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The Way South (1988)
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Original name: Put na Jug
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, UK, Argentina
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslavia, to find his spouse and take her along. He chooses the youngest daughter of self-supporting Jewish woman. The deceit gets discovered on the way to South America. Seven poor girls, among whom is his future wife, are imprisoned in ship's deck. He took them, promising rich marriage, and his real intention is to employ them in bordello houses of Buenos Aires, where the girls, not knowing the language, would be left to his mercy.
Style:
bleak, period piece, art house, suspense, tragic
Plot:
deception, human trafficking, exploitation, victimization, survival, betrayal, poverty, forced prostitution, manipulation, sex trafficking, social realism, journey, migration, human rights, family drama, moral dilemma, mountain, escape, sea voyage, anti hero, lesbian, revenge, female nudity, tango, immigration ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
former yugoslavia, south america, buenos aires argentina, argentina, yugoslavia
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Most similar movies to The Way South
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, art house, tense and period piece films with plots about survival, poverty, exploitation, social realism, moral ambiguity, human trafficking and isolation mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Way South: Requiem (1982), La bambola (1991), La mia preda (1990), Seaburners (2014), Downfall (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes him into the consulting room instead. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and then notes that his manner of eating is just like that ...
Style:
bleak, art house, period piece
Plot:
post war, sexual repression, sexual awakening, domestic drama, character study, guilt, regret, moral dilemma, moral ambiguity, family secret, longing, intimacy ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man without scruples mistreats his lover and her daughter, a teenager. also in his mind a diabolical plan to force the girl into prostitution.
Style:
dark, bleak, intense, erotic, art house ...
Plot:
prostitution, brothel, sexual abuse, victimization, forced prostitution, abuse, loss of innocence, sexploitation, teenager, abusive stepfather, domestic violence, human trafficking ...
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82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
Style:
dark, emotional, bleak, intense, grim ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, runaway, loss of innocence, coming of age, youth, female protagonist, sexploitation, manipulation, street life, abuse, danger, urban ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, tense, crime drama, bleak ...
Plot:
human trafficking, secrets, moral ambiguity, exploitation, desperation, smuggling, poverty, betrayal, social realism, survival, isolation, character study ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, black sea
Similarity:
72%
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182
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients. A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the ...
Style:
bleak, intense, period piece
Plot:
prostitution, red light district, sex trafficking, exploitation, sexploitation, abuse, human trafficking, forced prostitution, pimp, female protagonist, survival, character study ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 80s
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
64%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.
Style:
bleak, crime drama, intercultural, art house
Plot:
sex trafficking, sex worker, human trafficking, abuse, forced prostitution, exploitation, survival, social commentary, female protagonist, trauma, motherhood, desperation ...
Place:
nigeria, vienna, africa, austria
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1917 Crete, a humble peasant mother raises her orphaned nephew while trying to protect him from an absurd vendetta.
Style:
period piece, melancholic, grim, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
vendetta, motherhood, family drama, protection, revenge, sacrifice, orphan, violence, moral dilemma, social injustice, small town, survival ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917
Place:
crete
Similarity:
58%
265
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Albanian teenager, Saimir, emigrates to Italy to start a new life with his father. His father tries to make a living transporting illegal immigrants. When this fails to make his father any money, he is drawn into an insidious prostitution ring. ...
Style:
crime drama, dramatic, emotional, intense, bleak ...
Plot:
father son relationship, illegal immigration, immigration, exploitation, human trafficking, prostitution, moral dilemma, teenage protagonist, coming of age, identity crisis, survival, love interest ...
Place:
balkan, albania
Similarity:
57%
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159
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
Style:
black and white, crime drama, bleak, neo noir, noir ...
Plot:
boxing, suburbs, survival, desperation, urban decay, poverty, corruption, violence, heist, moral ambiguity, hopelessness, working class ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
56%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Oleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
butcher, male bondage, immigrant, alienation, survival, immigration, migrant worker, exploitation, death threat, social problems, slavery, criminal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brussels, belgium, brussels belgium
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ...
Style:
art house, bleak, reflective, melancholic, depressing
Plot:
nude young male, nudity, teenager, mother son relationship, autobiography, coming of age, adolescence, realism, survival, false accusation, trauma, injustice ...
Place:
eastern europe, russia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
lie, life is a bitch, relationship problems, conflict, couple relations, relationships, social problems, wartime, social realism, armed conflict, survival, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1993
Similarity:
49%
205
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, female protagonist, illegal immigrant, african, exploitation, resilience, street life, illegal immigration, trauma, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, art house, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, migration, anti fascism, social realism, survival, class struggle, oppression, moral dilemma, working conditions, poverty, getting home, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, northern germany
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, abduction, sex slavery, sex trafficking, sexploitation, exploitation, kidnapped child, slavery, slave girl, predator, social issues ...
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46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, ...
Style:
art house, family saga, bleak, period piece, political ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s, year 1979
Place:
kurdistan, turkey, balkan
Similarity:
44%
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Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Feature film.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, bleak, noir ...
Plot:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, bleak, melancholic, tense, tension ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
SILHOUETTE: Nigerian prostitutes dealing with miscellaneous customers EUGLEN & GERTIAN: Daily recruitment of Albanian immigrants seeking work but without working residency permit. SELF SERVICE: a night with Ahmed, egyptian illegal gas ...
Style:
realistic, neorealism, melancholic, intercultural, semi documentary ...
Plot:
immigrant, social commentary, immigration, social realism, survival, exploitation, prostitution, sex work, slice of life, street life, poverty, city life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A fictional retelling of the Regina Express tragedy, in which 22 Dominican stowaways died from suffocation in an attempt of illegal travel in September 1981.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, grim, emotional, period piece ...
Plot:
illegal immigration, desperation, tragedy, suffocation, human rights, human trafficking, poverty, realism, claustrophobia, social injustice, guilt, moral dilemma ...
Time:
80s
Place:
dominican republic, caribbean, puerto rico
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Just as Moses was found in the river Nile, an infant is rescued from a river, and adopted by Miraj, Karim and Sajib in turns over the years, only to be abandoned at the various stages of his life. From innocence to becoming a gangster, the ...
Style:
crime drama, realistic, emotional, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
river, male protagonist, orphan, adoption, identity, coming of age, abandonment, loss of innocence, street life, moral ambiguity, gangster, survival ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young boy follows his violent and alcoholic father on a quest to find his mother, who has run away from his abuse.
Style:
road movie, intense, bleak, indie film, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, village, family drama, domestic abuse, village life, social realism, realism, journey, alcoholism, minimalism, poverty, child protagonist ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
39%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
While waiting for the train to pass (Bennet), an out-of-town businessman notices a destitute girl (Vanessa), freezing in the cold. Suspecting that she will throw herself under the train, he takes the girl with him to a nearby restaurant for a warm ...
Style:
heartbreaking, bleak, emotional, dark, independent film
Plot:
trauma, survival, exploitation, victimization, prostitution, abuse, loss of innocence, sexual abuse, desperation, suicide, child abuse, poverty ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lithuania, Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A thriller about a crook who efforts to get out of the business could cost him his life. Gena is a drug runner who has grown tired of the violence and unpredictability of his life, and he decides it's time to go straight. Gena plans one last ...
Style:
crime drama, captivating, tense, crime thriller, road movie ...
Plot:
betrayal, prostitution, underground, murder, gangster, drug smuggling, murderer, escape, criminal underworld, organized crime, smuggling, russian mafia ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
moscow russia, eastern europe, france, lithuania
Similarity:
37%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up ...
Style:
sensual, tension, period piece
Plot:
femme fatale, carnival, striptease, manipulation, sexuality, seduction, scheming, showbiz, attraction, circus, sexploitation, deception ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Story:
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
survival, poverty, struggle, illegal immigration, exploitation, social realism, city life, working class, resilience, hotel, female friendship, class conflict ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A widow and her daughter join a commune that is actually a front for something much more sinister.
Style:
tense, suspense, intense
Plot:
commune, widow, mother daughter relationship, human trafficking, corruption, danger, exploitation, survival, escape, deception, rescue, paranoia ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
Style:
realistic, period piece, psychological, intense, retro ...
Plot:
sex work, prostitution, sexuality, character study, women's issues, prostitute, exploitation, survival, taboo, branding iron, urban, social realism ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nepal
Story:
Radha, a young pregnant woman from a village in Nepal, embarks on a journey to find her husband, a migrant worker in Doha, who's gone missing, but discovers instead an intriguing web of lies, deceit and fraud behind his disappearance and of ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
female protagonist, poverty, desperation, pregnancy, immigration, social realism, gender issues, resilience, family drama, missing husband, village life, corruption ...
Place:
nepal
Similarity:
35%
108
Genre: Drama
Country: Myanmar, Taiwan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Arranged by a smuggling syndicate, A-Hong and his young teen sister along with a group of Burmese youngsters sneak across the Myanmar/Thailand border and arrive in a remote town called Dagudi in Northern Thailand. A-Hong's sister is taken away ...
Style:
crime drama, bleak, independent film, art house, tense ...
Plot:
border crossing, illegal immigration, social realism, poverty, desperation, exploitation, drug traffic, survival, frustration, hopelessness, rescue mission, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, bangkok thailand
Similarity:
34%
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