Movies like Kamchatka

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Kamchatka (2002)
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Kamchatka (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, political, touching
Plot: coming of age, family life, life is a bitch, family in danger, youth, parents and children, isolation, confined, political unrest, society, totalitarianism, parent child relationship, dictatorship, coup, dictator, boy, children, friends, family relations, operation condor, danger, state affairs, escape, friendship, running ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
Keyword: argentine

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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 family relations, youth, parents and children, coming of age, society, friendship and friends mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Kamchatka: Everyday (2012), Clandestine Childhood (2011), Face (2002), Let the Wind Blow (2004), Sivas (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: youth, friendship, hopes, coming of age, siblings relations, exile, rebelliousness, human spirit, reform, family relations, warning, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: romania, eastern europe, europe
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100%
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Everyday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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100%
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot: dictatorship, boy, politics, coming of age, soccer, football, political unrest, children, life is a bitch, family relations, working class, dictator ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place: brazil, latin america, israel, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets MarĂ­a, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, hidden identity, school, family life, dictatorship, disorder, parents and children, dishonesty, false identity, hiding ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Face (2002)
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.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, rich and poor, follow your dream, social differences, political unrest, parents and children, society, youth, state affairs, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Sivas (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, society, dog, boy, child, pets, youth, friends, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Captive (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really SofĂ­a Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, society, against humanity, life is a bitch, family relations, missing person, political unrest, teenage life, adoption, hidden truth, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s, 90s
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Prize (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: school, dictatorship, military, rebelliousness, parents and children, political unrest, family in danger, family relations, repression, rebellion, dishonesty, village ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Rocket (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Thailand, Laos
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, down on your luck, contests and competitions, parents and children, friendship, society, human spirit, post war, change of luck, family relations, boy, children ...
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Ismael (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, family life, father and son, introspection, coming of age, haunted by the past, boyhood, family drama, family relations, bittersweet, father
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
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 ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Plot: social misfits, lgbt, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.0
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White Water (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: missing child, young heroes, danger, youth, racism, society, family problems, parents and children, discrimination, interracial relations, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.6
 312
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.8
 100
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 BĂ­lal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
When Andrew Came Home (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sad
Plot: kids in trouble, kidnapping, coming of age, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, captivity, family problems, estrangement, danger, confined, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nobody Owns Me (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Ă…sa ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: working class, parents and children, life turned upside down, youth, family relations, single parent, disorder, family problems, dysfunctional family, children, addiction, parents ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Drama starring Norma Aleandro, Conrado Valenzuela, Fabio Aste
Style: serious, touching, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, isolation, estrangement, dictatorship, relocation, death of mother, youth, grandmother grandson relationship
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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White Irish Drinkers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: family problems, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, male pubic hair, society, hopes, working class, domestic disturbance, irish mob ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, ireland, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, interracial relations, rebelliousness, family life, society, danger, terrorism, politics, friends, teenage life, political unrest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, palestinian authority, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Nest (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita) the daughter of a weak-willed policeman ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: amor, children, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, small town, bittersweet, elderly, youth, odd couple, platonic, friends, chess ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, adoption, orphan, youth, family relations, foster parent, foster child, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, foster home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Viva Cuba (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Cuba
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. MalĂº is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, road movie
Plot: friendship, youth, coming of age, children, social differences, longing, against the odds, young heroes, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Prince of Tears (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A shameful period in Taiwanese history provides the backdrop for this emotional drama from writer and director Yonfan (aka Yang Fan). In 1949, in the wake of the 228 Incident (in which anti-government protesters launched a rebellion that was ...
Style: captivating, stylized, emotional, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family problems, confined, danger, wartime life, false accusation, false arrest, political unrest, life turned upside down, parents and children, captivity, family in danger ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s
Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.0
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Booky's Crush (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: youth, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, society, love and romance, family life, parents and children, working class, coming of age, first love, child ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
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Kauwboy (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Jojo lives with his father, a security guard with a volatile personality who drinks to manage the unspoken despair he feels about his wife's absence, which he refuses to discuss with his son. In the midst of so much uncertainty, ...
Style: touching, sincere, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: parents and children, coming of age, family problems, dysfunctional family, friendship, father son relationship, youth, pets, escape from reality, dishonesty, bird, life & death ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Stolen Summer (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: judaism, afterlife, friendship, childhood, coming of age, youth, boy, catholicism, mentor, friendship between boys, family relations, rabbi ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, self discovery, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, misfit, life is a bitch, society, coming of age ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, love and romance, disgraced, single parent, youth, family life, friendship, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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