persia, tehran iran
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The Mongols (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan ...
Style: independent film, avant garde
Plot: iranian, invasion, television, muslim, making love, police station, media, modernism, modern life, depravity, guillotine, culture ...
Place: iran, persia, tehran iran, eastern europe
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Cry for Happy (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
Plot: korean war, world war two, geisha, navy, war photographer, american culture, house, military, adoption, tradition, shyness, love ...
Time: year 1961
Place: japan
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To the Lighthouse (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay ...
Plot: lighthouse, beach, seaside, politics, monologue, mother, mother daughter relationship, father, flashback, painting, wedding, modernism ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1914
Place: cornwall
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Bliss (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Story: Bliss tells the story of Katherine Mansfield in her early 20s as she leaves New Zealand and begins her journey as a writer.
Plot: writers, new zealander, teenage girl, circle of friends, modernism, tuberculosis, female writer, writing
Time: edwardian era
Place: england
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The Gertrude Stein Mystery or Some Like It Art (2010)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gertrude Stein lived on into the 21st Century, changing history throughout her life in incredible secret missions.
Style: captivating, entertaining, mockumentary
Plot: satire, secret, secret mission, historical figure, dancing, lesbian, modernism, fascism, marijuana
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Caravans (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Iran, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, epic, stylized ...
Plot: camel, military, french foreign legion, british empire, desert, disorder, win over, woman in danger, culture clash, escapades, love and romance, chases and races ...
Time: year 1978, 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: persia, iran, middle east, afghanistan
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel ...
Style: realistic, sexy, talky, intense, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, art, classical music, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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Columbus (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, serious, cerebral ...
Plot: father son relationship, korean american, relationships, coma, small town, architecture, friendship, family relations, family life, social problems, family problems, couple relations ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, year 1950, year 1954, year 2008
Place: indiana, midwest
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Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy, Portugal
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and ...
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, spiritual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: writers, childhood, art, voyeurism, writer's life, melancholy, book, death, memory, storytelling, surrealism, artist ...
Time: year 1999, 1920s, 20th century, 1890s, 1910s ...
Place: france, portugal, paris france, europe, normandy
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