Movies like Yellow Earth

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Yellow Earth (1984)
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Yellow Earth (1984)
Original name: 黄土地
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Yellow earth focuses on the story of a Communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the Army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spellbound by his talk of the freedom women have under Communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.
Style: political, sentimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy, independent film, interesting
Plot: communist, world war two, peasant, drought, children, farm, communist party, musician, religion, journey, childhood, foreign legion, legion, tradition, arranged marriage, colonialism, asian history, village, soldier, family relations, father daughter relationship, marriage, military, folk singer, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1939, 30s
Place: china, asia
Keyword: chinese, dutch, retrospective

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Most similar movies to Yellow Earth

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about society, love and romance, family relations, state affairs, politics, parents and children and village mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Yellow Earth: The Blue Kite (1993), Farewell My Concubine (1992), Red Sorghum (1988), The Soong Sisters (1997), Sacrifice (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 231 min.
Story: Follow-up to the TV trilogy "Heimat", this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, epic, stylized ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, emigration, society, parents and children, village life, diary, migrant, social problems, magic realism, social relations, youth ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2013
Place: brazil, germany, south america
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100%
The Blue Kite (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
Style: depressing, political, realistic, controversial, serious ...
Plot: communism, children, politics, revolution, cold war, activist, asian history, prisoner of war camp, family relations, life is a bitch, rebellion, innocence lost ...
Time: 1950s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Farewell My Concubine (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled, "Farewell My Concubine," that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou ...
Style: visual, epic, visually stunning, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: gays and lesbians, suicide, homosexuality, gender bending, theater, lgbt, child abuse, communism, drug addiction, childhood, lgbtq, transsexual ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place: china, beijing china, tibet, asia, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.3
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Red Sorghum (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed ...
Style: tense, mind blowing, independent film, depressing, costume drama ...
Plot: wine, world war two, sino japanese war, minimal dialogue, literary, partisan, struggle, arranged marriage, japanese occupation of china, war crime, rural area, couples ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1987, 1940s, 1920s
Place: china, indiana, tibet, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Soong Sisters (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, China
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling (the oldest) married a wealthy and ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: chinese history, tragic love, family love, politics, family relations, strong female presence, siblings relations, rich and poor, state affairs, political unrest, society, ambition ...
Time: 20th century
Place: china, beijing china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, China
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cultural revolution, unrequited love, dressmaker, mountain village, love triangle, village, culture clash, fall in love, coming of age, love affair, social differences, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: china, asia, east asia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.2
 2K
Sacrifice (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: For generations the Zhao family has wielded power, until their mortal enemy TU’AN GU slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. But one Zhao baby survives hidden by CHENG YING the doctor who delivered him. When ...
Style: serious, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: orphan, disorder, betrayal, vengeance, master warrior, uninhibited rivalry, medieval, hidden identity, haunted by the past, murder, ancient, antiquity ...
Time: 6th century
Place: ancient china, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, factual, banned
Plot: politics, revolution, society, state affairs, social differences, head of state, rebellion, chinese history, communist party, patriotism, rivalry, chinese civil war ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Road Home (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Style: emotional, romantic, road movie, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: true love, love, love story, death, teacher, coming of age, winter, first love, village life, loneliness, snow, school ...
Time: year 1999, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Clay Bird (2002)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: muslim, hopes, tradition, family relations, politics, village, estrangement, state affairs, coming of age, religions or cults, social relations, revolution ...
Time: 60s
Place: middle east, pakistan, bangladesh
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Temptress Moon (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her ...
Style: stylized, captivating, suspenseful, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: secret lover, marriage, addiction, revenge, love, revolution, violence, murder, obsession, sex crime, blackmail, family relations ...
Time: 1920s, year 1996, 1910s, 20th century
Place: china, asia, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Shadow Magic (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, Germany, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot: culture clash, father daughter relationship, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, social differences, couple relations, love and romance, society, human nature, fish out of water, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 1900s, 1890s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, France, Japan
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
Style: epic, heroic, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: bow and arrow, wuxia, medieval, assassination, antiquity, assassin, betrayal, ancient history, ancient, sword fight, murder, espionage ...
Time: year 1998
Place: china, tibet, asia, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Mayerling (1968)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Omar Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (James Mason), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Ava Gardner plays his mother Empress Elisabeth. Rudolf soon feels he is ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: forbidden love, royal family, tragic love, infidelity, politics, revolution, royalty, hopes, rebelliousness, state affairs, fall in love, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: austria, england, italy, europe, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Life on a String (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: China, Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two blind men pursue ephemeral and unlikely hopes. One is an aged master, a wandering troubador venerated as a saint, in physical decline, waiting to break his 1,000th banjo string, an event his own master promised years before would bring him ...
Style: art film, road movie, spiritual, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot: blindness, disability, spirituality, music, minimal dialogue, kite, village, peasant, forbidden love, mountain village, friends, couples ...
Time: year 1991
Place: china, mongolia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Old Garden (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village where he spent some time as a fugitive he recalls the time spent with Yoon-hee, a woman who gave him shelter and companionship.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: life sentence, tragic love, love affair, political unrest, couples, society, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, state affairs, isolation, mountain ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: korea, seoul, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.9
 319
Dauria (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 182 min.
Story: A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go ...
Style: epic, captivating, atmospheric, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: russian civil war, struggle, conflict, revolutionary war, anarchist, freedom, revolutionary, wedding, revolution, village, battles, social relations ...
Place: soviet union, siberia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his ...
Style: serious, sentimental, stylized, epic, romantic ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, caste system, feudal japan, vengeance, politics, love and romance, family life, medieval, edo period, ninja, winter ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Weeping Meadow (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot: refugee, greek, village, wartime life, tragic love, on the run, orphan, political unrest, genocide, politics, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: year 2004, 1920s, year 1945, year 1936, 1940s ...
Place: greece, ancient greece, europe, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Pavilion of Women (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: China, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, tense, intercultural ...
Plot: interracial romance, forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, culture clash, society, politics, state affairs, couple relations, family problems, couples, political unrest ...
Time: year 2001, 1930s, year 1938
Place: china, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Coming Home (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot: labor camp, amnesia, political prisoner, love and romance, hopes, political unrest, couples, crime and punishment, breakup, family problems, state affairs, cultural revolution ...
Time: 20th century, year 2014
Place: china, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he ...
Style: uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, powerful ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: communism, ballet, interracial romance, against the odds, dancer, dancing, ambition, promise, immigrant, human spirit, follow your dream, self fulfillment ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1986 ...
Place: china, austin texas, texas, usa, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Pudana: Last of the Line (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign culture and new customs, Neko rebels and decides to flee, hoping to get back to her family and old ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: boarding school, fish out of water, social relations, family relations, parents and children, society, youth, culture clash, village life, bittersweet, girl, indigenous people ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 1K
The Overture (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets ...
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, captivating, serious ...
Plot: prodigy, ambition, fighting the system, musician's life, rebellion, lifestyle, society, injustice, life is a bitch, rivalry, politics, biopic ...
Time: 20th century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.9
 3K
Rebellion (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Dissidents in a French colony attack a police station and take hostages.
Style: serious, tense, sincere, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: military, hostage, politics, political unrest, culture clash, injustice, disorder, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, state affairs, confined, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.7
 3K
The Violin (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, black and white ...
Plot: village, rebelliousness, rebellion, against the odds, injustice, life is a bitch, musician's life, society, political unrest, family in danger, state affairs, father son relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Man Who Cried (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Style: lyrical, intense, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, gypsy, world war two, love story, anti semitism, adaptation, wartime, secrets, adoption, family relations, holocaust, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: russia, england, paris france, france, poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.8
 5K
Golden Door (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, hopes, social relations, starting over, society, progress, tradition, superstition, italian immigrant, parent child relationship, family history, emigration ...
Time: victorian era, year 2006, 20th century, 1920s, 1900s ...
Place: sicily, usa, italy, new york, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Dance of the Dragon (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of three people whose lives are pulled into review and assessment when their paths cross. The initial sparks of what could be a new romance plays off against a couple falling out of love, a student and teacher, a father and son, a ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, ambition, couples, fall in love, dance school, follow your dream, family relations, medieval, parents and children, dishonesty, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.7
 315
Desire (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
Style: stylized, captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: love affair, love triangle, dangerous attraction, nazism, infidelity, political unrest, state affairs, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, betrayal, society ...
Time: 1930s
Place: spain, madrid, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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