Movies like Turtle

If you like "Turtle" you are looking for movies about / with village, fight, violence, fire, boy, father son relationship and turtle themes of Comedy and Drama genre shot in Cameroon.
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Turtle (1994)
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Turtle (1994)
Original name: Totor
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Cameroon
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story about friendship between a boy and his turtle.
Plot: village, fight, violence, fire, boy, father son relationship, turtle, fleeing, surrealism, circumcision, magic realism, mother son relationship, hut
Place: africa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, independent film, realistic and semi serious films with plots about boy, father son relationship, family relations, fight, youth, male nudity and violence mostly in Comedy, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Turtle: Faces of Women (1985), The Waterfall (2001), Cats Don't Have Vertigo (2014), Rebel (2012), If I Had a Gun (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Faces of Women (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women with a jealous husband gives him something to be jealous about when his younger brother visits from the city.
Plot: brother, women, husband, festival, dance, feminism, village, loan, sex, young
Place: africa
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95%
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The Waterfall (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflected by the both funny and sad story of a family. The story is told from the eyes of Cemal. Now ...
Plot: painter, communism, dead sister, surrealism, barber, male nudity, turkish army, village, neighbor, promiscuity, anti communism, memory ...
Time: year 1960
Place: turkey
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87%
Cats Don't Have Vertigo (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Job is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
Plot: boy, hiding place, loneliness, literature, abusive father, theft, friendship, violence, writing
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal
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80%
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Rebel (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Rebel is a romantic action revenge drama, which revolves around the story of a happy-go-lucky guy. The hero (Prabhas) is the son of a good-natured mafia don (Krishnam Raju). The hero becomes Rebel after his father is killed. How he takes revenge ...
Plot: murder of father, kidnapping, fight, blood, father son relationship, violence, tough guy, parents, revenge, flashback, gym, new identity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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If I Had a Gun (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
Plot: world war two, children in wartime, boy, traumatic childhood, adolescence, circumcision, dream, foreskin
Time: 1940s
Place: slovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Don't Tell Papa (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A story about a third-rate DJ who finds his relationship with his young son rapidly deteriorating.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, entertaining
Plot: fight, father son relationship, childbirth, erection, nightclub, corporal punishment, high school, wedding, hospital, dancer, transvestite, twists and turns ...
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Young Bodies Heal Quickly (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
Style: psychological, disturbing, satirical, captivating, independent film
Plot: family relations, violence, family problems, brothers, runaway, murderer, satire, brother brother relationship, problem, murder, murder mystery, youth ...
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68%
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Okafor's Law (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
Style: independent film
Plot: cinema
Place: africa
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Yao (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Senegal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To ...
Style: road movie, light, scenic, captivating, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: fandom, literature, child, fan, cultural icon, 13 year old, obsessive quest, celebrity, actor's life, village, african american man, actor ...
Place: africa
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64%
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Gipsy Magic (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country:
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In modern-day Macedonia, East Indian gypsy Taip (Miki Manojlovic) becomes friends with UN peacekeeper Riju and introduces him to his life of squalor. When Taip's mother dies, he collects government money for the funeral -- but then she comes ...
Style: funny, cinema verite
Plot: gypsy, un, european, funeral, secret, money, father son relationship, party, family relations, miraculous event, magic realism, fake death ...
Place: serbia, macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Ill Fated (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mark A. Lewis's tragic-comic adventure ILL FATED plunges the viewer into the boxed-in world of Jimmy, a small-town teen who seeks a better life but who sees dead-end signs at every turn out of town. His vague plan to leave and "look into ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
Plot: cheating wife, murder, violence, father son relationship, small town, prison, father son estrangement, coming of age, brother sister relationship, incest, maturity, school bus ...
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51%
Mit Burnout durch den Wald (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Six wildly different people have no clue what's install for them on 'pioneering' burnout therapist Hannah's forest hike to a desolate hotel in Märkischen Schweiz, with some tricks to force them out of their comfort zones in ...
Plot: adolescence, chore, boy, sex scene, chores, diving, fire, party, loyalty, therapy, female nudity, kiss ...
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Tobi (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually ...
Plot: youth, parable, working class, flying, mutation, surrealism, classmate, angel, doctor, father son relationship, boy, male nudity ...
Place: madrid
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Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Tunisia, France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old ...
Style: erotic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, bathhouse, circumcision, nudity, female nudity, sexual awakening, turkish bath, arab, youth, boy, erotica, sensuality ...
Time: 80s
Place: tunisia, middle east, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Cracked Eggs and Noodles (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An advocate of sex, but not of marriage, bachelor Daegyu (played by singer-turned-actor Im Changjeon), 26, produces bootleg music albums for a living. One day, he comes across a plucky, nine-year-old boy named Jeon Ingwon (played by Lee Inseong) who ...
Style: captivating, satirical, psychological, semi serious, thrilling
Plot: boy, parent child relationship, father son relationship, changing lives, record producer, satire, lifestyle change, lifestyle, fatherhood, relationships, family relations, paternity revealed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Ittymaani: Made In China (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: The son of a popular martial arts expert, Manikkunnel Ittymaani is an impulsive man who keeps landing into trouble.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious
Plot: son, escapades, master warrior, fight, male protagonist, relationship problems, martial arts, satire, father son relationship, malayalam
Place: india
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Snow White and Russian Red (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An aggressive thug has problems with his girlfriend. Over the course of several chaotic days he walks around the hood, takes drugs and confronts himself with other women.
Style: surreal, semi serious, realistic, disturbing, fast ...
Plot: life is a bitch, obsession, drug abuse, social misfits, misfit, addiction, violence, love, drug, fight scenes, nudity, sexual content ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: poland
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We Need a Vacation (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place for a vacation with their parents but not Lucien and Adama whose parents can't afford the expense. While the big brothers of the housing estate ...
Plot: youth, summer vacation, best friend, coming of age, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, bare chested male, young boy, woods, stealing, naturist, buddy ...
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Coconut Hero (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite ...
Style: humorous, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, twisted
Plot: first love, suicide attempt, loneliness, high school, therapy, depression, dancing, boy, love and romance, family relations, friendship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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46%
It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet ...
Plot: renaissance, communism, surrealism, road trip, nudity, post cold war, magic realism, prostitution, best friend, nun, pregnancy, rape ...
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe
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46%
My Brother's Summer (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
Style: entertaining, captivating
Plot: family relations, guilt, father son relationship, children, miscarriage, guilty conscience, mother son relationship, life, relationships, mother, boy, summer ...
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45%
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Crucial Years (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in hus life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and ...
Style: freeze frame
Plot: surrealism, psycho, kiss
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43%
A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, touching, disturbing ...
Plot: youth, friendship, coming of age, exodus, boy, best friend, dysfunctional family, working class, family relations, rejection, human nature, teenage life ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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While There's War There's Hope (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Pietro Chiocca shifts from hydraulic pumps to heavy war weapons selling. He starts traveling all around the third world looking for clients, and contract by contract his economic situation shoot up, raising also his social status. But is never ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: children, arms dealer
Time: 70s
Place: italy, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Crazy About Paris (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: mental illness, disability, escape, disabled person, obstacle, handicapped
Place: africa, paris france
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41%
Of Love and Lies (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Twelve-year old Theo plays for a local soccer club and has enough talent to eventually go pro. But his father has been on a self-destructive spiral ever since he started drinking and got divorced, and Theo feels powerless and anxious as he watches ...
Style: captivating, light, funny, entertaining
Plot: father son relationship, boy, football, alcoholic, family relations, relationships, soccer, ex husband ex wife relationship, lie, single father, alcoholic father, separated parents ...
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41%
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Spud (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, feel good, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teachers and students, fish out of water, love and romance, private school, boy, boarding school, childhood, preparatory school, life lesson, monty python, life changing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south africa, africa
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40%
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Live Is Life (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Summer 1985. As every year, Rodri travels from Catalonia to Galicia and is reunited with his four friends. As real-world problems begin to undermine their friendship, the five of them embark on a nighttime adventure in search of a mythical object.
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, teenager, friendship, drum set, waterfall, bicycle, sunrise, hospital, first kiss, curse, fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
Plot: nudity, female nudity, male nudity, love, girl, magic realism, communism, pregnancy, poverty, survival, tree, death ...
Place: balkan, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Hyenas (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Senegal, France, Switzerland, UK, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After being kicked out of her African village three decades earlier for getting pregnant out of wedlock, Linguere (Ami Diakhate) has returned home. While Linguere has done well for herself, her home village has fallen on hard economic times. Intent ...
Style: laugh out loud, realistic, semi serious, biting, cynical ...
Plot: african, economist, treasure hunt, blaxploitation, satire, politics, dishonesty, rise to the top, unfulfillment, society, love and romance, ambition ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: africa, senegal
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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