Movies like Sami Blood

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Sami Blood (2016)
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Sami Blood (2016)
Original name: Sameblod
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
Style: harsh, anthropological
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: racism, coming of age, teenage girl, corporal punishment, indigenous people, boarding school, identity, teacher, runaway, nordic, school, book, library, humiliation, poetry, sapmi, native american, indians, children, world war one, education, nationalism, society, american indian, woman ...
Time: 1930s, 30s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
Keyword: sweden, branding, alias, swiss

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about coming of age, family relations, society, teacher, children, school and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Sami Blood: Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), Shivers (1981), One Dead Indian (2006), The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008), Evil (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, serious, sincere ...
Plot: child abuse, juvenile delinquency, orphan, dedicated educator, boarding school life, reformatory, gay rape, child rape, corporal punishment, sexual abuse, teachers and students, abuse ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939
Place: ireland, europe, spain
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Shivers (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The ...
Style: political
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Place: eastern europe, poland
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One Dead Indian (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Stoney Point Natives assemble at Ipperwash Provincial Park for what began as a peaceful protest.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, contemplative, psychological, unusual plot structure
Plot: indigenous people, native american, violence, police brutality, police officer, innocent person killed, racism, crime investigation, courtroom, blood, riot, sniper ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, ontario canada
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The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, epic, esoteric ...
Plot: rebellion, christianity, rebel, political unrest, society, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, religions or cults, state affairs, tragic event, indigenous people, war ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 113 min.
Story: Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. ...
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Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rebellion, coming of age, private school, rebelliousness, humiliation, corporal punishment, friendship, life is a bitch, high school, bully, bullying, boarding school ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 20th century, 50s
Place: europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
Story: Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity ...
Style: independent film
Plot: slice of life, american indian, native, indians, indigenous people, racism, cosmetics, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, native american, indigenous
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy to man; the communion. It's 1976, music's in the air and hormones are blossoming. But in ...
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Plot: coming of age, gay interest, teenage boy, small town, first gay sexual experience, sex scene, gay, friendship between boys, sexual awakening, loss of mother, caught having sex, masturbation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: denmark
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Charter (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a recent and difficult divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the ...
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Becoming Astrid (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 123 min.
Story: When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combination of both miracle and calamity came to shape her entire life. It was an event that transformed her into one of the most inspiring women of our ...
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Genre: Drama, History
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Style: realistic, serious
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Duration: 103 min.
Story: Carol, a 12 year old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic
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Duration: 97 min.
Story: Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, road movie
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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