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Pao's Story (2006)
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Pao's Story (2006)
Original name: Chuyện của Pao
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past.
Style: surprise ending
Plot: inspiration, backpacking, mountain, stepmother, mother daughter relationship, family secret, adoptive mother, search for mother, rural setting, voice over narration, hmong, country, countryside
Place: vietnam
Keyword: vietnamese

Most similar movies to Pao's Story

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, sincere and touching films with plots about rural setting, mother daughter relationship, family relations, husband wife relationship, countryside, voice over narration and family problems mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pao's Story: Floating Lives (2010), Sisters Apart (2008), Adrift (2009), The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000), L'arbre de les cireres (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Floating Lives (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, the film tells a story of Mr. Vo and his children. Vo, enraged by his wife’s infidelity, burns down his house and all his memories of the past.
Plot: backpacking, health, asian, inspiration, voice over narration, father daughter relationship, rape, sex, flashback, family relations, duck, boat ...
Place: vietnam
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95%
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Sisters Apart (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Taru elää ratsutilalla harmonista elämää miehensä Harrin ja tytärpuolensa Ninnin kanssa. Kaikki muuttuu, kun Ninni loukkaantuu hevosonnettomuudessa. Kymmenen vuotta sitten Ruotsiin lähtenyt Ninnin biologinen äiti Eve kutsutaan paikalle ...
Plot: rural setting, accident, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, horse, horse ranch, half sister, stepmother, fatherhood, countryside, parent child relationship ...
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Adrift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator who marries Hai, a taxi driver who is two years her junior. Duyen thinks the marriage will make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, sexual relations, infidelity, forbidden love, self discovery, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, tour guide, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, ...
Style: melancholic, sincere, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot: infidelity, couples, marriage, crumbling marriage, adultery, pregnancy, family relations, family life, love and romance, siblings relations, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: vietnam, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
L'arbre de les cireres (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story takes place between December 1994 and February 1995 in a small village near Valencia, Spain, where the lives of four people - a child, a thief and two doctors - intersect. At the same time, the great love of one woman's life suddenly ...
Plot: village, tree, mountain, grandmother, thief, youth, doctor, love, rural setting
Place: valencia spain
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37%
The Greatest House in the World (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala, Mexico
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Rocio, a Maya Mam girl, lives in the mountains with her mother, who is pregnant and her granny. Due to an early delivery from her mother, Rocio is stuck with caring for a herd of sheep, the first time she has done it on her own. Playing in the ...
Plot: rural setting, woods, grandmother, pregnancy, childbirth, sheep, mountain, birth, little girl, blowing out candle, cloud, candle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Abandoned by her mother, young Ichiko leaves her life in the city to live off the land in Komori, a small town nestled among the mountains in rural Japan. Despite the void left by her mother’s disappearance, Ichiko comes to enjoy her independence ...
Style: psychological, visually appealing, thought provoking, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot: food, japanese girl, farmer, solitude, mother issues, nature, village life, slice of life, countryside, provincial life, japanese culture, agriculture ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Three Madeleines (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Three women who share a familial bond but little more come to know each other better in this beautifully-photographed drama. Marie-Madeleine (Sylvie Drapeau) is a photographer in her mid-30s who, for the first time, has come into contact with Mado ...
Plot: voice over narration, photographer, mother daughter relationship, adoption, family relations, absent father, island, dream, illegitimate daughter, grandmother granddaughter relationship, memory, on the road ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Daughter of Rage (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nicaragua, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Nicaragua, today. Eleven-year-old María lives with her mother Lilibeth on the edge of an immense rubbish dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local gang member. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth has to move to ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: search for mother, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, 11 year old girl, mother child separation, forceful separation, life is a bitch, bereavement, separation, dog, beach, mother ...
Place: nicaragua
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31%
Bandits of Orgosolo (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Sardinian peasant is implicated in the murder of a policeman and, although innocent, he doesn’t give himself up, lacking faith in the judicial system and fearing that he may lose his sheep while awaiting trial. He leaves for the mountains with ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: italian neorealism, great ending, spirit, mountain, dog, fog, voice over narration, fugitive, shepherd, bandit, false accusation
Place: sardinia, italy
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30%
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Suzaku (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the ...
Style: slow cinema, independent film, aesthetic
Plot: village, family relations, coming of age, woman, underground, slice of life, tunnel, mountain, nature, incest overtones, minimalism, little girl ...
Time: year 1997, 70s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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In Her Place (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.
Plot: teenage pregnancy, adoption, nudity, rural setting, summer, shame, countryside, sex scene, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, female nudity ...
Place: korea, asia
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29%
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Arcadia Lost (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Two teenagers wander rural Greece after being stranded by a car crash. They encounter an itinerant vagabond on their travels.
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, touching
Plot: teenager, mountain, train conductor, travel, escape from reality, countryside, past, rural setting, coming of age, stepbrother stepsister relationship
Place: greece
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29%
Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, sincere, captivating, epic ...
Plot: food, japanese girl, japanese culture, nature, solitude, abandoned by mother, isolation, society, backpacking, cookery, agriculture, inspiration ...
Place: japan
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27%
Aurora Borealis: Northern Light (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, thought provoking ...
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27%
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Lost and Love (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After his young son goes missing, Lei (Andy Lau) begins a 14-year quest to find him.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
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Time: 21st century
Place: china
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26%
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Shiba (1993)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 104 min.
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Duration: 97 min.
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Style: psychological, touching, sincere, captivating, sentimental
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: sardinia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Skierri: Land of the Dwarf Birches (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A film about herder Niila and Sami environment in the time of change and plight. First partly Saami language fiction film in Finland.
Plot: indigenous people, interrogation, police, husband wife relationship, dog, cultural difference, periphery, chief of police, police officer, jail cell, animal cruelty, summer ...
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25%
The Third Wife (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: suspense, psychological, rough, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot: arranged marriage, teenage girl, childhood, sex with stepmother, family relations, teenager, fiancee, countryside, girl, lesbian, wedding planning, youth ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: vietnam
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25%
My Mom's Darkest Secrets (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When 21-year-old Ashley Beck-Ford finds her biological mother, Sara Hillman, online, she is shocked and thrilled… But building a relationship with her long-lost mother proves to be more dangerous than Ashley could have ever imagined. Soon after ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: murder, lie, relationship problems, mother daughter relationship, woman in danger, dark secret, family problems, birth mother, murder mystery, family secret, mother and daughter, family in danger ...
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24%
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Marion (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.
Plot: rural setting, parisian, rich, family relations, wealth, marriage, friend, father daughter relationship, food, accident, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
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24%
Comfort and Consolation in France (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: art house
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Time: 2010s
Place: new york
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24%
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Meant to Be (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When 20-year old Nathan loses his career and his girlfriend, he questions his purpose in life. Compounding his struggle, Nathan grew up in a foster home and never met his birth mother. He sets out on a quest to find his mother and somehow come to ...
Style: psychological, contemplative, thought provoking, captivating, surprise ending ...
Plot: faith, god, mother, crisis, christian, research, depression, journey, self discovery, belief in god, forgiveness, abortion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Small Voices (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Melinda is a new substitute teacher at the Malawig Elementary School, located in a poor remote barrio. A young university graduate, her family expects her to look for work abroad, but in her idealism she takes on a challenging job in the provincial ...
Plot: political violence, children, city, rural setting, new teacher, mutiny, singing competition, school teacher, partisan, boss, hopes, school ...
Time: year 2002
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22%
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The Migrants (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Plot: labor, union, strike, poverty, family conflict, hardship, rural setting, farm hand, family relations, corruption, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship ...
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22%
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Away from Home (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to ...
Plot: voice over narration, rural setting, immigrant, narration, turk, urban setting, orphan, lottery, immigration, passport, journey, search for father ...
Place: turkey, new york, russia, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
See You Tomorrow (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: No overview found
Plot: comic book, voice over narration, doctor, old woman, ritual, death, boy, dying, mortality, childhood, classmate, friendship ...
Time: 60s
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22%
North to Home (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Suzanne McBride is excited to spend her birthday with her family. It will be the first time that her three adopted daughters will be together in years. This seems like a great time for a family reunion, but the sisters are each wrestling with unique ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: family reunited, confrontation, mother daughter relationship, family problems, mother daughter reunion, sister sister relationship, family relations, sisters, relationship problems, family secret, eccentric family, mother and daughter ...
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21%
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Happy Lambs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, sexy
Plot: prostitution, brothel, mother son relationship, dysfunctional family, family problems, prostitute, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, single parent, single mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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