Movies like Conquest 1998

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Conquest (1998)
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Conquest (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: British-Canadian light romantic comedy film set in a dying Saskatchewan town. Bank branch manager, Pincer Bedier, dreams of reviving the town when one day a beautiful young woman's car breaks down and she becomes stranded until it can be repaired. She is convinced by the banker to take on the duties at the local hardware store to pay for the parts for her car and soon a romance between the two develops.
Style: independent film
Plot: journey, professional, tour
Place: canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, psychological and serious films with plots about family relations, journey, friendship, self discovery, father son relationship, tour and parents and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Conquest: My Uncle Antoine (1971), Loyalties (1986), Black Mud (2017), Striker's Mountain (1985), On the Road (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Uncle Antoine (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business. Mon Oncle Antoine is Director Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A ...
Style: art house, social, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, small town, christmas, mining, youth, uncle nephew relationship, countryside, female nudity, young adult, christmas season, journey, boy ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971
Place: canada, quebec
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Loyalties (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England ...
Style: independent film
Plot: family relations, doctor, secret
Place: england, canada
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Black Mud (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A coming of age story about two orphaned brothers who travel cross country to the Alberta oil sands in search of a new life. Along the way, they learn to depend on one another, but tensions grow as money gets tight. On the brink of giving up, Alex, ...
Plot: global warming, father son relationship, two brothers, job seeking
Place: canada
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Striker's Mountain (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A construction conglomerate, headed by a ruthless millionaire, wants to buy a ski resort that has been a family business for years, but the family does not want to sell. The businessman resolves to get the property, whether they want to sell it or ...
Plot: helicopter, ski resort, mountain, snow, skiing, resort
Place: canada
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On the Road (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, ...
Plot: bare chested male, bare butt, bare breasts, topless woman, male objectification, male nudity, female nudity, female objectification, post coital scene, tour
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John A.: Birth of a Country (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A riveting political thriller starring Shawn Doyle (John A. Macdonald), Peter Outerbridge (George Brown) and David LaHaye (George-Etienne Cartier) and set during the struggles that take Canada from colony to country.
Plot: conspiracy, drunkenness, queen victoria, british colonial
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Place: canada
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Experience Preferred... But Not Essential (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
Style: independent film
Plot: hotel, seaside, waitress, professional, beach, introvert, mine, seaside town, sleepwalking, restaurant, girl, young
Time: year 1982
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Looking for Angelina (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...
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The Untouchable (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After learning from her mother that her father lives in India, a young woman goes there to meet him for the first time.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, parents and children, self discovery, single parent, estrangement, search for father, absent father, long lost relative, against the odds, family bonds, obsession ...
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Something About Love (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the ...
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Being in Heaven (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a single moment, life can change forever. Jason Masterman is a young and successful New York stock broker whose career comes to a bitter and humiliating end with the onset of the global financial crisis. Waking one morning to the sound of the ...
Style: spiritual, independent film
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Recommendation for Mercy (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic, compassionate ...
Audience: adult
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Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1953, post world war two, 1950s
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46%
Leaving No Trace (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
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Plot: sexuality, buddhism, spirituality, surrealism, journey, self discovery, enlightenment, exploration
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43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in ...
Style: independent film
Plot: poverty, teenage pregnancy, homeless, teenager, canuxploitation, black, racism, juvenile delinquent
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43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min.
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Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
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37%
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Country: UK, Sweden, Poland, Spain, USA
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
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Genre: Drama
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