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The Emigrants (2021)
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Original name: Utvandrarna
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Sweden, 1849. A poverty-stricken family decides to move to America in the hope of finding a better and more prosperous life. Although they know the journey will be dangerous and the pressure of facing a new life in a strange and wild land is great, they are determined to succeed.
Style:
historical drama, family saga, period piece, captivating, disturbing, emotional, melancholic, grim, art house, period drama ...
Plot:
immigration, society, social problems, lifestyle, social issues, survival, journey, struggle for survival, determination, family bonds, realism, adaptation, identity, man versus nature, literary, nostalgia, religious faith, female nudity, american history, nordic, language barrier, slow burn, book, emigrant, emigration ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, 1840s
Place:
america, eastern europe, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out historical drama, captivating, melancholic and period piece films with plots about survival, social problems, society, literary, life is a bitch, family relations and biopic mostly in Drama, History and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Emigrants: Gold Fever in Lapland (1999), The Night a Village Vanished (2009), Manure and Gillyflowers (1978), Rajkahini (2015), The Book of Fish (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 151 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, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot:
immigrant, journey, immigration, religious persecution, food, sea voyage, farm hand, starvation, nordic, refugee, boat, death ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1850s, year 1971
Place:
minnesota, america, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
After being presented with a treasure map, two men travel to the harsh northern wastelands of Lapland in the hopes of finding gold.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, suspense, grim
Plot:
gold rush, lapland, greed, friendship, survival, nordic, winter, man versus nature, ambition, determination, treasure map, exploration ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
iron curtain, cold war, repression, political oppression, society, social issues, life is a bitch, social problems, resistance, realism, emigration, refugee ...
Place:
german democratic republic, east germany, germany
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
A story about the life of Maximiliane Irene von Quindt based on a classic novel by Christine Bruckner .
Style:
family saga, period piece, historical drama, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, german history, female protagonist, aristocracy, literary, adaptation, nostalgia, loss, manor, class conflict, social change, survival ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing 11 ...
Style:
historical drama, psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
brothel, women, historical event, political unrest, social problems, survival, tragedy, power struggle, moral ambiguity, resilience, rape, sexual harassment ...
Place:
kolkata, india
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.
Style:
thought provoking, black and white, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
exile, joseon dynasty, fisherman, lifestyle, life philosophy, society, social misfits, relationships, literary, biopic, friendship, island ...
Time:
19th century
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61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, poignant ...
Plot:
exile, social problems, social outcast, social misfits, life is a bitch, identity crisis, alienation, identity, loneliness, immigration, introspection, nostalgia ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe, turkey
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56%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, social, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
children's home, children, experiment, society, colonization, colonialism, assimilation, life is a bitch, child, parenting, social issues, social problems ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
denmark, greenland
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56%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Story:
The love story of 2 youths during the '700s. Fabrizio, a boy who was supposed to be a noble and part of Napoleons army, and Clelia a beautiful girl of a important Noble of the high society of Parma in that era. Their love became impossible ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
forbidden love, napoleonic wars, love triangle, relationship problems, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, family life, relationships, male female relationship, social problems, love story ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Neus Català returns to France, where she recalls her life under the Nazi yoke.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, captivating, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, female protagonist, concentration camp, concentration camp survivor, forced labor, war trauma, life is a bitch, survival horror, struggle for survival, life, woman ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The film follows the story of Hadzi Trifun, a prominent Serbian merchant, who tries to keep the peace with the Turkish authorities, but also maintains his reputation and influence in Vranje, an important Turkish town near the border with liberated ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, family saga, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, social problems, social issues, politics, life, family honor, political intrigue, moral dilemma, reputation, legacy, power struggle, honor ...
Time:
19th century, 1910s
Place:
serbia, balkan, ottoman empire, turkey
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, France
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, ...
Style:
art house, philosophical, cerebral, intellectual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
culture clash, aristocracy, manor, morality, debate, mansion, high society, cultural difference, relationship problems, intrigue, slow burn, literary ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century
Place:
bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
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Story:
After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, heartfelt, emotional ...
Plot:
butcher, relationships, family relations, problem, social problems, direction and purpose, social issues, job, society, ambitious, workplace, ambition ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
midwest
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in Hong Kong in the 1980s, the film follows a fisherman’s son who rises to become a powerful tai pan.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
class struggle, rags to riches, orphan, social climbing, ambition, colonialism, identity, coping, social problems, social issues, family secret, business tycoon ...
Time:
80s, 1940s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
family saga, psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house ...
Plot:
social commentary, village life, dysfunctional family, social problems, problem, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, communism, father son relationship, coming of age, education ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
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Story:
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Style:
historical drama, tense, suspense, captivating, educational ...
Plot:
political intrigue, brazilian history, amazon rainforest, culture clash, government conspiracy, social problems, government corruption, conflict, political unrest, politics, government, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 420 min.
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Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama, family saga, poignant, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Nepal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, surreal, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, society, family problems, orphan, dealing with death, death in the family, oppression, patriarchy, social injustice, women's rights ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
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Story:
The events unfold from 1924 to the present day. Almost the entire epoch is involved, with all the historical characters of our country. The picture is a drama of a Jewish family, which the viewer will follow for 100 years, with the change of epochs, ...
Style:
family saga, historical drama, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
family history, jewish family, storytelling, husband wife relationship, social relations, love, lifestyle, society, architect, transformation, survival, memory ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, reflective, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
search for father, teacher, father son relationship, coming of age, lifestyle, relationships, life is a bitch, family relations, school teacher, personal growth, family drama, identity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brazil
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43%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
Style:
bleak, historical drama, grim, period piece, family saga ...
Plot:
hunger, starvation, loss, family tragedy, village life, realism, mourning, survival, social commentary, oppression, memory, political repression ...
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1930s
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama, emotional, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
denmark
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, serious, bleak, family saga ...
Plot:
class struggle, social realism, national identity, social injustice, cautionary tale, murder, politics, male nudity, russian roulette, folk music
Place:
hungary, central europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Amidst the rugged Oregon territory, Rising Free is a visual masterpiece that showcases the harrowing journey of a young woman running from the throes of prejudice. Taken in by a gracious pioneer family, she learns to stand in newfound hope but is ...
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The story revolves around a hotel named "Shah Jahan Regency" and lives of people associated with that hotel. The hotel is one of a kind and very different from others as it strongly believes in the rich culture of India and tries to imply ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, emotional, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
hotel, relationship problems, lifestyle, relationships, adaptation, luxury hotel, class differences, city life, literary, slice of life, legacy, intimate ...
Place:
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Genre: History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This is a fictional love story with the 1856 Handcart Pioneers as the backdrop. Sam Hunter, falls for a Mormon Pioneer woman, Abigail, as she is moving west. As the pioneers stop in his town of Iowa City, he pretends to desire joining the Mormon ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, historical romance, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
christian, sacrifice, religious faith, love story, hardship, survival, suffering, religious community, moral dilemma, faith, pioneer, religious persecution ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the life one of the greatest Hungarian aristocrats - Count Széchenyi - who was born with extra-ordinary mental and spiritual talents. In the years ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, captivating, epic, dramatic ...
Plot:
aristocracy, aristocrat, biopic, storytelling, monarchy, monarch, rich man, historical figure, lifestyle, patriotism, redemption, political intrigue ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1860s
Place:
hungary, central europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In a nostalgic Moscow of 1976, an unlucky actor meets a charismatic writer, a living classic of Soviet literature, who turns his life into a tragicomic farce with the artistic bohemia, foreign-currency prostitutes, the KGB staff and agents of the ...
Style:
tragicomedy, emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
family relations, male protagonist, workplace, love and romance, mishap, actor, society, destiny, fired from the job, downfall, rise and fall, playwright ...
Time:
70s
Place:
moscow russia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, brazilian history, parents and children, relationships, social problems, family problems, family relations, society, life is a bitch, father and son, husband wife relationship, social inequality ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brazil
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38%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and ...
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, captivating, psychological, period piece
Plot:
forbidden love, separation, star crossed lovers, love story, male female relationship, love interest, couples, relationship problems, society, love affair, relationships, patriarchy ...
Time:
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Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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38%
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