Movies like Misery Harbour
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Misery Harbour (1999)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery
Style:
atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
ship, graphic violence, sexual relations, rivalry, sexual content, small town, hopes, uninhibited rivalry, travel, escape, profanity, spanking
Place:
canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and atmospheric films with plots about hopes, society, family relations, love and romance, small town, life is a bitch and female nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Misery Harbour: Calm at Sunset (1996), Closed for Winter (2009), The Outlander (2005), Emotional Arithmetic (2007), Like Dandelion Dust (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 99 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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