Movies like Radiance 1998

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Radiance (1998)
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Radiance (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: With the death of their mother, two sisters (Nona and Cressy) return to their childhood home in Northern Australia where their third sister, Mae, lived looking after their mother. The funeral happens and the three find themselves together in the house for the first time in years. With time to talk, drink and fight, past hurts are revealed and family secrets come out.
Style: independent film
Plot: aborigine, indigenous people, female warrior, woman, island, death, beach, fire, inheritance, memory, mother daughter relationship, old age, insanity, funeral, turtle, opera singer, death of mother, sibling rivalry, sugarcane, three sisters, sister sister relationship, ashes, arson, family home, homecoming ...
Place: australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, serious and touching films with plots about family relations, indigenous people, indigenous, sister sister relationship, aborigine, woman and mother daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Adventure and Crime genres. Some movies like Radiance: Black and White (2002), The Fringe Dwellers (1986), Mad Bastards (2010), Miracle in the Woods (1997), Beans (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Black and White (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic
Plot: courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, aborigine, racism, illiteracy, injustice, legal investigation, fighting the system, price of justice, false accusation, social differences, society ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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95%
The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style: political, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: australian aboriginal, native, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native american, family relations, segregation, couples, love and romance, youth, misfit, coming of age ...
Time: 70s
Place: africa, australia
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78%
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Mad Bastards (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, father son reunion, self discovery, starting over, redemption, parent child relationship, going straight, hopes, introspection, estrangement, parents and children, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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64%
Miracle in the Woods (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Quarreled sisters; Sarah and Wanda inherit property from their mother. It has always belonged to the family. Sarah insists on selling it as soon as possible because she has many difficulties. She goes there with her daughter; Gina. Wanda, on the ...
Plot: hospital, sibling relationship, funeral, african american, sister sister relationship, secret, mother daughter relationship, cat, estrangement, tenant, inheritance, old woman ...
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63%
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Beans (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and ...
Plot: coming of age, mother daughter relationship, woman, politics, young girl, land dispute, woods, showdown, girlhood, driving, grownups, first kiss ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: quebec, canada
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60%
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Our Father... (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film by Veikko Aaltonen
Plot: violent father, father, hospital, son, flashback, female nudity, violence, death of mother, death, childhood trauma, dementia, father son relationship ...
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57%
Little Sparrows (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the midst of an Australian summer, we meet three sisters. Nina is widowed with two young children. Anna is an aspiring actress unhappily married to a filmmaker. Christine is a med student who is yet to fully come to terms with her sexuality. When ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, psychological, talky ...
Plot: family relations, terminal illness, self discovery, strong female presence, introspection, love, mother, dying mother, motherhood, sister sister relationship, christmas, parenthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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57%
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Boxes (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, ...
Style: semi autobiographical
Plot: woman, past, mother daughter relationship, half sister, old age, father daughter relationship, surrealism, death, nostalgia, moving, family relations, box
Place: brittany
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56%
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Naturally Native (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity ...
Style: independent film
Plot: slice of life, american indian, native, indians, indigenous people, racism, cosmetics, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, native american, indigenous
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56%
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When Áila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman, Rosie, has just escaped a violent assault at the hands of her boyfriend. Áila decides to bring ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, political
Plot: feminist, domestic violence, indigenous people, life is a bitch, social problems, social misfits, women in society, help, women, pregnant woman, white trash, class society ...
Time: 90s
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Redfern Now (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Six extraordinary stories one unmissable series. Redfern Now is the first drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: slice of life, australian aboriginal, lifestyle, family problems, tragic event, society, multiple storylines, city life, changing lives, family life, social problems, aborigine ...
Place: australia, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Around the Block (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, deep ...
Plot: teacher, urban ghetto, school, dysfunctional family, youth, idealism, hopes, society, lesbian, lgbtq, fall in love, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, new south wales
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52%
In a World Created By a Drunken God (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jason, a Canadian Metis, who gets a visit from an American half-brother he didn't know he had. Harry says that their father is dying and needs a kidney. Jason could be the only one who can save the life of a man who ignored him for his entire ...
Plot: brother brother conflict, aborigine, indigenous people, international relations, transplant, brother brother relationship, adulterous husband, kidney transplant
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50%
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Hotel Sorrento (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir ...
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: beach, sibling relationship, couples, writers, seaside town, family reunited, love triangle, family secret, drowning, youth, elderly, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, london, england, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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And So It Is (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
Plot: revenge, rape, indigenous people, racism, native, community, rape and revenge, native american, businessman, husband, woman, rural setting ...
Place: bolivia
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Yolngu Boy (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.
Style: independent film
Plot: aborigine, australian aboriginal, bad father, indigenous people, journey, hunter, alcoholism, burglary, juvenile delinquency, father son reunion, friendship between men, teenager ...
Place: australia
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47%
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Broken Dolls (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire group has disintegrated into shameless, selfish & dishonest ...
Style: erotic
Plot: madness, making love, sex scene, island, dysfunctional family, isolation, inheritance, shakespeare, female nudity, husband wife relationship, boat, sex ...
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Marion Bridge (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother and old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, alcoholic, small town, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, family life, parents and children, family gatherings, human nature, life is a bitch, lesbian ...
Place: nova scotia, nova scotia, canada, canada, australia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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King Lear (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 137 min.
Story: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and ...
Style: sad, independent film, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot: shakespeare, knight, murder of daughter, curse, kingdom, betrayal, antiquity, dancing, bad father, mental disorder, sister sister relationship, grief ...
Time: middle ages, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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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43%
Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing their desire to marry immediately. As they are visiting a small island village off the coast of west Australia, that is easier said than done.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lighthouse, wedding, friendship, terminal illness, island, tragic hero, unlikely couple, love and romance, elderly, on the run, young lovers, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia
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39%
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The Wild Duck (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen
Style: realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: family relations, couples, society, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, high society, male female relationship, duck, mental illness, tragedy ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia
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39%
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Way Back Home (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jessica Santiago & Ana Bartolome are two sisters who have lived in separate lives for 12 long years. Jessie, though an excellent student, has grown to feel sorrow of Ana’s lost while Ana, not knowing that she’s an orphan, grew up in a ...
Style: touching, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: siblings, sister sister relationship, missing person, long lost daughter, sibling rivalry, fisherman, missing sister, fishing village, mother daughter relationship, jealousy, young adult, dog ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Macaluso Sisters (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.
Style: captivating
Plot: sister sister relationship, family relations, sisters, kids and family, grownups, life, love and romance, sister, lifestyle change, relationships, changing lives, feminist ...
Place: sicily
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35%
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Australia Day (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of ...
Style: multicultural, touching, sincere, suspense, steamy ...
Plot: nationalism, sociology, human trafficking, immigration, criminal underworld, racial tension, manhunt, gang, on the run, racist, society, culture ...
Time: 2010s
Place: australia, austria, china, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Backlash (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: No Overview
Style: independent film
Plot: aborigine, woman, australian aboriginal, barmaid, police, swimming pool, rape, prisoner, sodomy, outback, pantyhose
Time: year 1986
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Night Comes On (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
Style: realistic, psychological, tense, rough, independent film ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, foster home, released from prison, estranged father, coming of age, juvenile delinquent, black, haunted by the past, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, birthday, memory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
75 Degrees in July (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sibling rivalry and other conflicts are revealed as one daughter, now a successful modern artist living in New York, returns to visit her Texas family.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, rancher, sibling rivalry, manipulation, homecoming, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, family reunited, male female relationship ...
Place: austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Plenty (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Style: independent film, contemplative, tense, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, memory, mental illness, world war, rock, women, parachute, one night stand, love and romance, hopes, introspection ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 1985, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: england, france, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Fran (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
Style: independent film
Plot: girl, single mother, mother daughter relationship, child molestation, brunette
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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