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Powwow Highway (1988)
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Powwow Highway (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert, a simple-minded friend of Buddy's, ardently pursues Native American/First Nation wisdom and lore wherever he can find it--even on Bonanza--in order to earn his warrior name. He's even got his war pony, Protector: a beat-up old wreck of a car. Buddy's sister has been arrested in Santa Fe, and together Buddy and Philbert set off on a road trip to look after her kids and go bail her out. However, Bonnie's arrest has something strange about it as her friend Rabbit points out. As the miles roll by, Philbert's faith challenges Buddy's hard-edged view of the world (and occasional bout of reckless violence), and together they face the realities and dreams of being Cheyenne in the modern-day US as they fight to free Bonnie and her children and elude the Feds.
Style: road movie, independent film, psychedelic, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fairy tale, inspirational ...
Plot: native american, native, road trip, indians, magic, indigenous people, friendship, on the road, journey, nature, vietnam war, tribe, american indian, trippy, redsploitation, discrimination, false accusation, escape, politics, friends, family relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, society ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: montana, south dakota, usa, paris france, mexico, ireland, london ...
Keyword: buddy movie, partners, visit, gangsters, german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about society, on the road, native american, indigenous, native, hopes and journey mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like Powwow Highway: Winter in the Blood (2013), DreamKeeper (2003), Windwalker (1980), Smoke Signals (1998), The North (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Winter in the Blood (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
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DreamKeeper (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 174 min.
Story: In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, sentimental, feel good, esoteric ...
Plot: native american, on the road, obsessive quest, native, self discovery, friendship, grandfather grandson relationship, good versus evil, society, gang, escapades, culture clash ...
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Windwalker (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sincere
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Smoke Signals (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
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Place: idaho, arizona, indiana, america, phoenix arizona
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The North (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, epic
Audience: adult
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Plot: native american, native, indigenous people, indians, american indian, nature, injustice, protest, massacre, mine, u.s. government, voice over narration ...
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Skins (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, gloomy, contemplative ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
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Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, road movie, psychological ...
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Leaving No Trace (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
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Plot: self discovery, life is a bitch, friendship, drug dealing, society, on the road, partner, travel, escape, hitchhiker, beach, seaside ...
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Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, serious, independent film ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, and blue chopper from Easy Rider, they escape the rehab clinic and hit the highway in ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
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Grand Theft Parsons (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, dark comedy ...
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Africa United (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 88 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, sincere ...
Plot: soccer, friendship, on the road, football, follow your dream, adventurer, hopes, escapades, young heroes, optimism, road trip, child in peril ...
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Dead Man (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, black and white, gloomy, captivating ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bhutan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the ...
Style: road movie, serious, captivating, atmospheric, spiritual ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
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Duration: 119 min.
Story: Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through ...
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The Lucky Ones (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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A Man Called Horse (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1825 an English aristocrat is captured by Indians. He lives with them and begins to understand/accept their lifestyles. Eventually he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.
Style: intense, scenic, suspense, serious, exciting ...
Plot: native american, horse, ritual, sioux tribe, indians, native, lifestyle, survival, captivity, danger, manhood, interracial relations ...
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Strangers in Good Company (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.
Style: realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous, touching ...
Plot: aging, countryside, wilderness, solidarity, journey, girl power, rescue, nun, friendship, bus, unlikely partners, introspection ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada
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Up & Away (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This is a story about two homeless brothers (Zana, 7) and (Dana, 10) who live on the edge of survival. In the beginning of the story they catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema. Zana and Dana decide that they want ...
Style: road movie, realistic, sincere, serious, independent film ...
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37%
Get on the Bus (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Get On the Bus follows several Black men on a cross country bus trip to the Million Man March. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid off aircraft worker, a former Gang Banger, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial ...
Style: road movie, uplifting, compassionate, talky, realistic ...
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Time: 90s, year 1996
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Men with Guns (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
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Style: existential, cult classic, contemplative, thought provoking, tense ...
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Juanita (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
Style: captivating, humorous, touching, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick
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Place: usa
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Roadside Prophets (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sid and Nancy screenplay author Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with this tale of a factory worker name Joe (X front man John Doe) who hits the road on his Harley to scatter the ashes of a co-worker. Joined by wannabe biker Sam (Adam Horovitz ...
Style: road movie, light, talky, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: motorcycle, desert, on the road, biker, hotel, road trip, life philosophy, friendship, bike, obsession, journey, loner ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: nevada, usa, seattle, los angeles, las vegas
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