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Paraiso Travel (2008)
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Paraiso Travel (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: PARAISO TRAVEL is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his girlfriend Reina leaves his comfortable life in Medellin and flees with her through Guatemala and Mexico, across the borders, illegally into the United States. Marlon's journey, which takes him through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, ultimately takes him to a place he could have not predicted
Style: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: couples, self discovery, young lovers, starting over, hopes, street walker, youth, love and romance, follow your dream, obsessive quest, couple relations, anarchist, juvenile delinquent, migrant, conflict, sex crime, sex, rape, prostitute, female nudity, love triangle, prostitution, seduction, stripper, bare breasts ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: colombia, usa, new york, latin america, texas, brooklyn new york city, atlanta georgia ...
Keyword: colombian, latin

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Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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The Pornographer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
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Choking Man (2006)
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Same Same But Different (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 77 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Audience: date night
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