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The Guard (2008)
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The Guard (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Guard is a Canadian drama television series portraying the life of the Canadian Coast Guard along the British Columbia Coast. Filming takes place in Squamish, British Columbia with Howe Sound standing in for the fictional Port Hallet and a real 47-foot Coast Guard lifeboat Cape St. James has been renamed Cape Pacific for the series. The show primarily revolves around the four main characters: Miro Da Silva, Laura Nelson, Andrew Vanderlee, and Carly Greig. There is also a strong supporting cast, including Gordon Michael Woolvett, who worked with Bacic previously on Andromeda, and Eve Harlow, who won a 2009 Leo Award for her role on the show. The show focuses on both the professional and personal lives of the lead characters, confronting issues such as addiction, post traumatic stress disorder, and family problems. It was picked up by Ion premiering March 13, 2010. By late April, it was put on hiatus on the basis that it "did not find a broad enough audience on the network", explained a spokesperson. It subsequently aired for a period on the ION Life digital channel.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, exciting, touching, serious
Plot: coast guard, rescue team, workplace, heroic mission, workplace romance, danger, drowning, search and rescue, friendship, rescue, lifeboat, ocean, heroes, beach, love and romance, workplace situations, boat, saving a life, adventure
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada, pacific ocean, british columbia
Keyword: ocean or sea

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and psychological films and TV series with plots about workplace, workplace situations, workplace romance, power relations, love and romance, couples and hospital mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Guard: Arctic Air (2012), E.N.G. (1989), The Smoke (2014), Rafaela (2011), LAX (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Arctic Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Arctic Air is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. The owners are Mel Ivarson, an old school bush pilot; Krista Ivarson, Mel's daughter; and Bobby Martin, the son of Ivarson's deceased ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: danger, rescue, parents and children, eccentric family, workplace, forces of nature, homecoming, winter, aviation, pilot, airline, family business ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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E.N.G. (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: E.N.G. is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station. The show aired on CTV from 1989 to 1994. The series ran for 96 episodes, produced by the Alliance Entertainment Corporation.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: journalist, journalism, love and romance, workplace situations, ego clash, workplace, power relations, rivalry, boss and employee, media, workplace romance, tv news ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, medical drama
Plot: medical school, workplace situations, couples, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, workplace, intern, doctors and patients, power relations, renewed love, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The Smoke (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: An experienced fire fighter is badly injured and spends almost a year recovering at home. Now he returns to work, but is he as emotionally and physically sound as he thinks he is?
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: firefighter, rescue, workplace, workplace situations, danger, partner, bravery, evacuation, natural disaster, fire brigade, lifesaver, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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Rafaela (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Rafaela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is based on the Venezuelan telenovela of the same name produced in 1977. Scarlet Ortiz and Jorge Poza star as the main protagonists, while Chantal Andere, Diana Bracho ...
Style: captivating, serious, sentimental, realistic, soap opera ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: workplace romance, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, couples, opposites attract, hospital, doctors and patients
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
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LAX (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: LAX is a television drama set at the Los Angeles International Airport and draws its name from the airport's IATA airport code, "LAX". On May 17, 2004 NBC announced that they had picked up the pilot to series. This show was not ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, fast
Plot: airport, rivalry, workplace romance, partner, airline, workplace, sexism, workaholic, aviation, friendship, love, staff ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Living Memories (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The story of families haunted, despite themselves, by a past that has not died.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, parents and children, couple relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, family problems, couples, lesbian love, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: quebec, canada
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3 lbs (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: 3 lbs is a drama that aired on CBS from November 14 to 28, 2006, replacing the cancelled series Smith. The show itself was then canceled three weeks later due to poor ratings. The title refers to the fact that the average human brain weighs ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: hospital, partner, reluctant partners, doctors and patients, doctor, workplace, power relations, neurosurgeon, medicine, friendship, rivalry, colleague ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Black Box (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Catherine Black is a world-famous neurologist at the state-of-the-art medical institution known as "The Cube". Catherine is brilliant, beautiful, and at the top of her game, though she's hiding a secret of her own: she's bipolar. ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: mental illness, treatment, mental disorder, workplace, surgery, workplace situations, therapy, family relations, couple relations, couples, patient, medical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Samurai Girl (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
TV show
Story: This story follows Heaven, who at six months old was the sole survivor of a deadly plane crash. The press had named her Heaven, because it seemed that she fell from the sky. Soon after, she was adopted by the powerful Kogo Family and lived a very ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, teen ...
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Time: 21st century
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Choking Man (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: immigrant, city life, friendship, self discovery, restaurant, diner, workplace romance, workplace, family relations, social misfits, lonely, urban ...
Place: usa, new york
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Life of Lies (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Mentir para vivir is a Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. The telenovela is written by Maria Zarattini, who last wrote La Fuerza del Destino. MayrĂ­n Villanueva and David Zepeda star as the protagonists, while Altair Jarabo, ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, soap opera ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, couple relations, workplace, infidelity, workplace romance, parents and children, couples, workplace situations, love and romance, murder, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, colombia
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Rescue: Pride of Orange (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Kitajima Daichi has wanted to join the rescue squad and wear the same orange uniform ever since he was saved by them as a child. When the squad calls for young firefighters to join, he and some other men take the challenge to go through the tough ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense
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Umizaru (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: coast guard, workplace situations, frogman, relationships, coworker, life is a bitch, male female relationship, scuba diving, long distance relationship, relationship problems, workplace, friendship ...
Place: japan
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Trust Me (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series revolves around Rothman, Greene, and Moore, a fictional advertising firm. The storylines center on the difficulties of securing accounts and the characters' personal lives.
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In Contempt (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: The procedural is set in the fast-paced world of a legal aid office in New York City and follows Gwen Sullivan, an opinionated attorney whose passion for her job and clients make her arguably the most talented public defender in her district.
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Steel River Blues (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: Steel River Blues is a British television drama serial first broadcast in September 2004 on ITV. based on the working and private lives of a group of firefighters in Middlesbrough. Critics were quick to dub the new drama "Middlesbrough's ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
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Place: britain
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Love Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Love Child follows the lives of staff at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and the wild streets of Darlinghurst in the 1960s. Joan Miller is a smart and sophisticated midwife who returns home from London to take a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: australia
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Trauma Center (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a person is seriously injured in an accident, they often have only one hour to live. Dr. Michael "Cutter" Royce (James Naughton) leads a hospital's specialized emergency department that is designed to make maximum use of that one ...
Style: medical drama, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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Presidio Med (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Presidio Med is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 2002, to January 2003. The series centers on a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, medical drama
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, doctor, workplace, clinic, doctors and patients, public health, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, relationship vs career, love and romance, love affair, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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Canterbury's Law (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Elizabeth Canterbury is a force of nature. An attorney on the rise, she puts her career on the line to take on risky and unpopular cases, even when they take a toll on her personal life. Elizabeth and her law professor husband, Matt Furey, haunted ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: legal, lawyer, investigation, courtroom drama, workplace, law firm, price of justice, injustice, lawyers and clients, rivalry, trespassing, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
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Breaking News (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Breaking News is an American drama television series about the fictional Milwaukee-based 24-hour cable news television network I-24, with the motto 'Around the Clock, Around the World.' The series premiered July 17, 2002, on Bravo.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: rise to the top, journalism, workplace situations, boss and employee, workplace intrigue, workplace, news anchor, hotshot hero, media, anchorman, television reporter, cameraman ...
Time: 21st century
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Forgive Me (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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Story: A series that breaks the seal of the Catholic confessional booth. A young insomniac priest gets caught up in the sins of his congregants while a secret from his own past threatens his calling.
Style: sincere, talky, contemplative, psychological, serious ...
Plot: priest, catholic, confession, religions or cults, clergy, society, haunted by the past, small town, church
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Breathless (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
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Story: Hospital drama set in London during the early 1960s, following the staff of a busy gynecology ward at a time when abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just becoming available to married women.
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
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Casualty (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: Casualty, stylised as CASUAL+Y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: hospital, medicine, children, workplace situations, doctors and patients, workplace romance, workplace intrigue, intern, love and romance, nurse, doctor patient relationship, accident ...
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Unite 9 (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Marie Lamontagne, a widowed mother of two in her forties, confesses to a murder she didn't commit to protect her daughter. Thrust into brutally unfamiliar and hostile surroundings, she first learns survival, then confronts the biggest challenge ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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Laws of love (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of two lawyers specializing in family law, Ricardo and Alejandra, that despite coming from two disappointments and being in a world where it seems that love loses strength, before so much divorce, they still have faith in finding true love.
Style: psychological, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, telenovela
Plot: law firm, workplace, lawyer, co worker co worker relationship, court, love triangle, lawyers and clients, rivalry, legal action, society, trial, law ...
Time: 21st century
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Prom Queen (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 1 min.
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Story: Prom Queen is the first web television series produced by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner's new production company Vuguru and veteran web television production company Big Fantastic, the creators of Sam Has 7 Friends. The series, ...
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teens
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Place: los angeles, usa
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Lucky 7 (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: What would you do if you won the lottery? How would it change your life? Follow a group of seven gas station employees in Queens, New York, who have been chipping into a lottery pool for years, never thinking they'd actually win. They need to ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: lottery, family relations, parents and children, workplace, working class, couple relations, change of luck, society, lottery winner, bittersweet, gas station, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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