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Golden Door (2006)
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Golden Door (2006)
Original name: Nuovomondo
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, serious, captivating, colorful, realistic, gloomy, weird, period drama ...
Plot: immigrant, hopes, starting over, social relations, society, progress, tradition, superstition, italian immigrant, parent child relationship, emigration, family history, immigration, doctor, refugee, village life, mute or deaf, yacht, boat, peasant, emigrant, migrant, migration, mute, italian history ...
Time: victorian era, year 2006, 20th century, 1920s, 19th century, 1890s, turn of the century ...
Place: sicily, usa, italy, new york, europe, america, palermo italy ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, society, husband wife relationship, love, love and romance, death and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Golden Door: Colossal Youth (2006), Partition (2007), Respiro (2002), The Emigrants (1971), Terraferma (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Colossal Youth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style: contemplative, serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, starting over, hopes, misfit, addiction, urban ghetto life, husband wife relationship, anthropology, decolonization, poetry ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Respiro (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and ...
Style: sincere, talky, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot: island, coming of age, family relations, mental illness, skinny dipping, villager, mentally unstable, human nature, family life, injustice, small town life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Emigrants (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 191 min.
Story: In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and ...
Style: epic, romantic, inspirational, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: immigrant, journey, immigration, religious persecution, emigration, sea voyage, farm hand, starvation, refugee, nordic, boat, death ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1840s, 1850s
Place: minnesota, america, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Terraferma (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, sincere, touching
Plot: tourist, moral dilemma, society, refugee, family in crisis, immigration, family relations, family problems, rules and policies, family life, ocean, misfit ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, sicily, southern italy, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Night Sun (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski. Upon learning that she was previously the King's mistress, Sergio ...
Style: romantic, neorealism, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: italian history, art, loneliness, artist, solitude, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, nobility, nobleman, mistress, couples ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century
Place: italy, europe, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Star Maker (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through the small villages of Sicily pretending that he is working for the big film studios in Rome.
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, hidden identity, self discovery, love and romance, disorder, hopes, on the road, cons and scams, village life, countryside, small town, village ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: sicily, italy, europe, madrid, palermo italy ...
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59%
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, contemplative, spiritual ...
Plot: peasant, farm, countryside, village, family relations, clergy, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, hide and seek, parent child relationship, family problems ...
Time: 1900s, year 1978, 19th century, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Weeping Meadow (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot: refugee, greek, village, wartime life, tragic love, on the run, orphan, political unrest, genocide, politics, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: year 2004, 1920s, year 1945, year 1936, 1940s ...
Place: greece, ancient greece, europe, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund--his brother, widow, and younger mistress--so he can get ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot: social relations, obsessive quest, lifestyle, writer's life, college graduate, village, writers, male female relationship, journey, flirting, teacher, storytelling ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: uruguay, south america, latin america, greece, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Shadow Magic (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, Germany, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot: culture clash, father daughter relationship, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, social differences, couple relations, love and romance, society, human nature, fish out of water, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 1900s, 1890s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.6
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Brides (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, USA, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, depressing, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, forbidden love, mail order bride, ship, wedding, fall in love, immigrant, society, love and romance, cruise, class differences, greek ...
Time: 1920s
Place: greece, usa, new york, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.5
 150K
Brooklyn (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: starting over, love and romance, immigrant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, female protagonist, immigration, true love, working class, homesickness, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place: ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
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52%
The Great Journey (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Morocco, Bulgaria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure ...
Style: road movie, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: on the road, pilgrimage, travel, family relations, journey, father son relationship, culture clash, youth, society, hopes, human nature, parents and children ...
Time: year 2004
Place: france, belgrade serbia, serbia, europe, slovenia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Passion of Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor ...
Style: novela, serious, realistic, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: obsession, duel, illness, broadway, soldier, female nudity, relationships, loneliness, amor, military, love triangle, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1981, 1860s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Shun Li and the Poet (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, misfit, life is a bitch, society, workplace, fish out of water, workplace situations, village, poet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Voyage (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar steps in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, tragic love, last wish, love story, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, terminal illness ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1900s
Place: sicily, italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small ...
Style: emotional, compassionate, atmospheric, sincere, touching ...
Plot: murder, prison, death penalty, tragic love, fighting the system, love, death sentence, introspection, destiny, isolation, social differences, society ...
Time: 19th century, year 2000, 1850s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: tree, mother daughter relationship, grief, family relations, loss of father, little girl, children, parents and children, death in the family, introspection, family problems, death of father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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East/West (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) ...
Style: touching, heartbreaking, realistic, harsh, sentimental ...
Plot: iron curtain, kgb, propaganda, survival, freedom, brutality, stalinism, destiny, tragedy, communism, brainwashing, love story ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century, post world war two, year 1946
Place: russia, france, ussr, soviet union, europe ...
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50%
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The Immigrant (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style: atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation, sisters ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 20th century
Place: poland, israel, america, usa, new york ...
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50%
Belizaire the Cajun (1986)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire (Armand Assante) is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who don't see eye to eye with local racists who wish to eradicate all Cajuns. Complicating matters is the fact that ...
Style: independent film, political, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: civil war, racism, love, vigilante, countryside, american history, village, swamp, investigation, vigilantism, on the run, society ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Madame Bovary (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, literature, family life, tragic hero, village life, life is a bitch, village, love affair, hopes, destructive relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1991, 1850s
Place: normandy, france, europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Sweet Land (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
Style: touching, melancholic, stylized, sweet, sincere ...
Plot: citizenship, countryside, immigrant, prejudice, friendship, mail order bride, society, social issues, small town, farmer, wedding, fall in love ...
Time: 1920s, year 2005, 60s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: minnesota, usa, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Alice is a sailor. While her partner Félix waits for her on land, she sets off as second mechanic on the Fidelio, an old freighter. On board, she discovers not only that her predecessor has just died, but also that the skipper is none other than ...
Style: captivating, realistic, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: sex scene, ship, sailor, nudity, female pubic hair, journey, cheating fiancee, beach, sea, love triangle, love and romance, seductress ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: marseille, romania
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49%
Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Plot: social misfits, lgbt, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Jane Eyre (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, period piece, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: happy ending, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, power relations, family relations, love and romance, love affair, parents and children, haunted by the past, rich and poor, love story ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, ancient times, victorian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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A Better Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot: immigrant, single father, u.s. mexico border, american dream, truck, father son relationship, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Children of Nature (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Norway, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: senior citizen, friends, on the road, boat, old age, yacht, nordic, conquering, retirement home, ghost, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, reykjavik iceland, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Savannah (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Plot: friendship, interracial relations, society, justice, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, guilt, doctor, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, love story, real life ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, 1900s, year 1958, year 1918 ...
Place: usa, oxford university, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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