Movies like Tomato

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Tomato (1990)
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Tomato (1990)
Original name: Pummarò
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò.
Plot: love, prostitute, drug addict, teacher, police, violence, pregnancy, death, morgue, murder, camp, racism, surgeon, on the road, childbirth, journey, baby, runaway, interracial relations, pimp, fear, emigrant, drug use, medical student, drummer ...
Place: rome italy, italy, canada, naples italy, frankfurt germany, southern italy, ghana
Keyword: german

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Most similar movies to Tomato

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about love, male female relationship, death, couples, family relations, murder and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Tomato: Othello (1995), The Best of Youth (2003), Open Eyes (1982), Close Friends (1992), Verso sud (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Othello (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, tense, costume drama, cynical ...
Plot: shakespeare, interracial relations, black man white woman relationship, jealousy, murder, racism, tragedy, medieval, tragic love, revenge, love and romance, rivalry ...
Time: 16th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place: venice, italy, europe, mediterranean sea
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The Best of Youth (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 374 min.
Story: Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: idealism, society, couples, cafe, sister in law sister in law relationship, friendship, mental illness, storytelling, musician, protest, politics, police brutality ...
Time: 60s, 80s, year 2003, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: italy, lebanon, europe, turin italy, denmark ...
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Open Eyes (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Directed by Raafat El-Mihi.
Plot: unfaithfulness, family relations, brother brother relationship, death of brother, murder, extramarital affair, adultery, death, love, love triangle, husband wife relationship, impotence ...
Place: cairo egypt
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28%
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Close Friends (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
Style: erotic
Plot: father, incest, forced incest, love triangle, exploitation, jealousy, teenage boy, love, friendship, husband wife relationship, lesbian, friend ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Verso sud (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Pasquale Pozzessere's debut, a woman just out of prison falls in love with a man who saw steaing form a collection box in a church. Some critics saw a dry style next to Pasolini's as the director shows the two desperate individuals ...
Plot: job seeking, released from prison, pursuit, love, drinking, drunkenness, kidnapping, police, boy, alcoholic, on the road, theft ...
Place: southern italy, italy, rome italy
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The Star Maker (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through the small villages of Sicily pretending that he is working for the big film studios in Rome.
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, hidden identity, self discovery, love and romance, disorder, hopes, on the road, cons and scams, village life, countryside, small town, village ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: sicily, italy, europe, madrid, palermo italy ...
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21%
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Honky (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: interracial romance, blaxploitation, black, interracial, interracial relations, teenager, racial tension, white male black female relationship, interracial sex, interracial couple, drug, automobile ...
Time: year 1971
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21%
Manhattan Merengue (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A realistic look at the life of a young immigrant man who comes to America with the hope of dancing on Broadway.
Style: independent film
Plot: dancing, drug addict, nightclub, shooting, american dream, subway, visa, drug dealing, dream, immigration, illegal immigration, consulate ...
Place: manhattan new york city, puerto rico, new york, bronx new york city
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A Tale of Love (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This drama about a young girl's struggle to overcome the dehumanization of poverty depicts the steady, corrosive effects of her life on her psyche. Bruna (Valeria Golino) has had to work since the age of 13 to help support her father and ...
Plot: age difference, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, love triangle, teenage boy, violence, death, teenage girl, roommate, friendship, bus ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy
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21%
Niagara, Niagara (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "Niagra, Niagra" begins quietly in a drugstore in Poughkeepsie, where Marcie, the film's disarming heroine, likes to shoplift. She literally crashes into Seth, a quiet outsider, also on a shoplifting spree. Marcie invites Seth to ...
Style: road movie, melancholic, intense, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: road trip, on the road, love story, pharmacy, pharmacist, love and romance, mental illness, couples, couple relations, disability, lovers on the run, social misfits ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: canada, new york state, toronto ontario canada, new york
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21%
Beneath Clouds (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, art house ...
Plot: racism, prison, coming of age, on the road, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, young heroes, opposites attract, aborigine, indigenous people ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, new south wales, sydney australia
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Mississippi Masala (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
Style: romantic, light, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, immigrant, culture clash, interracial relations, racial prejudice, indians, stereotypes, family drama, honest, love affair, opposites attract, fall in love ...
Time: year 1991, 70s, 20th century, year 1990, year 1972
Place: mississippi, uganda, africa, india, southern usa ...
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20%
Icharus Broken (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After four years in prison, Bobby is released into a world he no longer recognizes. His exgirlfriend Penny is abusing drugs. Their daughter is in foster care. Bobby's sister is in the process of rebuilding her life after a bad relationship.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: love, convict, couples, prostitute, hopes, starting over, vengeance, addiction, destiny, infidelity, haunted by the past, drug abuse ...
Time: 21st century
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Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: racism, culture clash, forbidden love, immigrant, prejudice, marriage, immigration, family relations, love, society, tragic love, social commentary ...
Time: year 2004
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, britain, manchester, pakistan ...
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The Shadow of the Day (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules inside his business. However, everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, ...
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: fascism, italian fascism, racial segregation, impossible love, male female relationship, snitch, life is a bitch, fall in love, star crossed lovers, racist, couple relations, in love ...
Time: 1930s
Place: italy
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Head On (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style: independent film, lgbt cinema, terrifying, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, transgender, lgbtq, glbt, drug abuse, violence, homosexuality, lgbtqi, greek, drug addiction, brutality ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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The Life of Jesus (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but ...
Style: erotic, aesthetic, art house, slow cinema, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: erection, racism, male pubic hair, racist, epileptic seizure, prejudice, racial prejudice, unemployment, sex, interracial relations, erotic scene, epilepsy ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: france, europe, flanders
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20%
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Vendues (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 7 young women from Eastern Europe accept to become prostitutes for a year in exchange for a journey that will take them from Belgrade to Marseilles and provide them with a French passport. Irina, a worker from a Moscow suburb, brings along Enki, her ...
Plot: travel, death, revenge, beach, prostitute, murder, violence, hotel, female nudity, gun
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The Beautiful Risk (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: William, a respected artist who lost everything after his divorce, arrives in Montreal on a job prospect. When the job falls through he then is saved and forms an erotic friendship and exposes his soul with a young woman named Paulette.
Plot: artist, love, solitude, hooker, prostitute, female nudity, surrealism, divorce, suicide, nurse, drug addict, depression ...
Place: new york, quebec, canada, pittsburgh
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Besieged (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo. He besieges her with flowers, ...
Style: emotional, erotic, melancholic, meditative, serious ...
Plot: sensuality, interracial relations, unrequited love, white male black female relationship, immigration, jail, pianist, politics, social differences, fall in love, opposites attract, society ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: rome italy, africa, italy, europe
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Bleeding Hearts (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult, male, white tutor (Mark Evan Jacobs) and his 17-year-old, African-American, female student (Karen Kirkland).
Style: tragic ending, independent film
Plot: interracial, abortion, sexually transmitted disease, student, teacher, love, father, teenage girl, teenager, male teacher female student affair, cross cultural relations, tragedy ...
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Hanste Zakhm (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Story: Film about the upper class in India.
Plot: love, death, cigarette smoking, prostitute, police officer, pimp, taxi driver, father son conflict, child kidnapping
Time: 70s
Place: mumbai india
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19%
Solomon & Gaenor (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating ...
Style: independent film, historical drama, sad, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, anti semitism, couples, conquering, family relations, interfaith relationship, bittersweet, single parent, fall in love, life is a bitch, opposites attract, love and romance ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1999, 1910s, 20th century
Place: wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Diamond Head (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, surprise ending
Plot: racism, family relations, redemption, interracial relations, landowner, sibling relationship, social relations, couples, family problems, power relations, introspection, unfulfillment ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: hawaii, honolulu hawaii
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19%
Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When young Turkish talent Kutlug Ataman wanted to make a film about transvestites, the first location he had in mind was Istanbul. As he developed the script, his thought was to place these marginal characters, who are subject to societal prejudices ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: gay, transvestism, friendship, lgbt, self discovery, couples, lifestyle, introspection, social misfits, society, discrimination, social differences ...
Time: 90s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, baghdad iraq
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19%
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Chevrolet (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Directed by Javier Maqua
Style: social
Plot: lgbt, male nudity, friendship, murder, death, crime boss, drug use, flashback, friend, interracial relations, prostitute, male female relationship ...
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Two (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been used to living an independent life: they want to marry but at the same time, are afraid of marriage
Plot: classical music, male female relationship, rich, unfaithfulness, wealth, composer, mortality, commitment, engagement, childbirth, pregnancy, unhappiness ...
Place: montmartre paris, paris france
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18%
Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This is an uneven presentation of the tragedies plaguing the lives of two women from the lower economic strata in Naples. Immacolata is married, is bisexual, and runs a butcher shop that is not bringing in much money. Concetta is a lesbian, doing ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, oral sex, slaughterhouse, unhappy ending, prostitution, abortion, lesbian love, illness, lesbian couple, cheating wife ...
Place: southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Moondram Pirai (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Moondram Pirai starring by kamal haasan and sridevi kappor. he movie begins with a young girl Bhagyalakshmi (Sridevi) who meets with an accident thus succumbing to amnesia. This condition makes her lose her memory of her entire teenage and adulthood ...
Style: sad, tragic ending, tragic
Plot: tragic love, teacher, school, woman, car crash, train station, car, brothel, prostitution, amnesia, love, compassion ...
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18%
En el paraiso no existe el dolor (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of a gay man's cathartic one-night immersion in Monterrey's sexual underworld after his lover dies of AIDS.
Plot: lgbt, night, friend, hooker, mourning, gay interest, death, sex, wealth, flashback, violence, police ...
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