Movies like The Outlander 2005
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The Outlander (2005)
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Original name: Le Survenant
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 parochialism, The Outlander disturbs the villagers' complacency and scandalizes the community; he also elicits admiration and gains a woman's love. He ultimately leaves in the same manner he had arrived, but not before he has helped the villagers open their eyes to the larger world beyond their village.
Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
friendship, friends, love affair, village, village life, fall in love, social relations, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, female nudity, card playing, tolerance, gossip, obstacle, alcoholism, alcohol abuse, handicap
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to The Outlander
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, family relations, friendship, friends, social relations, couples and love affair mostly in Drama, Romance and Action genres. Some movies like The Outlander: Adam and the Devil (2007), The Quack (1982), Canone inverso (2000), The High Cost of Living (2010), Waiting for the Clouds (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
clergy, friendship, religions or cults, parents and children, family relations, family life, society, village, fish out of water, disorder, village life, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
memory loss, life is a bitch, surgeon, losing-it hero, prodigy, daughter, love and romance, witch doctor, healer, polish, village life, amnesia ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, captivating, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
fall in love, friendship, world war two, love affair, violin, violinist, holocaust, musician's life, family relations, destiny, love and romance, flashback ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
prague, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnant woman, protective male, drug dealer, hopes, fall in love, pregnancy, love and romance, dishonesty, life is a bitch, introspection, redemption, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
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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.
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, village life, immigrant, haunted by the past, culture clash, love, identity, nostalgia, elderly, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
greece, turkey
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
island, fall in love, love triangle, love of one's life, love affair, dishonesty, lighthouse, family secret, lighthouse keeper, marital infidelity, storm, married woman ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
brittany, france, europe, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
23%
236
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
self discovery, life turned upside down, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, parents and children, breakup, mental breakdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
22%
300
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot:
love triangle, social differences, love affair, lifestyle, rivalry, society, fall in love, friendship, couples, social relations, small town, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Martín Santomé has been woking in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.
Style:
stylized, emotional, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, family relations, elderly, love affair, midlife crisis, aging, gender, couples, dealing with death, fall in love, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mikkel (17) lives a good life in Oslo were he has heaps of friends. When his mother gets a new job, Mikkel has to move to a small town and start all over. Here, snowboard is the big thing and to be accepted by the new kids, Mikkel has to go into ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental
Audience:
teens
Plot:
snowboard, teenage life, teenage love, rivalry, contests and competitions, youth, love and romance, family relations, fall in love, village, contest, mother son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
441
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, friendship, teenage life, social relations, social differences, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, interracial relations, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, corporate crime, homecoming, farm, small town, dishonesty, legal, rivalry, love affair, small town life, love and romance, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, against the rules, couples, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, society, infidelity, bittersweet, indian woman, wedding, best friend ...
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
village, coming of age, world war one, skinny dipping, childhood, youth, society, friendship, village life, teenager, military police, anti war ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Séraphin unfolds against the severe and achingly beautiful landscape of rural Quebec in 1889, where young lovers are torn from each other when a bankrupt shopkeeper forces his daughter into an arranged marriage to save his business. But true love ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, true love, lovers, greed, young lovers, bankruptcy, love and romance, couples, small town, couple relations, family relations, village life ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support ...
Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
farm, parents and children, introspection, family relations, selflessness, countryside, father daughter relationship, elderly, father, old man, farmer, rural area ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec, france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
Vittorio Innocente, a young man, estranged from the tragedies of his Italian immigrant family, has spent his adult life denying his past. When his estranged father starts to stalk Vittorio's sister, Rita, with murderous intent, Vittorio is ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, love and romance, love affair, village, small town life, religious, social relations, small town, village life, catholic saint, woman ...
Time:
60s, year 1950, 1950s
Place:
europe, ontario canada, italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Film spin-off of Nickelodeon's popular teen program Degrassi.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, friends, rivalry, youth, couples, couple relations, vengeance, infidelity, high school, party, drunken sex ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since ...
Style:
captivating, serious, emotional, touching, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, optimism, protecting from truth, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, hopes, human spirit, fall in love, love and romance, village, letter, dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
20%
172
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Style:
independent film, captivating, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
small town, social relations, couples, friends, womanizer, couple relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, small town life, countryside, murder, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ontario canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Music Teacher revolves around Alyson Daley (Potts), a high school music teacher who is on the brink of losing her beloved school music program because of district budget cuts. In an effort to spare the program, Daley's former students band ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious
Plot:
friendship, couple relations, couples, love and romance, friends, high school, strong female presence, artists and showbiz, hopes, teachers and students, family relations, dedicated educator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
missouri, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, love and romance, fall in love, unfulfilled love, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, mountain, holiday, snow, brother brother conflict, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always ruled and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. Faced with her own mortality, and desperate to find solace, she goes on the run. In ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
aging, family relations, couple relations, on the run, elderly, haunted by the past, nursing, youth, introspection, love and romance, parents and children, couples ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style:
touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, retirement home, friendship, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, couples, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
circus, love affair, workplace romance, couples, working class, artists and showbiz, fall in love, travel, love, friendship, tourism, inspiration ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, rome italy, london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
hotel, summer, couples, friends, family relations, love and romance, ambition, aging, elderly, hopes, small town life, love affair ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Similarity:
19%
366
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
starting over, love affair, haunted by the past, auschwitz, adoption, youth, small town, hopes, family relations, self discovery, post war, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
czech republic
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young artist in Manhattan falls in love with a Mexican.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, nightclub, life is a bitch, love and romance, social differences, missing person, love affair, social relations, couple relations, friendship, conspiracy, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, middle east
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, love triangle, family relations, society, love affair, fall in love, village, racism, sister sister relationship, loss of mother, self discovery, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 2007, 80s, september 11 2001
Place:
london, bangladesh, europe, england, india ...
Similarity:
19%
535
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
clergy, amateur detective, self discovery, uncover truth, redemption, religions or cults, family relations, homecoming, social relations, society, friendship, direction and purpose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
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