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Corn Island (2014)
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Original name: სიმინდის კუნძული
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose sunburned face resembles the landscape he has trodden for dozens of years.
Style:
serious, tense, sincere, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, serenity
Plot:
island, teenage girl, military, skinny dipping, fishing, building a house, storm, flood, doll, boat, stranger, cornfield, wounded soldier, very little dialogue, border patrol, hiding, harvest, grandfather granddaughter relationship, family relations, wartime life, life is a bitch, elderly, children, female nudity, river ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
georgia, soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about life is a bitch, family relations, youth, wartime life, soldier, parents and children and war mostly in Drama and War genres. Some movies like Corn Island: The Other Bank (2009), Fires on the Plain (2014), Alexandra (2007), Mr. Pip (2012), 4 Days in May (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, life is a bitch, on the road, estrangement, family relations, poverty, single parent, parents and children, search for father, journey, grownups ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
europe, caucasus, georgia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, japanese soldier, survival, danger, military life, escapades, isolation, confined, losing-it hero, rivalry, humanity, anti war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
military, soldier, military life, human nature, family relations, parents and children, anti war, homecoming, fish out of water, grandmother grandson relationship, journey, underground ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
chechnya, soviet union, russia, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. In 1991, a war over a copper ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, captivating, realistic
Plot:
teachers and students, elementary school, wartime life, civil war, state affairs, social relations, power relations, friends, political unrest, teacher, dedicated educator, island ...
Place:
papua new guinea, asia, indonesia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children's home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, captivating
Plot:
holocaust, battles, military, military life, love affair, wartime life, friendship, basic training, world war two, hiding, wound, russian soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
ukraine, germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
children, breast feeding, pregnancy, russian civil war, pregnant woman, life is a bitch, wartime life, female soldier, jewish family, soldier, baby, newborn baby ...
Time:
year 1967, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, rough, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
soldier, haunted by the past, teenage life, wartime life, life is a bitch, rebellion, society, couple relations, social misfits, love and romance, family relations, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, korea
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Georgia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, non-linear ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, wartime life, soldier, war crime, murder, violence, orphan, war violence, boy, children, little boy, world war ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
russia, chechnya, caucasus
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
orphan, youth, orphanage, friendship, betrayal, prison, coming of age, soldier, idealism, haunted by the past, injustice, politics ...
Time:
year 1945, post world war two, 1940s
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, europe, soviet union, ussr ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.
Style:
serious, captivating, atmospheric, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, youth, german army, family relations, against humanity, life is a bitch, village, village life, parents and children, nazi, children, town ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1943, year 1944
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Estonia, Georgia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
War in Abkhazia 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
Style:
harsh, thought provoking, tense, heartbreaking, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
anti war, humanity, brutality, wartime life, civil war, tragedy, life & death, survival, character study, bullet wound, war, caucasian ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, year 2013, year 2014, 20th century
Place:
georgia, caucasus, middle east, iraq, soviet union ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
rescue, soldier, military life, military, life is a bitch, danger, battle zone, realism, israeli, conflict, sex scene, israeli army ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, syria, iraq ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him ...
Style:
melancholic, lyrical, philosophical, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, memory, samurai, anti war, grandmother, brothers, depression, family relations, haunted by the past, society, battles, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1991, post world war two, 90s
Place:
japan, hawaii, usa, asia, tokyo ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on director Aureliano Amadei's 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
filmmaking, wartime life, life is a bitch, director, iraq war, soldier, military, assault, military base, death threat, filmmaker, military life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the Pakistani tribal village of Darra Adam Khel, a young Pashtun boy Niaz Afridi defies the expectations of his father to continue in the family business making weapons and calls for an education.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, family relations, follow your dream, parents and children, family business, family problems, single parent, hopes, against the rules, rebelliousness, boy ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
pakistan, afghanistan
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23%
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and ...
Style:
sincere, talky, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, mediterranean sea ...
Similarity:
23%
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:
sexy, thought provoking, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
teenage girl, beekeeper, honey, isolated house, father daughter relationship, life turned upside down, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, radical, disorder, nature ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
italy, tuscany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sentimental, sincere, art house ...
Plot:
youth, single parent, parents and children, poverty, family relations, society, teenage life, elderly, social misfits, grandfather granddaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, very little dialogue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, greece, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
22%
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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:
21%
95
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
After a long separation, a father and his son spend the day fishing on the river bank. On a beautiful autumn Sunday, surrounded by the majestic countryside, they seem to be alone in the world. They must start all over again.
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:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald, two best friends from Los Angeles, videotape their last 36 hours before shipping off to Afghanistan. One hundred days before Obama's inauguration, these young men have joined ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, sincere, non-linear, realistic ...
Plot:
military, society, soldier, friends, friendship, military life, manhood, youth, introspection, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, california, afghanistan, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Turkey, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
female soldier, military, military base, haunted by the past, military life, family relations, single parent, parents and children, sex scene, hot and sexy, ex husband ex wife relationship, mother son reunion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, usa, new mexico
Similarity:
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966
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
Style:
serious, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
muslim, human rights, soldier, military, dysfunctional family, society, politics, terrorism, rivalry, confined, family problems, isolation ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, palestine, jerusalem, palestinian authority, israel
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in full swing. A long way off from the front-line, at some God-forgotten junction, the Germans make an air landing operation in an attempt to get through to the Kirov railway and the White ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, compassionate, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, heroism, female soldier, military training, wartime life, soldier, war, female friendship, human relationship, heroic mission, friendship, battles ...
Place:
soviet union, siberia, ussr
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Belgium, France, Lebanon
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, suspense, emotional, compassionate ...
Plot:
fear, terrorist, strong female lead, coping, self sacrifice, lawlessness, strong female character, mother, rescue attempt, wartime life, desperation, survival ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
syria, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Style:
sincere, bleak, rough, touching, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
children, world war two, mother, heroine, kindness, survival, young woman, village, hunger, danger, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1942
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, social ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, best friend, civil war, life is a bitch, society, dysfunctional family, youth, parents and children, teenage life, lgbt, teenage girl ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place:
soviet union, georgia, caucasus, tbilisi, europe ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style:
meditative, emotional, harsh, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
kurd, coming of age, children, youth, smuggling, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, parents and children, family in crisis, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia, iraq ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jonah Ludovic (Sam Neill) is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian (Om ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
fighting the system, tragic hero, survival, wartime life, society, rebellion, life is a bitch, danger, political unrest, politics, zookeeper, dystopia ...
Place:
eastern europe, bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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