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The Illegal (1977)
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Original name: Alambrista!
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.
Style:
thought provoking, political, suspenseful, independent film, touching, serious, realistic, weird
Plot:
immigration, strike, drifter, labor, language barrier, union, world history, family relations, farm, politics, misfit, society, hopes, immigrant, money, truck, church, helicopter, childbirth, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, photograph, heat wave, brother sister relationship, deportation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
mexico, latin america, arizona, colorado
Keyword:
mexican
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about society, family relations, hopes, immigrant, parents and children, misfit and immigration mostly in Drama, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like The Illegal: The North (1983), Under the Same Moon (2007), Here and There (2012), Of Mice and Men (1981), Desdemona: A Love Story (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Style:
political, depressing, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, immigration, magic realism, culture clash, indigenous people, chicano, working class, american dream, strike, border, racism, tragedy ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
los angeles, mexico, guatemala, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, survival, loneliness, obsessive quest, family reunited, escapades, young boy, society, custody, family drama, immigration ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, hopes, couple relations, redemption, misfit, starting over, family life, culture clash, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
china, usa, asia, washington d.c., persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological
Plot:
family relations, immigrant, society, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, poverty, worker, migration, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age drama set in contemporary Italy.
Style:
serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
politics, family relations, parents and children, misfit, state affairs, hopes, family problems, ship, boy, illegal immigration, immigrant, ocean ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, touching
Plot:
man child, great depression, labor, homeless, strike, union, drifter, friendship, human nature, society, misfit, social relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Gil Garcia is at the end of his life. Wounded and bleeding in a church confessional, he tells an unsuspecting Father Wade his tragic story. At a young age, Gil's father takes him to America in search of a better life, forcing him to leave the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
immigrant, follow your dream, friendship, human spirit, social decay, society, hopes, bittersweet, u.s. mexico border, migration, border, exile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Plot:
labor, union, strike, poverty, family conflict, hardship, rural setting, farm hand, family relations, corruption, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
New York attorney Libby (Juliette Lewis) is a go-getter who won't let anyone stand in the way of her success. But when she accepts a pro bono case involving young Afghan dissident Meena (Layla Alizada), Libby finds her corporate dreams replaced ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Hot-shot pilot Dan Hogan is sent deep into the Colombian jungle to rescue missionary doctor Ann Williams. Caught between innocent villagers and a ruthless drug lord, Ann won't abandon the people she has come to love.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
374
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
immigrant, homeless, working class, culture clash, money, father daughter relationship, school, storytelling, poverty, photographer, boy, ethnicity ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tania, a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son Ivan. Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested.
Style:
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Plot:
fighting the system, human spirit, social differences, injustice, family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, parents and children, immigrant, society, migration, hidden identity ...
Time:
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Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time:
year 2003, 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1952
Place:
denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this revisionist drama, the film delves into the family lineage of Wyatt Williams, the character made famous by Peter Fonda in the original Easy Rider Movie. Centering around the Williams family, and their internal family struggles throughout the ...
Style:
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Plot:
motorcycle, biker, father son relationship, world war two veteran, patriotism, dysfunctional family, road trip, family relations, family problems, estrangement, buddies, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
usa, mexico, california, arizona, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, psychological, crying ...
Plot:
working class, immigrant, unemployment, society, workplace, unfulfillment, parents and children, fired from the job, coming of age, lady, supportive coworker, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America
Style:
aesthetic, road movie, art house, social, existential ...
Plot:
greek, immigrant, immigration, emigration, migration, armenian genocide, american dream, boat, social injustice, time travel, yacht, refugee ...
Time:
19th century, year 1963, 20th century, 1890s
Place:
greece, ottoman empire, new york, middle east, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Introduced to a volunteer opportunity with the Doctor's Gift Program, Katie (Mika Boorem) signs up for a trip to China, where she meets Lin (Yi Ding), a girl with whom she shares a birthday. Lin has a facial deformity that discourages her from ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, california, usa, asia, malibu california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
youth, labor, korean war, migration, quarantine, strike, union, immigrant, coming of age, family relations, bittersweet, innocence lost ...
Time:
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Place:
minnesota, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, rough, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, small town, lumberjack, union, strike, death of brother, supernatural, mountain, labor, hidden treasure, resentment, troublemaker ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges she and her family face.
Style:
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Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, rise to the top, human spirit, family life, teenage life, parents and children, family problems, single parent, youth, hopes, teachers and students ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Turkey, UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style:
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Plot:
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30%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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