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The Dawning (1988)
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The Dawning (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) while he hides in a beach hut. He talks the naive Nancy into delivering a message to Dublin. There she meets Joe Mulhare (Mark O'Regan) and befriends the recipient of the message. Only when she witnesses the shooting deaths of 12 British officers does she realize the content of the lethal message. After the shootings, Nancy rushes to try and warn Cassius about the military police who are closing in on him. Trevor Howard is the old army officer and grandfather in his last screen role, with Jean Simmons as Aunt Mary. Watch for Hugh Grant as Harry, the stuffed shirt on whom Nancy has a huge crush.
Style: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, sincere, factual, thought provoking, touching, independent film
Plot: ira, political unrest, coming of age, society, independence, youth, dangerous attraction, state affairs, mysterious character, teenage boy, friendship, intrigue, conflict, struggle, anglo irish relations, beach, orphan, politics, violence, grandfather, shooting, woman, british army, military police, trust ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 20s
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about love and romance, society, youth, coming of age, political unrest, state affairs and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Dawning: Lipstikka (2011), Cal (1984), Fools of Fortune (1990), The Scouting Book for Boys (2009), Red Rose (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lipstikka (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two women reunite in London, where they go over the details of a life-changing event which occurred when they were teenagers in Jerusalem.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot: forced sex, lesbian interest, introspection, haunted by the past, society, starting over, hopes, youth, friendship, immigrant, political unrest, lesbian ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, palestinian authority, europe, england ...
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Cal (1984)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
Style: art house, political, contemplative, tense, serious ...
Plot: ira, terrorism, trouble, guilt, religion, international relations, war on terror, anglo irish relations, female pubic hair, couples, political unrest, tragic love ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: northern ireland, europe, ireland
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32%
Fools of Fortune (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: ira, anglo irish relations, murder, family relations, arson, family life, alcohol abuse, political unrest, society, vengeance, rebellion, state affairs ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Scouting Book for Boys (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thomas Turgoose (This Is England) stars as David, a young boy who lives a carefree life on a coastal caravan park with his best friend Emily (Holliday Grainger). When David learns that Emily is being forced to move away, he helps her hide out in a ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, teen ...
Plot: friendship, leaving home, youth, society, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, secret place, family problems, teenage life, parents and children, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Red Rose (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Iran, Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in this fascinating drama that blends scripted scenes with on-the-ground footage from Iran’s 2009 ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: political unrest, idealism, politics, life is a bitch, society, state affairs, husband wife relationship, violence, propaganda, extramarital affair, female nudity, cigarette smoking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, tehran iran
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24%
This Is the Sea (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, ira, shakespeare, anglo irish relations, trouble, profanity, religions or cults, family problems, family relations, snitch, forbidden love, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, northern ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Summer Rain (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, buddies, love and romance, obsession, teenage love, teenage life, best friend, coming of age, fascism, friends, youth, society ...
Time: 70s
Place: spain, europe
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24%
The Run of the Country (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, teenager, death, father son relationship, strained relationship, police officer, ira, family relations, politics, rural area, family problems, death in the family ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Salt of This Sea (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. She soon ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: politics, state affairs, love affair, social differences, heist, israeli palestinian conflict, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, political unrest, discrimination, arab ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, jerusalem, persia, palestinian authority ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Gentlemen (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense
Plot: espionage, state affairs, undercover, political conspiracy, dishonesty, love and romance, friendship, danger, brothers, aspiring writer, conspiracy, writer's life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Railway Station Man (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bombing, gradually learns that the American man she has become involved with is not who he seems.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: widow, railway, ira, terrorism, politics, village, battles, dealing with death, love and romance, state affairs, haunted by the past, rock ...
Time: 80s
Place: ireland, england, europe, london, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Goob (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: We’re in the middle of a heat-wave in Fenland England. Goob Taylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping Mum run the transport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When Mum shacks up with swarthy stock-car supremo and ladies’ ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, teenage love, youth, small town, parents and children, teenage boy, boy, hot guys, friendship, summer, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Cherrybomb (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Cherry Bomb follows teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle as they embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars. But what starts out as a game turns deadly serious when the three discover that they can't get off the ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, love triangle, youth, buddies, dangerous attraction, wild ride, teenage life, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, teenager, accidental killing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Mickybo and Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, friendship, mischievous children, boy, coming of age, society, obsession, political unrest, boyhood, friends, human rights ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, belfast
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The Mighty Celt (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the "Troubles" have ended but where their legacy remains strong. Donal is a 14-year old who works in a greyhound racing kennel owned by Good Joe. If Donal's favourite ...
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: dog, youth, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, hopes, coming of age, animal training, family relations, teenage boy, parents and children, boss and employee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
What the Day Owes the Night (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great ...
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: young lovers, teenage love, friendship, french algerian war, political unrest, revolution, friends, youth, love and romance, love story, love, fall in love ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1953, year 2010 ...
Place: algeria
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22%
Circle of Friends (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style: period piece, emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, college, small town, love, pregnancy, class differences, college life, adaptation, love affair, lust, breakup ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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22%
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Labor Day (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: unlikely relationship, stockholm syndrome, single mother, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, single parent, family relations, boy, escapades, parents and children, love ...
Time: year 2013, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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21%
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Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, indonesian
Plot: forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, rich and poor, love and romance, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, emotional, romantic, breathtaking ...
Plot: nazi, aristocracy, butler, nazism, housekeeper, master and servant, class differences, master servant relationship, love, domestic servant, estate, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, victorian era ...
Place: england, britain, europe
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21%
Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, kitchen sink realism, coming of age, bookstore, affair, love, book, age-gap relationship, swing, young love, family relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, britain, europe, london ...
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21%
Flowers of Evil (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paris-Tehran. A rootless love story between Gecko, young and free, and Anahita, an Iranian woman in exile - tangled up in History and steeped in Internet, unique and spontaneous
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: internet, political unrest, love affair, society, opposites attract, immigrant, unlikely couple, computers and web, love, love and romance, misfit, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, france, paris france, iran, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Year of the Nail (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, experimental ...
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, love affair, couples, hopes, unfulfilled love, teenage life, friendship, society, loss of virginity, looking for sex, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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So Young (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In the brink of the 90s, 18-year-old Zheng Wei steps into her university life with a hopeful heart for love. She forms a great friendship with her roommates and united as a group, they embark on their university life together. Wei meets Chen ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, university, coming of age, youth, breakup, melancholy, high school, asian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: indiana, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Last September (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, UK, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece ...
Style: period piece, emotional, gloomy, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: ira, war, world war one, nudity, murder, attempted rape, love triangle, tragic love, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, political unrest, social differences ...
Time: year 1999, 1920s
Place: ireland, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Lorna Doone (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: revenge, love, political unrest, forbidden love, state affairs, vengeance, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, countryside, politics, rivalry, historical event ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, rich and poor, follow your dream, social differences, political unrest, parents and children, society, youth, state affairs, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Irishman (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
Style: independent film, uplifting, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, lone wolves, society, wilderness, family life, against the odds, culture clash, progress, horse riding, horse, technology, outback ...
Time: year 1978, 1920s
Place: ireland, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Partition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: interracial relations, sikh, love and romance, forbidden love, fall in love, couples, soldier, society, political unrest, social relations, village, muslim ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: pakistan, india, africa, middle east, south africa ...
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20%
Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up ...
Style: bleak, captivating, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: genocide, political unrest, against humanity, revolution, fall in love, hopes, evacuation, rebellion, wartime life, life is a bitch, african, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: nigeria, africa, iraq, indiana
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19%
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