Movies like Golden Door
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Golden Door (2006)
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Original name: Nuovomondo
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, serious, captivating, colorful, realistic, gloomy, period drama, weird ...
Plot:
immigrant, progress, starting over, social relations, society, italian immigrant, tradition, superstition, parent child relationship, family history, hopes, emigrant, immigration, doctor, refugee, village life, mute or deaf, mountain, curse, mental retardation, naked man, yacht, boat, peasant, migrant ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2006, 20th century, 1920s, 19th century, 1890s, turn of the century ...
Place:
sicily, italy, new york, europe, america, palermo italy, usa ...
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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, love, death, society, husband wife relationship, nude and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Golden Door: East/West (1999), Respiro (2002), Terraferma (2011), The Emigrants (1971), Night Sun (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) ...
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, harsh, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, talky, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, mediterranean sea ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, tense
Plot:
tourist, moral dilemma, society, refugee, immigration, family relations, family problems, rules and policies, family life, ocean, misfit, migration ...
Time:
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Place:
sicily, italy, southern italy, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and ...
Style:
epic, romantic, inspirational, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot:
immigrant, journey, immigration, religious persecution, food, sea voyage, farm hand, starvation, nordic, refugee, boat, death ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski. Upon learning that she was previously the King's mistress, Sergio ...
Style:
romantic, neorealism, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
nobility, nobleman, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, mistress, male nudity, italian history, art, artist, loneliness, solitude, religions or cults ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
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53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
sicily, italy, europe, madrid, rome italy ...
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50%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, serious, saga, contemplative ...
Plot:
peasant, farm, hide and seek, friendship, countryside, village, family relations, clergy, life is a bitch, parents and children, family life, parent child relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, year 1978, 1890s, 20th century ...
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italy, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot:
refugee, greek, tragic love, wartime life, on the run, genocide, political unrest, fall in love, politics, self discovery, exile, revolution ...
Time:
year 2004, 1920s, year 1945, 1940s, 1930s ...
Place:
greece, ancient greece, europe, ottoman empire
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, Germany, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, talky ...
Plot:
culture clash, father daughter relationship, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, social differences, society, couple relations, human nature, love and romance, filmmaking, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
90s, 1900s, 1890s, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place:
china, asia, california, australia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexual, novela, realistic, serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
tragic love, love story, last wish, life is a bitch, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, family relations, couples, siblings relations, unfulfilled love, terminal illness ...
Time:
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Place:
sicily, italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, USA, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, erotic, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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158K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, romantic, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrant, love and romance, starting over, sex scene, marriage proposal, hopes, immigration, friendship, female protagonist, true love, love affair, homesickness ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
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41%
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
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Style:
epic, period piece, cerebral, visual, political ...
Plot:
decadence, revolution, politics, literary, italian history, civil war, melancholy, catholic, ambition, nobility, death, execution ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century, year 1963 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, corsica, naples italy ...
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41%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, emotional, harsh, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, brothel, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
poland, israel, america, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Norway, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, melancholic, sweet, sincere, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
countryside, citizenship, immigrant, prejudice, mail order bride, friendship, society, social issues, small town, farmer, wedding, fall in love ...
Time:
1920s, year 2005, 60s, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain, France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, life is a bitch, society, workplace, misfit, fish out of water, workplace situations, poet, sailing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small ...
Style:
compassionate, atmospheric, touching, sincere, intense ...
Plot:
redemption, death row, murder, prison, death sentence, death penalty, tragic love, love, introspection, isolation, destiny, social differences ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheating wife, marriage proposal, society, couple relations, family relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, introspection, village, village life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastion of these mores in America.
Style:
independent film, gothic, aesthetic, mystic, mysterious ...
Plot:
women, island, feminist, african american, black, feminism, pregnancy, women of color, racism, culture clash, black history, islam ...
Time:
1900s, year 1991, 20th century, future
Place:
south carolina, africa, southern usa, indiana, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, political, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
civil war, racism, love, vigilante, swamp, countryside, american history, village, vigilantism, on the run, investigation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
louisiana, usa, egypt, texas, new orleans ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
black and white, independent film, romantic, historically accurate, aesthetic ...
Plot:
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Time:
1890s, 19th century, year 1975, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, new york, usa, egypt ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, sincere, thought provoking, meditative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
monk, monastery, faith, islam, terrorist, religion, clergy, muslim, war violence, christian, peace, catholic ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
algeria, middle east, morocco, maghreb, palestine ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thomas has been estranged from his brother Luc for several years, due in part to his difficulties in dealing with Luc's homosexuality. But when Thomas is diagnosed with a rare blood disease, which is difficult to treat and impossible to cure, ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, male pubic hair, brother brother relationship, male nudity, naked man, gay love, homosexual, gay brother, human nature, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany
Similarity:
38%
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