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Northless (2009)
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Northless (2009)
Original name: Norteado
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with those he meets.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: immigrant, friendship, human spirit, follow your dream, social decay, society, hopes, bittersweet, u.s. mexico border, migration, border, exile, friends, misfit, store, workplace, boss and employee, workplace situations, peasant, immigration, mexican border, illegal immigrant, illegal immigration, mexican immigrant, immigrants
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
Keyword: mexican

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about society, immigrant, hopes, friendship, misfit, friends and family relations mostly in Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Northless: Amador (2010), Under the Starry Sky (2013), Max & Lenny (2014), Spiral (2008), Good Day, Ramon (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Amador (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Plot: pregnant woman, friends, friendship, aging, dealing with death, pregnancy, bittersweet, death, flowers, church, old man, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Spiral (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, touching, student film
Plot: social relations, immigrant, family in crisis, bittersweet, gender, family problems, homecoming, society, village life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, feminism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Good Day, Ramon (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, motivational ...
Plot: friendship, immigrant, hopes, society, fish out of water, beggar, life is a bitch, unemployed, migration, old age, friends, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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Here and There (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological
Plot: family relations, immigrant, society, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, poverty, worker, migration, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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The Golden Dream (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Guatemala
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
Style: road movie, serious, touching, rough, sincere ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: immigrant, u.s. mexico border, on the road, coming of age, friendship, follow your dream, hopes, leaving home, border crossing, border, danger, slaughterhouse ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, central america, guatemala, usa, latin america
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Macondo (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot: coming of age, youth, interracial relations, immigrant, society, life is a bitch, misfit, boy, father, migration, refugee, exile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
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Between Us (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious
Plot: poverty, immigrant, family relations, starting over, human spirit, urban setting, family problems, life is a bitch, american dream, single parent, hopes, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, new york, colombia, usa
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Personal Belongings (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot: love affair, impossible love, immigrant, couples, introspection, fall in love, hopes, society, couple relations, love and romance, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america
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Manpower (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, biting, serious ...
Plot: social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, discrimination, realism, immigrant, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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Shun Li and the Poet (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, misfit, life is a bitch, society, workplace, fish out of water, workplace situations, village, poet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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For a Moment, Freedom (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: refugee, immigrant, hopes, friendship, injustice, starting over, society, leaving home, political unrest, friends, fugitives, migration ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: iraq, iran, turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Duration: 96 min.
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Time: 21st century
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Girlfriend (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
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Country: Romania, France, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
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7 Suns (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, disturbing
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Illegal (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
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Out of My Hand (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Liberia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: ‘What do you want?’ asks the trade union leader, to which the men respond as if with one voice: change! Life is hard work on Liberia’s rubber plantations and wages are meagre. Nothing has changed for generations, but now the workers are ...
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Becloud (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
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Sauna on Moon (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
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Letter to the King (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
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