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Letter to the King (2014)
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Letter to the King (2014)
Original name: Brev til kongen
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a young woman is haunted by the past and out for vengeance and an old man named Mirza is busy writing a letter to the king to get his final wish granted. An altogether urgent and nuanced portrait of a motley group of individuals, too often regarded as a homogeneous group.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, anthology, bleak, gloomy
Plot: refugee, immigrant, love, revenge, misfit, life is a bitch, society, social misfits, redemption, culture clash, dishonesty, hopes, happiness, kurd, humiliation, righting the wronged, human nature, immigrants
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: kurdistan
Keyword: norway

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about society, misfit, immigrant, hopes, life is a bitch, family relations and social misfits mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Letter to the King: Dance Town (2010), Macondo (2014), Under the Starry Sky (2013), Manpower (2014), Mad Ship (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dance Town (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: social differences, starting over, couples, injustice, political corruption, forceful separation, life is a bitch, state affairs, couple relations, dishonesty, society, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, north korea, south korea
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Macondo (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot: coming of age, youth, interracial relations, immigrant, society, life is a bitch, misfit, boy, father, migration, refugee, exile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
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Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
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Manpower (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, biting, serious ...
Plot: social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, discrimination, realism, immigrant, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Mad Ship (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, period piece
Plot: immigrant, family relations, society, life is a bitch, couple relations, unemployment, working class, unfulfillment, prairie, refugee, down on your luck, ship
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada
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Home Again (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot: deportation, homecoming, culture clash, immigrant, hopes, life is a bitch, society, starting over, injustice, rivalry, blaxploitation, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jamaica, africa, usa, england, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic
Plot: life is a bitch, family relations, realism, youth, misfit, social misfits, culture clash, parents and children, society, resilience, discrimination, single mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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Something in the Way (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ahmad, a porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta, falls for the beautiful young prostitute Kinar and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: obsession, misfit, dull life, social misfits, society, prostitution, prostitute, religions or cults, taxi, unfulfillment, urban, strong sexual content ...
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
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Style: serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, hopes, couple relations, redemption, misfit, starting over, family life, culture clash, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children ...
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Duration: 75 min.
Story: Peter "Koza" Baláz is a former Olympic boxer. He and his partner, Misa, live in a dilapidated housing estate, constantly struggling to make ends meet. Misa learns that she is expecting a child and decides to terminate her pregnancy. In ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
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Time: 21st century
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Duration: 115 min.
Story: A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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America So Beautiful (2001)
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Duration: 91 min.
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Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: disco, racism, follow your dream, lifestyle, culture clash, injustice, society, misfit, interracial relations, nightlife, nightclub, immigrant ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Duration: 110 min.
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Country: Luxembourg, Germany, France
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching
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Hour of the Star (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: existential, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
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Colossal Youth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
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Style: contemplative, serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
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33%
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, friendship, social differences, human nature, society, deportation, culture clash, working class, unemployment, interracial friendship, unrequited love, unlikely hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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32%
Bigga Than Ben (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
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32%
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Islander (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Bashing (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko finds herself ostracized as a national disgrace by society that sees her helping a country other than ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy
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Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, japan, middle east, asia
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32%
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