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Loyalties (1986)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
Style:
emotional, realistic, dramatic, tense, psychological, suspense, independent film
Plot:
family secret, secrets, family drama, friendship, motherhood, isolation, outsider, small town, betrayal, racism, alienation, moral dilemma, identity, racial tension, intimate, community, coming of age, adaptation, violence, forgiveness, boarding school, immigration, doctor, family relations, secret ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, psychological and melancholic films with plots about small town, intimate, identity, family drama, coming of age, isolation and slow burn mostly in Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Loyalties: Stranger in Town (1998), Abandoned Man (2025), Our Own (2020), Aberdeen (2019), Neandertal (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After serving time in prison for his brother's crime, a man warily reunites with family, finding hope and healing in a life-changing bond with his niece.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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210
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mia, in attempts to make it in a male-dominated sports journalism industry, begins to expose the dark underbelly of high school sports in her small hometown. Now, she must choose between her loyalties to her town and her career aspirations.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, small town, corruption, moral dilemma, journalism, high school sports, choice, intrigue, professional sports, secret, investigative reporter, female reporter ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A young woman's birthright hides a dark secret.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
new york
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
It tells the story of Adam who lives in isolation due to his stuttering, and hip-hop is the only way he can get rid of his speech impediment.
Style:
emotional, independent film, realistic, lyrical, psychological ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
37%
485
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Magnus, a handsome teenager, wants to commit suicide and his father tries to change his mind.
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
estonia
Similarity:
36%
329
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, dramatic, melancholic, intercultural
Plot:
adoption, orphanage, sibling relationship, coming of age, sisterhood, mother and daughter, teenager, adolescence, children, childhood, family drama, choice ...
Place:
latvia, eastern europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
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Story:
Zehra comes to the world as the daughter of a conservative Turkish family in Frankfurt. The incredible story of Zehra, starting at the home of the poor and enthusiastic family in Germany, and continuing with a rich family of Istanbul with secrets ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
dramatic, realistic, intense, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
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299
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
maine
Similarity:
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Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Country: Malaysia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: South Africa
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Costa Rica, Colombia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, tense, intense, realistic
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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