Movies like Loku Duwa

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Loku Duwa (1994)
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Loku Duwa (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 150 min.
Story: "Loku Duwa" depicts an attractive and self-sacrificing daughter of the middle class in the city who is trapped in a family of traditional values.
Plot: money, police officer, police, businessman, illness, mistress, family relations, father daughter relationship, women's rights, male female relationship, female executive, urban setting, suitor, dowry, con man, con artists, business executive
Place: sri lanka

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling and disturbing films with plots about family relations, father daughter relationship, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, illness, family problems and relationships mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Loku Duwa: Village in the Jungle (1980), Shooting the Moon (1998), Parklands (1996), Midnight Bus (2017), The Last Passport (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Village in the Jungle (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The ...
Style: sinhala
Plot: fortune teller, henchman, male female relationship, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mayor, jail, murder, exploitation, husband wife relationship, marriage, false accusation ...
Time: turn of the century
Place: sri lanka
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Shooting the Moon (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Francesca Archibugi directed this Italian drama set in Rome where 14-year-old Siddhartha (Niccolo Senni) is forced to deal with his heroin-addicted mother Silvia (Valeria Golina). He occasionally gets a visit from his filmmaker father Massimo ...
Plot: girl, teenage boy, christmas, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, heroin addict, internet, brother sister relationship, urban setting, male female relationship, family relations ...
Place: rome italy
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Parklands (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 51 min.
Story: Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. His diaries hint at corruption, and she also receives hints and veiled threats which support her suspicions. Rosie puzzles about who he was, and about her early life and ...
Plot: male female relationship, widow, marital separation, suspicion, mistress, settler, childhood, drug trade, police officer, getting home, death of father, father daughter relationship ...
Place: south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
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Midnight Bus (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Middle-aged Riichi Takamiya drives the midnight bus between Tokyo and snow-swept Niigata, where he lives. Just as the relationship with his younger girlfriend is about to bloom, his emotionally desperate ex-wife suddenly reappears.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, manga
Plot: divorced man, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, family relations, relationship problems, kids and family, family life, family problems, male female relationship, cheating, divorced woman ...
Place: tokyo
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The Last Passport (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: THE LAST PASSPORT takes place in a passport office...or so you think. George Miller is a 70 year old man who through a variety of encounters, takes us on a journey through his mysterious past to show us we are not all that different.
Style: independent film
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Good Riddance (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in a small rural town in the Quebec Laurentians, Michelle lives in an isolated house with her mentally-challenged brother Guy and her 13 year old daughter Manon. Together the three of them survive by running a small firewood business and ...
Plot: mental illness, illness, parent child relationship, pregnancy, brother sister relationship, accidental death, coming of age, lower class, runaway, precociousness, autumn, death of brother ...
Place: quebec, canada
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45%
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The City (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Style: black and white, independent film, anthology, serious, realistic ...
Plot: immigrant, homeless, working class, culture clash, money, father daughter relationship, school, storytelling, poverty, photographer, boy, ethnicity ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, mexico, usa
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45%
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The Stepchild (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Ashley suspects her father's partner was behind a brutal home invasion.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: suspect, undercover, secret, female protagonist, suspicion, family relations, businessman, problem, father daughter relationship, business partner, crooked businessman
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Vesna Goes Fast (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Vesna, a Czech girl, arrives in Italy without money and, because of poverty, is forced into prostitution.
Plot: migration, construction worker, hopelessness, street prostitution, immigrant, family relations, girl, friend, group, truth, tourist, letter ...
Place: italy
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His Three Daughters (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When their father's health worsens, three estranged sisters come together to try to plan for the inevitable.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, sister, illness, family relations, family problems, parents and children, family life, kids and family, relationships, relationship problems, sisters ...
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A Pharisee (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Seung-gi has been living under a strict father, blaming himself everytime when a natural but uncontrollable desire surges from inside of him. However, because he can't spurt that desire in reality, every night Seung-gi shares passionate love ...
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Cassiopeia (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, ...
Style: dramatic, disturbing, serious, captivating
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Damaged Goods (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: When Amanda discovers that her estranged, abusive father needs a transplant to save his life, and she is the only match, she is forced to confront her painful past and make the decision that will decide her future.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
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 6.4
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Apple Garden (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
Plot: family relations, garden, old man, father daughter relationship, apple
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The Gravedigger's Wife (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
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35%
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Zinat (1994)
Genre: Drama
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Story: The conflict felt by a modern Iranian woman as she is forced to choose between her career and the traditional obligations of a housewife are examined in this drama. Until she married Hamed, Zinat worked in a public health clinic in a small Iranian ...
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Bokser (2011)
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Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama
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Unexpected Race (2018)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Umbrella (2016)
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Monologue (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
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Place: soviet union
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29%
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The Gin Game (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Love Me (2013)
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Place: oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Marion (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
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Plot: con man, nudity, family relations, marriage, love, train, female nudity, shopping mall
⇓ similarity ⇓
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