Movies like Home for Christmas 1975

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Home for Christmas (1975)
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Home for Christmas (1975)
Original name: Jouluksi kotiin
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Construction worker Urho Suomalainen, his factory-worker wife Sirkka, and their two school-age children dream about getting away from their cramped rental apartment and moving to a house of their own. Urho decides to build one from scratch, starting from hauling trees from the forest to the sawmill. As the building progresses, a serious fault is discovered in its foundations. The family also has problems with their mortgage. Urho develops pneumonia and passes away before he sees his house completed. At his grave, a fellow worker gives a powerful speech praising socialism.
Plot: past, family relations, worker, working class, nostalgia, brass band, labor union, social issues, social criticism, kitchen sink realism, construction site
Time: 70s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about family relations, working class, worker, society, factory, labor union and father son relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Home for Christmas: Diary of a Worker (1967), One Man's War (1973), Eight Hours are Not a Day (1972), Boxes (2007), They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Diary of a Worker (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements.
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One Man's War (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
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Eight Hours are Not a Day (1972)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 476 min.
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Duration: 120 min.
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