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Zandy's Bride (1974)
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, cult film, contemplative
Plot:
mail order bride, woman power, ranch, rape, bear, wrestling, survival, family relations, love and romance, farm, couples, society, opposites attract, old west, loneliness, pregnancy, twins, mother, domestic violence, adultery, farmer, poverty, mirror, cow, thanksgiving ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
san francisco
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, farm, society, old west, hopes and love and romance mostly in Drama, Western and Family genres. Some movies like Zandy's Bride: Heartland (1979), The New Land (1972), Secret of Giving (1999), The Last Cowboy (2003), Love's Long Journey (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Western, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Disarmingly realistic in its depiction of the realities of frontier life, Heartland is a strong antidote to the cliches of traditional Westerns. This semi-documentary slice of life is based on the diaries of Elmore Randall Stewart about her days on ...
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farm, nature, countryside, ranch, cattle, strong female presence, boss and employee, society, love and romance, self discovery, single parent, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Continuation from Utvandrarna (1971): The Swedes arrive in the USA. They still have a long journey to Minnesota where they expect to find other Swedes. When they arrive there, each family searches a place to build a home. Kristina and Karl-Oskar ...
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settler, farmer, immigration, food, migration, intrigue, redsploitation, scandinavian culture, countryside, childbirth, pregnancy, native american ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As Christmas approaches, a single mother (played by Reba McEntire) struggles to raise her son and keep up the payments on her Oregon ranch, which is difficult since she's heavily in debt. But she's a tough cookie, and proves that a ...
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19th century
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
John William 'Will' Cooper is a modern-day rancher, maintaining his ranch in hard times along with his friend and foreman Amos Russell. When Will's estranged daughter Jake returns to the ranch for her grandfather's funeral, ...
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sincere, realistic, serious, touching
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Genre: Drama, Family, Western
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband, Willie, have headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.
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civil war, guilty pleasure, farm, cowboy, tough heroes, family relations, couples, heroes, single parent, gang, love and romance, cons and scams ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache ...
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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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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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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