Movies like Song of the Exile

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Song of the Exile (1990)
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Song of the Exile (1990)
Original name: 客途秋恨
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begins to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.
Style: sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative
Plot: feminist, feminism, woman peeing, family relations, wedding, college, racism, university, on the road, parents and children, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, student life, couples, society, terminal illness, human nature, bittersweet, unfulfillment, family gatherings, mother daughter relationship, immigration, flashback, cross cultural relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: china, england, london, asia, hong kong, europe
Keyword: feminist film, chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sincere and serious films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, society, unfulfillment and family life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Song of the Exile: Common Ground (2002), Second Generation (2003), Alpha Male (2006), Face (2002), The Magnetic Tree (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Common Ground (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, clever, realistic ...
Plot: couples, family relations, family life, destiny, love and romance, human nature, college, family in crisis, social worker, student life, society, parents and children ...
Place: latin america, argentina
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Second Generation (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An explosive two-part drama about love, family and identity - set around the tangled relationships of two Indian families with a deep-rooted, shared history.
Style: contemplative, realistic, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, family life, parents and children, greed, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, family problems, family in crisis, lovers reunited, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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Face (2002)
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, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Magnetic Tree (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local ...
Style: surreal, sentimental, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, unfulfilled love, family gatherings
Time: 21st century
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What Girls Learn (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, human nature, love and romance, youth, estrangement, couples, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, usa, new york
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Wedding Dress (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Overly obsessive compulsive and too premature, Sora is easily distanced by her friends. Growing up without a father is something she would like to be fussy about with her mom, but Sora is still the one and only daughter of and the biggest support to ...
Style: semi serious, sad, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, wedding, family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, single mother, friendship, society, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
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The Sky Is Gray (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Drama - From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the ...
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: racism, african american, blaxploitation, youth, injustice, family relations, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, interracial relations, bittersweet, dignity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: louisiana
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The Autumn Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a school bus driving woman (Tyne Daly) has a heart attack, she makes one request of her three daughters (Ally Sheedy, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugo) - she wants them to find their long lost brother, who was taken away by their father (Jack ...
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Audience: girls' night
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Time: 90s
Place: boston, england, usa, europe, harvard university
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54%
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Brick Lane (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: immigrant, love triangle, society, family relations, love affair, fall in love, racism, village, sister sister relationship, loss of mother, self discovery, migration ...
Time: year 2007, september 11 2001, 80s
Place: london, bangladesh, europe, england, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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51%
The Sex of the Stars (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Every child who has lost a parent early in life (whether due to death or the separations of divorce or for any other reason) longs to see that parent again. Many have kept up a running dialogue in their heads of things they would say to them if they ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Our Homeland (2012)
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Duration: 100 min.
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
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Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
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42%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Event (2003)
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Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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