Movies like The Iron Orchard

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The Iron Orchard (2018)
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The Iron Orchard (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: “The Iron Orchard" is the story of Jim McNeely, a young man thrust into the vibrant and brutal West Texas oilfields in 1939, who works his way through the ranks to ultimately become a formidable wildcatter.
Style: uplifting, realistic, stylized, intense, period drama
Plot: oil field, love, oil, human relationship, loneliness, justice, human spirit, rise to the top, society, ambition, wisdom of life, life philosophy, storytelling, rags to riches, bittersweet, unlikely friendships, novel
Time: 1930s
Place: texas
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about love and romance, love, society, couples, ambition, friendship and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Iron Orchard: Eye on Juliet (2017), Serena (2014), Forrest Gump (1994), Gaby: A True Story (1987), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Eye on Juliet (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Morocco
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of an unlikely encounter between Gordon, a hexapod operator, and Ayusha, a young woman from the Middle East. Gordon, guardian of a pipeline in this desert region, becomes fascinated by Ayusha, while piloting his robotic spider from the ...
Style: futuristic, sincere, melancholic, touching, whimsical ...
Plot: drone, love and romance, unlikely friendships, traditional versus modern, bittersweet, fall in love, love story, relationships, older man younger woman marriage, loneliness, life philosophy, storytelling ...
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Serena (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a ...
Style: suspense, emotional, depressing, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: jealousy, obsession, twists and turns, tragedy, loneliness, writers, marriage, greed, brutality, family business, illegitimate son, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, year 2014, 20th century, year 1929 ...
Place: north carolina, usa
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83%
 8.8
 2.2M
Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: life & death, philosophy, life philosophy, mentally challenged, destiny, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, storytelling, life, journey ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., vietnam, china, alabama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Gaby: A True Story (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Style: realistic, uplifting, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: disability, hopes, human spirit, college, misfit, forbidden love, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, love, teenage girl ...
Time: 1940s, year 1987, 1930s
Place: mexico, latin america, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style: sentimental, romantic, stylized, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, love and romance, orphan, young woman, mentor ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
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63%
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small ...
Style: emotional, compassionate, atmospheric, sincere, touching ...
Plot: murder, prison, death penalty, tragic love, fighting the system, love, death sentence, introspection, destiny, isolation, social differences, society ...
Time: 19th century, year 2000, 1850s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.5
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6 Years (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A young couple bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, touching, mumblecore ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: first love, relationships, relationship problems, couples, young adult, unfulfillment, twentysomething life, college, coming of age, friendship, love, youth ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, texas, houston texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his ...
Style: serious, sentimental, stylized, epic, romantic ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, caste system, feudal japan, vengeance, politics, love and romance, family life, medieval, edo period, ninja, winter ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Our Meal for Tomorrow (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A 7 year love story between Ryota Hayama and Koharu Uemura from their first date to eventual marriage. Ryota and Koharu are high school students. Ryota is indifferent to people and says very little. Koharu is not afraid of to speak her mind and she ...
Style: romantic, realistic, sweet, melancholic, feel good ...
Plot: friendship, school, life philosophy, destiny, teenager, stereotypes, relationships, youth, life, buddies, loneliness, storytelling ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Desire (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
Style: stylized, captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: love affair, love triangle, dangerous attraction, nazism, infidelity, political unrest, state affairs, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, betrayal, society ...
Time: 1930s
Place: spain, madrid, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
I Capture the Castle (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.
Style: touching, atmospheric, stylized, lyrical, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: castle, writers, coming of age, family drama, eccentricity, beautiful scenery, eccentric family, siblings relations, sisters, sister sister relationship, first love, unrequited love ...
Time: 1930s, year 2003, year 1936, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Handful of Dust (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story beings. Tony and Brenda Last, ...
Style: costume drama, stylized, contemplative, biting, serious ...
Plot: catholic, love, literary, death of son, class differences, adultery, society, couple relations, betrayal, crumbling marriage, dealing with death, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, victorian era, 20th century
Place: england, europe, brazil, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Soong Sisters (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, China
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling (the oldest) married a wealthy and ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: chinese history, tragic love, family love, politics, family relations, strong female presence, siblings relations, rich and poor, state affairs, political unrest, society, ambition ...
Time: 20th century
Place: china, beijing china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Woman Called Golda (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story: The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Style: contemplative, uplifting, captivating, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: biopic, female leader, intrigue, judaism, conflict, politics, jew persecution, historical figure, terminal illness, leadership, state affairs, rise to the top ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: palestine, israel, middle east, usa, milwaukee wisconsin ...
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51%
 5.4
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Bel Ami (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world ...
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place: europe, paris france, france
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48%
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Looking Up (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 147 min.
Story: In the vast space, the astronauts lost connection with the ground. He recalled his greatest father in the most desperate situation. Father and son run across time, guarding love and family. The story is full of joy, warmth, tears and wonders.
Style: uplifting, heartbreaking, inspirational, touching, motivational
Plot: father son relationship, against the odds, rise to the top, financial problem, social problems, family in crisis, single father, hopes, poverty, human spirit, single parent, parents and children ...
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48%
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. ...
Style: psychological, emotional, philosophical, sentimental, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: mathematics, professor, genius, prodigy, philosophy, psychology, life philosophy, life, university, psychotherapy, mentor, existentialism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, 2010s
Place: boston, harvard university, massachusetts, america, persia ...
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47%
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Waterdance (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, talky, psychological ...
Plot: disability, friendship, paraplegic, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human spirit, society, hopes, human nature, physical disability, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Ties (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Naples, early 1980’s. Aldo and Vanda go through a separation, after he reveals his affair. Their two young children are torn between their parents, in a whirlwind of resentment. But the ties that keep people together are inescapable, even without ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, suspense, complex
Plot: family relations, family problems, infidelity, crumbling marriage, estrangement, teenage life, parents and children, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, bittersweet, society, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s
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45%
 7.0
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One Day (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style: sentimental, romantic, sad, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love story, love and romance, best friends in love, friendship, male female friendship, couples, ambition, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, divorce ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: iran, scotland, paris france, london
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44%
The Flight of the Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, bleak
Plot: friendship, ambition, rise to the top, obsession, society, rivalry, idealism, dishonesty, family relations, love, disaster, environmentalism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Falling in Love Again (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style: sweet, romantic, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place: usa, bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Style: costume drama, period piece, factual, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: countess, politics, conspiracy, royal family, revenge, justice, police investigation, nobility, french revolution, royalty, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, ancient times, year 2001, 1780s ...
Place: france, paris france, versailles, europe
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41%
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Lovin' Molly (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, open relationship, polygamy, suburbs, farm, friendship, widow, narration, friends, couples, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.1
 2K
Adalen 31 (1969)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A 1969 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg. It depicts the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district of Ådalen, killing five people, including a young ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, sincere, interesting
Plot: nordic, protest, social realism, nudity, labor union, violent content, sexual content, workplace, dishonesty, boss and employee, rebellion, society ...
Time: 1930s, year 1969, year 1931, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.3
 14K
Recount (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
Style: realistic, political, factual, talky, intense ...
Plot: political conspiracy, president, politics, election, campaign, presidential election, political corruption, democrat, justice, republican, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, florida, texas, washington d.c., nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A look at the life and career of controversial Louisiana governor Huey Long, whose nickname was "The Kingfish."
Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: american politics, politician, royalty, corporation, fascism, assassination, biopic, campaign, rise to the top, society, life is a bitch, media ...
Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Ultimate Life (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Despite his best intentions, billionaire Jason Stevens can’t find enough time to keep his beloved Alexia a priority. But when he discovers his late grandfather’s journal, he is transported back to Red Stevens’ incredible world. With everything ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: christian, self discovery, rags to riches, life lesson, introspection, sent to the past, wisdom of life, family relations, teaching the ways of the world, destiny, once in a lifetime opportunity, lawsuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tibet, haiti
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Love and Distrust (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This collection of five short films artfully portrays desire's ability to both empower and destroy those who encounter it. In "The Summer House," sultry teen Jane (Talulah Riley) is courted by a former beau, Richard (Robert ...
Style: anthology, romantic, realistic, melancholic, intense
Plot: obsession, seduction, love, trust, mistrust, twenty something, betrayal, relationships, manipulation, couple relations, ego clash, prejudice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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