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Handcart (2002)
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Genre: History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This is a fictional love story with the 1856 Handcart Pioneers as the backdrop. Sam Hunter, falls for a Mormon Pioneer woman, Abigail, as she is moving west. As the pioneers stop in his town of Iowa City, he pretends to desire joining the Mormon Church to show his love for Abigail. As hardships prevail, his faith is tested on their way to Zion.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, historical romance, emotional, dramatic, inspirational, independent film, tension, period drama, nostalgic
Plot:
christian, hardship, sacrifice, love story, religious faith, survival, suffering, moral dilemma, religious community, pioneer, faith, journey, mormon, religious persecution, latter day saints, family values, small town, slow burn, prejudice, frontier
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
iowa, utah
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out historical drama, period piece, period drama and emotional films with plots about survival, sacrifice, slow burn, hopes, faith, biopic and moral dilemma mostly in History, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Handcart: The Mountain of the Lord (1993), Legacy (1993), Emma Smith: My Story (2008), 17 Miracles (2011), The Emigrants (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, period piece, historical drama, uplifting, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
faith based, sacrifice, devotional, perseverance, latter day saints, religious education, biopic, mormon, temple, interview, reporter, diary ...
Time:
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Place:
salt lake city utah, utah
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558
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
A portrayal of the early Latter-day Saints' joys, sacrifices, hopes, and trials; their epic journey to the Salt Lake Valley; and their legacy of faith in Jesus Christ.
Style:
historical drama, religious drama, period piece, inspirational, family saga ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
By the side of a founder of a new faith was a woman of undeniable courage.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, contemplative, educational, melancholic ...
Plot:
faith, mormon, female protagonist, religious, biopic, character study, religious community, family life, resilience, persecution, loyalty, motherhood ...
Time:
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Genre: Adventure, History
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the season would lead to despair and death. What he came to find out is that for every tragedy, there is a multitude of miracles. Based on unbelievable ...
Style:
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Plot:
hopes, hardship, religions or cults, society, immigrant, latter day saints, journey, hunger, religion, emigration, civil war, church ...
Time:
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Place:
utah
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Genre: Drama, History
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Duration: 148 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: History
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
During World War II, a group of 10 survivors from Madras get stranded in the ocean in a small boat, which unexpectedly stops and sinks mid-journey, and they are forced to take some drastic measures to save themselves.
Style:
intense, suspenseful, tension, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, ocean, survival, shipwreck, stranded, isolation, fear, desperation, sea voyage, moral dilemma, human nature, morality ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
By God's order, Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac on the mountain of Moriah. While traveling to the place of the sacrifice, alongside Isaac and two servants, Abraham is flooded with vivid memories from the years he and Sarah ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
ancient times
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Croatia, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
religious drama, inspirational, historical drama, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
miraculous event, faith, priest, pilgrimage, spirituality, catholicism, controversy, religious persecution, loyalty, hopes, arrest, political conflict ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama, History
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
In 1732, two young Moravians leave their comfortable community of Hernhut, Germany, to bring the Gospel to the slaves in the West Indies.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
west indies
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393
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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387
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
resistance, resistance movement, invasion, fight for supremacy, battles, power struggle, war, resistance fighter, fight, guerilla warfare, occupation, asian history ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
historical drama, poignant, bleak, period piece, tense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, inspirational, tense, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Taiwan
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Style:
suspenseful, historical drama, exciting, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
historical drama, serious, tension, dramatic, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1940s
Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, emotional
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, suspense, grim
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 333 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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