Movies like Prologue

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Prologue (1970)
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Prologue (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Robin Spry, Prologue was the first Canadian film to screen at the Venice Film Festival. Set and filmed during the sixties, this fiction feature tells the story of a young Montrealer who edits an underground newspaper with help from his female friend and a draft dodger from the United States. Two rival philosophies of dissenting youth become evident in the choices they make: militant protest vs. communal retreat. The film includes some seminal archival footage of a speech by legendary anti-war activist Abbie Hoffman and bloody rioting during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
Style: independent film, political, cinema verite
Plot: politics, friendship, college, girlfriend, underground, philosophy, rebellion, deserter, teenage boy, commune, roommate, frustration, discussion, political activist, dropout, counterculture, young
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: montreal, montreal quebec canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and disturbing films with plots about friendship, politics, rebellion, college, coming of age, youth and family relations mostly in Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Prologue: Rip-Off (1971), Purple Haze (1982), R.P.M. (1970), La Run (2011), They've Got Knut (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Rip-Off (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Best friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friendship, coming of age, canuxploitation, teenage boy, high school, teenager, commune, youth, media, rock band, filmmaking, high school student ...
Time: 70s
Place: toronto ontario canada
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95%
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Purple Haze (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's dynamite stuff.
Style: independent film
Plot: drug, father son relationship, friendship, college, dropout, vietnam war, homecoming, summer, coming of age, dj, dormitory, military service ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: minnesota
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R.P.M. (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, ...
Style: political
Plot: counterculture, juvenile delinquent, hippie, revolution, college, sexploitation, sociologist, sociology, protest, female nudity
Time: 60s
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87%
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La Run (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Guillaume is a good young man. He has never taken hard drugs in his life, doesn't plan on trying, and has an honest job. Everything goes chaotic when he witnesses his father's attempted suicide over a heavy gambling debt. In order to pay ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychedelic
Plot: drug abuse, friendship, ambition, jealousy, drug dealing, drug, money, violence, family relations, wrestler
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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They've Got Knut (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in the early '80s, a time when a new wave of leftist political consciousness and activism had swept German youth (and was just about to disappear as quickly as it arrived), this satiric comedy follows a young couple, Ingo (Hans-Jochen ...
Style: independent film
Plot: male pubic hair, nudity, brother sister relationship, ski, political activism, political activist, friendship, sex, politics, male nudity, ice, breakup ...
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76%
Hallucination Generation (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A juvenile is mad at his mom so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru's cult in Spain and turns on, tunes in, and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.
Style: grindhouse, psychedelic, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: hippie, counterculture, exploitation, lsd, drug, hallucination, robbery, rebellion
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
A Separate Peace (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding them, and they are practically forced to live their lives to ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, world war two, preparatory school, boy, gay, friendship, betrayal, school, boys' school, gays and lesbians, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972
Place: new england
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69%
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; ...
Style: talky, experimental, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: utopia, anarchist, politics, rebellion, protest, civil unrest, bohemian, professor, friends, couples, idealism, self discovery ...
Time: future, year 1976, 60s, 70s
Place: switzerland, paris france, geneva switzerland, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Bonjour Amour (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Adolescent French suburban lower-middle-class nerd Marc Morel was happy being the teacher's pet and school representative in a Latin competition. Until he meets and instantly falls in love with fatherless semi-illiterate shop clerk and ...
Plot: car crash, bare chested male, teenage boy, fire, brother brother relationship, photographer, father son relationship, sex, girlfriend, first love, car race, rebellion ...
Place: france
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60%
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Ice (1970)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: "An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that explain the ...
Style: independent film, fake documentary
Plot: alternate history, underground movement, rebellion, hiding place, partisan, revolutionary, radicalism, militant, meeting, revolution, oppression, violence ...
Time: near future, 60s
Place: new york, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Forget Me Never (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching
Plot: wandering, disability, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, politics, aging, life is a bitch, legal action, unfulfillment, couple relations, couples, relationship vs career ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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'68 (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: '68 covers exactly one year (January 1st through December 31st) in the lives of Zoltan Szabo and his family, Hungarian immigrants, working hard to make a life in San Francisco in 1968. The Szabos tries to adjust to the new country, changing ...
Style: independent film, soap opera
Plot: vietnam war, gay, love, exploitation, revolution, freedom, struggle, revolutionary, revolutionary war, lgbt, strong female character, journalist ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: california, san francisco
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53%
Potential Inertia (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Declan Holmes is graduating college, a hard enough time as it is, and heading out into the real world. The loss he experiences is like nothing he has ever known before. 'Potential Inertia' is the story of his journey through a very ...
Plot: love, college, graduation, loss, hopes, friendship
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51%
Dogs in Space (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a dodgy suburb, live a ragtag collection of outcasts and don't-wanna-be's who survive on a ...
Style: independent film, art house, psychotronic, dark, serious ...
Plot: rock and roll, rock, drug addiction, club, australian aboriginal, alienation, subculture, drug abuse, punk, punk rock, friendship, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1978
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Photograph (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding ...
Plot: friendship, politics, photograph, communist, correspondence, unrequited love, anarchist, blaster, persecution, chaos, greek, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: paris france
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Now or Never (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jean Pierre Lefebrvre directed this Canadian drama, the final film in a trilogy that began in 1967 with Don't Let It Kill You and continued in 1977 with The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died. All three feature Abel Gagne (Marcel Sabourin), a ...
Plot: pilot, airplane crash, rural setting, family relations, death, bank, father son relationship, airplane, friendship, old man, long lost father, absent father ...
Place: quebec, montreal
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Katherine (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life. Written by Miguel Cane
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
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Tar Angel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: computer virus, muslim, family relations, rebelliousness, rebellion, uncover truth, society, life is a bitch, on the run, youth, parents and children, political unrest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: algeria, canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Tree We Hurt (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Shot over a capricious summer, this film reveals a world of innocence shattered for some children in their school by corporal punishment. It moves at its own pace to reveal a world of children and adults with animals, birds, nature and sea. The film ...
Plot: boy, summer, friendship, reconciliation, meeting, greek, loyalty, greek island, tree, wasp, sea, group of friends ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, hellas
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46%
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Promises (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Clémence, the fearless mayor of a town near Paris, is completing the final term of her political career. With her faithful right-hand man Yazid, she has long fought for this town plagued by inequality, unemployment and slumlords. However, when ...
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: politics, political activist, political leader, political unrest, ambition, ambitious woman, political campaign, political activism, political party, politician, political intrigue, female protagonist ...
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46%
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, sex orgy, rebellion, politics, materialism, love and romance, rebelliousness, twentysomething life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, italy, phoenix arizona ...
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45%
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Love That Boy (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Love That Boy is the story of Phoebe, a socially inept overachiever, unrecognized in a world run by C students. Phoebe’s life is totally dominated by her “To Do Before Graduation” list. When Phoebe’s best friend Robyn dumps Phoebe two weeks ...
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, light, touching ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, friendship, friends, youth, college, coming of age, age difference, looking for love, teenager, obsession, love and romance ...
Place: nova scotia
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45%
Pariyerum Perumal (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A law student from a lower caste begins a friendship with his classmate, a girl who belongs to a higher caste, and the men in her family start giving him trouble over this.
Style: sentimental, touching, suspense, sincere, social ...
Plot: friendship, dog, class differences, social differences, classmate classmate relationship, love, stereotypes, waking up, happy ending, politics, satire, death of dog ...
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43%
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The Time of the Hunt (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Richard's wife forces him to bring along his young son, Michel. For these men, hunting represents ...
Plot: hunting, storytelling, drinking, father son relationship, waitress, motel, redhead, violence, drunkenness, weekend, hunter, moose ...
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,
Style: tense, serious, realistic, epic, spiritual ...
Plot: pope, catholic church, politics, clergy, vatican, catholic, catholicism, cold war, state affairs, society, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, china, asia, rome italy, italy ...
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42%
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Mathieu Denis (Corbo) and Simon Lavoie (Le torrent) evoke Godard’s La Chinoise with this stunning fusion of fiction and documentary about a radical Quebec leftist cell seeking to sow mayhem in Montreal as a prelude to overthrowing the government.
Style: avant garde, serious, disturbing, realistic, political ...
Plot: gay interest, transgender, politics, group of friends, rebellion, violence, rebel, protest, revolution, lgbtq, male nudity, lgbt ...
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42%
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60'ies Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, youth, lgbt, friendship, mysterious character, human nature, teenage life, working class, friends, family relations, kids in trouble, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 60s
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42%
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Embryo (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.
Style: art house, independent film
Plot: bdsm, girl, male nudity, alienation, sex, politics, kidnapping, young
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40%
Something in the Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, political, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, politics, teenage life, self discovery, fighting the system, rebellion, society, youth, working class, counterculture, riot ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1971, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france, florence, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Misbehaviour (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In an effort to break away from her mundane life, Stephanie sets her sights on seducing her handsome teacher, and finds that he has some stimulating secrets. Submission was the name of the game and Mr. Carling demands total control. But, soon their ...
Style: erotic
Plot: coming of age, biology teacher, french teacher, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, suicide, friendship, lesbian, student, discipline, thanksgiving, education ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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