Movies like The Snow Goose

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The Snow Goose (1971)
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The Snow Goose (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst the striking scenery of the Essex salt marshes during the early years of WWII. A bearded Richard Harris leads the modest cast with his sensitive portrayal of tormented soul Philip Rhayader, a lonely misshapen man shunned by society but with a great love of life; Harris isnt overly bitter of his treatment and expresses his compassion through his paintings and love of the waterfowl that surround him. Harris is ably supported by the waiflike Jenny Agutter as Frith, who radiates the requisite amount of youthful innocence and naivety, and won a best supporting actress Emmy Award for her performance.
Style: tear jerker, period drama, tearjerker
Plot: world war two, wildlife, bird, father daughter relationship, goose, snow, nature, tragedy, disability, coming of age, rite of passage, artist, orphan, nursing, book, nursing back to health

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and period drama films with plots about coming of age, world war two, family relations, father daughter relationship, society, youth and tragedy mostly in Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Snow Goose: The Chosen Ones (1983), Class of '44 (1973), Silas Marner (1985), Hungarians (1978), David Copperfield (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Chosen Ones (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Columbia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich.
Plot: world war two, coming of age, tragedy, half brother, murder, rape, betrayal, wealth, doctor, nazism, horse, gunshot
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95%
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Class of '44 (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and ...
Plot: coming of age, college, world war two, fraternity, campus, generation, autobiography, streetcar
Time: 1940s, year 1944
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience ...
Style: realistic, talky, clever, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: writers, coming of age, friendship, world war two, dysfunctional family, family relations, culture clash, father daughter relationship, adopted son, half brother, orphan, couple relations ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, new england, europe
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Silas Marner (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
Style: historical drama, spiritual, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot: time machine, women, literary, asexual, village, rivalry, hopes, life is a bitch, orphan, society, legal action, redemption ...
Time: georgian era, 18th century, year 1985, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hungarians (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Plot: world war two, humiliation, peasant, pow
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David Copperfield (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An orphan with a rough childhood becomes a barrister.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, charles dickens, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, social differences, young heroes, society, life is a bitch, child as adult, adulthood, rich and poor, orphan ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Wizard of Loneliness (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A family drama.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, magic, youth, grief, psychiatric patient, escapee, family secret, generation gap, war veteran, uncle, grandmother, aunt ...
Time: 1940s
Place: vermont
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House with a Turret (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 80 min.
Story: During the final winter of WWII, as displaced persons return to their former homes in the Soviet Union, an 8-year-old boy is left alone when his mother dies en route.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized, road movie ...
Plot: youth, orphan, on the road, society, human nature, life is a bitch, wartime life, world war two, little boy, death of mother, traumatic childhood, winter ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: ukraine
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Paul's Case (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story: Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his ...
Plot: bondage, working class, infatuation, theater, thief, coming of age, teenager, snow, winter, gay interest, teenage boy, hotel
Place: pittsburgh
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Knowing Aaron (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story: After witnessing a traumatic event as a child, Aaron is now haunted by hallucinations. He spends much of his time alone, endlessly drawing as a way to cope with these dark images. Though this has gone on for years, as he gets older it becomes harder ...
Style: bleak, psychological, stylized, thought provoking, suspenseful
Plot: schizophrenia, sanity, tragedy, murder, hopes, coming of age, drawing, craziness, society, artist, brother brother relationship, winter ...
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Erfolg (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 265 min.
Story: For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is ...
Plot: world war two, woman, artist, intrigue, smoking, politics, bourgeoisie, female nudity, greed, talking after sex, barefoot woman
Time: 1920s
Place: munich germany
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52%
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King Lear (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 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: period drama
Plot: shakespeare, dancing, tragedy, shakespeare's king lear
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Monte Carlo (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
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Story: An American writer on the Riviera courts a Russian singer who is spying on Nazis for revenge.
Style: period drama
Plot: world war two, spy, nazi, gambler, singer
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Bella Mia (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Due to suspicion of BSE (mad cow disease), a herd of cows from a small farmstead is sentenced to be killed. The animals revolt and try to escape. People try to hunt them down but the herd, led by Bella, manages to protect itself. Further failures of ...
Style: sincere, psychological, contemplative, captivating, unusual plot structure
Plot: veterinarian, farm, parent child relationship, love, nature, freedom, father daughter relationship, hunting, calf, cow
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The Face of Jizo (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: minimal cast, retro
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy, emotional ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Elizabeth Leroy devotes her life to serving God but her faith is tested over the years as she has to overcome many hardships and sorrows.
Style: period drama
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Fugitive Pieces (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Greece
Duration: 104 min.
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Plot: holocaust, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, breakup, life is a bitch, fugitives, wartime life, survival, coming of age, war, boy, world war two ...
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Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead ...
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Plot: missionary, infidelity, state affairs, culture clash, fish out of water, religion, redemption, family relations, religions or cults, interracial relations, christian, royalty ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: independent film
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Place: britain, england
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37%
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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 ...
Style: road movie, atmospheric, visual, visually stunning, scenic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, teenage girl, australian outback, rite of passage, culture clash, children, brother sister relationship, language barrier ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Fly Away (2011)
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Country: USA
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Style: emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, independent film ...
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Martin's Day (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and ...
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Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
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Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, compassionate ...
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Watch Me Fly (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
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Country: UK, USA
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Country: UK, USA
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Audience: teen drama
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