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Atlantic. (2014)
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Atlantic. (2014)
Original name: Atlantic
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic
Plot: human spirit, starting over, family life, escapades, danger, hopes, ocean, survival, sea, nature, climbing, rock climbing, village, friends, on the road, family relations, village life, society, social relations, unfulfillment, immigrant, immigrants
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: africa, morocco
Keyword: ocean or sea, moroccan

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Most similar movies to Atlantic.

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric and captivating films with plots about hopes, society, family relations, village, immigrant, village life and starting over mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Atlantic.: Hope (2014), Orphan (2009), Under the Starry Sky (2013), Sounds of Sand (2006), Freedom (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hope (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot: survival, on the road, fall in love, rescue, starting over, hopes, love and romance, danger, immigrant, desert, follow your dream, chance meeting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.6
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Orphan (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Chilean family deals with the new values in a quickly changing world.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere
Plot: family relations, social differences, family problems, parents and children, family life, hopes, society, introspection, human spirit, village, family in crisis, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Sounds of Sand (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On the one hand, there's the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there's the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, serious, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: family in danger, survival, on the road, life is a bitch, starvation, militant, parents and children, escapades, desert, social relations, survivor, water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 7.1
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Freedom (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot: desert, disorder, danger, survival, communication problem, fish out of water, lizard, hunger, escapades, culture clash, underground, post soviet ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Wild Ones (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Five juvenile delinquents break out of jail and attempt to make their way to a house in the Mendoza foothills of Argentina.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, bleak
Plot: survival, getting home, juvenile delinquency, hopes, escapades, society, human nature, youth, wilderness, social decay, disintegration, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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61%
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Autumn (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: starting over, love affair, homecoming, released from prison, life is a bitch, hopes, society, love and romance, family relations, reconciliation, parents and children, fighting illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: black sea, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
With a Girl of Himalaya (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Korean executive ventures into the Himalayas in order to deliver the remains of a Nepalese migrant worker to his family.
Style: realistic, emotional, surreal, serious, atmospheric
Plot: family relations, family problems, obsessive quest, fish out of water, dealing with death, misfit, hopes, human nature, escapades, introspection, village, death in the family ...
Place: nepal, korea, asia, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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We All Want What's Best for Her (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, starting over, estrangement, introspection, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, accident, escape, society, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Old Man and the Sea (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, atmospheric
Plot: sea, killer animal, animal, creature, water, nature, elderly, fish, fisherman, obsessive quest, survival, lone wolves ...
Time: 80s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Towrope (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this poetic, richly allegorical debut by Colombian director William Vega, a teenage girl flees to a rundown inn after being driven from her home in the Andean highlands by civil war, as the violence engulfing the country creeps ever closer to her ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, uncle niece relationship, society, life is a bitch, wartime life, against humanity, village, cousin cousin relationship, refugee, survival, nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Once We Were Dreamers (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: bedouin, hopes, starting over, uninhibited rivalry, society, danger, rivalry, survival, escapades, religions or cults, against the odds, desert ...
Time: 1920s, year 1919
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Courage (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: survival, wilderness, island, forces of nature, escapades, danger, human spirit, shipwreck, isolation, family relations, storm, spirituality ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Harragas (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the country via any means possible. Here we meet one such group, Rachid, Nasser and Imene who ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, gloomy
Plot: immigrant, against the rules, danger, hopes, corrupt officer, seaport, refugee, lost at sea, migration, exile, cop, ocean ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa, algeria, spain, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
China: The Panda Adventure (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story: Experience the world of the magnificent and rare Giant Panda as you travel back in time on an exciting expedition through the breathtaking splendor of 1936 China. Inspired by the true-life story of widowed New York socialite Ruth Harkness, a ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, uplifting, exciting
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: adventurer, environmentalism, extinction, danger, human spirit, panda, conservation, escapades, hopes, couple relations, dealing with death, dangerous animal ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: china, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Shun Li and the Poet (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, misfit, life is a bitch, society, workplace, fish out of water, workplace situations, village, poet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Murder in Pacot (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Haiti, France, Norway
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspense
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Time: 21st century
Place: haiti, africa, caribbean
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45%
Just Like a Woman (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, disturbing, sex comedy ...
Plot: belly dancing, dancing, friendship, lifestyle, starting over, self discovery, hopes, on the road, society, unfulfillment, secret, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Morgen (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: NELU, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means posible, to Hungary and then further ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, serious, realistic, social
Plot: self discovery, on the road, human spirit, hopes, immigrant, countryside, unlikely partners, dull life, family relations, immigration, migration, exile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: romania, germany, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Last Winter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gloomy
Plot: farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, society, workplace, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, social relations, village life, village ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Out of My Hand (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Liberia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: ‘What do you want?’ asks the trade union leader, to which the men respond as if with one voice: change! Life is hard work on Liberia’s rubber plantations and wages are meagre. Nothing has changed for generations, but now the workers are ...
Style: contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: workplace, realism, hopes, starting over, society, workplace situations, immigrant, poverty, new life, haunted by the past, strike, plantation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, africa
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Into the Fire (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: TV Movie Drama - Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams
Style: emotional, psychological, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: friendship, survival, hopes, negligence, family life, fighting crime, right hand man, haunted by the past, rescue, danger, curses spells and rituals, death in the family ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: new york
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39%
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The Outlander (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story: It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: friendship, friends, love affair, social relations, village life, village, fall in love, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, alcoholism ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Morning (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, starting over, redemption, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, family in crisis, death in the family, death of child, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Life, Above All (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: child prostitution, poverty, little girl, human spirit, family relations, estrangement, social relations, family problems, hopes, social misfits, society, youth ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Waiting for the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: family relations, deportation, village life, village, immigrant, haunted by the past, culture clash, memories, love, identity, nostalgia, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: greece, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Here and There (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological
Plot: family relations, immigrant, society, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, poverty, worker, migration, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Sleeping Sickness (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ...
Style: atmospheric, emotional, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: losing-it hero, couples, couple relations, heroes, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, plague, getting home, homecoming, family relations, doctor, colonialism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A 91 years old carpenter, who is still in completely good health, has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.
Style: realistic, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: farm, aging, african american, best friend, fighting the system, hopes, rivalry, underdog, ambition, human spirit, society, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Almayer's Folly (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: obsession, parents and children, family relations, society, tragic hero, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, ambition, hopes, racism, rivalry, gambling ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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