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Blind Flight (2003)
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Blind Flight (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The true story of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy's extraordinary relationship as hostages of militias in Lebanon during the 1979-91 Civil War.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, political, realistic, gloomy
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, friendship, friendship between men, captivity, prison life, introspection, torture, isolation, confined, culture clash, hopes, prison, society, abduction, publisher, friends, innocence lost, terrorist, prisoner, kidnapper, empire, hostages
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, middle east, lebanon
Keyword: lebanese, irish, english

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sincere films with plots about society, hopes, confined, friendship, friends, life is a bitch and prison mostly in Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Blind Flight: Attica (1980), Everyday (2012), Sabu (2002), When Harvey Met Bob (2010), Crossroads (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Attica (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A behind the scenes look of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: prison, black, serial killer, prison riot, hostage, rebellion, fighting the system, tough heroes, society, criminal heroes, state affairs, misfit ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: new york, usa
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95%
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Everyday (2012)
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, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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93%
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Sabu (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak, rough ...
Plot: prison life, friendship, false accusation, culture clash, dishonesty, prison, isolation, survival, introspection, fall in love, life is a bitch, frame up ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
When Harvey Met Bob (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith set up one of the world's greatest ever concerts, Live Aid in 1984 to help ease the Ethiopian Famine.
Style: realistic, uplifting, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: music, musician's life, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, partner, idealism, media, hopes, ambition, charity, rock, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Crossroads (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: introspection, clergy, religions or cults, idealism, hopes, society, fall in love, self discovery, priest, friendship, love, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Caesar Must Die (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, Caesar Must Die (Cesare Deve Morire), the scripted documentary shows inmates at a prison in Rome rehearsing for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Style: realistic, talky, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: prison, shakespeare, hopes, actor's life, human spirit, audition, criminal heroes, introspection, confined, prison life, rehearsal, convict ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Richness of Internal Space (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.
Style: psychological, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: captivity, introspection, human spirit, freedom, confined, danger, survival, hopes, solitary, faith, kidnapping, free spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Kamchatka (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot: coming of age, life is a bitch, family in danger, family life, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society, totalitarianism, parent child relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Black August (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, political
Plot: prison, racism, solitary, prison life, confined, against the rules, fighting the system, injustice, militant, price of justice, life is a bitch, society ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Cadence (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up ...
Style: inspirational, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: prison, time travel, black, exodus, sergeant, army life, racism, gang, military, rebellion, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Kings (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot: friends, introspection, friendship, society, alcohol abuse, buddies, dealing with death, friend, drunkenness, death, migration, conquering ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Martin's Day (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough
Plot: coming of age, youth, hostage, kidnapping, escape, ocean, obsessive quest, manhunt, fugitives, chases and races, confined, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
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83%
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The Gate (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity.
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: political repression, survival, confined, captivity, against humanity, ideology, mass murder, khmer rouge, international law, cambodian civil war, communist, genocide ...
Time: year 2014, 20th century, 70s
Place: cambodia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Return to Ithaca (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
Style: realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: homecoming, introspection, friendship, friends, society, novelist, exile, reunion
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: cuba
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82%
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Inch'Allah (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, emotional, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, political unrest, doctors and patients, injustice, society, friendship, life is a bitch, wartime life, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: palestine, israel, middle east, jerusalem, palestinian authority
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82%
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Hours of Light (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating
Plot: prison, rehabilitation, redemption, unlikely couple, prison life, hopes, murder, love affair, impossible love, nudity, health, male pubic hair ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, rich and poor, follow your dream, social differences, political unrest, parents and children, society, youth, state affairs, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Once They Marched Through a Thousand Towns (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominately Jewish community of Skokie.
Style: political, contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, courtroom drama, lawyer, aging, grief, suburbs, civil rights, injustice, religions or cults, hopes, politics, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep ...
Style: political, psychological, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: prison, gays and lesbians, homosexuality, politics, gay, friendship, homosexual, betrayal, prison sex, first gay sexual experience, transsexual, love story ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Bashing (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko finds herself ostracized as a national disgrace by society that sees her helping a country other than ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy
Plot: journalism, propaganda, confined, homecoming, estrangement, misfit, hopes, iraq war, society, life is a bitch, social misfits, harassment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, japan, middle east, asia
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81%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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81%
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Silent Voice (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An elderly woman wants to meet her son’s murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: prison, youth, redemption, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, love and romance, hopes, confined, prison life, romancing a criminal, teenage love, switching roles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Decoration Day (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, world war, friendship, family relations, couples, friends, interracial relations, society, human nature, hopes, opposites attract, introspection ...
Place: georgia
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All the Beautiful Things (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: All the Beautiful Things describes the palpable and uniquely portrayed real-life experience of two men seeking to repair their lifelong, but fractured, bond. Looking to move beyond their individual and shared histories of domestic violence, poverty, ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot: friendship, redemption, introspection, best friend, unsupportive friend, righting the wronged, betrayal, human nature, domestic violence, jazz, friendship between men, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, boston
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When Andrew Came Home (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sad
Plot: kids in trouble, kidnapping, coming of age, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, captivity, family problems, estrangement, danger, confined, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Style: tense, thought provoking, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: discrimination, apartheid, social change, racism, prison, legal, society, life is a bitch, state affairs, rebellion, politics, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: south africa, africa
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80%
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The Apple (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Style: compassionate, serious, sincere, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: isolation, father daughter relationship, confined, family relations, religions or cults, society, human nature, life is a bitch, children, childhood, blindness, twins ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.2
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Octavia (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Everybody has a little murder in their heart... somewhere.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sexual, touching ...
Plot: disability, blindness, blind woman, sexual awakening, female nudity, rape, friends, family relations, society, confined, youth, misfit ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Manpower (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, biting, serious ...
Plot: social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, discrimination, realism, immigrant, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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