Movies like Men with Guns

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Men with Guns (1997)
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Men with Guns (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
Style: existential, cult classic, tense, thought provoking, clever, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot: rain forest, native, journey, bad guy, on the road, road trip, sex crime, jungle, politics, soldier, hopes, jaguar, investigation, rich and poor, sexual abuse, tourist, life is a bitch, intrigue, self discovery, society, introspection, countryside, idealism, power relations, dog ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: central america
Keyword: reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about hopes, family relations, society, journey, rain, friendship and politics mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Men with Guns: Limbo (1999), The North (1983), A Place in the World (1992), I Am David (2003), Casa de los Babys (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Limbo (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom has guards a secret.
Style: atmospheric, independent film, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, small town, stranded, wilderness, parents and children, human nature, danger, family relations, drug dealing, survival, disaster, fishing village ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska
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95%
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The North (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Style: political, depressing, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, immigration, magic realism, culture clash, indigenous people, chicano, working class, american dream, strike, border, racism, tragedy ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: los angeles, mexico, guatemala, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
A Place in the World (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: village life, anarchist, migration, exile, business, professor, nun, family relations, idealism, coming of age, spaniard, peasant ...
Time: year 1992, 70s, 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, madrid, spain, paris france ...
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92%
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I Am David (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time: year 2003, 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1952
Place: denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Casa de los Babys (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of easily adopting children. Unfortunately, their plans are complicated by local laws that require the ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, children, politics, women, parenthood, loneliness, follow your dream, social differences, orphan, society, hopes, culture clash ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Powwow Highway (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert, a simple-minded friend of Buddy's, ...
Style: road movie, independent film, psychedelic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: native american, native, road trip, indians, magic, indigenous people, friendship, on the road, journey, tribe, nature, american indian ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: montana, south dakota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Celestine Prophecy (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on James Redfield's worldwide best-selling novel, The Celestine Prophecy is a spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide ...
Style: serious, exciting, tense, captivating, smart ...
Plot: spirituality, consciousness, prophecy, jungle, heroic mission, obsessive quest, rain forest, society, heroes, escapades, supernatural, danger ...
Time: 17th century
Place: peru, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Get on the Bus (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Get On the Bus follows several Black men on a cross country bus trip to the Million Man March. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid off aircraft worker, a former Gang Banger, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial ...
Style: road movie, uplifting, compassionate, talky, realistic ...
Plot: racism, politics, friendship, hip hop, prejudice, justice, character study, unlikely friendships, on the road, idealism, civil rights, black ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: washington d.c., los angeles, tennessee, usa, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story: "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early ...
Style: road movie, touching, inspirational, political, breathtaking ...
Plot: self discovery, motorcycle, travel, freedom, on the road, revolutionary, poverty, revolution, road trip, journey, traveler, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 50s, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: latin america, chile, cuba, south america, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Conversations with God (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: "Conversations with God" is the true story of Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions. The journey begins after he unexpectedly breaks his neck in a car accident and loses his job.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, mystical ...
Plot: spirituality, faith, introspection, human spirit, change of luck, religions or cults, rise to the top, society, hopes, redemption, rich and poor, unemployment ...
Place: tibet
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86%
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Passion Fish (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. ...
Style: sentimental, independent film, talky, clever, cult classic ...
Plot: disability, friendship, physical disability, deep south, mental health, feminist, psychiatry, psychopath, feminism, black, suburbs, ship ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
America America (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America
Style: aesthetic, road movie, art house, social, existential ...
Plot: greek, immigrant, immigration, emigration, migration, armenian genocide, american dream, boat, social injustice, time travel, yacht, refugee ...
Time: 19th century, year 1963, 20th century, 1890s
Place: greece, ottoman empire, new york, middle east, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Sorcerer (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four criminals from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of unstable nitroglycerin across dangerous jungle.
Style: road movie, neo noir, political, existential, cynical ...
Plot: survival, jungle adventure, terrorist, criminal, existentialism, driver, on the road, trucker, politics, road trip, expedition, oil ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: bolivia, south america, nicaragua, central america, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Easy Rider (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Style: road movie, psychedelic, avant garde, offbeat, cult classic ...
Plot: road trip, hippie, on the road, motorcycle, friendship, biker, marijuana, existentialism, freedom, rock music, rebelliousness, hallucination ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, california, los angeles, usa, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
In This World (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, ...
Style: bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: refugee, immigrant, politics, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, hopes, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time: year 2002, year 2001
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iran, pakistan, turkey ...
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84%
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Style: independent film, cult classic, realistic, talky, political ...
Plot: vietnam war, friendship, college, male nudity, skinny dipping, drinking, protest, anti war, male pubic hair, group of friends, memories, buddies ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place: new hampshire, washington d.c., usa, boston
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83%
Roads to Koktebel (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot: boy, on the road, father son relationship, parents and children, family relations, human nature, hopes, alcohol abuse, family life, coming of age, journey, death of wife ...
Place: russia, moscow russia, ukraine, black sea, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Lillian (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Stranded in New York as a porn actress, Lillian decides to return to her homeland, Russia, on foot. She resolutely sets out on the long journey. A road movie that goes straight across the USA into the cold of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow ...
Style: road movie, captivating, exciting, tense, touching
Plot: walking, journey, tourist, female protagonist, sea, storytelling, mountain, map, emigrant, feminist, girl, heat wave ...
Place: iowa, usa, new york, nebraska, mississippi
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83%
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Travelers and Magicians (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bhutan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the ...
Style: road movie, serious, captivating, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: buddhism, road trip, magic, monk, storytelling, self discovery, introspection, friendship, clergy, culture clash, on the road, buddhist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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The Illegal (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.
Style: political, thought provoking, suspenseful, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: immigration, strike, union, language barrier, drifter, labor, world history, farm, family relations, hopes, politics, misfit ...
Time: 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, arizona, colorado
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82%
Charlie's Country (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's ...
Style: semi autobiographical, realistic, thought provoking, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: racism, culture clash, introspection, society, against the rules, elderly, social misfits, escapades, wilderness, indigenous people, self discovery, alienation ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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82%
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Amigo (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Rafael, a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla ...
Style: captivating, serious, cult classic, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: soldier, moral dilemma, friendship, rebel, rebelliousness, culture clash, military, society, social relations, leadership, life is a bitch, communication problem ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, year 1900
Place: the philippines, asia, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: travel, self discovery, life, psychiatrist, life philosophy, relationships, existentialism, introspection, happiness, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, loneliness ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: africa, china, tibet, england, london ...
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82%
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Chac: The Rain God (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, Panama
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.
Style: spiritual, mystic, esoteric, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: myth, mysticism, jungle, native, occult, indigenous people, mountain, survival, village, danger, imaginary, adventurer ...
Time: 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, guatemala, central america
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82%
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Flesh+Blood (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Spain, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a ...
Style: intense, atmospheric, sexy, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: betrayal, medieval, rape, life is a bitch, vengeance, siege, sex, soldier, kidnapping, battles, strong sexual content, knight ...
Time: middle ages, 16th century, medieval times, year 1985
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
End of the Spear (2005)
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: inspirational, christian film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: christian, christianity, culture clash, murder, life philosophy, battles, family relations, coming of age, courage, self discovery, introspection, dealing with death ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s
Place: ecuador
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous ...
Style: touching, harsh, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: jungle, nature, utopia, survival, village, obsessive quest, danger, mental illness, father son relationship, social commentary, inventor, missionary ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: latin america, central america, south america, usa, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
The Blue Butterfly (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, spiritual
Plot: butterfly, family life, parents and children, family relations, child illness, disability, single parent, tragic hero, child in peril, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, rain forest ...
Place: latin america, central america, costa rica, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Lone Star (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Style: neo western, witty, tense, sincere, touching ...
Plot: father son relationship, sheriff, police investigation, murder, investigation, small town, greed, police corruption, haunted by the past, twists and turns, law enforcement, family history ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, southern usa ...
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81%
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City of Hope (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: This gritty inner-city film by John Sayles follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father (Tony Lo ...
Style: anthology, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: racism, city life, child, american politics, intrigue, sexual content, nonviolent resistance, white supremacy, politics, political corruption, construction company, xenophobia ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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