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Mr. Pip (2012)
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Mr. Pip (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 116 min.
Story: As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive “Popeye” (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matilda’s tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: teachers and students, elementary school, wartime life, civil war, friends, social relations, political unrest, state affairs, power relations, teacher, island, dedicated educator, girl, school, ship, writers, art, summer, education, totalitarian regime, grief, coming of age, teaching, black man, village ...
Place: papua new guinea, asia, indonesia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about youth, friendship, society, coming of age, family relations, friends and hopes mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Mr. Pip: Caterpillar (2010), The Invisible Eye (2010), Innocent Voices (2004), The Man Without a Face (1993), Let the Wind Blow (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Caterpillar (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle. All hopes, from the villagers and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the ...
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: japanese soldier, quadriplegic, world war two, family problems, disability, life is a bitch, marital abuse, state affairs, soldier, military, family in crisis, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, china
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The Invisible Eye (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: high school life, political unrest, society, youth, rebellion, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, argentina
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Innocent Voices (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Mexico, USA, Puerto Rico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him
Style: sincere, emotional, political, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot: childhood, coming of age, civil war, freedom, politics, children, child soldier, human spirit, life is a bitch, against the odds, wartime life, political unrest ...
Time: year 2004, 80s
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Man Without a Face (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was ...
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, realistic, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teacher, friendship, coming of age, mentor, loneliness, injustice, teaching the ways of the world, false accusation, teaching, education, disfigurement, children ...
Time: 60s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, rich and poor, follow your dream, social differences, political unrest, parents and children, society, youth, state affairs, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, bombay india
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Cider with Rosie (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: village, coming of age, world war one, childhood, society, youth, friendship, village life, teenager, military police, anti war, girl ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, europe
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Butterfly (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, compassionate, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spanish civil war, coming of age, friendship, civil war, children, teacher, fascism, childhood, depression, anarchist, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
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23%
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Class Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, educational ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: rebelliousness, youth, teachers and students, teenage life, high school life, coping, social relations, power relations, creepy child, psychoanalyst, coming of age, undisciplined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovenia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Rainbow Troops (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra.
Style: touching, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: poverty, social differences, village, teachers and students, youth, school, social relations, self fulfillment, friendship, student, idealism, dedicated educator ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, future
Place: indonesia, asia
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23%
Wicked Spring (2002)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until ...
Style: emotional, epic, sincere, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: american civil war, military, genocide, civil war, battles, wilderness, soldier, weakness, against humanity, politics, heroes, survival ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Time in Quchi (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot: friendship, coming of age, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, boy, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
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22%
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Blackboards (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, Italy, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, educational, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, kurd, uneducated, teacher, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, wartime life, obsessive quest, danger, hopes, teachers and students, wandering ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east, kurdistan, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Letters to Elena (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since ...
Style: captivating, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, protecting from truth, optimism, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, hopes, human spirit, love and romance, fall in love, village, letter, dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Book Thief (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, childhood, adoption, war, nazi germany, human spirit, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage girl, youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, ancient times, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Ode to My Father (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Amid the chaos of refugees fleeing the Korean War in December 1950, a young boy, Duk-soo, sees his fate change in the blink of an eye when he loses track of his younger sister and he leaves his father behind to find her. Settling at Gukje Market in ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, social ...
Plot: family relations, war, father, coal mine, parents and children, hopes, human spirit, friends, coming of age, children in wartime, asian, korean war ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 60s, 70s
Place: korea, south korea, busan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Missing in America (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a former platoon member and his young Amerasian daughter.
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: vietnam veteran, friendship, homecoming, exile, solitary, life is a bitch, society, orphan, redemption, farm, family relations, children ...
Place: usa, asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Sky Hook (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sky Hook (Serbian: Nebeska udica) is a 2000 Yugoslavian film directed by Ljubiša Samardžić. It was Yugoslavia's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: anti war, battles, war, political unrest, wartime life, friends, survival, buddies, danger, life story, international relations, mugging ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: former yugoslavia, balkan, italy, germany
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21%
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The Rocket (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Thailand, Laos
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, down on your luck, contests and competitions, parents and children, friendship, society, human spirit, post war, change of luck, family relations, boy, children ...
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: kids
Plot: boarding school, tragic hero, dedicated educator, society, idealism, social differences, friendship, family relations, youth, teachers and students, teacher, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Cheaters (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teachers and students, high school, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, rivalry, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, society, fraud ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
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21%
The Colors of the Mountain (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Panama
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A motley crew of young boys in Colombia lives only for one passion: soccer. But when their precious new ball rolls into a minefield, their dreams are suddenly on hold. Even as the village becomes the center of a tug-of-war between right-wing ...
Style: realistic, bleak, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Plot: soccer, youth, political unrest, friendship, family relations, soldier, obsessive quest, civil war, social relations, life is a bitch, human nature, military ...
Place: colombia, latin america
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21%
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Son of a Lion (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the Pakistani tribal village of Darra Adam Khel, a young Pashtun boy Niaz Afridi defies the expectations of his father to continue in the family business making weapons and calls for an education.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, follow your dream, family problems, rebelliousness, single parent, against the rules, hopes, parents and children, family business, boy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: pakistan, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Private Peaceful (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, weeping ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war one, war, soldier, love triangle, family relations, military, teenage love, siblings relations, social relations, family life, great war, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, 1910s
Place: england, europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia, China, Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, serious, inspirational ...
Plot: survival, orphan, selflessness, self discovery, rescue, heroes, society, daring rescue, escapades, soldier, danger, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1945 ...
Place: china, asia, east asia
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20%
The Iron Triangle (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: vietnam war, confined, military life, captivity, battles, rebellion, espionage, on the run, life is a bitch, political unrest, wartime life, anti war ...
Time: year 1989
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, mind bending, tense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teacher, school, mental disorder, bullying, children, nudity, youth, dedicated educator, mentally unstable, mischievous children, power relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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20%
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Pastorale 1943 (1978)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.
Style: suspenseful, factual, psychological, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: world war two, life is a bitch, social relations, rebelliousness, human nature, resistance, execution, war, robbery, torture, nazi occupation, dutch history ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Kamchatka (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot: coming of age, life is a bitch, family in danger, family life, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society, totalitarianism, parent child relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Memorial Day (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved.
Style: contemplative, disturbing, bleak, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: vietnam war, legal, hopes, war, moral dilemma, buddies, military, introspection, state affairs, friendship, friends, battles ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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