Movies like Three Seasons

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Three Seasons (1999)
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Three Seasons (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Three Seasons wants to show individuals triumphing over adversities, recovering from traumas, looking forward to better times, as well as nostalgia for those better days before American and French and other invasions, material and ideological. It is a poetic film that tries to paint a picture of the urban culture undergoing westernisation.
Style: scenic, independent film, sentimental, touching, lyrical, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, captivating ...
Plot: vietnam war, prostitute, love, poetry, culture clash, leprosy, scenery, daughter, poet, love and romance, fall in love, society, urban, anti capitalism, writer's life, human nature, prostitution, post war, father daughter relationship, city, dying man, rickshaw, long lost daughter, war, catastrophe ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, saigon, vietnam, new jersey
Keyword: vietnamese

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Most similar movies to Three Seasons

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about society, love and romance, family relations, hopes, fall in love, couples and culture clash mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Three Seasons: The War (1994), Green Dragon (2001), Same Same But Different (2009), Face (2002), Crossroads (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The War (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, dark comedy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: bullying, vietnam war, coming of age, childhood, father son relationship, child, friendship, boy, children, war, youth, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 1900s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: vietnam, mississippi, usa, asia
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Green Dragon (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by ...
Style: psychological, sincere, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot: military, vietnam war, interracial relations, military life, friendship, self discovery, coming of age, homecoming, culture clash, translator, human nature, immigrant ...
Time: year 2001, 70s
Place: vietnam, usa, asia, california
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Same Same But Different (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: fall in love, love affair, unlikely couple, couples, interracial relations, society, life is a bitch, hopes, culture clash, social differences, terminal illness, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cambodia, europe, germany, asia
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57%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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Crossroads (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: introspection, clergy, religions or cults, idealism, hopes, society, fall in love, self discovery, priest, friendship, love, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
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Five Hours from Paris (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Only 5 flight hours from Paris, in a working-class suburb of Tel Aviv, two people meet. He is a bred-and-born Israeli and she is a Russian immigrant. He is a taxi driver and she is a music teacher. He has no aspirations. She gave up hers long ago. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, feel good
Plot: single parent, love and romance, family relations, society, fall in love, immigrant, love, divorced parents, music teacher, fear of flying, taxi driver, choir ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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Labour of Love (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, introspection, working class, society, couples, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, kolkata
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The Little Death (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel, where a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) and a corrupter of innocence battle over the fate ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: culture clash, prostitute, rivalry, society, nihilism, sexuality, seduction, brothel, repression, fall in love, forbidden love, masochism ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s
Place: usa
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Something in the Way (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ahmad, a porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta, falls for the beautiful young prostitute Kinar and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: obsession, misfit, dull life, social misfits, society, prostitution, prostitute, religions or cults, taxi, unfulfillment, urban, strong sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia, asia
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The God of Wood (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Yao (Madi Diocou) and Moroccan Rachid (Soufiane Ouaarab) arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa (Marisa Paredes) ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: immigrant, love and romance, culture clash, fall in love, gender, family relations, society, lifestyle, parents and children, gays and lesbians, sexuality, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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Lebanon, Pa. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, coming of age, hopes, youth, wooing, small town, road not taken, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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34%
Journey from the Fall (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Style: serious, sincere, bleak, informative, political ...
Plot: vietnam war, human spirit, fighting the system, refugee, parents and children, political unrest, re-education, hopes, military, tragic hero, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, california, usa, asia
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33%
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Marathon (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Drama by Biju Viswanath, Marathon was adapted from Harteis's memoir of the same name. Explores the relation ship between two poets Richard Harteis and William Meredith former US poet laureate and winner of every major American award for poetry ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, gender, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, artists and showbiz, writer's life, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, tragic love, love, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
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33%
The Great Passage (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, ‘The Great Passage.’ In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: workplace, fall in love, love and romance, obsession, workplace situations, social misfits, depression, asian, socially awkward, unsuccessful, japanese culture
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: asia, japan
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Owl and the Sparrow (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: matchmaking, youth, couples, orphan, street kid, friendship, optimism, on the run, human nature, society, opposites attract, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: saigon, asia, vietnam
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In Between Days (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style: emotional, realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, youth, unfulfillment, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: marriage of convenience, arranged marriage, world war two, love and romance, pregnancy, soldier, society, unhappy marriage, hopes, fall in love, life is a bitch, pretend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s, year 1944
Place: usa, colorado
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Quiet City (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, light ...
Plot: friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, society, love, party, girlfriend, hipster, human relationship, human nature, lifestyle ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, hopes, couple relations, redemption, misfit, starting over, family life, culture clash, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children ...
Time: year 2007
Place: china, usa, asia, washington d.c., persia
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Automatic (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style: contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: family problems, couples, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, destiny, sexual relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Baroness and the Pig (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: fish out of water, fall in love, couples, social differences, culture clash, love and romance, society, couple relations, class system, maid, inventions and discoveries, contests and competitions ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: paris france, philadelphia, france
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Cet amour-là (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Plot: destiny, wartime life, soldier, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, family relations, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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America So Beautiful (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This film follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: disco, racism, follow your dream, lifestyle, culture clash, injustice, society, misfit, interracial relations, nightlife, nightclub, immigrant ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Ocean of Pearls (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: culture clash, doctors and patients, surgeon, discrimination, workplace, immigrant, hospital, parents and children, hopes, society, ambition, family relations ...
Place: usa, michigan, detroit, toronto ontario canada
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The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
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25%
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Tokyo Noir (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: city life, prostitute, singleness, couples, lifestyle, strong female presence, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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25%
Our Winning Season (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A high-school track star (Scott Jacoby) fools around with his buddy (Dennis Quaid), until a Vietnam War tragedy makes him grow up.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: track and field, running, athlete's life, coming of age, human nature, hopes, underdog, athlete and trainer, ambition, youth, wartime life, vietnam war ...
Time: 60s, 70s
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25%
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I Am Yours (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Plot: looking for love, human nature, destructive relationship, love and romance, single parent, family relations, female nudity, unfulfillment, social misfits, society, culture clash, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia
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Bye Bye Blackbird (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: circus, workplace romance, love affair, couples, working class, artists and showbiz, fall in love, travel, love, friendship, inspiration, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, london, rome italy
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24%
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The Night (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young man stands in front of a mirror. The night belongs to him. Every evening, he appraises his appearance, attired in a new shirt, leaves his apartment and waits in a poorly lit alleyway for his johns. One night he meets a female prostitute of ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, suspense, queer cinema
Plot: gays and lesbians, society, social misfits, unlikely couple, fall in love, prostitute, love and romance, gender, love triangle, sexual relations, one night stand, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, china
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