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Summertree (1971)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending in the film's conclusion - in Vietnam.
Style:
independent film, rough, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, cult film
Plot:
vietnam war, musician, older woman younger man relationship, dying man, father son relationship, college dropout, age-gap relationship, college, war, military, battles, soldier, parents and children, anti war, rebellion, society, rebelliousness, innocence lost, military life, father, family relations, deserter, overheard conversation, child, black boy ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
vietnam, canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and gloomy films with plots about society, soldier, parents and children, family relations, military, vietnam war and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Summertree: The Painting (2001), Welcome Home (1989), Journey from the Fall (2006), The War at Home (1996), The Visit (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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serious, realistic, touching, romantic, independent film
Plot:
vietnam war, political unrest, rebelliousness, interracial relations, love affair, hopes, society, self discovery, military, love and romance, human spirit, racism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
vietnam, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An Air Force officer (Kris Kristofferson) returns to his father (Brian Keith), son and remarried wife (JoBeth Williams) in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, emotional, contemplative
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vietnam war, high school football, vietnam veteran, grief, family relations, war veteran, chaos and mayhem, captivity, homecoming, military life, anti war, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, cambodia, thailand
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Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Style:
serious, sincere, bleak, inspirational, political ...
Plot:
vietnam war, human spirit, fighting the system, refugee, parents and children, political unrest, re-education, society, tragic hero, hopes, danger, military ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, asia, usa, california, indochina
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his ...
Style:
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Plot:
thanksgiving, vietnam war, dysfunctional family, ptsd, family problems, mental illness, problem, aftermath, war trauma, autism, family relations, resentment ...
Time:
year 1996, 70s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, vietnam, indochina
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, redemption, destiny, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, family life, parents and children, black, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, talky
Plot:
vietnam war, racism, mysterious death, parents and children, military life, military, interracial relations, investigation, death of son, patriot, racial segregation, soldier ...
Time:
year 1986, 70s, year 1972
Place:
asia, vietnam, georgia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
vietnam war, military, u.s. army, military life, haunted by the past, battles, political unrest, soldier, idealism, hopes, rescue, mission ...
Time:
60s, year 1978, 70s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
26%
452
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
school, dictatorship, little girl, secret, military, rebelliousness, family in danger, parents and children, political unrest, repression, family relations, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Character triumphs over adversity and temptation when a young African-American man is unexpectedly thrust onto the streets of Harlem.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, crime drama ...
Plot:
soldier, moral dilemma, youth, gang, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, society, dealing with death, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
harlem, new york
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
vietnam war, confined, captivity, military life, battles, life is a bitch, rebellion, on the run, espionage, political unrest, anti war, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, biting, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, male friendship, male camaraderie, family relations, farm, small town, couples, self discovery, youth, hopes, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
missouri, usa, california
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An Army medic brings his girlfriend to stay with him at an out of the way Vietnam outpost in 1967, the woman disappears one day and he begins searching for her.
Style:
sex comedy, serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
vietnam war, soldier, doctors and patients, self discovery, danger, orphan, journalism, war, buddies, daring rescue, military, society ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cameraman embedded with a reconnaissance patrol charts their mission across territory controlled by the Vietnamese. An impressively naturalistic Vietnam film. Impressive performance by unknown actors in this low-budget Vietnam drama. The story is ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, survival, escapades, anti war, against the odds, danger, battles, military life, heroic mission, war trauma, jungle ...
Time:
year 1989, 60s
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
redemption, family relations, cons and scams, drug abuse, family life, family gatherings, teenage life, high school, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, buddies ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
22%
808
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
Style:
sincere, captivating, atmospheric, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
teenage life, missing child, self discovery, juvenile delinquency, society, family relations, rebellion, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
melbourne, australia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation center, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, addiction, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
237
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, poetry, teenage life, idealism, fighting the system, youth, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, rebellion, society, stoner, school ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
military, vietnam war, interracial relations, military life, friendship, self discovery, coming of age, translator, homecoming, culture clash, human nature, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, california, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A "Sixties Generation" comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son is a college student with a different set of moral and ethical standards. When they meet in Vegas, they immediately clash ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, hotel, casino, gays and lesbians, downfall, life is a bitch, ambition, chorus girl, parents and children, college, gambling, family relations ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
vietnam war, courtroom drama, army investigation, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, society, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer, law enforcement, rebellion, legal, dishonesty ...
Place:
asia, vietnam, indochina
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, bare chested male, american football, soccer, football, conflict, war trauma, exodus, cold war era, friendship, army ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 60s
Place:
vietnam, the philippines, asia, indochina
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. ...
Style:
touching, contemplative, serious, realistic, anthology
Plot:
boy, corpse, father son relationship, poverty, family relations, society, self discovery, youth, introspection, parents and children, forces of nature, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, indochina, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Al Klein and his longtime friend, Ash Martini, own a used car lot and these two know every trick in the book when it comes to selling cars. Klein still pines for his ex-wife Barbara who left him years ago for a more successful man. After their son ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, comedy drama ...
Plot:
family business, workplace, parents and children, disorder, dealer, workplace situations, father son relationship, mentor, escapades, male protagonist, frustration, coming of age ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
Style:
contemplative, bleak, disturbing, gloomy, thought provoking ...
Plot:
battles, world war two, soldier, politics, friends, cons and scams, homecoming, friendship, political corruption, society, rebellion, fighting the system ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her biological mother, whom she has never met. The perilous journey immerses her in a world ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, homecoming, culture clash, family relations, parents and children, society, adoption, village, on the road, arab, village life, desert ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
algeria, north africa, maghreb, switzerland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an animal in the forest. He finds himself unprepared for the changes that he will have to cope ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot:
vietnam war, suicide, homelessness, cold war era, war trauma, hidden treasure, unfulfillment, military, dealing with death, human nature, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time:
80s, 60s, year 1969
Place:
vietnam, washington state, asia, illinois, indochina
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Upon returning home as a hero from the Iraq War, Special Forces Agent Matt Taylor (Joelson) is thrown right into another battle. This time it is in his once quiet hometown where, as in Iraq, you don't know who are friends and who are enemies. ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
homecoming, anti war, military life, starting over, battles, military, survival, soldier, unemployment, haunted by the past, small town, ptsd ...
Place:
middle east, iraq
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young officer returns to his base after a daring mission. The cook's assistant, a religious Holocaust survivor, is envious of him. He believes that there is a place in heaven reserved for the brave officer who endangers his life for the sake ...
Style:
serious, sincere, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
military, family relations, parents and children, ambition, family problems, estrangement, soldier, society, introspection, unfulfillment, battles, religions or cults ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style:
political, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
vietnam war, military, prison, cannon, pow, electric torture, conservative, cold war era, prison escape, military prison, war trauma, escape ...
Time:
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Place:
vietnam, indochina
Similarity:
19%
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