Movies like The Golden Dream
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The Golden Dream (2013)
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Original name: La jaula de oro
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Guatemala
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
Style:
serious, road movie, sincere, rough, touching, hispanic, bleak, realistic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
u.s. mexico border, immigrant, border crossing, on the road, hopes, mexican american border, coming of age, friendship, teenage boy, wagon train, slaughterhouse, follow your dream, leaving home, border, danger, communication problem, immigration, border patrol, gender bender, poverty, train, refugee, migration, metaphor, teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
mexico, usa, guatemala, central america, latin america, united states of america
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Most similar movies to The Golden Dream
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about society, friendship, youth, immigrant, coming of age, family relations and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Adventure and Crime genres. Some movies like The Golden Dream: Freeze Die Come to Life (1990), Under the Same Moon (2007), For a Moment, Freedom (2008), Landscape in the Mist (1988), Northless (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and ...
Style:
black and white, powerful, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gulag, boy, coming of age, children, post war, child as adult, train crash, railroad, poverty, little boy, totalitarian regime, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
1940s, year 1990, 90s
Place:
soviet union, russia, siberia, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, young boy, runaway, survival, obsessive quest, family reunited, escapades, society, custody, immigration, family drama ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, usa, california ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, hopes, friendship, injustice, starting over, society, political unrest, leaving home, friends, fugitives, migration ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
iraq, iran, turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Road movie about two children searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
Style:
road movie, serious, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
on the road, youth, children, soldier, siblings relations, life is a bitch, human nature, mother daughter relationship, greek, father daughter relationship, pursuit, fear ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
germany, greece, europe
Similarity:
100%
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378
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
immigrant, u.s. mexico border, follow your dream, human spirit, friendship, social decay, hopes, society, bittersweet, migration, mexican american border, border ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
Similarity:
40%
208
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
hopes, danger, fall in love, desert, survival, on the road, rescue, starting over, love and romance, immigrant, follow your dream, immigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nigeria
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, ...
Style:
inspirational, bleak, sincere, road movie, political ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, politics, hopes, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2001
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, tehran iran, pakistan ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, uplifting, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, kurd, swimming, obsessive quest, self discovery, family disapproval, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, misfit, hopes, bittersweet, migration ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, english channel, london, england, iraq
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, life is a bitch, on the road, estrangement, family relations, poverty, single parent, parents and children, search for father, journey, grownups ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
europe, caucasus, georgia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, multicultural ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, ambition, hopes, teenage life, follow your dream, society, hip hop, family relations, music, urban, female friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, marseille, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style:
road movie, serious, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, immigrant, u.s. mexico border, street gang, juvenile delinquency, gang member, social problems, family reunited, mexican drug cartel, illegal immigrant, rape, death ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, south america, central america, mexico city ...
Similarity:
50%
125
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, disturbing
Plot:
desert, injustice, working class, social differences, life is a bitch, society, journalism, mexican american border, u.s. mexico border, border patrol, border, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, mexico
Similarity:
23%
320
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, refugee, interracial relations, immigrant, life is a bitch, society, misfit, family drama, grief, single mother, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, vienna
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
poverty, immigrant, family relations, urban setting, human spirit, starting over, family problems, working class, hopes, life is a bitch, american dream, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, new york, colombia, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Iraq
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
wedding, chase, young heroes, survival, on the run, family relations, family life, on the road, reluctant hero, winter, boy, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan, iraq, turkey, germany, greece ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France, Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style:
emotional, breathtaking, inspirational, sincere, cerebral ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, redemption, woman urinating, cultural difference, deaf girl, desert, mexican border, sex, death, destiny, language barrier, multiple perspectives ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. ...
Style:
sincere, slow cinema, thought provoking, art house, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, father son relationship, youth, melancholy, existentialism, refugee, dysfunctional family, immigration, illegal immigration, teenage boy, little boy ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
antwerp, france, belgium, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until ...
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, motivational ...
Plot:
beggar, friendship, immigrant, hopes, society, fish out of water, life is a bitch, unemployed, migration, mexican american border, old age, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological
Plot:
family relations, immigrant, society, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, poverty, worker, migration, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles ...
Style:
touching, bleak, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
street kid, coming of age, pitbull, brother sister relationship, working class, siblings relations, urban ghetto life, teenage life, family relations, kids in trouble, youth, orphan ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, dog, danger, life is a bitch, society, coming of age, child, boy, little boy, pets, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges she and her family face.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, hispanic
Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, human spirit, rise to the top, family life, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, hopes, youth, single parent, teachers and students ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, puerto rico, usa, latin america, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship between boys, dog sex, voyeurism, friendship, divorced parents, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, adolescence, youth, teenage boy, police chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot:
operation condor, coming of age, life is a bitch, family life, family in danger, dictator, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
19%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
Style:
sad, realistic, atmospheric, depressing, bleak ...
Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, poverty, brutality, juvenile delinquency, child abuse, youth, bullying, society, misfit, social misfits, childhood ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, northern england, yorkshire, new jersey ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
escape, life is a bitch, self discovery, friendship, partner, drug dealing, society, on the road, travel, hitchhiker, seaside, mexican american border ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, contests and competitions, follow your dream, friendship, teenage life, lifestyle, ambition, hopes, dancer's life ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot:
immigrant, u.s. mexico border, single father, truck, father son relationship, theft, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, south america ...
Similarity:
18%
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