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One Way Ticket (1988)
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One Way Ticket (1988)
Original name: Un pasaje de Ida
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fictional retelling of the Regina Express tragedy, in which 22 Dominican stowaways died from suffocation in an attempt of illegal travel in September 1981.
Plot: ship, tank, caribbean sea, illegal immigration, economics, family relations, american dream, disaster, historical event, misery, immigration, illegal alien, desperation, drowning, illegal immigrant, tragic event, catastrophe
Time: 80s
Place: dominican republic, puerto rico, caribbean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about family relations, disaster, immigration, immigrant, illegal immigration, life is a bitch and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like One Way Ticket: Fighting for Freedom (2013), The Rainbow Warrior (1993), El jardín del Edén (1994), Green Border (2023), Little Girl Lost (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fighting for Freedom (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.
Style: hispanic
Plot: farmer, illegal immigration, immigration, national security, politics, amnesty, american dream, border patrol, patriotism
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The Rainbow Warrior (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew ...
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Time: 80s
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El jardín del Edén (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Canada, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Looking for a better destiny for their lives, a group of people arrives to Tijuana, in the Mexico-USA borderline. A widow and her children, a chicano woman without a firm identity, a "gringa" writer fascinated with Mexico and her hermit ...
Plot: chicano, immigrant, tourist, illegal immigrant, photographer, american tourist, mexican american border, illegal immigration, mexican immigrant, mexican border, peasant, immigration ...
Place: tijuana mexico
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Green Border (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, USA, France, Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany, Turkey
Duration: 147 min.
Story: In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by ...
Plot: migration, young man, border guard, border crossing, male nudity, airplane, dead body, cigarette smoking, teacher, violence, illegal immigrant, nudity ...
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Little Girl Lost (1988)
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Duration: 80 min.
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Time: 21st century
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Duration: 95 min.
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Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993)
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Duration: 90 min.
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