Movies like Clear Skies

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   The Cranes Are Flying

   Strong story similarity

   1957 · 97 min · Drama · Romance · War

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   Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

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   • a closely matched era

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   Autumn Weddings

   Strong story similarity

   1968 · 73 min · Drama

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   A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased fiancé. In peacetime, the heroine's fiancé blew up on a land mine that remained on the collective farm field since the war, and her life turned into a nightmare. But sooner or later, dreams end and the world opens again. Pregnant Natasha goes to the institutions, seeking to be signed with the father of the unborn child who died tragically. At the end, after long ordeals, she comes to the conclusion that writing in the marriage book will not change anything in her life.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared production studio: Mosfilm

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   The Three Sisters

   Strong story similarity

   1965 · 112 min · Drama · Romance

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   Eleven years ago, General Prozorov, having received an appointment, moved his family from Moscow to a small provincial town. The general has died, his adult children - daughters Olga, Maria and Irina and son Andrey, - not finding any use for themselves, and feeling lonely, dream of returning to their native Moscow. They are trying to somehow arrange their own destiny, each in its own way, but nothing comes out of it ...

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   • a closely matched era

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   Mirror

   Strong story similarity

   1975 · 107 min · Drama · History

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   A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared production studio: Mosfilm

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   They Fought for Their Motherland

   Strong story similarity

   1975 · 151 min · Drama · History · War

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   In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared production studio: Mosfilm

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   Sunflower

   Strong story similarity

   1970 · 109 min · Drama · War

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   After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared production studio: Mosfilm

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   Doctor Zhivago

   Similar atmosphere

   1965 · 200 min · Drama · Romance · War

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   The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Father of a Soldier

   Strong story similarity

   1965 · 83 min · Drama · War

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   When peasant Georgy Makharashvili hears that his soldier son is lying wounded in a hospital, he sets out to visit him. However, unknown to him, his son has been sent back to the front. Reluctant to return home and in a vain attempt to locate his boy, Georgy joins the Red Army in it's unrelenting push to the west.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   They Were Known Only By Their Faces

   Strong story similarity

   1967 · 87 min · Adventure · Drama · War

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   Explosions are raging in one of the ports in the territory occupied by the German fascist invaders. An old and experienced military leader, Admiral Reinhardt, arrives to investigate these emergencies. Together with the head of the Gestapo, SS Standartenfuehrer Hübe, he takes all measures to suppress the activity of the partisans, raids and arrests, but all in vain. Underwater sabotage continues. A detachment of fighters with experience of submarine warfare is sent from Italy to fight the demolitions.

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   • substantial genre overlap

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    Lullaby

    Strong story similarity

    1959 · 95 min · Drama

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    Pilot Losev, who lost his family during the war, learns that his daughter Aurika was saved during the bombing, and sets off in search of her. The former pilot will survive many fates and stories before a familiar chorus of a lullaby helps him to recognize his daughter in a random fellow traveler.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era

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