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Ten Canoes (2006)
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Ten Canoes (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an elder tells him a story from the mythical past about how evil can slip in and cause havoc unless prevented by virtue according to customary tribal law.
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, realistic, serious, parody, witty, disturbing, anthropological, touching, funny ...
Plot: tribe, australian aboriginal, swamp, vengeance, indigenous people, murder, love and romance, couples, heroes, forbidden love, expedition, couple relations, aborigine, mistaken identity, husband wife relationship, violence, tradition, brother brother relationship, canoe, native american, self discovery, redemption, revenge, male nudity, survival ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1930s
Place: australia, oceania, tokyo
Keyword: dreams, australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, serious and captivating films with plots about family relations, female nudity, indigenous, indigenous people, nudity, death and blood mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like Ten Canoes: Walkabout (1971), Crocodile Dundee II (1988), Charlie's Country (2013), The Tracker (2002), Yolngu Boy (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Walkabout (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style: road movie, atmospheric, visual, visually stunning, scenic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, teenage girl, australian outback, rite of passage, culture clash, children, brother sister relationship, language barrier ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
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100%
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
Style: funny, exciting, humorous, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: crocodile, treasure hunt, jungle, gangster, culture clash, kidnapping, survival, adventurer, gang, beast, love affair, cowboy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, australia, colombia, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Netherlands, France, Spain, Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
Style: serious, captivating, touching, exciting, independent film
Plot: amazon tribe, courage, survival, killing an animal, wilderness, hunter, recluse, tribe, native american, corpse, death of wife, dentist ...
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100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Tracker (2002)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
Style: disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot: aborigine, australian aboriginal, fanatic, outback, racism, murder, australian outback, expedition, injustice, vigilantism, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 1920s, 2000s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania
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42%
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Yolngu Boy (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.
Style: independent film
Plot: aborigine, australian aboriginal, bad father, indigenous people, journey, hunter, alcoholism, burglary, juvenile delinquency, father son reunion, friendship between men, teenager ...
Place: australia
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36%
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch ...
Style: bleak, tense, harsh, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: survival, native american, revenge, betrayal, wilderness, native, jealousy, dog sled, love triangle, running, tragic love, intrigue ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, middle ages
Place: canada
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35%
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Style: touching, emotional, poignant, factual, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: child abuse, aborigine, australian outback, racism, kidnapping, children, australian aboriginal, culture clash, survival, indigenous people, women, colonialism ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1931
Place: australia, oceania
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34%
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Tanna (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Vanuatu
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, realistic, psychological, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pacific island, tradition, native tribe, tribe, volcano, forced marriage, conflict, warrior, love, tragic love, forbidden love, lovers ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: africa, oceania, pacific ocean
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33%
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Bliss (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, retro, art house, mind bending ...
Plot: advertising, surrealism, marketing, australian aboriginal, dark humor, couples, couple relations, drug dealing, redemption, life is a bitch, prostitute, self discovery ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: australia
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32%
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Royal Deceit (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
Style: costume drama, serious, realistic, tense, independent film
Plot: medieval, revenge, viking, hanging, betrayal, ghost, murder, sword fight, sword, legend, royalty, antiquity ...
Time: 6th century, middle ages
Place: denmark, england, europe, scotland, scandinavia
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31%
Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Australia, Greece
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. While the reluctant Manos is tutored in the art of revenge by old friend Stephanos, he also attempts to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: vengeance, twins, murder, teacher, vigilantism, rivalry, couples, family relations, couple relations, old friend, fascism, vendetta ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 2000s, year 1943
Place: australia, melbourne, crete, hellas, greece
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30%
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Mullet (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, sincere, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: homecoming, small town, starting over, couples, family problems, love and romance, hopes, prodigy, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, weakness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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
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30%
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Lucky Miles (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to ...
Style: entertaining, sentimental, humorous, feel good, thought provoking ...
Plot: journey, desert, immigration, refugee, survival, security, family relations, australian outback, father son relationship, trapped, survivor, migration ...
Place: australia, indonesia, iraq, cambodia
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
Style: independent film
Plot: remote island, erotica, castaway, female nudity, historical figure, sex scene, wife, sex, adultery, unfaithful wife, shipwreck, cannibalism ...
Time: 1800s
Place: australia
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30%
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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29%
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Mad Bastards (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, father son reunion, self discovery, starting over, redemption, parent child relationship, going straight, hopes, introspection, estrangement, parents and children, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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29%
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The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style: political, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: australian aboriginal, native, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native american, family relations, segregation, couples, love and romance, youth, misfit, coming of age ...
Time: 70s
Place: africa, australia
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29%
The Emerald Forest (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when ...
Style: anthropological, retro, disturbing, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot: jungle, tribe, adoption, environmental, coming of age, amazon rainforest, sex trafficking, pagan, survival, kidnapping, culture clash, treasure hunt ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: brazil, south america, latin america
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28%
The Sage Hunter (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: THE SAGE HUNTER chronicles the real life adventures of the Taiwanese indigenous hero, Sakinu, a forest ranger who is determined to protect his family's and community's rich traditions. We take in the magnificent panorama of the lush forest ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: heroes, nature, environmental issue, family relations, tribe, indigenous people, hunter, animal, wild boar
Place: taiwan
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28%
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the Frenches and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portugueses. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the Tupinambás, and in spite of his trial to convince them ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: cannibalism, female nudity, food, amazon rainforest, forest, cannibal, colonialism, native, male pubic hair, nudity, bare chested male, male nudity ...
Time: 16th century
Place: brazil, latin america
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28%
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Black Robe (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls ...
Style: realistic, bleak, historically accurate, period piece, sad ...
Plot: native american, wilderness, indians, shaman, christian, religion, colonialism, christianity, jesuit, nature, snow, church ...
Time: 17th century, year 1991
Place: canada, quebec, america
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27%
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Alexandra's Project (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: revenge, murder, female masturbation, unhappy wife, mental illness, family relations, birthday, family problems, family in crisis, dishonesty, male nudity, nudity ...
Place: australia
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27%
Birds of America (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, family problems, couples, youth, vengeance, family gatherings, parents and children, couple relations, introspection, lifestyle ...
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Dances with Wolves (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Style: scenic, touching, sentimental, epic, breathtaking ...
Plot: native american, american civil war, self discovery, culture clash, friendship, native, tribe, courage, pride and honor, native american white relationships, wolf, indians ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, victorian era, 20th century, 1800s ...
Place: kansas, south dakota, tennessee, america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Montenegro (1981)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she ...
Style: dark comedy, sexy, cult classic, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: mad woman, immigrant, male nudity, sexuality, erotica, dark humor, nudity, death, insanity, adultery, storytelling, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: balkan, europe, stockholm sweden, former yugoslavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
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In the Heart (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, tragic love, love and romance, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, relationships, fighting illness, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Castle (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight ...
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot: justice, family relations, fighting the system, family in crisis, family life, against the odds, misfit, single parent, parents and children, prejudice, law, airport ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: australia, melbourne, beirut lebanon
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27%
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