Movies like The Double Steps
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The Double Steps (2011)
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Original name: Los pasos dobles
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search continues to feed the myth bunker ... Who is Augiéras? ¿Legionnaire, painter, writer, gunman, holy, thief, devil or a mixture of all?
Style:
atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
desert, treasure hunt, on the road, obsessive quest, escapades, artists and showbiz, performer's life, escape, excavation, painting, goat, killing an animal, albino, sitting in a tree, digging
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
africa
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Most similar movies to The Double Steps
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and atmospheric films with plots about escapades, on the road, obsessive quest, society, desert, danger and family relations mostly in Drama, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Double Steps: Jauja (2014), Winter in the Blood (2013), Exit Marrakech (2013), Freedom (2000), Sounds of Sand (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Denmark, Mexico, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, serious, captivating, road movie ...
Plot:
desert, escapades, track down, parents and children, family relations, love and romance, on the road, murder, father daughter relationship, coming of age, avant-garde, dog ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
native american, obsessive quest, self discovery, introspection, hung over, on the road, indigenous people, indigenous, twilight
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana
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87%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and ...
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
interracial relations, impossible love, defiant, father son relationship, teenage boy, parents and children, self discovery, conflict, prostitute, escapades, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
342
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy, stylized ...
Plot:
desert, disorder, survival, fish out of water, communication problem, hunger, escapades, culture clash, post soviet, lizard, sea, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On the one hand, there's the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there's the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the ...
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
on the road, survival, life is a bitch, family in danger, starvation, parents and children, militant, social relations, village, escapades, desert, survivor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The plague hits medieval Sweden.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
medieval, plague, escapades, obsessive quest, on the road, woman in danger, strong female presence, opium, painter, horse, rat, female protagonist ...
Time:
14th century, middle ages
Place:
sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
1K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow. The seven travellers set off from Ashcroft, the final railway station. Along with their leader, ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, gold rush, old west, adventurer, escapades, wilderness, desert, human nature, brutality, murder, civil war, society ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada
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74%
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, captivating, serious, gloomy
Plot:
missing child, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, family problems, on the road, escapades, family relations, father and son, relationship problems, road trip, parents and children, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Santa Cruz for the summer, a young woman discovers the sport of surfing -- and a family secret as well.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
surfing, coming of age, self discovery, youth, escapades, teenage life, friendship, society, on the road, drugs/alcohol
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
surreal, serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
medieval, immigrants, family relations, on the road, escapades, society, river, traveler, symbolism, mute, journey, deer ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
human spirit, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, political unrest, youth, hopes, escapades, desert, boy, human rights, gulf war, battlefield ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot:
boy, youth, leaving home, friendship, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, escapades, starting over, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, cult film
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure, ocean, airplane, friendship, death, artist, pilot, friends, partners, escapades, graphic violence ...
Time:
60s
Place:
africa, paris france, france, congo, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desert, sheik, treasure hunt, auto racing, age difference, cross dressing, woman dressed as man, dishonesty, heroes, adventurer, confined, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
self discovery, on the road, obsessive quest, human nature, hopes, father son relationship, road trip, father daughter relationship, friendship, travel, married woman, cross country ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, on the run, obsessive quest, on the road, looking for love, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, strong female presence, friends
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A drama directed by Timothy Bond.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, family relations, animal life, family life, obsessive quest, heroes, escapades, elephant, teenage girl, poacher, danger
Time:
90s
Place:
africa
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was among Erika and Klaus Mann's circle of friends in the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, journey, on the run, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, society, life is a bitch, redemption, politics, couples, friendship ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three young friends Richard, Peter and Andrew set off to join the crusading army.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, epic
Plot:
crusade, battles, friendship, war, leadership, military, heroic mission, pope, rivalry, politics, society, state affairs ...
Time:
middle ages, 11th century
Place:
israel, europe, holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, atmospheric, touching, serious ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, self discovery, couple relations, love and romance, on the road, pregnancy, family relations, gypsy, travel, nude, infidelity, folk ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shuhao is a 24 year old Taiwanese university graduate. His older brother Shuwei, whom he has idolized since childhood, dies on a bicycle ride to Lhasa. He decides to complete Shuwei's journey, hoping to prove himself through this challenging ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating, road movie
Plot:
mountain, riding a bicycle, last wish, self discovery, direction and purpose, on the road, dead brother, escapades, wilderness, chinese, freedom, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, sincere
Plot:
desert island, survival, tropical island, ocean, shipwreck, island, marooned, stranded, isolation, fish out of water, escapades, confined ...
Time:
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Place:
fictional island
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Five juvenile delinquents break out of jail and attempt to make their way to a house in the Mendoza foothills of Argentina.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, bleak
Plot:
survival, getting home, human nature, society, escapades, juvenile delinquency, youth, hopes, social decay, wilderness, disintegration, graphic violence ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alex, a shy and introverted, is a film director trying to finish writing his latest script. Decided to leave a few days of his wife and children to go to the Pyrenees and find there the peace and inspiration. In the town where he is met Monica, a ...
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realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, humorous ...
Plot:
introspection, creative block, midlife crisis, love affair, infidelity, countryside, solitude, human nature, road not taken, family relations, mountain village, isolated house ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young addict is convinced by his best friend to train-hop across the country in hopes of finding the buried treasure that they talked about when they were kids. One is self-destructive and the other is blind, neither of them expected a small-town ...
Style:
road movie, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
travel, treasure hunt, american, dream, journey, road trip, train, road
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
616
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through ...
Style:
road movie, touching, atmospheric, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
elderly, on the road, last wish, self discovery, family problems, couples, redemption, hopes, love affair, society, crumbling marriage, desert ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious
Plot:
starting over, human spirit, escapades, hopes, family life, ocean, survival, sea, nature, climbing, rock climbing, immigrants ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, morocco
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46%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, atmospheric, epic, realistic ...
Plot:
adventurer, heroes, heroic mission, leadership, rivalry, dishonesty, hopes, political unrest, culture clash, society, medieval, priest ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, thought provoking, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
185
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, captivating
Plot:
on the road, survival, fall in love, hopes, starting over, rescue, love and romance, immigrants, desert, follow your dream, chance meeting, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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