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Icaros: A Vision (2016)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope in a community, through rituals involving an ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca. With her perception forever altered, she forges a bond with a young indigenous shaman undergoing a crisis of his own, and a motley crew of psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the meaning of life and death.
Style:
spiritual
Plot:
jungle, amazon, shaman, healing, retreat, indigenous, female director
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out spiritual, serious, realistic and experimental films with plots about jungle, indigenous, native american, faith, love, introspection and indigenous people mostly in Drama, Action and Romance genres. Some movies like Icaros: A Vision: Living Lost (2016), Orinoco, New World (1984), 100 Days in the Jungle (2002), Almost Paradise (2016), Follow Me Home (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
Gene Timbault, a corporate executive, is engaged in the deal of a lifetime, but learns he has an incurable disease. In an escape to the jungles of Central America he finds that all may not be lost.
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Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on the White House. Along the way they meet a mysterious Black ...
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Story:
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Story:
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