Movies like Black Wind

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Black Wind (1965)
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Black Wind (1965)
Original name: Viento negro
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'.
Plot: desert, sacrifice, death, engineer, parent child relationship, wind, worker, rural area, father son relationship, son, railway, countryside
Keyword: mexican

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and atmospheric films with plots about desert, father son relationship, death, on the road, journey, survival and escapades mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Black Wind: A Trickle of Blood (1995), The House in the South (1975), Muerte a sangre fría (1978), The Village Had No Walls (1996), The Goat Life (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Trickle of Blood (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Leon has a crush on Ofelia, so he decides to steal money from his father and cross the country looking for Ofelia who traveled to Guadalajara. On his journey, Leon goes through many adventures and takes the final step from childhood into adolescence.
Plot: coming of age, sex, brothel, uncle niece relationship, trip, teenager, female nudity, father son relationship, dream, revolver, asian stereotype, nipples visible through clothing ...
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95%
The House in the South (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
Plot: greed, brutality, sacrifice, migration, drought, poverty, desert, island, landowner
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Muerte a sangre fría (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, War, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: mexican revolution, bare chested male, killing, female nudity, revenge, brother, father, torture, murder, death, son, sniper ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Village Had No Walls (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young man from the city journeys to his first teaching post, the small hamlet of Bangarwadi, deep in the jungle, inhabited by a few shepherds and farmers as well as a criminal tribe known as the Ramoshis. After the initial shock of his strange new ...
Plot: rural setting, exile, customs, punishment, sheep, teacher student relationship, village, cattle, shepherd, desert, grandfather granddaughter relationship, superstition ...
Time: 1940s
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The Goat Life (2024)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India, USA, Haiti
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The film depicts the life of Najeeb Muhammad, an Indian abused migrant worker, who was forced to survived in a desert to herd goats in Saudi Arabia.
Plot: jail, desert, immigration, slavery, based on real people, prison, escape, worker, migrant worker, missing person, lake, snake ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Sands of Time (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searching for. Aided by a mysterious prince, she battles outlaws and the desert's harsh ...
Plot: mythical creature, sahara desert, horse riding, biplane, horse, camel, desert, hanged man, archaeology, french foreign legion, bible quote
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Blinded by the Light (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: David Bowers is a teenager who runs away from home to join a quasi-religious cult. His sister Janet is determined to find him, but almost winds up getting brainwashed by the cult herself.
Plot: religion, teenager, parents, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, love, sacrifice, kidnapping, sect, salvation, brainwashing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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American Exit (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A dying father takes a road trip with his son to try to rebuild his relationship before he dies.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: father son relationship, desert, road trip, father, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, father and son, father son estrangement, last wish, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Place: california
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53%
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Earth and Ashes (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, bleak, islamic ...
Plot: boy, elderly, life is a bitch, on the road, wartime life, civil war, parent child relationship, obsessive quest, fire, desert, mine, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will ...
Style: harsh, suspense, captivating, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, survival, airplane, air disaster, aviation, disaster, thirst, pilot, isolation, airplane accident, crew, rescue ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: sahara, libya, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Domingo Salvaje (1967)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
Plot: prostitute, murder, police, accident, guilt, death, strangulation, old man, repression, male nudity, balcony, male bare butt
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41%
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The Journey (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.
Style: road movie
Plot: travel, journey, on the road, bad father, snow, jungle, cycling, parent child relationship, bicycle, school, father son relationship, tango ...
Place: buenos aires argentina, mexico
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38%
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Style: road movie, scenic, visually appealing, surreal, erotic ...
Plot: desert, sahara desert, travel, infidelity, on the road, traveler, husband wife relationship, existentialism, beautiful scenery, sex scene, heat wave, art history ...
Time: 1940s, 80s
Place: africa, morocco, north africa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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City Boy (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Nick, a 17-year-old in search of his father, gains employment with a logging company in a beautiful and mysterious virgin forest known as the Limberlost. Through his relationships with new associates and his adventures in this new and strange ...
Plot: father son relationship, friendship between men, teenage boy, kidnapped girl, fistfight, bicycle, heart attack, swamp, environmentalist, cougar, obstacle, acceptance ...
Time: 1910s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Fool Killer (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This singularly off-beat and original period mystery thriller drama curio set in the late 1800's plays like an arrestingly bizarre and inspired cross between "Tom Sawyer" and "Night of the Hunter." Lonely, miserable orphan ...
Style: independent film, crying, psychotronic
Plot: runaway, orphan, preacher, urban legend, storm, cat, rainstorm, girl, tramp, wild west, railroad, mental patient ...
Time: 1800s
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Chac: The Rain God (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, Panama
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.
Style: spiritual, mystic, esoteric, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: myth, mysticism, jungle, native, occult, indigenous people, mountain, survival, village, danger, imaginary, adventurer ...
Time: 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, guatemala, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
Plot: parent child relationship, serial rapist, fugitive, lovers on the run, rape, father son relationship, rapist
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34%
The Thin Yellow Line (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more than two hundred kilometers of asphalt and yellow paint to be completed in less than a fortnight
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, existential, art film ...
Plot: workplace, on the road, working class, social problems, coworker, workplace situations, society, co worker co worker relationship, death
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34%
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The Warrior (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, India, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the longtime enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, captivating ...
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Walkabout (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
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Audience: kids, teen drama
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Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
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On the Road to Katanga (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to travel to the African diamond mine in Katanga. Re-visiting of his hometown brings back his ...
Plot: mine, miner, ex girlfriend, dead father, worker, solidarity, smuggler, drifter, faked pregnancy, working class, smuggling, death of friend ...
Place: belgrade, africa
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Hubertus Castle (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
Plot: hunting, animal, hunter, son, narrow mindedness, girl, boy, father son relationship, children, rural setting, hill, hut ...
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33%
Cold Sun (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Story: "This feature-length film is set in the barren and lifeless "Broken Heart" desert of the 1920s. "Cold Sun" is the story of a prostitute searching for her dead brother, a confused excommunicated priest seeking love, two ...
Plot: convict, broken heart, sun, murder, prostitute, priest, desert, cold
Time: 1920s
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33%
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Exit Marrakech (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and ...
Style: sincere, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: interracial relations, impossible love, defiant, teenage boy, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, conflict, prostitute, family problems, estrangement, family relations ...
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The Double Steps (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, contemplative
Plot: desert, obsessive quest, treasure hunt, on the road, escapades, landscape, biopic, performer's life, artists and showbiz, escape, voice over narration, narration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
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31%
Where The Miracle Happens (2008)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 97 min.
Story: Pimdao, a successful real estate developer and businesswoman, is injured in an accident that kills her beloved daughter at a time when the two are estranged. After the accident, Pimdao decides to take her daughter's place as a volunteer at an ...
Style: tear jerker
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Place: thailand
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30%
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Sahara (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: desert, sheik, treasure hunt, woman dressed as man, auto racing, cannon, cross dressing, age difference, racing, treasure hunter, danger, rivalry ...
Time: year 1983, 1920s
Place: ottoman empire, north africa, detroit, sahara
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29%
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Subwave (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last ...
Plot: statutory rape, abuse, rape, son, fire, regret, trial, family crisis, dormitory, bare chested male, swimming pool, mother ...
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28%
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Hurricane (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the ...
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Plot: disaster, beach, pacific island, natural disaster, forbidden love, island, parent child relationship, love affair, parents and children, escapades, love and romance, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1979, 1920s
Place: pacific ocean
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28%
Point Last Seen (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fact-based story about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidnapped by her ex-husband.
Plot: flashback, desert, search and rescue, barbie, son, children, missing daughter, saving a life, daughter, missing girl, mother, ex husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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