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The Flaxfield (1983)
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Original name: De Vlaschaard
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a part of Flanders where flax is the main crop, farmer Vermeulen rules his estate like an 'old school' patriarch, stern and authoritarian, nobody else's word is ever taken seriously, just scolded fools, he rather risks being wrong then considering any advice. His marriage is based on a grim understanding: the wife Barbele accepts his heartless manner with everyone, even their studious, smart, healthy, studly son and heir Louis, but his two silly sisters are spoiled with a pointless fancy nunnery boarding school education fit for the upper classes. Farm-life is hard enough, laboring without machines or reliable weather, but this year the stubborn master made it even worse by picking the riskier, badly drained field and sowing later then his neighbors, even when luck turns he'll fetch a lower price for it. Poor practically perfect Louis is granted neither praise, respect nor any pleasure, however hard and well he slaves, obedient like the hired farmhands although well-read. Even ...
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, eighties
Plot:
homestead, family relations, parents and children, family life, farm, village life, dysfunctional family, family problems, family in crisis, countryside, social relations, estrangement, human nature, power relations, dancing, father son relationship, corporal punishment, public humiliation, abuse, drinking, bare chested male, drinking alcohol, beating, barefoot woman, slapping ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, belgium
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and touching films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family in crisis and family life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Flaxfield: The Wolberg Family (2009), Blondie (2012), The Cruel Embrace (1987), Alpha Male (2006), Archipelago (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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738
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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544
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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845
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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603
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
teenage girl, coming of age, farm, family relations, corporal punishment, religions or cults, parents and children, society, village life, church, wedding, rural setting ...
Time:
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Place:
netherlands, belgium
Similarity:
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895
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, family relations, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, hopes, job seeking ...
Time:
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Place:
belgium
Similarity:
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Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere
Plot:
family relations, social differences, family problems, parents and children, family life, hopes, human spirit, introspection, society, family in crisis, village, poverty ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, single mother, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, youth, family problems, couples, estrangement, terminal illness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
georgia, new york, usa
Similarity:
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