Movies like Bayo
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Bayo (1985)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, period drama
Plot:
fishing, small town, sea, family drama, fishing village, village life, mother son relationship, father son relationship, tradition, working class, longing, inheritance, poverty, isolation, grief, nostalgia, coming of age, storytelling, identity, bittersweet, hopes, loss of spouse, intimate, imagination, retiring ...
Place:
newfoundland, toronto ontario canada
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Most similar movies to Bayo
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and atmospheric films with plots about coming of age, family drama, small town, intimate, bittersweet, grief and identity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Bayo: Humba Dreams (2019), Shadows in the Sun (2009), Netto (2005), Exile (2012), Something About Love (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
At his mother's request, a university student returns to his home on the island of Sumba, where questions about his late father come to light.
Style:
contemplative, poetic, emotional, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot:
coming of age, father son relationship, family drama, identity, island, self discovery, character study, getting home, mother son relationship, tradition, memory, loss ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.
Style:
independent film, emotional, heartfelt, contemplative, period drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak
Plot:
unemployment, family drama, alcoholism, father son relationship, poverty, character study, intimate, social realism, parenting, working class, empathy, slice of life ...
Time:
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Similarity:
83%
34
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Dominican Republic, USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The coming of age journey of Samuel, a young Haitian boy whose life takes a tragic turn when his father is kidnapped, and he then decides to travel to the United States and Canada to find his mother.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, melancholic, intercultural, road movie ...
Plot:
journey, coming of age, immigration, exile, family drama, social issues, survival, child protagonist, identity, grief, resilience, childhood trauma ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
haiti, north america, canada, usa
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
father son relationship, alzheimer's disease, family drama, small town, memory loss, character study, estranged son, getting home, regret, mortician, reconciliation, homecoming ...
Place:
nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, canada, los angeles
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In the heart of a remote village, Purna Bahadur Ko Sarangi weaves a poignant drama about the unbreakable bond between a struggling father and his son. Purna Bahadur, a humble and impoverished musician, clings to the hope of a better life through his ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, melancholic, inspirational, atmospheric
Plot:
family bonds, family drama, father son relationship, hopes, struggle, sacrifice, poverty, single father, resilience, intimate, longing, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
bittersweet, coming of age, dysfunctional family, single parent, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, family drama, child protagonist, childhood, stepfather, estranged father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Style:
historical drama, emotional, heartfelt, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
family relations, loss of husband, motherhood, grief, family drama, small town, american south, village life, intimate, gender roles, coming of age, literary ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, bereavement, loss, family relations, male female relationship, love story, relationships, loss of mother, troubled past, single mother, love affair, tragic past ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
grief, coming of age, self discovery, mourning, loss, family drama, realism, male protagonist, bittersweet, chance meeting, intimate, memory ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film describes the relationship between a father and his two motherless sons in Ireland, and how it changes when their aunt from London arrives.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, tension, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, family bonds, brothers, realism, loss, grief, small town, healing, family secret, slice of life, reconciliation ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
60%
293
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
house arrest, coming of age, mother son relationship, social realism, family drama, loneliness, isolation, slice of life, humanity, identity, poverty, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, single parent, promise, grief, poverty, loss, mourning, family relations, relationships, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
With an enthralling central performance by Gilbert Sicotte, this masterful debut feature examines the life of the top car salesman in a fading Quebec town as events challenge the 67-year-old’s sense of identity and the meaning of life at the most ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, sentimental, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
aging, small town, working class, bittersweet, obsession, society, retiring, elderly, workplace situations, social relations, car salesman, tragedy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Koen is a fatherless, eighteen year old boy who wants to free himself from the suffocating relationship with his mother. He struggels with the balance between independency and love. When he meets Colet, he tries to keep his distance, but she is both ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Similarity:
54%
118
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Goran just got out of high school and doesn't know what he wants to do with his life. Should he stick with his small time gangster friends and make some cash, or listen to Zeko in the fast food stall who thinks you should go to school forever? ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, independent film, crime drama
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
moral dilemma, youth, self discovery, responsibility, mother son relationship, coming of age, temptation, realism, peer pressure, family drama, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Place:
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Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the snowy seaside town of Sokcho, 25-year-old Soo-Ha works at a guesthouse. She drifts between her mother’s fish stall and her boyfriend until a French artist’s arrival stirs questions about her identity. As winter deepens, Soo-Ha and the ...
Style:
intercultural, contemplative, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Taiwan
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and ...
Style:
family saga, melancholic, contemplative, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
northern germany
Similarity:
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Country: Vietnam
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, sentimental, poignant, art house ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, hmong, family secret, search for mother, female protagonist, family drama, stepmother, grief, identity, self discovery, village life, inheritance ...
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, art house ...
Plot:
homecoming, haunted by the past, childhood memory, heiress, house, landscape, love, grief, female protagonist, mourning, memory, inheritance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brittany, france, europe, cornwall, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The men of a small town on the edge of nowhere mysteriously disappear, one by one, leaving women and children behind to fend for themselves in a desolate and dreamlike world.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, poetic
Plot:
small town, abandonment, coming of age, family drama, adolescence, loss, isolation, desolation, mysterious disappearance, grief, motherhood, slow burn ...
Time:
future
Place:
california
Similarity:
42%
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman in love, a weak man, a father stumbling with his emotions, an uncle dependent on the past and a teenager meet at Zagor’s boarding house. Despite the serenity of the house, they all struggle to find the peace that they each need.
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
boarding house, character study, teenager, father son relationship, love, household, slice of life, domestic drama, intimate, memory, isolation, loss ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
42%
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229
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the Autumn of 1960, a fluke atmospheric weather condition allows a young teenager, Parry Tender, to receive a radio broadcast from New York City. Nestled in the Northern town of Goose Lake, Saskatchewan, Parry believes the contest the New York ...
Style:
romantic drama, period piece, sentimental, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
rock and roll, coming of age, small town, teenager, first love, nostalgia, small town life, identity, dream, outsider, escape, loss ...
Time:
60s, year 1960
Place:
canada
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Ali, a fisherman, devoted his life to his young son, Efe. Efe was the only son of Ali who was in this life. Efe is different from other children. Efe, who has a communication problem, is not a child who can laugh and play and react to what he hears. ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, heartfelt, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
father son relationship, love, ship, summer, sea, family drama, empathy, protective father, bonding, family relations, youth, couples ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A twelve-year-old bright schoolboy, Sivanandhan, his mother, sister, and with his friend Sekhar works during his school holidays carrying banana stalks, a task he dreads. As he navigates life's challenges, poverty, friendship, and the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
coming of age, poverty, childhood, social realism, village life, friendship, resilience, sibling relationship, mother son relationship, determination, labor, slice of life ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Life isn't easy for 10-year old Ricky - his cooler, bigger brother Micha, who just dropped out of school, is always giving him a hard time. Their parents business is in trouble, and with emotions running high, Michas conflicts with his father ...
Style:
dramatic, emotional, tension, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, sibling rivalry, family drama, friendship, youth, working class, childhood, small town, slice of life, adolescence, maturation, kids and family ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in a village right after the Korean War, poor but good-hearted Heo Sam-gwan sets out to win the most beautiful girl in the village, Heo Ok-ran, by selling his blood to earn money. Years later, the two are happily married with three children, but ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, heartfelt, emotional ...
Plot:
love story, sacrifice, father son relationship, poverty, family drama, countryside, love interest, relationships, male female relationship, money problems, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Time:
60s
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, period piece, tension
Plot:
world war two, father son relationship, family drama, longing, waiting, grief, loss, child protagonist, trauma, sacrifice, hopes, family conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Film starring Kamaljit Singh, Simi Garewal and Jayant
Style:
tear jerker, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
family drama, female protagonist, motherhood, homelessness, sacrifice, father son relationship, redemption, blackmail, child abandonment, grief, longing, poverty ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mumbai india
Similarity:
37%
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