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Follow the River (1995)
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Original name: Follow The River
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, epic
Plot:
native american white relationships, kidnapping, wilderness, survival, native american, colonialism, captivity, americana, culture clash, nature, escape, pioneer, interracial relations, settler, colonial america, heroes, missing person, escapades, society, confined, family relations, journey, captive, american indian, child ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
usa, virginia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, exciting and suspenseful films with plots about escapades, danger, survival, wilderness, heroes, confined and culture clash mostly in Drama, Adventure and Western genres. Some movies like Follow the River: Kidnapped (1995), Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997), To Brave Alaska (1996), Robinson Crusoe (1997), The Ghost and the Darkness (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, serious
Audience:
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Plot:
native american, interracial romance, native american white relationships, native american attack, stockholm syndrome, captive woman, american indian, indian attack, indian chief, captivity, moral dilemma, culture clash ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
survival, pets, treasure hunt, starvation, wilderness, blizzard, disorder, confined, human spirit, escapades, forces of nature, fish out of water ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
survival, desert island, shipwreck, friendship, stranded on an island, island, ocean, destiny, jungle, adventurer, passionate kiss, female nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
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Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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