Movies like I Dreamed of Africa
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I Dreamed of Africa (2000)
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, scenic, atmospheric, gloomy
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
husband wife relationship, fighting the system, pregnancy, family relations, rebellion, family problems, wilderness, parents and children, society, animal life, poacher, car accident, travel, women, wildlife, animals, wanderlust, snake, dream, italian woman, bittersweet, death in the family, christmas, sex, dog ...
Place:
africa, kenya, italy
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Most similar movies to I Dreamed of Africa
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about husband wife relationship, family relations, photograph, drinking alcohol, father son relationship, death and kiss mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like I Dreamed of Africa: The First Grader (2010), In Search of Fellini (2017), The Tree (2010), Out of Africa (1985), To Walk with Lions (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Kenya, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
education, school, teacher, racism, hopes, prisoner of war camp, social relations, human spirit, ex military, blind ambition, dedicated educator, follow your dream ...
Time:
50s, year 1963, 21st century
Place:
africa, kenya
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.
Style:
captivating, sentimental, scary, weird
Plot:
teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, chase, escapades, hopes, journey, cinema, transformation, philosophy, obsession, girl, prostitute ...
Time:
year 1993
Place:
italy, venice, ohio, rome italy, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, emotional, stylized ...
Plot:
tree, grief, family relations, children, loss of father, death in the family, parents and children, introspection, family problems, australian, mother daughter relationship, death of father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
colonialism, love story, infidelity, writers, love and romance, love, lion, adaptation, unlikely friendships, mentor, love affair, destructive relationship ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 19th century, victorian era, 1930s ...
Place:
africa, kenya, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Kenya
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatised the life of Adamson, this film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
animals, lion cub, poacher, lion, animal life, environmentalism, adoption, captivity, crumbling marriage, politics, misfit, escapades ...
Time:
80s
Place:
africa, east africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
mermaid, family relations, self discovery, forbidden love, clergy, religions or cults, couples, family problems, estrangement, love and romance, haunted by the past, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
30K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style:
uplifting, touching, scenic, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
desert, wilderness, travel, solitude, survival, human spirit, camel, beautiful scenery, obsessive quest, dog, photographer, aborigine ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 70s, year 1973, year 1935 ...
Place:
australia, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christian, redemption, christianity, culture clash, murder, life philosophy, battles, family relations, coming of age, courage, introspection, self discovery ...
Time:
1940s, 50s
Place:
ecuador, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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13K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Style:
factual, serious, stylized, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
airplane, female pilot, aviation, women, ambition, depression, flying, unlikely friendships, self fulfillment, follow your dream, lifestyle, adventurer ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1935, year 1934, year 1932 ...
Place:
usa, indiana, atlantic ocean, africa, ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
630K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, motivational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, road trip, self discovery, wilderness, solitude, freedom, journey, life philosophy, isolation, lifestyle change, adventurer, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
20th century, year 1990, year 1992, year 1991, 90s
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, usa, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies like Eat Pray Love
132K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Style:
meditative, captivating, road movie, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, hiking, nature, female protagonist, human spirit, death of mother, cheating on husband, grief, loneliness, starting over ...
Time:
year 1995, 20th century, 90s
Place:
california, portland oregon, usa, mojave desert, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system (which is unlike being born with AIDS). As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, illness, family relations, isolation, parent child relationship, misfit, human nature, love and romance, parents and children, teenage crush, human spirit, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
native american, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, last wish, parents and children, indigenous people, coming of age, starting over, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
23K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Style:
sad, touching, compassionate, factual, sentimental ...
Plot:
disability, illness, supportive spouse, polio, paralysis, marriage, love, husband wife relationship, hospital, adaptation, human spirit, depression ...
Time:
50s, year 1958, year 1970, year 1960, year 1965 ...
Place:
africa, germany, england, spain, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Style:
sincere, touching, inspirational, captivating, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
gorilla, jungle, animals, environmental, extinction, environmentalism, human spirit, nature, hunting, life & death, brutality, scientist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1966
Place:
africa, congo, rwanda
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Films like Big Fish
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style:
touching, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, friendship, terminal illness, pregnancy, tragic hero, couples, family problems, hopes, youth, best friends, life is a bitch, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African American college students into an historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, touching, political, feel good ...
Plot:
racism, teacher, debate, mentor, african american, college, professor, black american, segregation, contests and competitions, prejudice, labor union ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
texas, california, africa, oklahoma, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, parents and children, young lovers, depression, compassion, desperation, jail, self discovery, bad father, melancholy, village ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both ...
Style:
touching, harsh, serious, stylized, anthropological ...
Plot:
tarzan, culture clash, jungle, survival, stranded, orphan, feral man, monkey, adventurer, justice, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century, 1880s
Place:
africa, england, scotland, london, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
infidelity, forbidden love, politics, love triangle, social differences, couples, society, love affair, fall in love, spanish civil war, extramarital affair, war ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936
Place:
spain, europe, ireland, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
interracial marriage, forbidden love, racism, royal family, politics, interracial romance, marriage, freedom, democracy, reporter, justice, british empire ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, 50s
Place:
africa, england, london, britain, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
In late spring, 1890, Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of Dr. Gachet, living in a humble inn. Fewer than 70 days later, Vincent dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We see Vincent at work, painting landscapes and ...
Style:
sincere, gloomy, atmospheric, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
artist, painter, art, painting, sex, mental disorder, prostitute, suicidal thoughts, art collector, male nudity, female nudity, model ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
france, provence, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America ...
Style:
political, uplifting, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
interracial relations, white male black female relationship, interracial love, racism, civil rights, love, interracial couple, interracial romance, interracial marriage, marriage, relationships, racial issues ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
africa, virginia, usa, southern usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for ...
Style:
romantic, scenic, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
beautiful scenery, countryside, fall in love, social differences, human nature, sea, society, sea disaster, love, love story, prejudice, life philosophy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
england, wales, poland, cornwall, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This is the story of a teenager named Gracie Bowen, who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
soccer, sport, female athlete, human spirit, family problems, rivalry, follow your dream, death in the family, athlete's life, family in crisis, cheerleader, ambition ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Films like Adrift
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out ...
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, pregnancy, teenage mother, loss of son, family relations, crumbling marriage, youth, family problems, parents and children, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Style:
emotional, harsh, serious, realistic, intellectual ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
scientist, nuclear, chemistry, nobel prize, science, radioactivity, scientific research, physicist, physics, genius, backfire, scientific discovery ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1957, year 1934, year 1961 ...
Place:
chernobyl, europe, poland, paris france, sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a ...
Style:
emotional, romantic, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, afterlife, love affair, seeing dead people, couples, ghost, unfulfillment, death of brother, teenager, siblings relations, family problems, love story ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, new jersey, ireland, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
Style:
romantic, uplifting, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
writers, ranch, feminist, farm, coming of age, women, female writer, woman, art, summer, woman power, child ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, 70s, turn of the century, 1890s ...
Place:
australia, new south wales, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Born Free (1966) is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, emotional, light ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
animals, survival, lion, nature, friendship, lion cub, animal rights, pets, friends, hunting, death, indians ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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