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The Year That Trembled (2002)
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
Plot:
college, vietnam war, lottery, friendship, politics, anti war, coming of age, fighting the system, teenage life, youth, rebellion, love affair, political unrest, rebelliousness, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, wartime life, campaign, kids in trouble, civil disobedience, love, high school, friends, fugitives ...
Time:
70s, 60s, year 1970, year 1971, 1960s
Place:
vietnam, ohio, usa, asia, cambodia, philadelphia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and emotional films with plots about friendship, love, society, drinking, father son relationship, drinking alcohol and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Year That Trembled: More American Graffiti (1979), Music Within (2007), 1969 (1988), Talk of Angels (1998), Steal This Movie (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.
Style:
grindhouse, sentimental, captivating, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
vietnam war, drag racing, hippie, racing, bittersweet, coming of age, marijuana, student protest, radio, driving, car, auto racing ...
Time:
60s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1966, year 1965 ...
Place:
vietnam, usa, california, san francisco, hawaii
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100%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a confrontation with one of his idols dashes his dreams of studying public speaking in college, Richard Pimentel joins the Army and ships off to Vietnam. During his service, Richard loses nearly all of his hearing. Joining a new circle of ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot:
disability, hippie, vietnam war, hopes, friendship, social activist, mute or deaf, society, human spirit, injustice, self discovery, dignity ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2007, 70s, 60s ...
Place:
california, vietnam, portland oregon, seattle
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two rebellious youths, Ralph and Scott, find themselves struggling with adulthood as the Vietnam War rages. Feeling trapped in their small town, Scott battles with his conservative veteran father, Cliff, and Ralph deals with his desperately sexual ...
Style:
realistic, independent film, serious, thought provoking, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
vietnam war, prejudice, anti war, unfaithfulness, death of father, drug use, hippie, small town, drug, college, coming of age, male nudity ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969, 70s
Place:
vietnam, usa, california, texas, canada ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, forbidden love, politics, fall in love, social differences, love triangle, society, couples, love affair, spanish civil war, extramarital affair, war ...
Time:
year 1998, 1930s, year 1936
Place:
ireland, europe, madrid, spain
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
Style:
melancholic, talky, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
politics, fighting the system, conspiracy, depression, justice, biopic, mental illness, revolution, injustice, conspiracy theory, on the run, drug abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, woodstock, pentagon ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, interracial romance, hospital, death, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 1936, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, seattle ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
Style:
realistic, intense, harsh, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, war, politics, soldier, casualty of war, justice, military life, civil war, wartime, dialogue, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, year 1987, 60s, year 1968
Place:
washington d.c., vietnam, usa, indochina, iraq
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.
Style:
sincere, contemplative, serious, realistic, hispanic ...
Plot:
fall in love, family relations, thanksgiving, family gatherings, marine, love and romance, soldier, society, self discovery, homecoming, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, usa, california
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jake Cassevetes is a world renowned shooter just back from being embedded during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. As a well-paid stringer for the networks, Jake does not buy into the currently vogue, left-wing conspiracy theory of a corporate-controlled ...
Style:
disturbing, clever, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot:
anarchist, conspiracy, politics, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, rebellion, society, injustice, political unrest, anarchism, anarchy ...
Time:
september 11 2001
Place:
iraq, afghanistan, new york, usa, middle east ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
George takes a trip to Vietnam to find his missing son. George's son Bob and Bob's son Patrick accompany George on the trip. George's son, Brendan, has been Missing in Action since the Vietnam War. Julie, an archeologist, joined the ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
missing person, family relations, vietnam war, parents and children, haunted by the past, human nature, village, family life, culture clash, expedition, missing son, love ...
Place:
vietnam, chicago, usa, asia, honolulu hawaii
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Simon (Bruce Davison), a student at a fictional university in San Francisco (based on San Francisco State College) is indifferent to the student protests around him, until walking in on a naked woman (Kristina Holland) in his dormitory ...
Style:
political, social, serious, realistic, political drama
Plot:
hippie, counterculture, vietnam war, university, chaos, liberal, police brutality, social issues, tyranny, student protest, marxist, underground ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of ...
Style:
touching, sincere, depressing, sad, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
military, soldier, redemption, honest, character study, bereavement, human nature, officer, jihad, relationships, wartime, friendship ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
iraq, bosnia, usa, california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, young lovers, parents and children, troubled teen, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, loner, amor ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
Similarity:
32%
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:
emotional, touching, realistic, sex comedy, contemplative ...
Plot:
vietnam veteran, obsession, friendship, woman in short shorts, destruction, vietnam war, soldier, youth, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, human nature ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
kentucky, vietnam, usa, washington d.c., southern usa ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break ...
Style:
sweet, erotic, sincere, period piece, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, obsession, dysfunctional marriage, love, teenage girl, sex scene, adultery, small town, working class, rich and poor, restaurant, library ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place:
illinois, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun.
Style:
psychological, emotional, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot:
rebellion, friendship, betrayal, boarding school, lifestyle, teenage love, youth, teenage life, coming of age, secret, schoolboy, gay ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
boston, new england
Similarity:
29%
6K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, slang, contemplative ...
Plot:
small town, food, loneliness, restaurant, workplace, self discovery, bittersweet, hospital, drinking, unfaithfulness, rain, hallucination ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york state, new jersey
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Julie discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes. This is a story of ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, clever, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, forbidden love, lesbian romance, lesbian friend, self discovery, friendship, lifestyle, follow your dream, lgbt, human nature, feminism, love and romance ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: China, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, tense, intercultural ...
Plot:
interracial romance, forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, culture clash, society, couple relations, politics, state affairs, couples, family problems, political unrest ...
Time:
year 2001, 1930s, year 1938, pre world war two
Place:
china, japan, asia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style:
humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school life, teenager, father son relationship, american football, adaptation, high school, family relations, prank, honest, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s, y2k, year 1999
Place:
usa, rhode island, connecticut, arizona, new england ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Vietnam, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged ...
Style:
realistic, political, period piece, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
politics, older man younger woman relationship, journalism, cia, love triangle, moral ambiguity, tragedy, complex characters, communism, reporter, cold war, dishonesty ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1952, 2000s, year 2002 ...
Place:
vietnam, southeast asia, indochina, asia, hong kong ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, sentimental ...
Plot:
vietnam war, hippie, counterculture, anti war, college, swing, campus, african american, university, student, teacher, homosexuality ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, small town, resistance, couple relations, marriage, betrayal, older man younger woman relationship, self discovery, life is a bitch, hopes, society ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
central europe, prague, czechoslovakia, germany
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, estrangement, orthodox jew, youth, confined, shoah, survival, world war, self discovery ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, post world war two
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Heath Freeman (Tru Calling, ER) heads an all-star cast including Clifton Davis (Any Given Sunday) Ben Vereen (Roots), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man) and Debbie Allen (Fame) in the period drama Soldier of Change, which resurrects the turmoil and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, romantic, independent film
Plot:
vietnam war, political unrest, rebelliousness, interracial relations, love affair, hopes, society, self discovery, military, love and romance, human spirit, racism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
24%
181
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Clandestinely filmed on location in Chinese-ruled Tibet (several actors and crew members had their names withheld for fear of reprisal), documentarian Paul Wagner's compelling drama follows three young Tibetans faced with moral dilemmas: a ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
buddhism, buddhist, politics, murder, buddhist monk, state affairs, society, innocence lost, coming of age, dishonesty, clergy, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1979
Place:
tibet, himalaya, china, asia, nepal
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Style:
witty, touching, sincere, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, dark humor, small town, american football, character study, architect, fighting the system, social differences, old love, social relations, haunted by the past, love affair ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
florida, puerto rico, bolivia, southern usa, usa ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the ...
Style:
political, erotic, realistic, emotional, romantic ...
Plot:
vietnam war, paraplegic, hospital, love, disability, vietnam veteran, love story, soldier, military, suicide, dysfunctional marriage, war hero ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1978, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, hong kong, vietnam ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Norway, Lebanon, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from ...
Style:
touching, compassionate, melancholic, emotional, islamic ...
Plot:
politics, friendship, coming of age, prejudice, segregation, arab, sex, civil war, lebanese civil war, survival, honest, poetry ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1975
Place:
middle east, lebanon, israel, syria, beirut lebanon ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, period piece, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, friendship, love triangle, housewife, extramarital affair, sexism, wartime, courage, adultery, storytelling, betrayal, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
los angeles, santa monica california, california, hawaii, poland ...
Similarity:
24%
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