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A Thousand Months (2003)
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Original name: Mille Mois
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
Plot:
teenager, village, teacher, wedding, death, boy, suicide, theft, poverty, school teacher, oppression, little boy, countryside, authoritarianism, 12 year old, chair
Place:
morocco
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and atmospheric films with plots about boy, little boy, countryside, coming of age, village, death and poverty mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Thousand Months: Evergreen Tree (1961), The 40th Door (2009), A Time in Quchi (2013), Harmony Lessons (2013), Father (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Azerbaijan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Fourteen-year-old Rustam lives with his mother in a village; his father was killed by the Russian mafia. After his father's death, Rustam tries to provide for himself and his mother without resorting to illegal money-making schemes. But his ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 109 min.
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Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
boy, school, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, village, social misfits, misfit, bullying, vengeance, teenage boy, humiliation ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (played first by Dániel Erdély and later, as a young man, by András Bálint) is clearly determined to find out what he can ...
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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:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the ...
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mythology, wedding, bloodbath, village, innocent, escape, love, fear, running, death, girl, corpse ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
"Virgina" tells a tale from the end of the 19th century. It took place in a isolated village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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82%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Louis is a twelve year old boy who lives with his parents and older brother in southern Morocco. Louis is very happy until the day his father shares a secret with him.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. ...
Style:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A respected village schoolteacher falls for a travelling dancer and faces a moral dilemma.
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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