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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A 91 years old carpenter, who is still in completely good health, has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.
Style: serious, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: farm, african american, aging, village, friendship, friends, human spirit, village life, best friend, fighting the system, dysfunctional family, isolation, rivalry, society, ambition, family problems, small town, social relations, underdog, small town life, hopes, psychologist, old age, carpenter, best friends
Time: 90s
Place: georgia
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about social relations, society, small town life, small town, friends, hopes and family relations mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn: An Enemy of the People (1978), The Basket (1999), Taking Back Our Town (2001), Lilies of the Field (1963), Letters to Elena (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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An Enemy of the People (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. ...
Style: social, independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: hunting, contamination, small town, cover-up, health, toxic, environmentalism, righting the wronged, battles, social relations, small town life, village ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
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The Basket (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Peter Coyote (E.T., Erin Brokovich) and Karen Allen (The Perfect Storm) star in this touching family drama about the unifying power of basketball in a community torn apart by war. Both a riveting sports film and a tale of triumph over adversity, The ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: youth, world war one, athlete and trainer, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete's life, society, dedicated educator, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1918, 1910s, 20th century
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Taking Back Our Town (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, thought provoking
Plot: cancer, heroic mission, environmentalism, human spirit, fighting the system, terminal illness, social relations, society, hopes, obsessive quest, small town, church ...
Time: 21st century
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Lilies of the Field (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior ...
Style: black and white, christian film, touching, retro, social ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: desert, religion, nun, catholic, farm, friendship, literary, faith, christian, african american, courage, church ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 50s
Place: arizona, usa
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Letters to Elena (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since ...
Style: captivating, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, protecting from truth, optimism, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, hopes, human spirit, love and romance, fall in love, village, letter, dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Esther Cimino, a music teacher who has reached retirement age, finds that her mental faculties are slipping somewhat. The film is a trenchant, realistic study of the ravages and displacements, socially, physically, and mentally, that are visited ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional
Plot: aging, bondage, courtroom, pianist, family problems, social relations, family relations, legal action, human nature, society, elderly lovers, legal ...
Time: 80s
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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.
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Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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.
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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
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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
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Harvest (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply to keep their farms operational. Story focuses on a young man, who accidentally discovers that his ...
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere
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Time: 90s
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Ring the Bell (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When high-powered sports agent Rob Decker arrives looking for his next major league prospect, he finds more than he bargained for at the Cooke Boys Ranch. As he works to secure Shawn Hart, the top high school baseball prospect in the country, he ...
Style: serious, realistic, christian film, inspirational
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The Derby Stallion (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: jockey, horse trainer, self discovery, friendship, human spirit, against the odds, teenage life, rivalry, follow your dream, youth, contests and competitions, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
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Bluebird (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: isolation, winter, family problems, family in crisis, youth, single parent, teenage life, working class, dysfunctional family, parents and children, drug abuse, small town ...
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Place: maine
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Girlfriend (2010)
Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Ricochet River (2001)
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
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Blue River (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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America Brown (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Summer's End (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
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Time: 90s
Place: georgia, usa
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20%
Lightning Bug (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In this drama thriller set in the South, a young boy named Green (Bret Harrison) longs to escape his unhappy life but feels trapped in his hometown. A gifted special-effects makeup artist, Green has big dreams of working in Hollywood. But the ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, suspense ...
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Atlantic. (2014)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot: starting over, human spirit, hopes, family life, danger, escapades, ocean, survival, sea, nature, climbing, rock climbing ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexual
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Time: 70s, 20th century
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20%
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Southie (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: South Boston Irish bad boy Danny Quinn returns back home from New York and gets stuck between his pals, who are supported by one Irish mafia clan, and his family, which are members of another.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: irish gangster, irish mob, mobster, gangster, mafia, criminal heroes, buddies, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, family problems, family relations, friends ...
Time: 90s
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Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
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Time: 20th century, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Postmen in the Mountains (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire. His only son is due to take over his duties. As father and son journey through the mountains, the son begins to appreciate the toil and burden ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: mountain, narration, landscape, father son relationship, postman, on the road, hiking, parent child relationship, human nature, elderly, introspection, buddies ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: canada, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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How I Got Lost (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: HOW I GOT LOST is the heartbreaking yet hopeful story of Andrew and Jake, two friends dealing with loss amidst events bigger than them. Andrew is the friend we all have, the one who convinces you to come along despite your better judgment. Talented ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Waterproof (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Single mother Tyree Battle struggles to keep her young son Thaniel away from the gang-plagued city streets that he is mixed up in. Under severe gang pressure, Thaniel accidentally shoots Jewish shopkeeper Eli Zeal in a botched robbery attempt. ...
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Time: 90s
Place: usa, louisiana
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