Movies like The Space Between 2010
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The Space Between (2010)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Montine McLeod, a world-weary flight attendant, and Omar Hassan, a prematurely wise 10-year-old Pakastani-American boy connect with one another amidst the chaos of September 11, 2001. When Montine discovers the boy's direct personal link to the terrorist attacks, she instinctively embarks on an unsanctioned cross-country road trip to help Omar discover his uncertain future.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, captivating, sad, independent film, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
youth, terrorism, friendship, on the road, stewardess, 9/11, boy, father son relationship, terrorist attack, cross country, social problems, terror, social justice, friends, danger, hopes, religion, bully, flight attendant, death of father, death of husband, death of mother, world trade center manhattan new york city, islamophobia, world trade center
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa, scotland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about friendship, friends, youth, family relations, hopes, coming of age and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Space Between: How I Got Lost (2009), Firelight (2012), Just Like the Son (2006), Lucky Life (2010), The Guys (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa, texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of friends travels to the beach to encourage Jason, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The journey is rooted in nostalgia and desire for a meaningful farewell, although the friends avoid the subject of Jason's illness. Some time ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hopes, firefighter, terrorism, fire brigade, journalism, writer's life, love and romance, danger, couple relations, couples, post september 11 2001, chance meeting ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
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544
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, swimmer, sex crime, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
TV Movie Drama - Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
survival, friendship, hopes, fighting crime, danger, right hand man, haunted by the past, negligence, rescue, family life, curses spells and rituals, death in the family ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
teenage life, redemption, friendship, youth, rivalry, starting over, hopes, coming of age, profanity, boxing, violent content, sexual content ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, hopes, friendship, racism, interracial relations, human spirit, redemption, family problems, dysfunctional family, social decay, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
22%
313
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, psychological, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
holland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, dog, danger, life is a bitch, society, coming of age, child, boy, little boy, pets, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
22%
934
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
slovenia
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Country: USA
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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:
usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 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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Country: France, Spain
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Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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usa
Similarity:
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752
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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441
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Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
australia
Similarity:
21%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Rwanda, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, captivating
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
rwanda, africa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, drug, teenage boy, coming of age, death threat, depression, couples, love and romance, love, youth, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
83
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
396
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, poignant, bleak, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Time:
september 11 2001
Place:
new york
Similarity:
20%
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