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Macondo (2014)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
interracial relations, youth, life is a bitch, society, immigrants, misfit, urban ghetto life, coming of age, urban ghetto, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
austria
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about society, life is a bitch, youth, family relations, misfit, immigrants and hopes mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Macondo: Red Hook Summer (2012), In Between Days (2006), Manpower (2014), Colossal Youth (2006), Letter to the King (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
family relations, fish out of water, society, clergy, life is a bitch, youth, religions or cults, family life, disorder, church, coming of age, misfit ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
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realistic, emotional, sentimental, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, friendship, immigrants, youth, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, society, love, couples, misfit, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada
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89%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
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touching, realistic, thought provoking, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
working the system, social decay, moral dilemma, human nature, introspection, society, boot camp, immigrants, interracial relations, discrimination, realism, life is a bitch ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, urban ghetto life, addiction, starting over, misfit, hopes, immigrants, husband wife relationship, settler, urban ghetto ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada, portugal, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
refugee, love, revenge, happiness, culture clash, human nature, redemption, hopes, misfit, society, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
norway
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, parents and children, culture clash, family relations, realism, youth, misfit, social misfits, society, single mother, discrimination, resilience ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, contemplative
Plot:
ghetto, hip hop, lifestyle, introspection, teenage life, urban ghetto, siblings relations, urban ghetto life, family life, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious
Plot:
society, hopes, starting over, down on your luck, rich and poor, life is a bitch, immigrants, orphan, youth, social misfits, misfit, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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503
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
kids in trouble, social decay, juvenile delinquency, gang, police corruption, urban ghetto life, society, youth, drug dealing, crimes, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
working class, fall in love, couples, society, misfit, immigrants, life is a bitch, security guard, pursuit, gang, danger, youth ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot:
single parent, obsession, family relations, urban ghetto, society, urban ghetto life, coming of age, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, youth ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, bleak, serious, gloomy
Plot:
life is a bitch, orphan, youth, social decay, society, siblings relations, friendship, family relations, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
bosnia
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61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
family relations, couples, couple relations, misfit, social misfits, society, youth, disorder, child abandonment, baby boy, poverty, babies and infants ...
Place:
europe, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, deportation, introspection, musician's life, society, life is a bitch, music, estrangement, immigrants, down on your luck, farm
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, sincere
Plot:
couple relations, immigrants, society, couples, lifestyle, trying to get pregnant, family relations, female protagonist, strong female presence, urban, woman
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, animal life, parents and children, danger, life is a bitch, adventure, society, friends, youth, pets, family relations, barking dog ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
"South of Pico" is an emotionally charged drama in which four strangers witness an unimaginable tragedy and are catapulted into the defining moment of their lives. Set in present day Los Angeles, a chauffeur, a waitress, a doctor and a ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, psychological
Plot:
interracial relations, society, graphic violence, physician, driver, winning, wedding dress, cigarette smoking, sex, waitress, boy, chauffeur ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, friendship, society, youth, family relations, hip hop, hopes, music, strong female presence, urban ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, semi documentary, gloomy ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, addiction, social misfits, misfit, society, down on your luck, drug abuse, heroin addict, urban ghetto life, city life, poverty, urban ...
Time:
90s
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
lifestyle, friendship, bittersweet, love and romance, downfall, couples, designer, life is a bitch, store, youth, friends, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, immigrants, life is a bitch, love and romance, society, misfit, youth, romance, social relations, friends, human nature, fish out of water ...
Time:
90s
Place:
austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
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.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot:
immigrants, family relations, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, working class, unemployment, unfulfillment, prairie, ship, down on your luck
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 30s, 20s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
autism, parents and children, moral dilemma, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, society, social misfits, single parent, youth, child illness, family problems, nursing ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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555
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:
realistic, emotional, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, human spirit, reach out, power relations, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, female director
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
prostitute, gay, male prostitute, misfit, life is a bitch, drug abuse, addiction, youth, social misfits, urban ghetto, drugs/alcohol, drug dealer ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
going straight, life is a bitch, street kid, parents and children, family relations, society, hopes, urban ghetto life, single parent, urban ghetto, netflix
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious
Plot:
immigrants, human spirit, social decay, friendship, follow your dream, society, hopes, bittersweet, mexican immigrant, u.s. mexico border, workplace, misfit ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, sincere, bleak
Audience:
kids
Plot:
life is a bitch, kids in trouble, teenage life, homeless, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, society, youth, family problems, love, urban ghetto life, loneliness ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
sport, follow your dream, hopes, immigrants, ambition, athlete's life, youth, life is a bitch, athlete and trainer, soccer, football, desire for fame ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, africa, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Republic of North Macedonia, Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
social decay, introspection, dysfunctional family, family relations, daydreamer, society, family problems, life is a bitch, small town, adult virgin, siblings relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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