Movies like The Field Is White

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The Field Is White (2002)
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The Field Is White (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story: When things are not going well for John Taylor, he reads his journal and reflects on his missionary life and his companion Elder Alma Johnson. They try to teach people about the gospel and want to give lessons, but the people are not interested. They do teach a lady named Melissa, but does not think she can be baptized. The other missionaries try to make life bearable by having fun and living together. Finally, Melissa learns the lessons of the gospel and knows the church is true and gets baptized.
Style: independent film
Plot: mormon, missionary, basketball, loneliness, truck, memory, lake, cell phone, flashback, sunset, rejection, journal, latter day saints, field, mormonism

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, touching, realistic and serious films with plots about flashback, mormon, memory, latter day saints, cell phone, loneliness and religion mostly in Drama, Biography and Family genres. Some movies like The Field Is White: Out of Step (2002), God's Army (2000), The Errand of Angels (2008), God's Army 2: States of Grace (2005), Windows of Heaven (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Out of Step (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with ...
Style: independent film
Plot: dancer, mormon, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, latter day saints, dance
Place: new york, utah
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God's Army (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot: missionary, couples, working class, terminal illness, redemption, self discovery, life is a bitch, youth, family relations, disorder, culture clash, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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The Errand of Angels (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sister Rachel Taylor of Boise, Idaho is an eager young missionary of the LDS Church who has been sent on an 18-month long mission to Austria. Rachel finds herself having a hard time adjusting to her new cultural surroundings in the foreign country. ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: self discovery, church, religions or cults, clergy, society, hopes, missionary, friendship, love, innocence lost, miraculous event, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, usa, europe
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66%
God's Army 2: States of Grace (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A drive-by shooting in Venice, California, changes the lives of five people forever. States of Grace tells the story of a homeless street preacher, Louis, a gang banger, Carl, an aspiring actress, Holly, and two young missionaries, Lozano and ...
Style: christian film, uplifting, touching, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: faith, redemption, mormon, missionary, human spirit, going straight, culture clash, religions or cults, church, society, gang, youth ...
Place: europe, italy, venice, california, utah ...
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Windows of Heaven (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: As 85-year-old President Lorenzo Snow struggles to vanquish the two million dollar indebtedness of the Mormon church in 1899, he feels inspired to journey from Salt Lake City by train and carriage to St. George in southern Utah. Along the way he ...
Plot: rain, promise, train, sermon, prophet, drought, financial crisis, revelation, debt, religion, religious leader, carriage ...
Time: 1890s
Place: utah
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How Rare a Possession: The Book of Mormon (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story: Depicts the factual accounts of Vincenzo Di Francesca and Parley P. Pratt and how they came to appreciate the contents of the Book of Mormon.
Plot: church, baptism, latter day saints, religious conversion, pastor, religion, religious differences, mormon, priest, faith, soldier, book ...
Time: 1950s, 1930s, 19th century, 1910s, 1830s ...
Place: sicily, new york
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After (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An aging man lies bleeding to death in an alley. As onlookers start to gather around, he reflects on the life that he has lived.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, visual ...
Plot: death, a vision, memory, flashback, dying, life is a bitch, promiscuous past, left for dead, troubled past, white trash, dying man, life ...
Place: ohio
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Joseph Smith: Plates of Gold (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1827, Joseph Smith, Jr. was only 21 years old when he received a prophetic calling to translate ancient scriptures that would soon be published as The Book of Mormon. Less than three years later, he founded The Church of Jesus Christ of ...
Plot: mormon, latter day saints, religion
Time: 19th century, 1820s
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53%
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Finding Grace (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A struggling family, already on the verge of disintegration, faces new challenges that will test their faith in God and each other.
Style: sentimental, touching, disturbing, sincere, christian film
Plot: transformation, friendship, antisocial behavior, father daughter relationship, guilt, parents and children, loneliness, faith, teenage life, troubled youth, rebellious daughter, family drama ...
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49%
The Savage Land (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Story: Winner of the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Film in 1988
Plot: suppression, sunset, frog, nature, flashback, train, sex, feudalism, kiss
Place: china
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Wakefield (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
Style: serious, psychological, sad, depressing, suspense ...
Plot: jealousy, loneliness, marriage, missing person, street life, attic, nervous breakdown, midlife crisis, hiding, absent father, neighbor, widow ...
Place: manhattan new york city
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The Testaments (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: This film depict events from the Life and ministry of Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon. The story culminates with a portrayal of the Ressurected Savior's visit to the ancient Americas as seen through the eyes ...
Style: christian film, 70mm film
Plot: mormon, native american, father son relationship, faith, church, christian, miraculous event, ancient civilization, salvation, virgin mary, family conflict, preacher ...
Time: 1st century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Handful of Time (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.
Plot: lake, skinny dipping, woods, female nudity, love, male nudity, old man, past, memory, male objectification, female full frontal nudity, bathtub ...
Place: eastern europe
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Vaurien (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: -After five years of graduate studies, Red is always in search of a job and fight every day against the exclusion. Slowly, he is moving away from Anna, the love of his life. As a result of a letter to him meaning its cancellation, he makes it to the ...
Plot: ransom demand, chess, stuffed toy, cell phone, radio, police, flashback, unemployment, employment agency, mask, burning money, garbage can
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Man Push Cart (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however,the pattern ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, informative ...
Plot: immigrant, loneliness, society, hopes, rich and poor, fall in love, haunted by the past, city life, survival, sadness, life is a bitch, food ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa, barcelona, brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Blank (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In this sensitive examination of the effects of Alzheimer's a home care assistant, Felicia, is charged with spending her days with Anna, an elderly woman suffering from dementia. When Anna's husband vanishes, Felicia dedicates herself to ...
Plot: madness, borderline personality disorder, responsibility, loneliness, memory loss, memory, confusion, claustrophobia, depression, alzheimer's disease, insanity, solitary ...
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The Dupes (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Syria
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport them illegally across the border in the tank of his truck.
Style: road movie
Plot: desert, refugee, international relations, alienation, amputee, escape, heat wave, flashback, father son relationship, truck, impotence, illegal immigrant ...
Place: syria, palestine, iraq, middle east
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Saturday's Warrior (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An ordinary LDS family has a teenager named Jimmy and he wonders about life and what is coming. Jimmy's sister Julie has a boyfriend on a mission who she plans to marry when he gets home. Jimmy's twin sister Pam is handicapped and is ...
Style: independent film
Plot: large family, latter day saints, immortality, mormon, heaven, singing, rebelliousness, missionary, dream, argument, telephone call, artist ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
Style: sad
Plot: mother daughter relationship, cross country, coming of age, young girl, mental disorder, mentally challenged person, foster parent, bank, lake, baby girl, mail, bus driver ...
Place: reno nevada
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34%
Twenty-Five Five (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Allison Morgan, a hairdresser in a small Washington town learns she's won millions playing the lottery. Distracted by her precocious three year old while buying her mother's weekly lottery tickets Allison buys an extra ticket for herself ...
Plot: lottery ticket, mechanic, journal, laptop, aspiring writer
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32%
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he ...
Plot: vietnam war, explosions, ptsd, aeroplane, flashback, psychiatrist, airplane, cell, prisoner, pow, awol, repressed memory ...
Time: 70s
Place: vermont, vietnam, philadelphia
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32%
The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: These three semi-autobiographical short films by Terence Davies follow the journey of Robert Tucker, first seen as a hangdog child in "Children", then as a hollow-eyed middle-aged man in "Madonna and Child", and finally as a ...
Style: anthology, queer cinema
Plot: lgbtq, lgbt, catholic school, memory, death, gay subtext, autobiography, stroke, mourning, middle aged, cruise, gay lead character ...
Place: liverpool
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32%
The Longest Swim (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Best buds since childhood, Ben and Matt have grown apart with age. Even when Ben is diagnosed with diabetes, Matt struggles to support his friend like he should. Then, while vacationing at the lake, Matt is awakened by screams and groans coming from ...
Plot: swimming, capture, childhood friend, diabetic, lake, diabetes
Place: vermont
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The Benefactor (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A newly married couple are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.
Style: tricky, melancholic, contemplative, psychological
Plot: philanthropist, older man younger woman relationship, guilty conscience, death of friend, obsession, friends, lifestyle, antisocial behavior, mysterious character, manipulation, unfulfillment, young woman ...
Place: philadelphia
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The Mormon Dilemma (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: An LDS couple is upset by a local church's screening of the anti-Mormon film "The God Makers." Their evangelical neighbor offers to sift fact from fiction from the film's brief animated segment, allowing for a frank discussion of ...
Style: christian film
Plot: faith, evangelist, evangelical christianity, neighbor, mormon, religious differences, christianity, religion, discussion, christian, bible quote
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Winter Solstice (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Style: sentimental, realistic, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, starting over, small town life, love and romance, couple relations, brother brother relationship, suburbs, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single parent ...
Time: year 2004
Place: florida, new jersey, usa
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30%
Not in My Family (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A new mother is haunted by postpartum depression. Based on a true story.
Plot: childhood sexual abuse, repressed memory, sexual abuse, incestuous relationship, therapy, depression, memory, childhood memory, child abuse, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, sex with daughter ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Vic Edwards was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, known for his mustachioed good looks and cocky swagger. With his Hollywood glory a distant memory, the now-octogenarian Vic is prompted to reassess his life with the passing of his beloved ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
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Time: 21st century
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Approaching Union Square (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Based on stage monologues, Approaching Union Square is a collage of eleven tales capturing thirty-something New Yorkers struggling to find love and connection in the big city. They all cross paths on a New York City bus.
Style: dread
Plot: love, immigrant, foreshadowing, capture, breakup, premonition, monologue, reporter, journalist, anger, interview, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: september 11 2001
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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28%
The Best Two Years (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two pairs of Mormon missionaries from America live in a beaten-up apartment in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Their personalities are distinctly different. Elder Johnson is the District Leader and oversees their efforts. His companion, the vain Elder ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, disturbing ...
Plot: mormon, missionary, religions or cults, clergy, society, mission, social problems, relationship problems, lifestyle, life philosophy, relationships, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, netherlands, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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