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The Journey of August King (1995)
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The Journey of August King (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need to survive the winter. On his journey, he comes upon a run-away slave, a young woman about 19 and August King must decide to violate the law and help this slave to freedom or else leave her to be hunted down and, ultimately, returned to her slave owner.
Style: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, crying, sexy, touching, brutal, enigmatic, feel good ...
Plot: slavery, love, loneliness, runaway, courage, freedom, morality, american civil war, racism, american history, black, interracial couple, interracial, mountain, interracial relations, woods, farmer, raccoon, hound dog, white male black female relationship, heroes, fall in love, love affair, society, on the run ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s
Place: north carolina, usa
Keyword: orange

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, society, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, parents and children, father son relationship and african american mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Journey of August King: A House Divided (2000), The Pornographer: A Love Story (2004), Winter People (1989), Nightjohn (1996), As I Lay Dying (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A House Divided (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive ...
Style: sincere, suspenseful, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot: slavery, white male black female relationship, slave, mixed race child, family relations, family secret, interracial relations, inheritance, racial prejudice, social injustice, racism, secret ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: georgia
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100%
The Pornographer: A Love Story (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
Plot: erotic fantasy, director, male female relationship, couple relations, longing, love interest, love and romance, movie actress, love story, romantic relationship, love affair, relationships ...
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Winter People (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman with an illegitimate baby. First he must prove himself to her father and her three brothers. He does so first by joining them ...
Style: independent film, sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: widower, mountain, survival, nature, rural setting, single father, love, hillbilly, winter, great depression, family feud, small town ...
Time: 1930s, year 1989
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Nightjohn (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Charles Burnett directs this movie about John, a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: racism, slave, slavery, teaching, plantation, american civil war, human exploitation, civil rights, blaxploitation, racial issues, black, american history ...
Time: 19th century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: slavery, interracial relations, black, interracial, racism, human spirit, society, hidden identity, rescue, dishonesty, chases and races, family relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, 1850s
Place: usa, virginia, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
As I Lay Dying (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, last wish, death in the family, family problems, husband wife relationship, dying, dead mother, american history, rural area, dealing with death, dark humor, broken leg ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: mississippi, southern usa, usa
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31%
That Evening Sun (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Style: serious, tense, sentimental, realistic, rough ...
Plot: farm, betrayal, retirement home, homecoming, parents and children, danger, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, family problems, grudge, country, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: racism, civil rights, african american, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, children, interracial relations, haunted by the past, family relations, black, teenager ...
Time: year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: south carolina, indiana, africa, usa
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28%
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Down in the Delta (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style: touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: slavery, black, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, women of color, african american, storytelling, drug addiction, solace, black girl, anti racism, racism ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: mississippi, chicago, indiana, usa, atlanta georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: racism, murder, social differences, life is a bitch, society, introspection, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.8
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Steal Me (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photoshop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film, crying
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Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Copperhead (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Style: realistic, tense, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: american civil war, anti war, family life, society, life is a bitch, farm, civil war, danger, relationships, intrigue, family relations, wartime life
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Hawaii (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, realistic, epic ...
Plot: missionary, infidelity, state affairs, culture clash, fish out of water, religion, redemption, family relations, religions or cults, interracial relations, christian, royalty ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, regency period, 1820s, 1830s ...
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania, boston, yale university ...
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George Washington (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Time: year 2000, 21st century
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Constellation (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Plot: interracial relations, family relations, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, hopes, unfulfillment, society, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, interracial romance ...
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The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
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Shadrach (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, sincere ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: racism, family relations, discrimination, injustice, social differences, parents and children, rich and poor, single parent, couple relations, follow your dream, black, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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White Oleander (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style: intense, touching, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, bad mother, loneliness, dysfunctional family, women's prison, teenage life, murder, mother daughter estrangement, mental illness, teenager, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Walkout (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Walkout is the true story of a young Mexican American high school teacher, Sal Castro. He mentors a group of students in East Los Angeles, when the students decide to stage a peaceful walkout to protest the injustices of the public school system. ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, political ...
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Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
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23%
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Crossroads (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: introspection, clergy, religions or cults, idealism, hopes, society, fall in love, self discovery, priest, friendship, love, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
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Vanity Fair (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, emotional, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high society, social climbing, aristocrat, rise to the top, female protagonist, rich and poor, blind ambition, couple relations, lovers, life turned upside down, power relations, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1820s, 1800s, regency period ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe, bombay india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
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Place: maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Redwood Highway (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, estrangement, escapades, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, hopes, redemption, parents and children, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pacific ocean, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.6
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Black or White (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
Style: touching, compassionate, sincere, colorful, happy ...
Plot: interracial relations, custody, family drama, custody battle, courtroom, adoption, lawyer, culture clash, family problems, father daughter relationship, widower, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Yelling to the Sky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, depression, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, alcoholic, going straight, youth, society, hopes, coming of age, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
 888
Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Times and Winds (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their ...
Style: psychological, touching, serious, rough, art house ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: poetic realism, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.2
 25K
Manderlay (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the owners of the farm. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, psychological, art house, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: slavery, racism, plantation, freedom, gangster, torture, blacks and whites, fighting the system, interracial relations, father daughter relationship, class struggle, righting the wronged ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, year 2006, 20th century
Place: alabama, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.6
 2K
Joshua (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When Joshua moves to the outskirts of Auburn, he awakens the curiosity of the sleepy town. They don’t know who he is or where he came from, but no one can shake the feeling they’ve known him for years. Despite his benevolence and selfless work ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, spiritual, inspirational ...
Plot: christian, healing power, miraculous event, small town, mysterious character, self discovery, religions or cults, hopes, redemption, society, cause and meaning, faith ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa, xian, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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