Movies like The New Country
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The New Country (2000)
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Original name: Det nya landet
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 232 min.
Story:
A 15 year old Somalian boy meets a 40 year old Iranian man on a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them they decide to the take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, tense, road movie, humorous, exciting, retro
Plot:
refugee, friendship, teenager, african, on the road, discrimination, working class, on the run, human nature, obsessive quest, misfit, deportation, culture clash, estrangement, gender, nude model, iranian, social satire, friends, society, immigrants, down on your luck, female nudity, skinny dipping, female full frontal nudity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
sweden, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about friendship, friends, society, misfit, on the road, human nature and buddies mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like The New Country: Mind the Gap (2007), Stockholm Boogie (2005), James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003), The Sale of Paradise (2012), Gueros (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two girls of different background, one a immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl that needs to get out of her fathers shadow both apply to the police academy were they become close friends.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, social differences, starting over, police, fish out of water, culture clash, society, hopes, family life, officers and cadets, academy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
We are following the two cousins and best friends, Jerka and Hoffa, during a typical night out in Stockholm. It's summertime and anything can happen.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, touching
Plot:
friendship, couples, love and romance, silly humor, friends, lifestyle, buddies, breakup, singleness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, breaking up with girlfriend, summer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During his journey to Jerusalem young James learns the meaning of being Israeli.
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thought provoking, realistic, semi serious, humorous, biting ...
Plot:
wisdom of life, fish out of water, culture clash, friendship, immigrants, power relations, boss and employee, society, social differences, racism, teaching the ways of the world, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Many immigrants, when they arrived in Spain, thought they had found paradise, soon thwarted all their dreams of prosperity. Many of them then decided to return to their land, but not so simple. In a pension match various immigrants end up ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, surreal, realistic, light ...
Plot:
friendship, misfit, social misfits, friends, social relations, immigrants, society, hotel, haunted by the past, love, widower, transvestite ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
madrid, spain, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
Style:
road movie, humorous, light, captivating, art film ...
Plot:
coming of age, brother brother relationship, on the road, friendship, family relations, escapades, disorder, youth, boy, strike, musician, friends ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment, friends, couples, psychiatrist, cellist, suicide ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The passengers on the Night Bus have many different stories -- some are lovers, some have dark secrets, some are looking for a fight, others are just trying to get through the night.
Style:
semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching, talky ...
Plot:
bus, travel, on the road, social differences, human nature, society, working class, night, double decker bus, one location, public transport, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, clever, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police, existential crisis, new love, escape, friends, couples, society, human nature, love and romance, buddies, dealing with death, politics ...
Time:
90s
Place:
berlin germany, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an 'anything-but-normal' 22-year-old girl.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere
Plot:
friendship, introspection, on the run, terminal illness, life is a bitch, orphan, on the road, travel, inventions and discoveries, doctors and patients, hospital
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic
Plot:
disability, friendship, paralysis, brothel, looking for sex, obsessive quest, road trip, buddies, self discovery, misfit, escapades, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, campy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, family problems, on the run, youth, social misfits, society, misfit, dysfunctional family, mute or deaf, dealing with death, college dropout ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A tragic comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
Style:
tragicomedy, sincere, road movie, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, on the road, human nature, bittersweet, bribery, righting the wronged, redemption, selflessness, friendship, jewish, escapades, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, romania, europe, middle east, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
semi serious, touching, witty, humorous, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, youth, nothing goes right, misfit, society, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, psychological, talky, touching ...
Plot:
small town, suburbs, existentialism, friends, dark humor, social relations, misfit, clergy, society, dealing with death, human nature, on the road ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
immigrants, deportation, society, youth, family relations, illegal alien, rock musician, slacker, little girl, hopes, young heroes, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic ...
Plot:
on the road, disorder, drug abuse, road trip, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, male nudity, car thief, friends, nothing goes right, comedy of errors ...
Time:
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Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere, light ...
Plot:
looking for love, parents and children, couples, society, immigrants, aging, family relations, buddies, couple relations, wooing, friends, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigration, migration, feminist, human nature, immigrants, hopes, gays and lesbians, society, love and romance, young lovers, couple relations, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This European take on twenty-something woe introduces viewers to Jorge (Alejandro Cano), a self-help author suffering from writer's block who thinks he may be gay. Living with Jorge is Marta (Maria Jurado), a bisexual who wants to have a baby. ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Plot:
friendship, love and romance, couple relations, sexual exploration, lgbt, friends, unfulfillment, gays and lesbians, gender, artists and showbiz, writer's life, twentysomething life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
american dream, immigration, friendship, family relations, parents and children, death in the family, rich and poor, city life, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, unemployment, working class ...
Time:
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Place:
former yugoslavia, new york, serbia, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
friends, vacation, on the road, friendship, terminal illness, bittersweet, road trip, self discovery, tragedy, thirty something, thirtysomething life, best friends ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
society, friendship, culture clash, workplace, workplace situations, couple relations, disorder, social satire, fish out of water, postman, couples, travel ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist ...
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Plot:
social differences, love affair, domineering mother, couples, family relations, culture clash, parents and children, homecoming, fish out of water, society, misfit, feminism ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chubby is the nickname of Kevin, a 12 years old kid already weights 100 kilos (220.46 lb). If he keeps devours fries, pastries and ice cream everyday, he's gonna have heart attack sooner or later unless he decides to change his diet to turn ...
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humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
friendship, physical appearance, youth, friends, bittersweet, misfit, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, power relations, fat man
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
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road movie, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a wanted criminal. The two end up ...
Style:
parody, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
treasure hunt, friendship, friends, buddies, best friends, chase, lottery ticket, disguise, old friends, interracial friendship, prize money, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
punk, music band, dark humor, counterculture, friends, society, disorder, rivalry, club, punk band, nude, sexual content ...
Time:
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Place:
macedonia, europe, bosnia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Style:
road movie, realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the road, friends, self discovery, friendship, family relations, redemption, human nature, rise to the top, hopes, small town life, destiny, parents and children ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
What happens when you graduate from college, only to find that jobs are practically nonexistent and your best friends aren't what they seem? Four old friends reunite after college graduation. The conversation quickly turns sour, and a series of ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, college, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, unfulfillment, estrangement, society, friends, dull life, best friends, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time:
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