Movies like The Return

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   The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse

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   2025 · 106 min · Drama · Music

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   A sudden gunshot shatters the dream of two lovers on their wedding day. The fate of Orpheus and Eurydice is cruel: on the very day they sought to seal their love, EurydiceΆs soul embarks on its journey to the underworld. Heartbroken, Orpheus embarks on a perilous journey to bring his beloved back from Hades. A journey that will lead the fearless hero to confront the depths of his emotions and face his greatest fears. This journey will take him through strange worlds and into encounters with some of the greatest musical pieces and arias in the history of music. Will love triumph over death?

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   • a closely matched era
   • shared production studio: RAI Cinema

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   The Lost City of Z

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   2017 · 141 min · Adventure · Drama · History

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   A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   National Theatre Live: Bacchae

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   2025 · 109 min · Drama

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   Fierce and unstoppable, they are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core — and liberate its women. But their god Dionysos has his own reckoning. In a showdown with his cousin, King Pentheus, family loyalty, political power and human desire are pushed to breaking point.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: ancient greece
   • a closely matched era

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   La Belle Époque

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   2019 · 115 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

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   Adults in the Room

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   2019 · 124 min · Drama

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   A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

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   Eden Is West

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   2009 · 110 min · Drama

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   Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.

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   The Heart of the Seas

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   2022 · 205 min · Action · Adventure · Fantasy

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   A band of unlikely Pirates band together to save the seas from the clutches of a blood thirsty admiral, who intends to release an ancient power.

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   Dead Europe

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   2012 · 84 min · Drama

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   In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil dark truths that forced his father to flee years ago.

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   Trash

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   2014 · 114 min · Adventure · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller

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   Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

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    Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

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    2010 · 118 min · Adventure · Family · Fantasy

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    Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate the entire world.

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