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The God of Wood (2010)
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The God of Wood (2010)
Original name: El dios de madera
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Yao (Madi Diocou) and Moroccan Rachid (Soufiane Ouaarab) arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa (Marisa Paredes) working in her boutique. High-strung and irritable, Maria lives with her gay son, Rober (Nao Albet), who, like many other things in life, is a disappointment to her. Rachid, meanwhile, is doing just fine working as a hairstylist in a beauty salon; Rober is hopelessly in love with him. When Yao starts sleeping in Rober's flat, a confrontation between him and Maria suddenly becomes inevitable, and when it comes, what could have been an embarrassment is actually handled with grace.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, touching, serious, sexual, sexy
Plot: immigrant, love and romance, culture clash, fall in love, gender, family relations, parents and children, society, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, sexuality, lgbt, gay interest, gay crush, misfit, interracial relations, urban, hopes, prostitute, male nudity, massage, pizza, son, nudity, bare chested male ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: spain, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, society, love and romance, parents and children, couples, gender and hopes mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The God of Wood: Solitary Fragments (2007), Love Belongs to Everyone (2006), The Ages of Lulu (1990), The Grocer's Son (2007), The Best Day of My Life (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Solitary Fragments (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.
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Plot: loneliness, self discovery, family relations, hopes, human nature, parents and children, terminal illness, loss of mother, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, loss of child, nudity ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: spain, europe, madrid
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Love Belongs to Everyone (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
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The Ages of Lulu (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the ...
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The Grocer's Son (2007)
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Country: France
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Story: Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back ...
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Time: 21st century
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The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
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The Lighthouse (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot: lighthouse, disability, orphan, family relations, immigrant, fall in love, hopes, young lovers, forbidden love, youth, love and romance, gender ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, uruguay, spain
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Marathon (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Drama by Biju Viswanath, Marathon was adapted from Harteis's memoir of the same name. Explores the relation ship between two poets Richard Harteis and William Meredith former US poet laureate and winner of every major American award for poetry ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, gender, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, artists and showbiz, writer's life, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, tragic love, love, gay interest ...
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The Green Chariot (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
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Vicious Circle (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Shot on digital , HD and 8 mm. Filmed through both sides of North America. 'Vicious Circle' pushes the limits of what can be accomplished on a bike. Featuring the first ever 65 foot 'Double Road Gap' , some of the gnarliest ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Night (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young man stands in front of a mirror. The night belongs to him. Every evening, he appraises his appearance, attired in a new shirt, leaves his apartment and waits in a poorly lit alleyway for his johns. One night he meets a female prostitute of ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, suspense, queer cinema
Plot: gays and lesbians, society, social misfits, unlikely couple, fall in love, prostitute, love and romance, gender, love triangle, sexual relations, one night stand, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Doubt (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris (Andoy Ranay) is a documentary filmmaker with a well-regarded body of work and a large community of ...
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Only 5 flight hours from Paris, in a working-class suburb of Tel Aviv, two people meet. He is a bred-and-born Israeli and she is a Russian immigrant. He is a taxi driver and she is a music teacher. He has no aspirations. She gave up hers long ago. ...
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Red Leaves (2014)
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Duration: 82 min.
Story: An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, tense
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