Movies like Sister Stella L.

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Sister Stella L. (1984)
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Sister Stella L. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same congregation as hers inspires her to get involved in the struggle for justice and freedom of striking workers in a cooking oil company.
Style: political
Plot: liberation theology, nun, strong female character, marxist, labor strike, murder, suicide, poverty, journalism, capitalism, labor, reporter, media, union, capitalist, strike, threat, counselor, abuse, discussion, solidarity, company, suppression, thug, swashbuckler ...
Time: 80s
Place: the philippines
Keyword: filipino

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out political, serious, realistic and captivating films with plots about poverty, strike, union, murder, labor, suicide and working class mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Sister Stella L.: The Seventies (2002), Clutching a Knife (1984), Just Great (1972), Scorpio Nights (1985), Whisper to God (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Seventies (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship.
Style: political, tagalog
Plot: martial law, strong female character, mother, torture
Place: the philippines
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95%
Clutching a Knife (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A worker nicknamed Turing finds himself in a quandary when the printing press where he is hired as a casual is hit by a strike. As his wife badly needs medication after getting pregnant, he is forced to sign a waiver inhibiting him from joining any ...
Plot: strike, union, labor, realism, rally, crisis, company, benefit, hiding place, pharmacy, burglar, social realism ...
Time: 80s
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55%
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Just Great (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
Style: surreal, political, contemplative, clever, witty ...
Plot: reporter, strike, dialectical materialism, female journalist, love, chaos, anarchism, anarchy, communism, revolution, factory, politics ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: france, paris france, asia, vietnam, europe
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43%
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Scorpio Nights (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a crowded, multi-appartment house, a young student peeps on his neighbours making love and subsequently develops a steamy affair with the neighbour's wife. The affair slowly becomes an obsession and spins out of control.
Plot: husband murders wife, voyeurism, asian, peeping tom, filipina, adultery, erotica, teenage sexuality, love affair, husband, wife, college ...
Time: 80s
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Whisper to God (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When her boyfriend leaves for Japan on a singing contract, a dancer is so distraught she does not see the car that hits her. The driver pretends to be a helpful passer-by; they fall in love and gets married. Only bringing her to a more complicated ...
Plot: brain tumor, tumor, homicide, blindness, blind man, kidnapping, jail, friend, singer, rape, dancer, road accident
Place: the philippines
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38%
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Cart (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: labor strike, strike, single mother, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, little girl, employer employee relationship, teenage boy, mother son conflict, protestor, working class, escapades ...
Place: south korea, korea
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37%
In Just the Wink of an Eye (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: About the incestuous obsession of a retired policeman Dadong Carandang (Silayan) for his daughter Mila (Santos). When she tells her father that she wishes to marry her boyfriend Noel (Ilagan) because she is pregnant, the news unleashes a series of ...
Plot: true crime, domineering father, uxoricide, nightmare, filicide, blood, pregnant woman, wedding, pregnancy, escape, suicide, love triangle ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Harlan County War (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Style: disturbing, realistic, rough, independent film, captivating ...
Plot: strike, fighting the system, rebellion, price of justice, against the odds, poverty, legal, society, ambition, life is a bitch, human nature, human spirit ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, year 1974
Place: kentucky, appalachia, usa, new york
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35%
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From What Is Before (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 338 min.
Story: The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation ...
Style: bleak, serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: forces of nature, village life, isolation, danger, clergy, confined, society, chaos, village, very little dialogue, army, fired from the job ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1970, year 1971
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Migrants (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Plot: labor, union, strike, poverty, family conflict, hardship, rural setting, farm hand, family relations, corruption, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship ...
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At War (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, political
Plot: strike, labor union, working class, capitalism, business manager, class struggle, hard labor, mayor, factory, worker, anger, struggle ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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33%
Entranced Earth (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Eldorado, a fictitious country in Latin America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist ...
Style: political, mind blowing, avant garde, thought provoking, biting ...
Plot: fictional country, anarchist, strike, treasure hunt, union, underground, labor, protest, revolution, political corruption, idealism, politics ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century
Place: latin america, brazil
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32%
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Small Voices (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Melinda is a new substitute teacher at the Malawig Elementary School, located in a poor remote barrio. A young university graduate, her family expects her to look for work abroad, but in her idealism she takes on a challenging job in the provincial ...
Plot: political violence, children, city, rural setting, new teacher, mutiny, singing competition, school teacher, partisan, boss, hopes, school ...
Time: year 2002
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32%
Ordinary People (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min.
Story: ORDINARY PEOPLE is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tragic ending ...
Plot: child, husband wife relationship, family relations, mother child relationship, money, missing child, violence, child abduction, twists and turns, sex scene, life lesson, gays and lesbians ...
Place: the philippines
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31%
When the Heavens Fell (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Plot: drug addiction, alcoholism, morals, suicide, cheating, reporter, journalist, politician, jealousy, disability, media, cynicism ...
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30%
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Bona (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A scorned teenager gets revenge on the aging gigolo who took advantage of her while pursuing other women.
Style: independent film
Plot: love, movie actor, revenge, fan, shooting, gigolo, obsessed fan, water, slum, bathtub, taking a bath
Place: manila philippines, the philippines
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30%
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Thy Womb (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Bajau midwife copes with the irony of her own infertility amid the deprivations of her gypsy community in Tawi-Tawi. A saga of island life stuck between the devil of passion and the deep blue sea of tradition.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, serious, touching
Plot: ocean, society, indigenous people, childless couple, midwife, surrogate mother, husband and wife, husband, infertility, wife
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
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Nympha (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A re-imagination of the Celso Ad Castillo classic, "Nympha" tells the story of an orphan woman named Nympha living in a backward province with a narrow minded aunt who is a religious fanatic.
Plot: female nudity, murder, sex, cemetery, woman, filipina, nudity
Place: the philippines
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Soliloquy (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bus takes-off from urban Manila to the rural southeastern side of the country, carrying a group of mixed passengers from all walks of life, each one has a personal story to tell and they are telling it in their own voice. During the long journey, ...
Plot: road trip, superstition, translator, bus, one day, pregnancy, journey, ex convict, gay, butterfly, deaf mute, group ...
Place: the philippines
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29%
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The Affair (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An ex-seminarian slash communist runs a hotel in Baguio. He then meets a handsome upcoming lawyer. A once-a-year trip to Baguio by the lawyer and conversations with the hotel owner develop into an affair which encompasses decades of socio-political ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, political
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay sex, communism, indoctrination, communist, professor, lawyer, politics, party, teacher, male nudity ...
Time: 70s, 90s, 80s
Place: the philippines
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29%
Last Day (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: One morning, residents of a rural village are horrified when the sun rises in the West. According to Islamic belief, this phenomenon signals the Apocalypse. As village folk react differently to the situation, a tragedy strikes when one of the ...
Plot: rape, murder, islam, devil, villager, apocalypse, village, rural setting
Place: the philippines
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28%
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon ...
Style: black comedy, art house, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Plot: communist, anarchist, family relations, old woman, death of father, widow, suicide, media manipulation, working class, politics, parent child relationship, injustice ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: germany, europe, frankfurt germany, west germany
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28%
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Strikebound (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant ...
Style: independent film
Plot: strike, labor, activism, union, town, cycling, scotsman, communist, cemetery, coal mining, husband wife relationship, funeral ...
Time: 1930s
Place: australia
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27%
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Live Show (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Story revolves around the sad plight of the live sex performers Rolly (Paolo Rivero), Gigi (Klaudia Koronel), Rosita (Ana Capri), Sandra (Hazel Espinosa and Vio (Simon Ibarra) and what drives them to do the inexplicable.
Style: erotic, erotic drama, captivating, thrilling, sexy
Plot: female nudity, sexual content, erotic scene, sex scene, eroticism, sexploitation, sex, asian, prostitute, suicide, male prostitute, poverty ...
Place: the philippines
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27%
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Enough Praying (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called ...
Plot: liberation theology, priest, catholic priest, working conditions, class struggle, social problems, inequality, poverty, church, solidarity, religion, conscience ...
Time: 60s
Place: chile
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26%
Marianne & Juliane (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic ...
Style: political, serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: years of lead, feminist, terrorism, raf, politics, marxist, woman peeing, prison escape, sisters, solidarity, prison, siblings ...
Time: 70s, year 1981
Place: germany, west germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Ten Thousand Days (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin ...
Plot: prison, suicide, strike, poverty, execution, socialism, revolution, peasant
Time: year 1967
Place: hungary
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26%
Business as Usual (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing ...
Style: political, grindhouse, independent film, social
Plot: campaigning, husband wife relationship, union, sexual harassment, salesman, labor movement, strip search
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: liverpool, london, england, northern england
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26%
Larger Than Life (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A mother and her daughter—who are both victims of incest-rape perpetrated by the same man now languishing in jail—are approached by a couple of filmmakers with an offer to produce a movie based on the two women’s true story. They hesitate on ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: sexualized violence, filmmaking, exploitation, teenager, mother daughter relationship, cinema, producer, seduction, grandfather, interview, sex, police ...
Time: 2000s
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Pawnshop (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Follows the lives of four different people, each linked to the other by the house of business. Olivia, owner of the establishment, yearns for her late husband and denies the onset of old age. She lives with her appraiser Amy, a romantic who is doing ...
Plot: pawnshop, sailor, loan shark, death, robbery, hospital, cigarette smoking, television, green card, motorcycle, mirror, security guard ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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