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Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (2006)
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Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Fictional portrayal of 'The Summer of 1990' in Kanehsatake: the major conflict between a Mohawk community and the Canadian and Quebec governments - over the expansion of a golf course into an aboriginal cemetery.
Plot: civil rights, crisis, native american, inuit, indigenous, mohawk, native americans
Time: 90s, 1990s
Place: quebec, canada

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Most similar movies to Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and psychological films and TV series with plots about indigenous, family relations, indigenous people, workplace, native, love and romance and workplace situations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis: Beans (2020), Elijah (2007), E.N.G. (1989), Where the Spirit Lives (1989), Unite 9 (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Beans (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and ...
Plot: coming of age, mother daughter relationship, woman, politics, young girl, land dispute, woods, showdown, girlhood, driving, grownups, first kiss ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: quebec, canada
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Elijah (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story: The story of Elijah Harper.....
Plot: native american, native, ethnicity, native american reservation, racism, indian reservation, racial slur, indigenous, part animation
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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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Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be ...
Plot: native american, native, kidnapping, genocide, child abuse, indians, american indian, historical event, indigenous people, boarding school, school, culture clash ...
Place: canada
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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
Plot: women's prison, prison, family problems, attempted murder, confined, prison life, rehabilitation, psychologist, family in crisis, warden, lgbtq, pop culture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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Windfall and Misfortunes (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: On April 1st, 1986, Jean-Guy Lavigueur, an unemployed blue-collar worker and his family won 7.6 million dollars. At the time, it was the largest amount ever won at Loto-Quebec's 6/49 weekly draws. What should have been the beginning of a ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, fairy tale, offbeat
Plot: lottery winner, society, life is a bitch, unemployment, working class, rags to riches, dysfunctional family, poverty, nouveau riche, female nudity, abusive boyfriend, rebellious daughter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: quebec, canada, montreal
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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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Hammarkullen (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
TV show
Story: Welcome to new Sweden. Will Kristina manage to seduce the janitor? Can the employment officer convince Mohammed to take a black job? Does the balloon man abuse helium?
Plot: suburbs, immigration, racism, neo nazi
Time: 90s
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The Plouffe Family (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min.
Story: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Plot: world war two, family relations, great depression, conscription, religion, catholic, french canadian
Place: quebec, canada
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52%
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Little Bird (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: As part of a racist government policy now known as the Sixties Scoop, Bezhig Little Bird is removed from her home in Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan and adopted into a Montréal Jewish family at the age of five, becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in ...
Style: serious, thrilling, dramatic, captivating, psychological
Plot: female protagonist, foster home, family relations, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family drama, woman, search for mother, social problems, adoption, racial discrimination, indigenous people ...
Time: 80s, 60s
Place: canada, north dakota, montreal
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Hillside (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: Hillside (known as Fifteen in the United States) is a Canadian-American teen drama that aired on YTV in Canada from 1991 to 1993. Created and produced by John T. Binkley, the series was Nickelodeon's only teenage soap opera. The show was shot ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, soap opera, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, high school life, teenager, teen social issues, love and romance, rebelliousness, buddies, teenage love, childhood sweetheart, friendship, youth, high school hunk ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
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The Porter (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In 1921, friends and train porters Junior and Zeke find their unbreakable bond stretched to its limits when tragedy inspires them to take conflicting paths to a better life.
Style: captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: black cast, labor union, social problems, fighting the system, civil rights, black people, social issues, civil rights movement, black american, race issues, life is a bitch, labor leader ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: canada
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Million Dollar Babies (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: When Oliva (Roy Dupuis) and Elzire (Céline Bonnier) Dionne have quintuplets in rural 1930s Canada, news of their uncommon family spreads like wildfire and steps up local tourism, thanks in part to an opportunistic town doctor (Beau Bridges) who ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, crying ...
Plot: celebrity, twins, young heroes, faith based, exploitation, nurse, doctor, family relations, village life, countryside, desire for fame, innocence lost ...
Time: 1930s
Place: quebec, ontario canada, canada, manhattan new york city
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L'heure bleue (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: L'Heure Bleue follows a family trying to recover from a devastating loss. Anne-Sophie leaves her house and family hoping to start afresh and fleeing the grief.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: family tragedy, life is a bitch, family problems, tragic past, tragic event, dysfunctional family, house
Place: quebec
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Chouchou (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Style: captivating, dramatic, psychological, suspenseful
Plot: teacher student sex, horny woman, teacher student relationship, sex scene, cheating wife, extramarital affair, sexually dissatisfied wife, male nudity, unfaithfulness, horny wife, infidelity, cuckolded husband ...
Place: quebec
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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
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Arctic Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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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1992 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
TV show
Story: Set in Rome, Milan and different Italian cities, the TV series offers a thrilling story following six people whose lives are intertwined with the rapidly changing political landscape in the early 1990s, during which Italy was gripped by the Clean ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological, erotic ...
Plot: politics, corruption, investigation, italian history, politician, revolution, law enforcement, state affairs, rebellion, crisis, cosa nostra, government corruption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: italy, milan italy, rome italy
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The Trojan Horse (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The story begins while a nationwide referendum is being held to decide whether or not Canada will join the United States. The people of Canada vote to join the U.S., while Prime Minister Tom McLaughlin (Paul Gross) watches the results on the news.
Style: captivating, political, disturbing, tense
Plot: politics, political intrigue, political corruption, political unrest, political campaign, president, social relations, world politics, politician, presidential candidate
Place: canada
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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 ...
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: coast guard, rescue team, workplace, heroic mission, danger, workplace romance, drowning, search and rescue, friendship, rescue, lifeboat, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, british columbia, pacific ocean
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Fragile (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Fragile tells the story of two diametrically opposite families: the wealthy, influential Bachands, and the salt-of-the-earth Coutures. It’s also the story of an unlikely friendship, that of Dominic Couture (Pier-Luc Funk) and Félix Bachand ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, psychological
Plot: tragedy, friends, small town, friendship, life is a bitch, small town life, family secret, secret, car accident, psychology, friendship between men, ex convict
Place: quebec
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Forgive Me (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
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
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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36%
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Denmark, Greenland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great ...
Style: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot: spirit, shaman, culture clash, native american, family relations, religions or cults, couples, clergy, society, hopes, husky dog, tradition ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: canada
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36%
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Harry (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Harry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. The programme concerned a journalist called Harry Salter who ran a news agency in the town of Darlington in England.
Plot: photographer, british, investigative journalism, journalist, journalism, secretary, newspaper article
Time: 90s
Place: northern england
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H2o (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and corruption.
Style: psychological, captivating, political, thrilling
Plot: politician, politics, government conspiracy, conspiracy, drowning, prime minister, national security, political intrigue, corruption, political conspiracy, political corruption, corrupt politician ...
Place: canada
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Bones of Crows (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Bones of Crows is a psychological drama told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch Aline Spears, as she survives Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and ...
Style: dramatic, crying, sad, psychological, serious ...
Plot: world war two, indigenous people, violent, american indian, violence, grief, hunger, generation, racism, priest, indians, catholic church ...
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Crash & Burn (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Cra$h & Burn is a Canadian television drama series created by Malcolm MacRury. The show takes place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where it is also filmed. The series stars Luke Kirby as Jimmy Burn, a claims investigator for Protected Insurance.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: legal, insurance, bare chested male, strip club, russian mafia, male female friendship, premarital sex, female lawyer, insurance company, office politics, engagement, insurance agent ...
Place: canada
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The Necessities of Life (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes ...
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot: tuberculosis, disease, wilderness, isolation, hospital, illness, hopes, human spirit, friends, friendship, husky dog, doctors and patients ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: canada
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Black Dog Inn (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The saga of the Trudeau family and the trials and tribulations of dealing with each other while trying to run a small hotel. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The family patriarch, George, spent the family fortune and bought the Inn. When the ...
Style: psychological, captivating, sincere
Plot: hotel, family business, hotel receptionist, business, coworker, workplace situations, family relations, teamwork, dog, inheritance, workplace, brothers ...
Place: quebec
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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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