Movies like The Pawnshop

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The Pawnshop (2009)
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The Pawnshop (2009)
Original name: Sanglaan
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 almost everything for love. Kanor serves as the pawnshop security guard. He holds Olivia in high esteem for letting him and his wife stay in the apartment above the shop. Kanor opens his house to boarder David, a seaman in transit.
Plot: pawnshop, sailor, motorcycle, death, hospital, security guard, television, robbery, mirror, jewelry, grief, cigarette smoking, wedding anniversary, loan shark, loss of son, green card, clock, ring, cake, kidney, aquarium, newscast, yearbook
Place: the philippines

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, crying and suspenseful films with plots about death, hospital, cigarette smoking, funeral, family relations, female nudity and grief mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Pawnshop: A Speck in the Water (1976), The Seventies (2002), A Journey Home (2009), Trap (2015), Bona (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Speck in the Water (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Nunal sa Tubig is a story of a community living on an island where fishing is the main source of livelihood and how they are affected by progress.
Plot: contamination, fish, midwife, dead child, inspector, birth, alternative medicine, contaminated water, lake, death of husband, boat, fisherman ...
Place: the philippines
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95%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Journey Home (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: estranged from his family for twenty years, he losses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is ...
Plot: taxi, father, obituary, company, dinner, cancer, widower, church, other woman, time, pastor, religion ...
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75%
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Trap (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of the rebuilding of their lives by the survivors of the disaster caused by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, particularly focusing on the struggles of a mother who lost their children.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, weird
Plot: typhoon, survivor, life is a bitch, social problems, society, social issues, hospital, crucifix, fire, loss of child, death, catastrophe ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Magnifico (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min.
Story: With a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy and a son who's lost his much-needed scholarship, an impoverished married couple begins to abandon their faith and courage in the face of such misfortune. But when a gifted young boy called ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, prodigy, single parent, dealing with death, society, youth, disability, rich and poor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
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Caregiver (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A grade school English teacher Sarah Gonzales joins the 150,000 Pinoy OFWs working in the United Kingdom to support her Husband, Teddy Gonzales in making a better living for their family. More than just a chronicle of the Filipinos experience ...
Style: inspirational, tagalog
Plot: inspiration, life lesson, family gatherings, overseas worker, fired from the job, drinking, book, alzheimer's disease, teacher, train, hospital, insecurity ...
Place: the philippines, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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, ...
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Grandmother (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Lola Sepa's grandson has been killed by a cell phone snatcher. Despite being devastated by the sudden violence, she must bear the burden of making the funeral arrangements. She and her family are poor, and there is not enough money for the ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, rough ...
Plot: murder, life is a bitch, elderly, family problems, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, unfulfillment, bail bondsman, grandmother, suspect, justice, poverty ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Adela (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Adela, (Philippines' screen legend Anita Linda) a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday. Alone, and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone by. Mundane events take on heightened meaning as Adela ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: realism, human spirit, elderly, aging, society, life is a bitch, parents and children, family life, loneliness, slum, girl, cemetery ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
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The Night Watchmen (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Times have changed a lot for Franck who is a night watchman. About a decade ago he was a specialized worker. Today he feels bored but would jump at any chance to prove his bravery and courage.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: life turned upside down, dull life, starting over, disorder, hopes, unfulfillment, police, security guard, loneliness, car accident, monster, coworker relationship ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Mano Po (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly ...
Plot: immigrant, birthday, sister sister relationship, funeral, flashback, kidnapping, engagement, pregnancy, family business, rebellious daughter, patriarch, interracial romance ...
Time: year 1949
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Country: Philippines
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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 ...
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Country: Philippines
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35%
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Style: tense, serious, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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