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The Old Man and the Sea (1990)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic
Plot:
sea, fish, nature, killer animal, water, elderly, creature, animal, fisherman, survival, ocean, human spirit, dangerous animal, self discovery, escapades, lone wolves, obsessive quest, fishing, old man, arm wrestling, boat, adventure
Time:
80s
Place:
caribbean
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric and captivating films with plots about survival, escapades, danger, nature, hopes, obsessive quest and wilderness mostly in Drama, Adventure and Romance genres. Some movies like The Old Man and the Sea: Closed for Winter (2009), Atlantic. (2014), Before Tomorrow (2008), Zero Kelvin (1995), Island (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An emotional and poetic story of Elise, a beautiful young woman haunted by a tragic event in her youth. As Elise attempts to piece together the mystery of her sister's disappearance at the beach, twenty years before when both were children, she ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious ...
Plot:
missing child, self discovery, haunted by the past, hopes, sister sister relationship, journey, redemption, secret, friendship, liberation, society, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious
Plot:
human spirit, starting over, hopes, family life, danger, escapades, ocean, survival, sea, climbing, rock climbing, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, morocco
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two isolated families meet for a summertime celebration. Food is abundant and the future seems bright, but Ningiuq, a wise old woman, sees her world as fragile and moves through it with a pervasive sense of dread. Ningiuq and her grandson Maniq are ...
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, isolation, native, human spirit, family relations, friendship, elderly, youth, hopes, escapades, island ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, serious ...
Plot:
survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, schizophrenia, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
greenland, tokyo
Similarity:
26%
576
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate ...
Style:
serious, tense, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
island, incestuous relationship, undercover, hidden identity, family problems, dishonesty, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, illicit affair, mother daughter relationship, storm, mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Style:
cult classic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
survival, greed, insanity, manhunt, community, wilderness, ivory, boat, belgian history, narration, nature, psychopath ...
Time:
victorian era, 90s
Place:
congo, africa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
The Sea-Wolf is based on a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London, about a literary critic, who is survivor of an ocean collision. He then comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who ...
Style:
exciting, tense, realistic, serious
Plot:
ship, ocean, storm at sea, violence, sea, castaway, survival, lone wolves, danger, self discovery, isolation, social differences ...
Time:
year 2008, 1900s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the ...
Style:
uplifting, captivating, serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
human spirit, left to die, survival, escapades, hopes, strong female presence, wilderness, elderly, aging, danger, village life, forces of nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, touching, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, human spirit, wartime life, life is a bitch, hopes, elderly, family problems, haunted by the past, kurd, dealing with death, mountain, lost
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youths career choice. The 18 years old James Pfeiffer quits college and decides to become a fisherman like his father. Margaret and Russell are very upset with their son's decision. They ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot:
father son relationship, family relations, ship, follow your dream, coming of age, youth, danger, escapades, hopes, siblings relations, college dropout, small town ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Experience the world of the magnificent and rare Giant Panda as you travel back in time on an exciting expedition through the breathtaking splendor of 1936 China. Inspired by the true-life story of widowed New York socialite Ruth Harkness, a ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, uplifting, exciting
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
adventurer, environmentalism, extinction, danger, human spirit, panda, conservation, escapades, heroes, hopes, dangerous animal, couple relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
china, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
native american, obsessive quest, introspection, self discovery, hung over, on the road, indigenous people, american indian, dealing with death, tribe, native, indians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana
Similarity:
22%
482
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, non-linear, contemplative, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, eccentric family, resort, childhood memory, grief, death of wife, grieving, boarding house, introspection, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On the one hand, there's the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there's the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the ...
Style:
serious, sincere, atmospheric, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
militant, survival, life is a bitch, family in danger, on the road, starvation, parents and children, desert, escapades, social relations, emigrant, survivor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, epic, retro ...
Plot:
pope, vatican, politics, clergy, catholicism, catholic church, cold war, religious, society, state affairs, catholic, revolution ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, rome italy, asia, china, italy ...
Similarity:
22%
385
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
sea, lizard, disorder, danger, survival, fish out of water, communication problem, hunger, escapades, culture clash, post soviet, underground ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, morocco
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
Style:
captivating, emotional, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
hopes, desert, human spirit, escapades, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest, family relations, arab, boy, international relations, battlefield ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, kurdistan
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and love.
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, serious, touching, indie film ...
Plot:
solitude, youth, wilderness, obsessive quest, self discovery, escapades, fall in love, philosophy, leaving home, river, fishing, skinny dipping ...
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
ship, coast guard, survival, danger, escapades, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, boat, sea, battles ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, uplifting, bleak ...
Plot:
wolf, world war two, survival, orphan, feral child, human animal relationship, little girl, forest, young heroes, danger, obsessive quest, wilderness ...
Place:
belgium, germany, europe, ukraine, brussels
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, village life, immigrant, haunted by the past, culture clash, love, identity, nostalgia, elderly, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
greece, turkey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
ship, sea, ocean, captain, whale, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, danger, friendship, water, shipwreck, creature ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Jamaica, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, in order to gain popularity in ...
Style:
social, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
jungle, reggae, jamaican, wanderlust, pagan, stoner, shaman, politics, airplane, swamp, caribbean sea, nature ...
Time:
80s
Place:
jamaica, caribbean, africa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot:
hallucination, family relations, missing person, coastal town, female protagonist, brother, minimalism, self discovery, coming of age, strong female presence, defiant, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, northern england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus Leroy brings something new and potentially dangerous into their ...
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric, anamorphic ...
Plot:
introspection, estrangement, hopes, small town, small town life, dishonesty, social relations, slice of life, high school sweetheart, loss of job, business, voice over narration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
wilderness, elderly, isolation, orphan, life is a bitch, danger, woods, nature, wilderness survival, survival, post soviet, old man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
19%
286
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, captivating, bleak
Plot:
uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, community, male nudity, social relations, mentally challenged, female nudity, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Five juvenile delinquents break out of jail and attempt to make their way to a house in the Mendoza foothills of Argentina.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, survival, hopes, wilderness, getting home, escape, youth, escapades, human nature, society, social decay, disintegration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poetic realism, argentina
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern ...
Style:
neorealism, serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
isolated place, village life, social relations, isolation, social decay, loneliness, landscape, boat, yacht, survival, nature, summer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
racism, obsession, parents and children, family relations, tragic hero, society, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, ambition, hopes, rivalry, gambling ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
asia, cambodia
Similarity:
19%
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