Movies like The Field

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The Field (1990)
 7.3
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The Field (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
Style: realistic, talky, serious, bleak, psychological, suspense, rough, independent film, sentimental, road movie ...
Audience: manly
Plot: farmer, village, fight, human spirit, life is a bitch, society, hopes, small town, storytelling, love, death, tragedy, guilt, real estate, threat, hunger, family relations, survival, nature, evil, irish mob, landscape, dancing, horse, murder ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: ireland, europe, boston
Keyword: irish, american, mass, doctors

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Most similar movies to The Field

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and sincere films with plots about murder, cigarette smoking, family relations, death, society, husband wife relationship and photograph mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres. Some movies like The Field: My Left Foot (1989), Angela's Ashes (1999), Michael Collins (1996), Five Minutes of Heaven (2009), How Harry Became a Tree (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Left Foot (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, unusual plot structure, dramatic ...
Plot: disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, handicapped, paralysis, medical, painter, art, poet ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: ireland, england, dublin ireland, europe
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Angela's Ashes (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style: touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature, childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Michael Collins (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Style: political, brutal, harsh, intense, factual ...
Plot: politics, terrorism, biopic, revolution, civil war, irish history, ira, fighting the system, freedom, british empire, fight, secret service ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: ireland, england, london, northern ireland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Style: psychological, intense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: redemption, reconciliation, murder, memory, haunted by the past, secrets, life is a bitch, acceptance, terrorism, trouble, ira, vengeance ...
Time: year 2009, 70s, year 1975, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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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28%
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48 Angels (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail.
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: teenage life, on the run, human spirit, self discovery, life is a bitch, danger, hopes, child illness, friendship, religion, fight, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Crossing Guard (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, emotional, intense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, murder, obsession, hit and run, tragedy, redemption, vengeance, loss of daughter, justice, crime gone awry, car accident, tragic event ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, los angeles, glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
Style: touching, political, thought provoking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: racism, apartheid, interracial relations, politics, self discovery, priest, psychology, social justice, afrikaans, narration, murder, racial tension ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, post world war two
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Garage (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tragicomedy set in the world of gas stations in rural Ireland, where over-diligent employee of the garage searches for intimacy during the course of a life-changing summer.
Style: realistic, psychological, melancholic, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: small town, society, friendship, social relations, misfit, angst, village, loneliness, friends, coming of age, village life, teenage life ...
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Felicia's Journey (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, erotic, sexy, art house ...
Plot: serial killer, food, insanity, loneliness, violence, murder, politics, countryside, hunting, erotica, extreme, abortion ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, england, birmingham alabama, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.9
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Red (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An older, reclusive man's best friend and inspiration for living is his 14-year-old dog named "Red". When three troublesome teens kill the dog for no good reason, the grieving man sets out for justice and redemption by whatever means ...
Style: suspense, touching, tense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: dog, justice, redemption, murder, twists and turns, small town, revenge, brutality, vigilante, violence, greed, pets ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Intended (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
Style: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: jungle, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, crimes of passion, danger, culture clash, dysfunctional family, greed, older woman younger man, age-gap relationship, couple relations, escapades ...
Time: year 2002, 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: malaysia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
All the Little Animals (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby (Christian Bale) runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old man, Mr. Summers (John Hurt), who spends his time traveling and giving burials to ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: beach, ladybug, brain damage, pagan, politics, seaside, children, mental illness, murder, pets, on the run, escape ...
Time: 90s
Place: cornwall, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Some Mother's Son (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the ...
Style: political, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: prison, lawyer, prison violence, terrorist, working class, women, betrayal, politics, ira, british, struggle, trouble ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Wonder (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the Irish Midlands of 1859 an English nurse, Lib Wright, goes to a tiny village to observe what some see as a medical anomaly and others a miracle, that a girl has survived without food for months. Tourists flock to see 11-year-old Anna ...
Style: dramatic, psychological, costume drama, harsh, suspense ...
Plot: brother sister incest, village, catholic, murder, survival, tourist, young girl, love, young woman, stranger, incest, renaissance ...
Time: 1860s, 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: ireland, australia, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Shotgun Stories (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: vengeance, revenge, violence, family relations, violent, brutality, character study, sibling relationship, family bonds, siblings relations, family feud, estrangement ...
Time: year 2007, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Veronica Guerin (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot: journalism, investigation, strong female character, murder, gangster, justice, corruption, drug lord, police, drug dealing, heroin, journalist ...
Time: 90s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, amsterdam
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21%
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On the Ice (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: native american, friendship, grief, death, family relations, buddies, youth, parents and children, society, village, accidental death, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Sea Fog (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: rescue, immigrant, fog, chase, down on your luck, illegal immigrant, society, ship, accidental death, murder, storm, boat ...
Time: year 2014, year 1998, 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Liam (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, sin, life is a bitch, starving child, society, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, ireland, middle east, europe, united kingdom ...
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21%
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Omagh (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, disturbing, uplifting ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, bomb, fighting the system, injustice, legal, human spirit, society, uncover truth, redemption, danger, false accusation ...
Time: year 1998
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
How I Killed My Father (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
Style: atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: murder, aging, family relations, parents and children, family life, homecoming, clinic, resentment, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2001
Place: africa, europe, czechoslovakia, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.4
 600
Driftwood (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric
Plot: amnesia, beach, memory loss, isolation, island, love affair, life is a bitch, love and romance, obsession, performer's life, lie, sex scene ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Evelyn (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Ireland, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, feel good, intense ...
Plot: children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, courtroom drama, 007, single father ...
Time: 50s, year 2002, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953
Place: ireland, sydney australia, scotland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Style: emotional, light, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, dancing, siblings relations, parents and children, family life, human nature, sibling relationship, love and romance, life is a bitch, sisters, brother sister relationship, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998, year 1936, 20th century
Place: ireland, africa, europe, england, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.5
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Undertow (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Style: harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, murder, brutality, tragedy, homelessness, danger, lifestyle, parents and children, violence, boy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
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The Quarry (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, escape, small town, interracial relations, mistaken identity, gay subtext, violent content, disorder, religions or cults, clergy, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: south africa, belgium, europe, holland, canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Three Brothers (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: chess, terrorism, funeral, death, mafia, family relations, hopes, peasant, farm, family problems, social worker, estrangement ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, 80s
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, naples italy, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Ninth Day (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, traitor, concentration camp, clergy, heroes, soldier, nazi occupation, human spirit, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2004
Place: germany, france, berlin germany, switzerland, belgium ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.5
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Confession (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a small Catholic boarding school an unspeakable act has been committed. When High School student, Luther Scott, confesses to Father Michael Kelly, Kelly is bound silent to the particulars of a grisly murder. Now, framed guilty by the desperate ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: murder, catholic, courtroom drama, false accusation, investigation, moral dilemma, who done it, frame up, teenage life, life is a bitch, legal, clergy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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