Movies like Harvest 1998

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Harvest (1998)
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Harvest (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply to keep their farms operational. Story focuses on a young man, who accidentally discovers that his straight-laced parents are involved in the marijuana cultivation.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot: farm, misfit, intrigue, rebellion, fighting the system, stoners, society, drug dealing, immigrants, introspection, moral dilemma, small town, social relations, innocence lost, drug abuse, corporate crime, small town life, dishonesty, marijuana, sheriff, farming, corporate crimes, crimes
Time: 90s
Place: usa, pennsylvania

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and thought provoking films with plots about society, small town, small town life, social relations, introspection, life is a bitch and fighting the system mostly in Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Harvest: Ring the Bell (2013), Taking Back Our Town (2001), The Scar (1976), Main Street (2010), A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ring the Bell (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When high-powered sports agent Rob Decker arrives looking for his next major league prospect, he finds more than he bargained for at the Cooke Boys Ranch. As he works to secure Shawn Hart, the top high school baseball prospect in the country, he ...
Style: realistic, serious, christian film
Plot: small town, disorder, social relations, society, redemption, introspection, scout, misfit, hopes, small town life, americana, fish out of water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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95%
Taking Back Our Town (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, ...
Style: thought provoking, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot: cancer, heroic mission, human spirit, fighting the system, environmentalism, terminal illness, hopes, obsessive quest, society, social relations, small town, church ...
Time: 21st century
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83%
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The Scar (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is ...
Style: emotional, bleak, sincere, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: small town, factory, social relations, small town life, working class, politics, innocence lost, state affairs, society, moral dilemma, human nature, introspection ...
Time: 70s
Place: poland
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Main Street (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus Leroy brings something new and potentially dangerous into their ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: estrangement, introspection, mysterious character, small town life, hopes, dishonesty, small town, social relations, intrigue, city, high school sweetheart, loss of job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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74%
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A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Vermont town in the 1950's hires a new minister based on his war record and capable presentation, but then are shocked when he shows up and is a black man. Things go completely wrong for ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: racism, murder, small town, false accusation, dishonesty, society, legal, life is a bitch, courtroom, social relations, small town life, price of justice ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: vermont, usa, quebec
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74%
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Goodbye (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Without her husband and without her lawyer’s licence, which has been withdrawn, Noora is left pregnant and alone in her apartment. Her attempt to leave Iran turns into a fight with male chauvinism. A personal, nerve-wracking and infuriating film ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: rebelliousness, rebellion, political unrest, immigrants, woman in danger, life is a bitch, society, injustice, chaos, strong female presence, misfit, lawyer ...
Place: iran, middle east
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68%
An American Story (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
Style: disturbing, gloomy, bleak, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: battles, world war two, soldier, politics, friends, homecoming, friendship, political corruption, cons and scams, state affairs, fighting the system, military ...
Time: 1940s
Place: texas, usa
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65%
Mrs. Worthington's Party (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Father Jonathan Keene - a cold, impatient Catholic priest arrives in a tiny fishing village the week before Christmas to do what he does best: shut down a dying parish...
Style: serious, feel good, touching, realistic, contemplative
Plot: christmas, priest, introspection, society, self discovery, clergy, religions or cults, save the day, cause and meaning, moral dilemma, social relations, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Spinning Into Butter (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, college, society, journalism, fighting the system, investigation, rebellion, african american, discrimination, teacher, interracial relations, college life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont, new england, usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A 91 years old carpenter, who is still in completely good health, has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.
Style: serious, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: farm, african american, aging, society, ambition, underdog, human spirit, rivalry, best friends, fighting the system, hopes, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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, 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
California Solo (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: music, deportation, haunted by the past, musician's life, introspection, life is a bitch, society, estrangement, dancing, age difference, immigrants, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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52%
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Swimmers (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: youth, small town, introspection, friendship, human nature, family problems, family relations, family in crisis, swimming, sex crime, dysfunctional family, innocence lost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
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 ⇓
49%
The Pornographer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: prostitute, erotica, pole dancer, sexual abuse, adult filmmaking, porn industry, stripper, female nudity, sex, small town life, filmmaking, small town ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Bigga Than Ben (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Spiker & Cobakka are two self-confessed 'pieces of Moscow scum' who come to London to rip it off. This is their guide.
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddies, drug dealing, immigrants, partners, cons and scams, dishonesty, misfit, friends, mental illness, graphic violence, society, fighting the system ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Phoenix 11·23 (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the fall of 2004, Eric Bertrand, a 14 years , created a website inspired by "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" to defend the Catalan language. One night, thirty civil guards of anti-terrorist squad Madrid, burst into his home ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: false accusation, fighting the system, rebellion, against the odds, society, dishonesty, youth, teenage life, life turned upside down, injustice, computers and web, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Bed You Sleep In (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Times are hard for Northwestern lumber-mill operators like Ray and his wife Jean. Ray and Jean's lives are thrown into chaos when their daughter writes home from college
Style: experimental, realistic, serious, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: mental disorder, alienation, family relations, small town, family problems, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, domestic disturbance, introspection, human nature, small town life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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An Enemy of the People (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. ...
Style: social, thought provoking, serious, realistic
Plot: hunting, small town, contamination, cover-up, health, righting the wronged, battles, toxic, social relations, environmentalism, small town life, village life ...
Time: 70s
Place: norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Colossal Youth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style: serious, thought provoking, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, hopes, starting over, misfit, urban ghetto life, addiction, husband wife relationship, settler, courage, melancholy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Taqwacores (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Plot: punk, islam, lifestyle, rebelliousness, social misfits, college life, society, youth, moral dilemma, fighting the system, student life, rock ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pakistan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.9
 450
The Off Hours (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, serious, gloomy
Plot: small town, diner, hopes, unfulfillment, dull life, introspection, love and romance, society, working class, fall in love, love affair, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Damaged Care (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Anesthesist Doug Peeno hopes to pay for the legal costs of preventing his son Bryan being left in his first wife's bad custody with he proceeds of his present wife Linda's new job. She's the first graduate in her family and eagerly ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, emotional
Plot: public health, idealism, ambition, rebellion, uncover truth, fighting the system, against the odds, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, workplace, legal action ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 650
The Salesman (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: With an enthralling central performance by Gilbert Sicotte, this masterful debut feature examines the life of the top car salesman in a fading Quebec town as events challenge the 67-year-old’s sense of identity and the meaning of life at the most ...
Style: emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot: obsession, working class, aging, bittersweet, elderly, retiring, society, small town, workplace situations, social relations, countryside, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Heart of the Beholder (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a family who opened the first videocassette rental stores in St. Louis in 1980. The family was ruined by a corrupt prosecutor who had been blackmailed by a religious group because the family refused to remove Martin ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot: rivalry, rebellion, fighting the system, corporate crime, life is a bitch, society, legal, dishonesty, courtroom drama, religions or cults, injustice, store ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.8
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Drop Squad (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.
Style: biting, psychological, serious, realistic
Plot: racial issues, blaxploitation, social activism, advertising, satire, political satire, suspense, corporate crime, religions or cults, campaign, state affairs, introspection ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Inherit the Wind (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Style: gothic, serious, realistic, talky, thought provoking ...
Plot: religion versus science, courtroom drama, lawyer, religion, court, small town, courtroom, hopes, dishonesty, idealism, legal action, journalism ...
Time: 1920s
Place: america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.7
 2K
Skateland (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: small town, coming of age, introspection, life turned upside down, social relations, teenage life, brother sister relationship, grownups, love and romance, mother son relationship, car accident, infidelity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified automobile suddenly kills her. Free for the first time, Albert quickly responds to the bait dangling in front of him, ...
Style: serious, realistic, offbeat
Plot: family relations, mentally challenged, social misfits, misfit, dysfunctional family, parents and children, small town, death of mother, suspense, con artists, mental illness, inheritance ...
Place: wisconsin, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.1
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The World (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Japan, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: “The World” is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital, designed around scaled representations of the world’s famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.The site is seen ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
Plot: self discovery, fall in love, social relations, society, chinese, amusement park, wedding, couples, bittersweet, love and romance, innocence lost, immigrants ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, new york, usa, asia, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%