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The War (1994)
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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:
sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, epic, dark comedy, sociological, cult classic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, vietnam war, childhood, father son relationship, friendship, boy, child, children, youth, bittersweet, boyhood, violence, courage, morality, tragedy, anti war, post traumatic stress, tragic event, traumatized man, life, father, kids and family, autism, grief ...
Time:
70s, year 1994, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, mississippi, usa, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sad, sweet, semi serious ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Amid the chaos of refugees fleeing the Korean War in December 1950, a young boy, Duk-soo, sees his fate change in the blink of an eye when he loses track of his younger sister and he leaves his father behind to find her. Settling at Gukje Market in ...
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Plot:
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Place:
korea, south korea, busan
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, minnesota, usa, california, new orleans ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, heartbreaking, serious, depressing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 1970, 70s
Place:
brazil, latin america, south america, sao paulo brazil, israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, touching, thought provoking, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Story:
The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam..
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 104 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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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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: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
vietnam, asia, california, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a former platoon member and his young Amerasian daughter.
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
usa, vietnam, asia
Similarity:
22%
26K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
Style:
depressing, emotional, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 1984, 60s
Place:
vietnam, philadelphia, usa, asia, atlantic city new jersey ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Unable to serve in World War II because of a heart condition, a barber moves his family adjacent to a Wisconsin army base and prisoner-of-war camp to provide his services. But even in rural America -- far from the frontline -- the war finds victims.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, historical drama, heartfelt ...
Plot:
world war two, family relations, wartime life, life is a bitch, parents and children, family in crisis, against humanity, couple relations, family problems, couples, family drama, empathy ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.
Style:
talky, psychological, sincere, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
usa, vietnam, connecticut, california
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, ...
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, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She ...
Style:
emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, boy, children, foster child, coming of age, loneliness, wartime, family relations, life is a bitch, wartime life, adoption, society ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
finland, poland, tokyo, japan, germany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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emotional, sentimental, touching, sad, cult classic ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Family, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives forever. Tuurs dad joined the resistance and even his big brother seems so be part of it. Lamberts family on the other hand choose to obey the Germans. ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
friendship between boys, children in wartime, friendship, youth, coming of age, teenager, child, best friend, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, village life, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place:
holland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in 1974 Texas, three teen siblings struggle with the death of their father and try to live with their abusive mother. When one of the teens is sent away because the mother can't cope with his autism, the teens embark on a life changing road ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, dysfunctional family, family problems, on the road, youth, family relations, escapades, self discovery, obsessive quest, death in the family, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
holland
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
slavery, african american, old man, segregation, slave, social justice, interracial, youth, slave trade, suburbs, interracial relations, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, year 1998
Place:
virginia, usa, alabama, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The chance to shine in a singing competition offers much-needed hope for a Southern middle-schooler who's drowning in worries, from bullies in the halls to turmoil at home -- and the news that his reservist father has been called back to ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
boy, military, parents and children, family problems, wartime life, hopes, military life, soldier, contests and competitions, family in crisis, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, afghanistan, middle east, alabama
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1978, five teenagers in Shelbyville, Tennessee look to meet the actress Sondra Locke, who's rumored to return to town for the local premiere of her big Hollywood movie.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, teenage love, society, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, teenage life, parents and children, small town, suburbs, best friend ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
18%
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