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Exile (2012)
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Original name: Exil
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Dominican Republic, USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The coming of age journey of Samuel, a young Haitian boy whose life takes a tragic turn when his father is kidnapped, and he then decides to travel to the United States and Canada to find his mother.
Style:
emotional, road movie, melancholic, dramatic, intercultural, heartfelt, tense, independent film
Plot:
journey, exile, immigration, family drama, coming of age, survival, child protagonist, grief, childhood trauma, realism, resilience, identity, social issues, diaspora, poverty, isolation, border crossing, longing, hopes, human trafficking, boy, father, young, death of parent, loss of parent
Time:
2010s
Place:
haiti, usa, canada, north america, united states
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Most similar movies to Exile
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, tense and captivating films with plots about resilience, survival, coming of age, hopes, poverty, realism and identity mostly in Drama, Action and History genres. Some movies like Exile: The Path (2008), Maa Jaye (2025), Crossing (2008), Sour Grape (1974), Round Trip (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two young Nicaraguan children, Saslaya and her mute brother Dario, must travel to Costa Rica to find their long-lost mother.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, intercultural
Audience:
adult
Plot:
migration, immigration, coming of age, resilience, border crossing, social issues, poverty, survival, realism, family reunited, hopes, road trip ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
nicaragua, costa rica, central america
Similarity:
95%
134
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An emotional story of two brothers; the biography of Dr. Amarjit Singh, an Indian American immigrant who walked through The First Kashmir War as a child, forced from his home with his severely disabled brother and a family in fear for their lives.
Style:
historical drama, poignant, emotional, dramatic, heartfelt ...
Plot:
biopic, immigration, brothers, brotherhood, resilience, survival, perseverance, family drama, cleaning, sacrifice, loss, refugee ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
kashmir, india, usa
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, bleak, political drama
Plot:
boy, poverty, father son relationship, realism, escape, refugee, illness, desperation, border crossing, survival, separation, humanitarian ...
Place:
north korea, south korea, china, vancouver
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, period piece, tension
Plot:
world war two, father son relationship, family drama, longing, waiting, grief, loss, child protagonist, trauma, sacrifice, hopes, family conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Lucia is a Mexican girl from a poor town who sets her mind to cross the border to The United States to find her son's father who she hasn't heard from in years. On the road she meets Fernanda, a high middle class girl that has unresolved ...
Style:
road movie, reflective, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
breast feeding, road trip, female friendship, border crossing, travel, identity, immigration, class differences, longing, personal growth, motherhood, coming of age ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young runaway ends up homeless with no choice but to try to survive life on the streets.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
street life, social issues, homeless, homelessness, social problems, lifestyle, city life, urban setting, realism, resilience, poverty, survival ...
Similarity:
59%
208
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
hopes, danger, fall in love, desert, survival, on the road, rescue, starting over, love and romance, immigrant, follow your dream, immigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nigeria
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Orphaned by A.I.D.S., South African children Ibutho and Umsindisi SIlongo try to make a fresh start in the United States. What they do not know is that their struggles are far from over.
Style:
captivating, emotional, heartfelt, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
orphan, children, adoption, immigration, african, social problems, life is a bitch, society, social issues, social relations, kids in trouble, hopes ...
Place:
new york, usa, south africa
Similarity:
56%
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210
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Faced with the trials and obstacles of life, the tight-knit community of Ste-Adeline has always remained united. But this time it's in shock and will have to face a situation that will confront the inhabitants with their contradictions. At the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, social, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, teenager, social commentary, small town, hypocrisy, community, secrets, family drama, life, adolescence, social issues ...
Similarity:
55%
884
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Forced to flee his home in Honduras, Óscar seeks asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the immigration system.
Style:
suspense, rough, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
escape, undocumented immigrant, immigration, fear, violence, breakup, gang, arrest, court, tattoo, child protagonist, border ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, central america
Similarity:
53%
192
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese ...
Style:
emotional, intercultural, art house, melancholic, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women, fashion, mortality, identity, self discovery, cancer, makeup artist, modeling, immigration, ambition, resilience, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As the unforgiving forces of nature take their toll on humans and animals, the unexpected return of snow devastates the nomad family’s livestock. 11-year old Sukbhat is forced to leave his childhood behind. Now the hopes of the family rely on the ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
horse race, human animal relationship, survival, rise to the top, boy, getting home, coming of age, loss, child protagonist, village life, grief, poverty ...
Place:
mongolia
Similarity:
52%
50
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, period drama
Plot:
fishing, small town, fishing village, sea, family drama, tradition, mother son relationship, father son relationship, working class, longing, village life, storytelling ...
Place:
newfoundland, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A refugee struggles hard to find an identity for himself in order to accomplish his dreams.
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, realistic, road movie ...
Plot:
refugee, identity, character study, humanity, resilience, empathy, soul searching, social issues, migration, journey, hopes, realism ...
Similarity:
49%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
wasteland, father daughter relationship, fatherhood, truck, father and daughter, father, daughter, family drama, road trip, relationships, family relations, parent child relationship ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Samuel, a young Venezuelan, emigrates from his country in search of a better life and to help his family, without knowing the difficult situations that he will face as an immigrant. away from home is based on real events of millions of Venezuelans ...
Style:
bleak, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
immigration, hardship, realism, resilience, empathy, social commentary, survival, poverty, perseverance, hopes, adaptation, longing ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
latin america, venezuela
Similarity:
47%
265
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Albanian teenager, Saimir, emigrates to Italy to start a new life with his father. His father tries to make a living transporting illegal immigrants. When this fails to make his father any money, he is drawn into an insidious prostitution ring. ...
Style:
crime drama, dramatic, emotional, intense, bleak ...
Plot:
father son relationship, illegal immigration, immigration, exploitation, human trafficking, prostitution, moral dilemma, teenage protagonist, coming of age, identity crisis, survival, love interest ...
Place:
balkan, albania
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Marco, a cynical and ambitious young lawyer, lives in Bari with his partner Martina and their eight-year-old son Mateo. Martina had left Chile and moved to Italy when she met Marco. Their relationship has run its course, however, and Martina longs ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Plot:
family drama, fatherhood, missing child, family problems, marital problem, relationships, unhappy marriage, marriage crisis, dysfunctional family, family relations, relationship problems, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
chile
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, neorealism, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
post war, journey, immigration, struggle, social realism, hopes, resilience, working class, poverty, coming of age, friendship, survival ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
new york, naples italy, italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tells the tragic story of an Iraqi-Turkish girl, Cennet, who loses her entire family during a US-led operation against insurgents in her village in US-occupied Iraq. She makes a distressing journey through the border between Turkey and Iraq ...
Style:
emotional, dark, serious, bleak, harsh ...
Plot:
occupation, massacre, grief, trauma, desperation, loss, innocence lost, realism, political conflict, us military, child protagonist, danger ...
Place:
iraq, turkey
Similarity:
43%
163
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
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Story:
Adham travels to Ukraine with a group of illegal immigrants to seek employment and escape the conflicts that had torn his family apart for more than twenty years.
Style:
realistic, bleak, tense
Plot:
poverty, illegal immigration, migration, human trafficking, social realism, family drama, border crossing, survival, desperation, loss, longing, hopes ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, middle east
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
While he loses his clandestine work, and because he believes that Maroussia and him will no longer be able to love each other as well, Frank leaves to earn as much as she: twelve thousand, just what it takes to have a year before them. No more no ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
employment, working life, poverty, working class, realism, urban, slice of life, intimate, resilience, character study, social realism, sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The lives of six individuals across the city change just as the city is reeling under floods. Will they all make it safely to the other side?
Style:
emotional, realistic, bleak, inspirational, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
city life, family drama, urban, survival, deafness, social issues, sacrifice, motherhood, natural disaster, realism, resilience, slice of life ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Omar and Esperanza return to Monterrey after a doctoral stay in Quebec, while making economic and emotional efforts to stay in Mexico, a job offer comes up in San Antonio, Texas. Standing before unsecure and terror conditions that rein upon the ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tension, road movie ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, border crossing, secret past, family problems, confronting the past, tragic past, new job, society, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico, san antonio texas
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The possibly devastating impact of the Trump administration crackdown on immigration, for one Bay Area family.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
immigration, family drama, immigrant family, mysterious disappearance, changing lives, social problems, life is a bitch, teenager, teenage life, lifestyle change, disappearance, teenage girl ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
san francisco, bay area
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A cynical young boy gets to know the latest girlfriend of his ne'er-do-well father and begins to hope that this new relationship actually sticks.
Style:
sincere, dramatic, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
stepmother, single father, terminal illness, poverty, boy, child protagonist, family drama, diabetic, family relations, family problems, diabetes, father ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
40%
163
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
One year after the death of her mother, Elena, a young French woman of Greek origin, returns to her holiday home on the island of Lesbos. She is accompanied by her friends Nassim and Sekou, two young suburbanites more used to the benches of the city ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
island, greek, mourning, grief, greek island, woman, seaside, women, coastal town, sun, female protagonist, beach ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, ...
Style:
saga, emotional, historical drama, family saga, melancholic ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, biopic, exile, refugee, motherhood, immigration, family drama, survival, mother son relationship, resilience, family relations ...
Place:
armenia, marseille, ottoman empire, france, provence
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young boy follows his violent and alcoholic father on a quest to find his mother, who has run away from his abuse.
Style:
road movie, intense, bleak, indie film, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, village, family drama, domestic abuse, village life, social realism, realism, journey, alcoholism, minimalism, poverty, child protagonist ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
38%
325
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio Olympics. As Brazilian Pacification Police battle to maintain a tenuous occupation of the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, prison, family drama, favela, coming of age, life is a bitch, family problems, relationship problems, ex convict, adolescence, teenage life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
36%
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