Movies like Charlie's Country
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Charlie's Country (2013)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
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 kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
Style:
semi autobiographical, atmospheric, thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, political, anthropological, gloomy
Plot:
aborigine, racism, culture clash, introspection, society, against the rules, escapades, social misfits, elderly, wilderness, self discovery, alienation, survival, nature, indigenous people, imperialism, ethnicity, blaxploitation, misfit, interracial relations, rebellion, aging, disorder, obsessive quest, prison ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and atmospheric films with plots about society, culture clash, escapades, survival, self discovery, wilderness and nature mostly in Drama, Adventure and Western genres. Some movies like Charlie's Country: A Night in Old Mexico (2013), The Tracker (2002), Walkabout (1971), The Old Man (2012), The Fringe Dwellers (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
Style:
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Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style:
political, realistic, serious
Plot:
australian aboriginal, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native american, segregation, couples, family relations, life is a bitch, youth, love and romance, misfit, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Extraordinary images from Werner Herzog. Shot in the Australian Outback the Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us ...
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
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Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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