Movies like The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Denmark, Greenland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great Inuit shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter; the shaman must decide whether to accept the Christian religion that is converting the Inuit across Greenland.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, philosophical, touching, serious, inter cultural
Plot:
spirit, shaman, culture clash, village, family relations, religions or cults, couples, society, clergy, hopes, native american, tradition, customs, husky dog, nature, winter, indigenous people, transcendence, redsploitation, youth, wizards and magicians, legends and myths, love and romance, village life, escapades ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1910s, 20s
Place:
canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and touching films with plots about family relations, society, love and romance, hopes, youth, culture clash and couples mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Before Tomorrow (2008), Eve and the Fire Horse (2005), Waiting for the Clouds (2004), Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), A Question of Faith (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two isolated families meet for a summertime celebration. Food is abundant and the future seems bright, but Ningiuq, a wise old woman, sees her world as fragile and moves through it with a pervasive sense of dread. Ningiuq and her grandson Maniq are ...
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survival, isolation, native, human spirit, family relations, wilderness, friendship, youth, hopes, elderly, golden years, escapades ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, racism, religion, culture clash, clergy, immigrants, curses spells and rituals, dysfunctional family, society, hopes, sister sister relationship, youth ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
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captivating, realistic, emotional, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, village life, golden years, village, haunted by the past, immigrants, culture clash, memories, love, identity, nostalgia ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
greece, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch ...
Style:
bleak, tense, harsh, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, revenge, native american, betrayal, jealousy, dog sled, love triangle, tragic love, rivalry, intrigue, human nature, temptation ...
Time:
18th century, middle ages
Place:
canada, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs
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realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
christian, religions or cults, parents and children, family life, society, religion, salvation, penance, family values, family problems, family relations, hopes ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious
Plot:
friendship, friends, love affair, social relations, fall in love, village, village life, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, tolerance ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes ...
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tuberculosis, isolation, hospital, illness, friends, human spirit, hopes, friendship, family relations, against the rules, family life, doctors and patients ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young Katelijne, who grows up in a religious family in the countryside in Zeeland. Based on the novel by Franca Treur.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
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Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the ...
Style:
serious, captivating, stylized, dark, political ...
Plot:
incest, forbidden love, social differences, religions or cults, hopes, against the odds, fall in love, family relations, village, village life, religion, vanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, latin america, andes mountains
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
818
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
prison, confined, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, drug smuggling, husband wife relationship, society, youth, prison life ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style:
touching, emotional, atmospheric, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, racism, culture clash, human spirit, life is a bitch, vengeance, injustice, haunted by the past, society, gang, anti semitism ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
18-year-old Hannah Yoder is ready to become an Amish adult - which means baptism into the Church and marriage to her boyfriend, Samuel. However, her friends convince her to visit Hollywood for Rumspringa where she meets Josh and the two hit it off ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, religions or cults, forbidden love, couples, youth, society, love and romance, culture clash, adolescence vs adulthood, love affair, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, ...
Style:
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Plot:
introspection, teenage life, life is a bitch, fall in love, society, couples, military, wartime life, youth, culture clash, political unrest, politics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, lebanon, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
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Plot:
family relations, americana, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, hopes, coming of age, youth, small town, road not taken, wooing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
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realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, friends, life turned upside down, youth, society, couples, twentysomething life, student life, student
Time:
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Place:
norway, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Emprisoned by an illness, a young country girl decides to leave for Quebec City in order to study piano and discover an animated and enthralling lifestyle.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A retired teacher who returns to Istanbul after years away, Nazim tries to reacquaint himself with his hometown, which has changed significantly. While waiting for his pension to begin, Nazim takes a temporary job as a taxi driver and frequently ...
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stalking, village, family relations, couples, love and romance, sleazy, society, single parent, hopes, village life, fall in love, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one ...
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israel, middle east, australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 94 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Duration: 127 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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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.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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