Movies like The Navigators
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The Navigators (2001)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there will be the inevitable winners and losers as downsizing and efficiency become the new buzzwords.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
working class, unemployment, friendship, human spirit, life is a bitch, fighting the system, society, workplace intrigue, workplace, injustice, small town, realism, corporate crime, anarchist, social realism, working conditions, politics, friends, down on your luck, anti capitalism, innocence lost, tragic hero, small town life, workplace situations, accidental death ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
england, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and gloomy films with plots about society, life is a bitch, working class, workplace, family relations, unemployment and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres. Some movies like The Navigators: Mondays in the Sun (2002), It's a Free World... (2007), Riff-Raff (1991), Work Hard, Play Hard (2003), Eat Sleep Die (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
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touching, sincere, realistic, political, psychological ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
working class, seaport, friendship, society, destiny, redemption, small town, unemployment, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, family problems ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain, rio de janeiro, iberian peninsula, australia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film focuses on Angie (Kierston Wareing), a working class woman who, after being fired by the agency that she works for, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis). Taking ...
Style:
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realism, fighting the system, employment agency, injustice, legal, life is a bitch, society, workplace, workplace situations, cons and scams, social differences, working class ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of Stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer, serves to show the living conditions of the British poor class.
Style:
political, humorous, gloomy, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
working class, chaos, pop singer, poverty, nude, sexual content, misfit, labor union, homeless, buddies, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, london, england
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45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a factory, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, boss and employee, society, workplace, life is a bitch, couples, factory, unemployment, couple relations, workplace situations, power relations, friendship between men ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, unemployment, realism, society, unfulfillment, workplace, parents and children, fired from the job, coming of age, family relations, supportive coworker, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIES CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during ...
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realistic, serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, working class, labor union, ambition, human spirit, fighting the system, rebellion, injustice, rebelliousness, society, legal, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
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34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A luckless Beijinger opens an adult shop to make ends meet, sparking a sexual revolution in his conservative neighborhood.
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
society, fighting the system, rebellion, family relations, life is a bitch, against the rules, workplace, store, parents and children, workplace situations, farce, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia, beijing china
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1897, in Lota, Chile, in the face of long days, low pay, debts to the company store, unsafe and deadly working conditions, and widespread child labor, men try to establish a miners' association at one of the largest coal mines in the world. ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, captivating, epic ...
Plot:
working class, injustice, fighting the system, rebelliousness, rebellion, workplace, racism, political unrest, family business, workplace situations, love affair, human nature ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Japan, South Korea, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere, neo noir ...
Plot:
youth, unemployment, life is a bitch, society, family relations, teenage life, unemployed, lifestyle, buddies, music band, friends, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of the laborer family Debruycker during the turbulent strike by Vieille Montagne in 1971.
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realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
fighting the system, working class, rebellion, labor union, factory worker, society, human spirit, parents and children, workplace situations, life is a bitch, family life, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 2006, a journalist in financial problems, a woman who dresses as a man and a troubled taxi driver become friends, and gradually, an awkward, strong emotional bond emerges among them, especially when they decide to play a confidence game.
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friendship, injustice, life is a bitch, human nature, drug abuse, social decay, drug dealing, prostitute, society, unemployment, youth, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
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thought provoking, disturbing, realistic, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
fighting the system, rebellion, price of justice, against the odds, poverty, life is a bitch, society, human nature, human spirit, legal, ambition, racism ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed mini-series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive.
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realistic, serious, bleak, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
unemployment, working class, social realism, realism, layoff, family relations, society, life is a bitch, down on your luck, life turned upside down, parents and children, labor union ...
Time:
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Place:
northern england, europe, england, liverpool
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Spain 1960, the dawn of the country's economic development. Industrial "reorganization" means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin, his wife Pilar and their son Pablito live ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good
Plot:
emigration, culture clash, society, family relations, politics, social relations, working class, workplace, family problems, unemployment, immigrants, job seeking ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
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Place:
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, sincere, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, fall in love, parents and children, social differences, society, working class, feminism, injustice, interracial relations, friendship, human nature, pregnancy ...
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1940s
Place:
virginia, mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him ...
Style:
gloomy, bleak, thought provoking, visually appealing, affectionate ...
Plot:
working class, unemployment, parents and children, rain, poverty, runaway, religion, beautiful scenery, life, catastrophe, character study, shark ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, england, manchester, europe, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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biting, realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
unemployment, boy, motorcycle, job interview, friendship, social decay, down on your luck, injustice, friends, family relations, power relations, life is a bitch ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of ...
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Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple in a Polish village. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet.
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pets, small town, social relations, social misfits, crumbling marriage, working class, misfit, society, intolerance, camel, husband wife relationship, circus ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 88 min.
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This movie tells a story of young people from 'Ant tribe' in Beijing. By telling the story of these young people, Today and Tomorrow shows the psychological changes of college graduates. It reflects their confusion about future and love. ...
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Story:
Brian Cox stars as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas (Dano), a ...
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Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
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serious, realistic, sincere, touching
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A microcosm of the fathomless suffering that remains more than 16 years since the siege of Sarajevo ended, writer-director Aida Begic’s follow-up to her 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize-winning debut Snow tells the story of two orphaned ...
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realistic, thought provoking, bleak, serious, gloomy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 107 min.
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A wealthy Columbian politician blinded by his own privilege is forced to walk a mile in the shoes of the people he despises most after falling victim to a violent attack and subsequently losing his memory. Miguel was a man of fine stock, a ...
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