Movies like Village in the Jungle
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Village in the Jungle (1980)
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Original name: බැද්දේගම
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 Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf.
Style:
sinhala
Plot:
witch, jungle, village, demon, thief, murder, family relations, animal attack, poverty, father daughter relationship, fortune teller, leopard, male female relationship, jail, death of child, husband wife relationship, false accusation, death of husband, ghost town, mayor, landowner, superstition, marriage, exploitation, henchman ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s
Place:
sri lanka
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and touching films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, poverty, marriage, mother daughter relationship and male female relationship mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Village in the Jungle: Loku Duwa (1994), Like Normal People (1979), Jadviga's Pillow (2000), Rice People (1994), Timepiece (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
sri lanka
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
sinhala, crying
Plot:
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Place:
sri lanka
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, serious, captivating, psychological
Plot:
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Place:
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41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
sinhala
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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40%
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Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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