Movies like Man Follows Birds

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Man Follows Birds (1976)
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Man Follows Birds (1976)
Original name: Человек уходит за птицами
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Man Follows Birds is a coming-of-age story of a young Uzbek poet surrounded by violence. Farouk is fascinated by trees and Khamraev films him with a lot of melancholy and tenderness. Cast apart because he’s poor and his father’s drunk, Farouk is not happy in his village. When his father dies, he decides to go in the mountains with his best friends. Looking for nature at its purest, the two teenage boys have to deal with the cruelty of violent barbarians. Their trip will also make them meet a lost orphan girl and a wise beggar.
Plot: teenager, village, wedding, fishing, murder, sword, fire, funeral, river, blood, father son relationship, death of father, death of mother, dead girl, dead boy, bird, mask, apple, flute

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Most similar movies to Man Follows Birds

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, realistic and suspense films with plots about father son relationship, murder, death of father, village, death of mother, funeral and fire mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Man Follows Birds: Capricciosa (2003), Last Cowboy Standing (2009), Yumechiyo's Diary (1985), Prince of the Himalayas (2006), End of the Line (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Capricciosa (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Swedish drama by Reza Bagher.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, suspenseful
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, teenager, father son relationship, foster home, family crisis, death of mother, funeral, alcohol abuse, nordic, alcoholism, dreaming ...
Place: eastern europe
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Last Cowboy Standing (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present
Plot: cowboys and indians, boy, mental illness, family drama, loss of mother, death of mother, family secret, cremation, cat, death of father, brother brother relationship, christmas ...
Time: 70s
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Yumechiyo's Diary (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man ...
Plot: cancer, arrest, accidental death, son murders father, river, actor, spa, accidental killing, geisha, terminal illness, skiing, police ...
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Prince of the Himalayas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set in ancient Tibet under the shadow of the Himalayas, the young prince Lhamoklodan learns of his father's mysterious death and returns to the Kingdom Jiaobo. Troubled by his mother's sudden remarriage to his uncle Kulo-ngam, he swears to ...
Style: captivating, sincere, serious, exciting, tragic ending ...
Plot: politics, wealth, secret, adultery, friendship, suspect, young love, inheritance, father son relationship, wedding, murder, pursuit ...
Place: himalaya, tibet, persia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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End of the Line (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: Andrew has been in hiding ever since his mob boss father, killed his mother. Once his father gains word of his whereabouts he must make a decision to run, or finally confront his father.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, captivating
Plot: hiding, hitman, mafia, chase, murder, henchman, father son relationship, confronting the past, death of mother, girlfriend, flashback, mob ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Bloodshed at the Wedding (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the ...
Style: epic
Plot: wedding, mythology, bloodbath, village, running, love, escape, blood, fear, death, girl, innocent ...
Place: ottoman empire, macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Our Father... (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film by Veikko Aaltonen
Plot: violent father, father, hospital, son, flashback, female nudity, violence, death of mother, death, childhood trauma, dementia, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Fortitude (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Colombia, France, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, Roque retreats into the Amazon jungle to renovate a cabin he built during happier times. He struggles with feverish visions caused by alcohol abstinence, and his desire for redemption becomes ...
Plot: thunderstorm, blood, boat, bare chested male, contaminated water, escape, cell phone, existentialism, environmental, night, happiness, river ...
Place: venezuela
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Nowhere (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Young Danny has left his home town in the middle of nowhere (="Nirgendwo") behind and moved to Berlin to study business. The twentysomething enjoys big city life and independence. When his father dies unexpectedly, however, Danny has to ...
Plot: monkey, photograph, domineering father, generation y, suicide, female nudity, death of father, photographer, grief, death of mother, swimming, father son relationship ...
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Night-Flowers (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey town. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for ...
Style: independent film
Plot: frustration, psychiatric patient, murder, father son relationship, bus, rape, vietnam veteran, massage parlor, gym, roommate, police, fishing ...
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A Thousand Months (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: 1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
Audience: teens
Plot: little boy, authoritarianism, teenager, teacher, young boy, rural setting, school teacher, oppression, boy, wedding, suicide, death ...
Place: morocco
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The Shepherd (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A father chooses between his enemy and the life of his own son. Bursting with “Top Gun” action, THE SHEPHERD explodes into the lives and conflicts of the men who push the edge of supersonic danger while defending our skies. The resulting ...
Style: christian film
Plot: faith, christianity, death of husband, canoe, air force base, religious conversion, christian, colonel, fighter pilot, grief, river, fighter jet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Late Fragment (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Faye, Kevin and Théo three troubled strangers, three lives fractured by thoughts and acts of violence. In the interactive feature film Late Fragment, their narratives interlock in a unique cinematic experience in which you play a creative and ...
Style: experimental, interactive
Plot: woman with a gun, stealing, self mutilation, teenager, masturbation, father son relationship, blood, hallucination, murder, sex, prostitute, male nudity ...
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Thursday's Child (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked ...
Plot: teenager, heart transplant, illness, father son relationship, doctor, family relations, heart disease
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48%
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Meeting Past (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A famous surgeon named Nino, who came to the village, is requested to perform the operation. She recognizes her ex-husband Akia is the wounded person and now her difficult past is there before her eyes: Almaskhan's son Akia raped orphaned Nino. ...
Style: crying
Plot: revolutionary, memories, sick, driven mad, polygamy, encounter, pregnancy, dead father, orphan, surgery, surgeon, female doctor ...
Place: georgia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Shiba (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with ...
Plot: hooker, rural setting, cultural difference, village, seaside, dice, brother sister relationship, family relations, prostitute, hotel manager, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: taiwan
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A Gap in the Skin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot: murder, couples, young couple, domestic violence, teenage boy, family problems, murder of family, teenager, relationship problems, juvenile delinquency, violence, life is a bitch ...
Place: tokyo
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Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min.
Story: You don’t need politics to make a political film… Love, pleasure, beauty and food are serious enough.
Style: captivating
Plot: wedding, food, family relations, marriage, love, wedding preparations and rituals, arranged marriage, relationships, love affair, wedding planning, restaurant, chef ...
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The Red Knight (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Who really is behind the legend of "Red Dragon"?
Style: serious, stylized, exciting, captivating
Plot: adventurer, heroes, escapades, danger, imaginary kingdom, legends and myths, sword and sorcery, spell, legend, tomb, medieval, pope ...
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Tag (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Billy is the self-designated leader of a group of teenagers living in a shelter. Jacob and Rae, Billy's oldest childhood friends, live there as well as part of "the family". Billy has an AIDs-like virus, which he has passed on to his ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: homeless, abusive parent, drug addict, couples, teenager, gay teenager, runaway, murder, hiv, flashback sequence, love, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Last Fine Day (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The phone call from Sybille was usual. Her family didn't even know that this call just started their last fine day...
Plot: depressed woman, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, loss of mother, loss of wife, brother sister relationship, suicide, funeral, philosophy, flashback
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The Learning Tree (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, ...
Style: aesthetic, existential, independent film, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: coming of age, racism, black, murder, racial issues, blaxploitation, boy, social justice, black lives matter, african, interracial, family relations ...
Time: 1920s, year 1969
Place: kansas, usa
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41%
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Coming Home (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jochen's life is going well. He has just moved into a new house with his wife and child when suddenly his widowed father accidentally runs into a car and begins to lose his mind. The family take the old man in but tensions arise when the family ...
Plot: mental illness, new house, family relations, alzheimer's disease, father son relationship, fire, senior citizen
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40%
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How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: his drama is set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney ('Colm Meany' ) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty - the most powerful man in town, who not only owns the local pub and most ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, black comedy ...
Plot: family relations, feud, social relations, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, village life, revenge, husband wife relationship, village, scarecrow, tree, scandal ...
Time: 1920s
Place: ireland, europe
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The Constant Factor (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the "emotional quotient" or the ability to bounce back from adverse, tragic circumstances. Witold has been ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: renaissance, mountaineer, frame up, job, father, fired from the job, father son relationship, dying, death, corruption, death of father, death of mother ...
Time: year 1980
Place: poland, eastern europe, himalaya
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40%
The Sacred Mound (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness ...
Plot: coming of age, wedding, fire, island, lighthouse, boy, first love, love, nudity, sex, sexual dysfunction, treasure ...
Place: iceland
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40%
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Hamlet (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as ...
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, visually appealing, fairy tale, spiritual ...
Plot: shakespeare, betrayal, medieval, love, stage play, spirituality, knight, moving, realism, hamlet, ghost, shakespeare's hamlet ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia, denmark
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Farewell (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
Style: spiritual
Plot: spirituality, peasant, child, old woman, lake, island, tree, fog, tradition, mute, water, fire ...
Place: soviet union, russia
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39%
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Clara Sola (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Costa Rica, Belgium, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have dominated her life.
Style: existential, spiritual
Plot: woman, women, 40 year old, female nudity, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, remote village, sexuality, village, journey, sexual awakening, firefly ...
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39%
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Natarang (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: husband wife relationship, politics, father son relationship, dancer, death of father, sabotage, village, loss of job, theater, theatrical troupe, effeminacy, lgbt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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