Movies like Blind Flight
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Blind Flight (2003)
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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, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
friendship, hostage, captivity, prison life, introspection, isolation, confined, culture clash, hopes, prison, society, kidnapping, friendship between men, torture, abduction, friends, innocence lost, lebanese, terrorist, prisoner, irish, kidnapper, empire, english, hostages
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, middle east, lebanon
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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, friends, friendship, prison and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Blind Flight: Bless You, Prison (2002), Everyday (2012), Attica (1980), Caesar Must Die (2012), Richness of Internal Space (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of ...
Style:
thought provoking, uplifting, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, rebellion, human spirit, confined, survival, prison life, exhaustion, religions or cults, rebelliousness, society, politics, captivity ...
Time:
50s
Place:
romania, europe
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818
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, touching ...
Plot:
prison, confined, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, drug smuggling, husband wife relationship, society, youth, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
504
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, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, prison riot, serial killer, hostage, rebellion, fighting the system, tough heroes, criminal heroes, misfit, society, human spirit, state affairs ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
new york, usa
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75%
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, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
prison, audition, human spirit, hopes, actor's life, prison life, rehearsal, criminal heroes, introspection, confined, prison warden, convict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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:
uplifting, psychological, serious, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
captivity, introspection, human spirit, freedom, confined, survival, hopes, solitary, faith, kidnapping, lifestyle, free spirit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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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, confined, unlikely couple, redemption, prison life, hopes, impossible love, murder, love affair, nude, bittersweet ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
prison, army life, sergeant, time travel, racism, army investigation, hopes, military, buddies, soldier, innocence lost, rebelliousness ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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, captivating, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, confined, captivity, against humanity, political repression, ideology, mass murder, khmer rouge, communist, communism, genocide, crime against humanity
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
cambodia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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, sentimental, sincere, realistic, political ...
Plot:
coming of age, life is a bitch, family in danger, family life, confined, youth, parents and children, isolation, political unrest, society, totalitarianism, parent child relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, gloomy
Plot:
alcohol abuse, friends, friendship, introspection, society, buddies, dealing with death, friend, drunkenness, death, church, unfulfillment ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.
Style:
captivating, emotional, sincere, serious, inspirational ...
Plot:
prison, self discovery, introspection, family problems, supportive spouse, human nature, medical school, family in crisis, blaxploitation, hopes, love, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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:
rough, serious, realistic, thought provoking, political
Plot:
prison, racism, solitary, prison life, confined, fighting the system, rebellion, against the rules, price of justice, injustice, militant, rebelliousness ...
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, military, lawyer, american politics, courtroom, legal, prison, injustice, negligence, starvation, power relations ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
493
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, confined, homecoming, estrangement, hopes, misfit, propaganda, life is a bitch, social misfits, society, chase, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, iraq, middle east, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, introspection, social decay, human nature, realism, interracial relations, society, life is a bitch, immigrants, discrimination, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
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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:
serious, realistic, rough
Plot:
coming of age, youth, kidnapping, escape, hostage, ocean, friends, obsessive quest, confined, manhunt, fugitives, friendship ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
coming of age, destiny, follow your dream, working class, rich and poor, family relations, youth, state affairs, society, hopes, parents and children, political unrest ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india, asia, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War
Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious
Plot:
spanish civil war, prison, hopes, political unrest, idealism, confined, society, doctor, artist, love story, couples, love ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
spain, galicia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
No Overview
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, talky, stylized ...
Plot:
princess, society, self discovery, introspection, lifestyle, master and servant, state affairs, family relations, power relations, friends, royal family, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
london, england, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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, serious, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, political unrest, doctors and patients, society, injustice, life is a bitch, wartime life, friendship, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, jewish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, jerusalem, palestinian authority
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, opposites attract, family relations, friends, immigrants, love and romance, introspection, youth, single parent, coming of age, friendship ...
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38%
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:
realistic, captivating, sincere, serious
Plot:
prison, haunted by the past, redemption, confined, hopes, love and romance, criminal heroes, prison life, youth, switching roles, romancing a criminal, teenage love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Plot:
follow your dream, human spirit, social decay, friendship, society, hopes, bittersweet, u.s. mexico border, migration, friends, misfit, boss and employee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
racism, murder, social differences, society, introspection, life is a bitch, injustice, social decay, discrimination, small town life, small town, murder investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot:
friendship, introspection, redemption, betrayal, human nature, best friends, righting the wronged, unsupportive friend, domestic violence, jazz, friendship between men, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
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emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, juvenile delinquency, power relations, human spirit, society, hopes, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ...
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sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, thought provoking ...
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world war two, friendship, family relations, couples, friends, interracial relations, human nature, hopes, opposites attract, introspection, golden years, society ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
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serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
prison, alcohol abuse, self defense, youth, life is a bitch, confined, society, juvenile delinquency, parents and children, family life, isolation, prison life ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to start a better life in KwaZulu ...
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christian film, uplifting, sincere, serious, realistic ...
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farm, christian, friendship, human spirit, political unrest, starting over, social differences, religions or cults, hopes, faith, christianity, middle school ...
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Place:
africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
deportation, culture clash, homecoming, immigrants, hopes, life is a bitch, starting over, society, injustice, rivalry, gangsters, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jamaica, africa, england, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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