Movies like Saint-Exupéry
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Saint-Exupéry (2024)
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Original name: Saint-Ex
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Argentina. When his best friend who happens to be Airmail’s best pilot Henri Guillaumet disappears in the Andes, Saint-Ex decides to set out in search of him, against all odds. This impossible quest forces him to push beyond his limits, turning his capacity to dream into his greatest strength...
Style:
philosophical, poetic, epic, melancholic, suspenseful, art house, period drama, pre war, tragic, nostalgic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
search and rescue, aviation, pilot, flying, man versus nature, biopic, survival, friendship, heroism, bravery, determination, perseverance, loneliness, obsession, isolation, loss, endurance, hopes, character study, literary, slow burn, plane crash, rescue, rescue mission, explorer
Time:
1930s
Place:
argentina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, period drama, emotional and art house films with plots about biopic, isolation, survival, character study, loneliness, resilience and hopes mostly in Drama, Biography and Adventure genres. Some movies like Saint-Exupéry: A Thousand Skies (1985), 49 Days (1962), The Smell of Humans (2022), Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight (2014), Pure Life (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
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Story:
Charles Kingsford Smith, an adventurer, a crusader, a fighter, a lover. Against impossible odds, he went out to explore the sky, and soared higher than most.
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adult
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biopic, aviation, flying, exploration, pilot, determination, perseverance, survival, innovation, danger, expedition, character study ...
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Duration: 84 min.
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A woman undergoing a medical treatment. Will she survive?
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The profound depths of Ernõ Szép's life and poetry are revived in a new film adaptation of the poet's novel, 'The Smell of Humans'. This stoic and lyrical narrative of twenty fateful days offers an authentic account of an ...
Style:
reflective, lyrical, melancholic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
humanity, poetry, poet, memory, biopic, literary, haunting, survival, loss, resilience, oppression, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.
Style:
inspirational, period drama
Plot:
aviation, female protagonist, pilot, biopic, national hero, determination, courage, resilience, perseverance, risk, exploration, danger ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, French Guiana, Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
1949, a French explorer goes on a solitary expedition in the Amazon forest. He leaves behind him a diary that reflects the meaning of Pure Life and his encounters but leaves the mystery of his own disappearance unsolved.
Style:
captivating, contemplative, atmospheric, historical drama, meditative ...
Plot:
nature, amazon, biopic, explorer, exploration, travelogue, wildlife, amazon rainforest, amazon jungle, expedition, amazon river, isolation ...
Time:
year 1949
Place:
guyana
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.
Style:
tense, inspirational, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
danger, epidemic, perseverance, cold, arctic, rescue mission, winter, snow, heroism, survival, bravery, youth ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
52%
602
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Philippines, Spain, Portugal, France, Taiwan
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
In the 16th century, Ferdinand Magellan, a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator, rebels against the power of the King of Portugal, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world, and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, melancholic, slow cinema ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
exploration, sea voyage, biopic, determination, ambition, leadership, mutiny, idealism, palace intrigue, marriage, isolation, colonialism ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, portugal, atlantic ocean, pacific ocean
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52%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, poignant, melancholic, nature documentary, independent film
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
penguins, isolation, man versus nature, survival, character study, introspection, coming of age, humility, endurance, loneliness, scientific expedition, bird ...
Time:
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Place:
antarctic, antarctica, london
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52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lost somewhere over the Pacific in a single-engine Cessna with low fuel, a pilot (Scott Bakula) awaits rescue.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, emotional, realistic
Plot:
aviation, search and rescue, pilot, rescue mission, lost at sea, airplane accident, survival, teamwork, desperation, heroism, isolation, air traffic control ...
Place:
pacific ocean, honolulu hawaii, new zealand
Similarity:
49%
254
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
A team of climbers are preparing for their new mountain climbing expedition. They are brought together by their mutual love for this dangerous sport, for its challenges. They, however, differ in tempers, in problems and notions of honor and dignity. ...
Style:
thought provoking, tense, reflective, melancholic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, life & death, mountaineering, avalanche, friendship, responsibility, character study, leadership, snowstorm, sacrifice, rivalry, introspection ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, artist, biopic, grief, mental illness, social problems, life is a bitch, problem, outcast, character study, loss, addiction ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century
Place:
oslo norway, berlin germany, copenhagen
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
45%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece
Plot:
north pole, expedition, rivalry, controversy, biopic, ambition, survival, travel and leisure, perseverance, isolation, naval officer, character study ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
greenland
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama, emotional, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
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Place:
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61
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tom (Tennessee) Williams, an aspiring writer in his 20s, lives with and negligent father. Tom attempts to maintain peace in the family while also dealing with his depressed and anti-social sister. Struggling against the societal pressures and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
contemplative, bleak, sincere, epic, exciting ...
Plot:
north pole, survival, biopic, zeppelin, island, nature, ice, polar bear, flying, weather, arctic, exploration ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
intercultural, suspense, tense, grim, psychological ...
Plot:
cold, arctic, survival, stranded, snow, man versus nature, ice, isolation, friendship, plane crash, character study, storm ...
Similarity:
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416
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
theater, biopic, character study, political unrest, sacrifice, mortality, resilience, legacy, social change, illness, memory, slow burn ...
Place:
italy
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36%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tension, intense, psychotronic, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
aviation, sabotage, airplane, survival, confined space, catastrophe, influenza, rescue mission, heroism, pandemic, tragedy, natural disaster ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
desert, aviation, obsessive quest, missing person, escapades, love and romance, disobey, aviator, journey, female protagonist, man versus nature, search and rescue ...
Time:
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Place:
sahara, africa
Similarity:
36%
478
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: India, UK
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
A prodigious Indian mathematician has to overcome poverty and prejudices and make a mark with the help of his British mentor.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, intercultural ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mathematics, prodigy, genius, biopic, lifestyle, love affair, historical figure, love interest, aspiration, male protagonist, relationships, inspiration ...
Time:
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Place:
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35%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama, grim, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, cannibalism, french colonialism, desperation, class conflict, political scandal, moral ambiguity, court martial, napoleonic wars, biopic, slow burn ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Style:
captivating, psychological, period piece, dark, inspirational ...
Plot:
survival, airplane crash, mountain, disaster, desperation, crash, photograph, rugby, rescue, struggle for survival, snow, airplane accident ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, philosophical, melancholic, meditative, art house ...
Plot:
biopic, death, writer's life, character study, insomnia, introspection, isolation, spiritual journey, social injustice, memory, writers, flashback ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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387
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, suspense, grim, art house, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, melancholic, art film, touching, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, period drama, moody
Plot:
glamour, fame, biopic, celebrity culture, showbiz, passion, infidelity, character study, star crossed lovers, hollywood, jealousy, affair ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
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30%
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