Movies like A Hidden Life 2001

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A Hidden Life (2001)
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A Hidden Life (2001)
Original name: Uma Vida em Segredo
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, sincere, captivating, realistic
Plot: social differences, country girl, youth, society, master and servant, teaching the ways of the world, strong female presence, estate, power relations, relationships, changing lives, social problems, lifestyle, city life, lifestyle change, social relations, urban setting, family relations, coming of age, dog, female director
Time: 19th century
Place: brazil

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sincere films with plots about society, youth, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, friendship and friends mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Hidden Life: Game of Life (2007), Face (2002), Due East (2002), A Simple Heart (2008), Toe to Toe (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Game of Life (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: social differences, couples, rivalry, society, family life, youth, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, interracial relations, lifestyle, football ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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95%
 6.2
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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 ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Due East (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: single parent, teenage pregnancy, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, couples, family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.5
 344
A Simple Heart (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: servant, social differences, family relations, friendship, hopes, unfulfilled love, family life, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.3
 519
Toe to Toe (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lacrosse, friendship, teenage life, self discovery, coming of age, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, female bonding, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, family problems, couples, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: kids
Plot: boarding school, tragic hero, dedicated educator, society, idealism, social differences, friendship, family relations, youth, teachers and students, teacher, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Mother of George (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, couple relations, society, couples, lifestyle, afrofuturism, african, trying to get pregnant, family relations, female protagonist, parents and children, cultural difference ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, dysfunctional family, sex crime, solace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 634
Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
David Copperfield (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An orphan with a rough childhood becomes a barrister.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, charles dickens, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, social differences, young heroes, society, life is a bitch, child as adult, adulthood, rich and poor, orphan ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, rich and poor, follow your dream, social differences, political unrest, parents and children, society, youth, state affairs, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Hour of the Star (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the ...
Style: existential, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: working class, blue collar, food, existentialism, woman peeing, urban ghetto, social decay, rich and poor, down on your luck, countryside, city life, longing ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 20th century
Place: sao paulo brazil, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Absence (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, bleak
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family problems, child as adult, parents and children, family relations, youth, teachers and students, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boy ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Great Expectations (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: charles dickens, youth, rich and poor, napoleonic era, social differences, humble, generosity, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, boarding school life, once in a lifetime opportunity, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Fly Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: autism, nursing, moral dilemma, parents and children, single parent, society, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, social misfits, youth, family problems, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Mighty Celt (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the "Troubles" have ended but where their legacy remains strong. Donal is a 14-year old who works in a greyhound racing kennel owned by Good Joe. If Donal's favourite ...
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: dog, youth, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, hopes, coming of age, animal training, family relations, teenage boy, parents and children, boss and employee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.4
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Mending Fences (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot: corporate crime, family relations, farm, homecoming, legal, dishonesty, small town, love affair, rivalry, social relations, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 100
Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
My Father My Lord (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story: "My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, life is a bitch, society, introspection, clergy, hopes, rabbi, family problems, religions or cults, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
In Between Days (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style: emotional, realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, youth, unfulfillment, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Future Weather (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, dysfunctional family, teenage life, gain trust, youth, life is a bitch, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic
Plot: life is a bitch, family relations, realism, youth, misfit, social misfits, culture clash, parents and children, society, resilience, discrimination, single mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
I Travel Alone (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, youth, friends, society, couples, nordic, twentysomething life, student life, night ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Nanny (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, single parent, adoption, power relations, master and servant, society, family life, family in crisis, youth, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Beautiful Secret (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, ...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, human nature, rebellion, rebelliousness, hopes, youth, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, elderly, boyhood, bittersweet, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: youth, interracial relations, racism, friendship, dysfunctional family, redemption, life is a bitch, social decay, family problems, human spirit, hopes, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 992
Live-In Maid (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and her live-in maid changes dramatically.
Style: semi serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot: life is a bitch, power relations, friendship, social differences, lifestyle, boss and employee, unfulfillment, friends, down on your luck, economics, employer employee relationship, economist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.3
 2K
Sacred Heart (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Irene discovers that she must eat hearts in order to survive the alien invasion in Sicily.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, touching, serious ...
Plot: family relations, society, businesswoman, love, introspection, gay, couple relations, workaholic, loss of friend, suicide, changing lives, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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