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Barking Water (2009)
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Barking Water (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Frankie is dying. Irene hasn't forgiven him. And they are racing against time to find their way home. Frankie needs help and Irene is the one he turns to. He must go home one last time. And, like so many times before, Irene is extending herself beyond her common sense. The two set out on a journey that becomes more than getting home; confronting the past, love, understanding, and self discovery. Barking Water is a tale of great love that looks at what brings us all together. It's a tale of home...and what it takes to get there.
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, road movie, serious
Plot: love and romance, rehabilitation, hospital, hopes, one last chance, road trip, memories, memory, self discovery, indians, tribe, native, american indian, indigenous people, terminal illness, old man, journey, witch doctor, peace, elderly, dying, elderly man, native american, lovers reunited, indigenous
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: oklahoma
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and psychological films with plots about hopes, self discovery, love and romance, family relations, society, indians and friendship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Barking Water: Winter in the Blood (2013), Shouting Secrets (2011), Black Cloud (2004), The Errand of Angels (2008), Hide Away (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Winter in the Blood (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
Style: contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: native american, introspection, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, hung over, indigenous people, native, tribe, american indian, indians, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
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95%
Shouting Secrets (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, serious, independent film ...
Plot: native american, getting home, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, family relations, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, indigenous people, native, american indian, indians, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Black Cloud (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team.
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, colorful ...
Plot: native american, boxer, boxing, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, native, hopes, human spirit, society, self discovery, racism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Errand of Angels (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sister Rachel Taylor of Boise, Idaho is an eager young missionary of the LDS Church who has been sent on an 18-month long mission to Austria. Rachel finds herself having a hard time adjusting to her new cultural surroundings in the foreign country. ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: self discovery, church, religions or cults, clergy, society, hopes, missionary, friendship, love, innocence lost, miraculous event, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Hide Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Marathon (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Drama by Biju Viswanath, Marathon was adapted from Harteis's memoir of the same name. Explores the relation ship between two poets Richard Harteis and William Meredith former US poet laureate and winner of every major American award for poetry ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, gender, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, artists and showbiz, writer's life, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, tragic love, love, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Jess + Moss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, farm, self discovery, teenage life, friendship, love and romance, society, smoking, teenager, childhood, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Naturally Native (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity ...
Style: independent film
Plot: slice of life, american indian, native, indians, indigenous people, racism, cosmetics, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, native american, indigenous
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Dreamland (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic, gloomy
Audience: teens
Plot: desert, love triangle, trailer park, starting over, self discovery, destiny, hopes, life is a bitch, love and romance, youth, introspection, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006
Place: las vegas, usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, friendship, retirement home, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Foreverland (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A sufferer of cystic fibrosis travels to a legendary shrine that reputedly has the power to heal his condition.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: healing power, miraculous event, hopes, self discovery, last wish, on the road, bittersweet, terminal illness, life is a bitch, road trip, church, shrine ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, canada, washington state, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Art of Travel (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: travel, self discovery, adventurer, escapades, canceled wedding, friends, prank, youth, wanderlust, survival, disaster, nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Route 132 (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption.
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: crime spree, self discovery, friends, introspection, haunted by the past, partner, buddies, countryside, dealing with death, unlikely criminals, hopes, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their ...
Plot: native american, native, indigenous people, indians, american indian, nature, injustice, protest, massacre, mine, u.s. government, voice over narration ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Crossroads (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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A Trip (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Style: emotional, realistic, road movie, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, love triangle, on the road, journey, coming of age, youth, lgbt, lesbian, nomad, picnic, love and romance ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hours of Light (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating
Plot: prison, rehabilitation, redemption, unlikely couple, prison life, hopes, murder, love affair, impossible love, nudity, health, male pubic hair ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Older Than America (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: serious, bleak, tense, captivating, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Movie in collections
 7.7
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Fall to Rise (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
Style: contemplative, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious ...
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Somewhere in Indiana (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Drama - An unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger forever changes the life of four travelers visiting the hometown of a James Dean-like celebrity actor. - Colin Alexander, Jeff Angel, David Grant Briggs
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Plot: self discovery, hotshot hero, inventions and discoveries, road trip, secret, spirituality, movie star, mysterious character, reunion
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Waiting for the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: family relations, deportation, village life, village, immigrant, haunted by the past, culture clash, memories, love, identity, nostalgia, love and romance ...
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Place: greece, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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2nd Take (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, love and romance, unfulfillment, hopes, writers, aspiring actress, rivalry, society, showbiz, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Mulberry Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drama centered on a young man working in Rhode Island's state corrections system and his relationship with a convicted murderer who is dying of AIDS and spending his remaining days on hospital detail.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: prison, hospital, redemption, family relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, one more chance, terminal illness, life sentence, haunted by the past, murderer ...
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Romantic Guide to Lost Places (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had ...
Style: road movie, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: travel, unlikely couple, relationships, couple relations, romantic relationship, love and romance, husband wife relationship, chance meeting, road trip, introspection, self discovery
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Fancy Dance (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax has cared for her niece Roki by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological
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Place: oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A bus is setting out to Calcutta from a village in West Bengal. Meenakshi Iyer, who is from a strict orthodox Hindu background, is leaving to Chennai for her husband, with her young child, after the vacation with her parents. By chance, she gets a ...
Style: serious, captivating, atmospheric, emotional, thinking ...
Plot: forbidden love, society, love and romance, culture clash, social differences, political unrest, liberal, conservative, parents and children, rebellion, religious differences, journey ...
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Pandora's Box (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, hopes, elderly, family problems, parents and children, countryside, adolescence vs adulthood, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.7
 3K
Transylvania (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left ...
Style: psychological, captivating, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: self discovery, obsessive quest, couple relations, love and romance, pregnancy, on the road, gypsy, family relations, travel, european, infidelity, couples ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
What If God Were the Sun? (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: hospital, terminal illness, family relations, doctors and patients, hopes, family problems, religions or cults, unfulfillment, wedding, nurse, faith, nurse patient relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.2
 325
Cocaine Angel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A week in the life of a young drug addict.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, mumblecore ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, downfall, drug dealing, hopes, lifestyle, fired from the job, going straight, prostitute, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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