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Natural Sciences (2014)
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Original name: Ciencias naturales
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve it. The hostility of winter in such a harsh place turns this desire into a real threat: freezing in the middle of nowhere. Going behind the backs of the school authorities and the girl's mother, her teacher decides to help her. They set off on this quest for truth, but it is not going to be an easy journey... Their only clue is a small, rusty plate.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, road movie
Plot:
on the road, family relations, self discovery, obsessive quest, youth, teachers and students, parents and children, family problems, hopes, coming of age, search for father, girl, unknown father, countryside, mountain, boarding school life, power relations, horse, school, teacher, school teacher, welder, rural setting, classroom, 12 year old ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
latin america, argentina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, coming of age, family problems, self discovery and hopes mostly in Drama, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like Natural Sciences: Sisters (2009), Absence (2014), A Time in Quchi (2013), Where Is The Friend's House? (1987), The Grocer's Son (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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204
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
childhood, school, homework, village, child, teacher, empathy, coming of age, children, boy, renaissance, notebook ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia, kurdistan
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, contemplative, thought provoking, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
village, countryside, family relations, hospital, heart attack, self discovery, culture clash, homecoming, parents and children, conflict, lifestyle, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, lyon, europe, alps, provence
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
beach house, nymphet, coming of age, infidelity, cheating wife, beach, family relations, parents and children, parent child relationship, family problems, dishonesty, love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems, sick mother ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Style:
serious, tense, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, on the road, parents and children, bittersweet, protecting from truth, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, parents separation, under the surface ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile
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372
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
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808
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
melbourne, australia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
Style:
captivating, emotional, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
hopes, desert, human spirit, escapades, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest, family relations, arab, boy, international relations, battlefield ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, kurdistan
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
23%
313
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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139
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
youth, golf, hopes, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, disorder, family relations, daydreamer, misfit, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
rebellion, high school life, political unrest, youth, society, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
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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
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, atmospheric, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, on the road, pregnancy, gypsy, family relations, travel, european, nudity, folklore ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
europe, romania
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, patagonia
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, follow your dream, teenage life, family business, society, youth, hopes, human spirit, workplace, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york
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20%
95
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
family relations, youth, parent child relationship, parents and children, countryside, father son relationship, nature, kids and family, father and son, separated parents, father, river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, gain trust, dysfunctional family, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, family relations, coping, parenthood, haunted by the past, teenage life, parents and children, youth, coming of age, orphan, mountain, criminality ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. During a vacation they suffer a car accident that will change their lives.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot:
family in crisis, parents and children, introspection, family problems, family relations, life turned upside down, accident, architect, school teacher, death, funeral, loss of daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, catalonia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, midlife crisis, starting over, self discovery, obsessive quest, introspection, human nature, society, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
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