Movies like Remittance

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Remittance (2015)
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Remittance (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Singapore, USA, Philippines
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Marie takes a job as a maid in Singapore to support her family in the Philippines, she trades one set of hardships for another. Betrayed by her husband, she begins to build a new life for herself. As she gets caught up in the new life she is building for herself in Singapore, she needs to choose between her personal aspirations and her family responsibilities.
Style: neorealism
Plot: domestic servant, migrant, migrant worker, immigrant, filipina, immigrants, neo realism
Place: singapore, the philippines
Keyword: filipino

Most similar movies to Remittance

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and suspenseful films with plots about immigrant, filipina, family relations, female nudity, sex, society and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Remittance: The Seventies (2002), Nympha (2003), Bona (1980), Boatman (1985), Mano Po (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Seventies (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship.
Style: political, tagalog
Plot: martial law, strong female character, mother, torture
Place: the philippines
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Nympha (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A re-imagination of the Celso Ad Castillo classic, "Nympha" tells the story of an orphan woman named Nympha living in a backward province with a narrow minded aunt who is a religious fanatic.
Plot: female nudity, murder, sex, cemetery, woman, filipina, nudity
Place: the philippines
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Bona (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A scorned teenager gets revenge on the aging gigolo who took advantage of her while pursuing other women.
Style: independent film
Plot: love, movie actor, revenge, fan, shooting, gigolo, obsessed fan, water, slum, bathtub, taking a bath
Place: manila philippines, the philippines
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Boatman (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An erstwhile boatman wants to do a little more than paddle his own canoe in the town famed for its waterfalls. He leaves the village of his roots for the city and lands a job as a live-sex actor called toro in street lingo derived from the Spanish ...
Plot: writers, gay, female nudity, sex, job, town, female pubic hair, filipina, sex scene, male full rear nudity, testicles, female full frontal nudity
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Mano Po (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly ...
Plot: immigrant, birthday, sister sister relationship, funeral, flashback, kidnapping, engagement, pregnancy, family business, rebellious daughter, patriarch, interracial romance ...
Time: year 1949
Place: the philippines
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69%
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Soliloquy (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bus takes-off from urban Manila to the rural southeastern side of the country, carrying a group of mixed passengers from all walks of life, each one has a personal story to tell and they are telling it in their own voice. During the long journey, ...
Plot: road trip, superstition, translator, bus, one day, pregnancy, journey, ex convict, gay, butterfly, deaf mute, group ...
Place: the philippines
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Richelieu (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, social, dramatic
Plot: job, migrant, fight for justice, employer, fight, employee, worker, injustice, migrant worker, illegal immigrant, immigrant, social injustice ...
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60%
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Thy Womb (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Bajau midwife copes with the irony of her own infertility amid the deprivations of her gypsy community in Tawi-Tawi. A saga of island life stuck between the devil of passion and the deep blue sea of tradition.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, serious, touching
Plot: ocean, society, indigenous people, childless couple, midwife, surrogate mother, husband and wife, husband, infertility, wife
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
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The Last Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A priest visits a small seaside town. Miling a former nun who now teaches catechism on the island thinks that father Emman is the priest she sent for. She believes that a priest would help revive the townspeople's faith in God by putting up ...
Plot: filipina, sex, rape, female nudity, prostitute, politics, male nudity, village chief, white slavery, fake priest, island, burnt face
Place: the philippines
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53%
I.T.A.L.Y. (I Trust and Love You) (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Destiny. Is it beyond our control? Or do we make our own? These questions and other musings about the past and the future set the tone as we sail into the year's most anticipated film about love and life. Six people are brought together on a ...
Plot: cruise, love, sun
Place: italy, the philippines
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49%
Following Rosa (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Following his mother's death, Hector arrives in Manila to live with his grandmother. Unable to speak Tagalog, Hector falls in with a street gang before a photographer takes him under his wing. Haunted by memories of his mother, Hector ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: orphan, gang, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, teaching the ways of the world, life turned upside down, bittersweet, death in the family, power relations, kids in trouble, train station ...
Place: asia, the philippines, manila philippines
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Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The inspiring true-life drama of 17-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki and her family immigrate to West Virginia and begin living the American Dream. Among their friends is Big John Creed, a wise and helpful handyman. But ...
Plot: migration, american south, immigration, racism, greek, world war one, teenage girl, immigrant, prejudice, influenza, racial prejudice, 16 year old ...
Time: year 1916
Place: west virginia, virginia
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45%
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The Pawnshop (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Follows the lives of four different people, each linked to the other by the house of business. Olivia, owner of the establishment, yearns for her late husband and denies the onset of old age. She lives with her appraiser Amy, a romantic who is doing ...
Plot: pawnshop, sailor, loan shark, death, robbery, hospital, cigarette smoking, television, green card, motorcycle, mirror, security guard ...
Place: the philippines
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Thelma (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Philippines
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The film tells the story of a tomboyish Ilocano lass from Ilocos Norte, Thelma (Maja Salvador) whose family is beset with challenges when she discovers her uncanny gift of speed. Her talent then opens doors for her – to elevate her family’s ...
Plot: girl, family relations, tomboy, obstacle, defeat, competition, athlete, sister, cripple, farmer, race, stubbornness ...
Place: the philippines
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Scorpio Nights (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a crowded, multi-appartment house, a young student peeps on his neighbours making love and subsequently develops a steamy affair with the neighbour's wife. The affair slowly becomes an obsession and spins out of control.
Plot: husband murders wife, voyeurism, asian, peeping tom, filipina, adultery, erotica, teenage sexuality, love affair, husband, wife, college ...
Time: 80s
Place: the philippines
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42%
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Ilo Ilo (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore, Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in the mid 1990s in Singapore, ILOILO chronicles the relationship between a family and their maid from Ilo Ilo, a province in the Philippines.
Style: realistic, sincere, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, migrant worker, financial crisis, boy, family life, parents and children, society, maid, youth, art, boyhood ...
Time: 20th century, year 2013, 90s
Place: singapore, asia, the philippines
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The Man in Her Life (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Selya is disappointed with Bobby who only wants sex but no real relationship nor marriage. So she leaves and decides to marry the gay Ramon who, she is convinced, is definitely different.
Style: queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay subtext, filipina, cheating wife, nudity, gay interest, female nudity, teacher, sex, homosexual, gay
Place: the philippines
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Summer Heat (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story is set in Guagua, Pampanga a decade after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo which ravaged the province with lahar. It follows the lives of Rodolfo "Mang Rudy" Manansala, a woodcarver, and his three daughters and their relationships ...
Style: independent film
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, unfaithfulness, filipina, driver, heart attack, widower, daughter, summer, mama's boy, female nudity, death ...
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A Speck in the Water (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Nunal sa Tubig is a story of a community living on an island where fishing is the main source of livelihood and how they are affected by progress.
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Place: the philippines
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Hole in the Wall (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A struggling Mexican-American taco chef decides to turn his family's American dream into a reality by luring New York's chicest food critic to Spanish Harlem before a scheming culinary counterfeiter unlocks the secret to his secret sauce.
Plot: american dream, immigration, immigrant, family relations, mexican american, taco
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Hassan (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Afghanistan, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The owner of a failing charity moves abroad to forget his troubles but still feels the call of his homeland.
Style: suspenseful, rough, bleak
Plot: love, loneliness, immigrant, community, affection, suffering, illness, family relations, alienation, racism, husband wife relationship, patriotism ...
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Dama de Noche (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman who was maltreated during her younger years gets revenge on the people who abused her.
Plot: woman, unhappy marriage, bare breasts, gang rape, sexually dissatisfied wife, neglected wife, sex scene, cheating wife, filipina, child abuse, female nudity, physical abuse ...
Place: the philippines
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Sister Stella L. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same congregation as hers inspires her to get involved in the struggle for justice and freedom of striking workers ...
Style: political
Plot: liberation theology, marxist, strong female character, nun, labor strike, poverty, thug, reporter, murder, strike, suicide, discussion ...
Time: 80s
Place: the philippines
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33%
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The Maldonado Miracle (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: miraculous event, small town, coming of age, family relations, church, hopes, human nature, society, clergy, family life, religions or cults, village ...
Time: 21st century
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32%
Ordinary People (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min.
Story: ORDINARY PEOPLE is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tragic ending ...
Plot: child, husband wife relationship, family relations, mother child relationship, money, missing child, violence, child abduction, twists and turns, sex scene, life lesson, gays and lesbians ...
Place: the philippines
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31%
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Caregiver (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A grade school English teacher Sarah Gonzales joins the 150,000 Pinoy OFWs working in the United Kingdom to support her Husband, Teddy Gonzales in making a better living for their family. More than just a chronicle of the Filipinos experience ...
Style: inspirational, tagalog
Plot: inspiration, life lesson, family gatherings, overseas worker, fired from the job, drinking, book, alzheimer's disease, teacher, train, hospital, insecurity ...
Place: the philippines, london
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31%
Closer to Home (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Closer to Home weaves a universal, haunting tale of two people inexorably drawn together for vastly different reasons. Dalisay struggles to journey from the Philippine countryside to New York City to marry Dean, a disillusioned ex-merchant marine. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: mail order bride, asian
Place: the philippines
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Mamas & Papas (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Interconnected stories revolving around children; a fertility doctor loses her only child; a couple tries desperately to conceive; an unmarried woman gets pregnant and wants to abort, but her boyfriend wants to keep the baby; a poor woman who can ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, infertility, childless couple, parent child relationship, abortion, parenthood, trauma, immigrant, older woman younger man relationship, death of child, pregnancy, traumatic experience ...
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A Painted House (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, farm, poverty, survival, nature, farmer, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1952
Place: arkansas, usa
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30%
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Gypo (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of most of the public's discontent. The film tells the story of the a couple of weeks in this family's life, beginning when a ...
Style: realistic, rough, psychological, serious, bleak ...
Plot: dogme 95, couple relations, friendship, immigrant, life is a bitch, couples, dysfunctional family, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, starting over, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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