Movies like Virgina

If you like "Virgina" you are looking for movies about / with boy, patriarchy, village, religion, teenage girl, farmer and neighbor themes of Drama genre shot in Yugoslavia or France.
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Virgina (1991)
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Virgina (1991)
Original name: Вирџина
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: "Virgina" tells a tale from the end of the 19th century. It took place in a isolated village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife of a farmer gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man, so that she can work and be the family heir. This heartbreaking story of Virgina's life is told with strong words, augmented with harsh environment.
Plot: boy, patriarchy, village, religion, teenage girl, farmer, neighbor, poverty, lie, curse, masochism, husband wife relationship, coming of age, superstition, misogyny, sexual identity, sister sister relationship, gender bender, rural setting, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, rain, girl, father son relationship, liar ...
Time: 19th century
Place: balkan, serbia, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, yugoslavia
Keyword: serbian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and touching films with plots about family relations, coming of age, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, girl and boy mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Virgina: Suzaku (1997), My Little Girl (1986), Rice People (1994), Blessing (1994), Shiba (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Suzaku (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the ...
Style: slow cinema, independent film, aesthetic
Plot: village, family relations, coming of age, woman, underground, slice of life, tunnel, mountain, nature, incest overtones, minimalism, little girl ...
Time: year 1997, 70s
Place: japan
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My Little Girl (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, homeless, poverty, white supremacy, racism, skepticism, teenage girl, 18 year old, rehabilitation center, homeless teenager, laundry, naivete ...
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Rice People (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cambodia, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A poor, rural Cambodian family slowly disintegrates during the cycle of a single rice crop in this moving, and beautifully photographed European drama adapted from a novel by Shahnon Ahmad. Pouev, his wife Om, and his seven children, live in a small ...
Style: political, independent film
Plot: rice, social injustice, anthropology, genocide, cambodian civil war, agriculture, rural setting, khmer rouge, family relations, farm, farmer, village ...
Place: southeast asia, cambodia, switzerland, east asia
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26%
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Blessing (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set on a Wisconsin dairy farm, Randi, the daughter, is trying to find a way to escape the farm, but her devotion to her family especially Clovis her younger brother is preventing her from doing that; until, that is, she met the local milk truck ...
Style: independent film
Plot: youth, family relations, milkman, lottery, drifter, brother sister relationship, farm, dysfunctional family, cow, abusive father, religion, dairy farm ...
Time: 90s
Place: wisconsin
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Shiba (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with ...
Plot: hooker, rural setting, cultural difference, village, seaside, dice, brother sister relationship, family relations, prostitute, hotel manager, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: taiwan
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Before the Frost (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film takes place somewhere in the Danish countryside in the middle of the 19th century. Here within a small Danish peasant family, harsh circumstances reign. With the prospect of yet another tough winter, the farmer Jens faces an unbearable ...
Style: period drama
Plot: marriage, fire, hunger, farmer, rural setting, death of brother, neighbor, murder, marriage proposal, wedding, father daughter relationship, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
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The Wonders (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Gelsomina’s family works according to some special rules. First of all, Gelsomina, at twelve years of age, is head of the family and her three younger sisters must obey her: sleep when she tells them to and work under her watchful eye. But the ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: teenage girl, beekeeper, honey, family life, life turned upside down, parents and children, siblings relations, father daughter relationship, radical, disorder, troubled past, isolation ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, tuscany
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Evergreen (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young girl seduced by a boy's affluent seemingly idyllic family and goes to extremes to gain acceptance.
Style: crying
Audience: teens
Plot: poverty, homeless, teenage girl, coming of age, loss of virginity, painful sex, rain, class differences, makeover, teenage boy, single mother, orgasm ...
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Dry Summer (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.
Style: art house, educational, black and white, tense, realistic ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, summer, social commentary, muslim, animal abuse, water, prison, drought, rural setting, farmer, village, siblings relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: middle east, turkey
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Hala (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Meet 17-year-old Hala, who struggles to balance being a suburban teenager with her traditional Muslim upbringing. As she comes into her own, Hala finds herself grappling with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, inspirational
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, muslim girl, muslim woman, muslim, religious conflict, teenage sexuality, religion, family relations, teenager, secret, girl, social problems ...
Time: year 2019
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What the Sun Has Seen (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style: independent film
Plot: poverty, street vendor, money, girl, female nudity, singer, father son relationship, escape, small town, bare breasts, husband wife relationship, boy ...
Place: poland
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Maramao (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood.
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, childhood, children, summer vacation, sexual awakening, island, grownups, skinny dipping, boy, teenage boy, girl ...
Place: mediterranean sea
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Rosie (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a juvenile lockup, a new ward answers questions: she's Rosie, 13, no parents, a sister Irene, a brother Michel. In flashbacks we find out what happened. She lives with Irene, who's 27, whom Rosie knows is in fact her mother, but ...
Style: depressing, realistic, serious, sexual, crying
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Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place: belgium
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The Last Summer of La Boyita (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Young Jorgelina feels estranged from her boy-crazy older sister, who has entered adolescence and doesn't want to hang around with little kids anymore. Finding refuge in their Boyita camper-van, Jorgelina travels with her father to the ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot: friendship, ranch, youth, coming of age, sister sister relationship, family relations, countryside, father daughter relationship, teenage life, parents and children, abused child, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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23%
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Ratcatcher (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, crying, depressing, art house ...
Audience: teens
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Marion (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.
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Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An 11 year old girl accuses her father of incest.
Style: historical drama, independent film, crying
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Baba Joon (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
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Duration: 111 min.
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Style: psychological, touching, serious, rough, art house ...
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Place: poetic realism, turkey
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Secrets of the Heart (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
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Time: year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place: spain, europe
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The Apple (1998)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 86 min.
Story: After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Style: compassionate, serious, sincere, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: isolation, father daughter relationship, confined, family relations, religions or cults, society, human nature, life is a bitch, children, childhood, blindness, twins ...
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The Buffalo Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. ...
Style: touching, contemplative, serious, realistic
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Time: 1940s, 20th century
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The Grand Highway (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with ...
Style: anthology, realistic, semi serious, touching, feel good
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Time: year 1987, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
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Village in the Jungle (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The ...
Style: sinhala
Plot: fortune teller, henchman, male female relationship, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mayor, jail, murder, exploitation, husband wife relationship, marriage, false accusation ...
Time: turn of the century
Place: sri lanka
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Charter (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a recent and difficult divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the ...
Style: touching, sincere, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: custody battle, abduction, children, family relations, family conflict, on the run, husband wife conflict, father son relationship, resort, woman, european, mother daughter conflict ...
Place: canary islands, scandinavia, eastern europe
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The Children's Rebellion (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would ...
Plot: boy, coming of age, child, convict, social justice, teenage boy, violence, children, nudity, rebel, prison guard, child with gun ...
Time: 1840s
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Ixcanul (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: poverty, teenage life, unfulfilled love, love and romance, youth, arranged marriage, coming of age, volcano, mother daughter relationship, feminist, native, wedding planning ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, latin america, guatemala
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Mouchette (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style: art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, suicide, adolescence, existentialism, solitude, betrayal, sexual abuse, minimalism, children, child abuse, youth, innocence lost ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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20%
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The Mutants (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The Mutants (Portuguese: Os mutantes) is a 1998 Portuguese film by director Teresa Villaverde, starring Ana Moreira and Alexandre Pinto. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Style: bleak
Plot: erotica, woman, friendship, police officer, homeless teenager, theft, brother, abused child, coming of age, surrogate brother, poverty, friendship between boys ...
Place: portugal
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20%
Who Will Love My Children? (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray. Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten whose last wish is to find loving families for her children.
Style: depressing
Plot: adoption, cancer, disease, youth, little boy, sacrifice, self sacrifice, death, father daughter relationship, orphan, last will and testament, farm ...
Place: iowa
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20%
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