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The Comet (1999)
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The Comet (1999)
Original name: El Cometa
Genre: Musical, Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mexican revolution, revolution, teenage love, youth, circus, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, rebellion, chases and races, society, filmmaking, political unrest, wartime life, idealism, artists and showbiz, hopes, state affairs, lovers on the run, adventure, romance, female director
Time: 20th century, 1900s
Place: mexico, texas, usa, latin america

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about society, family relations, youth, love and romance, hopes, parents and children and fall in love mostly in Drama, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like The Comet: Out of Tune (2008), Vanished Empire (2008), The Kite (2003), The Dust of Time (2008), Civil Love (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Out of Tune (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 139 min.
Story: 'Slightly Out Of Tune' is about a group of friends who come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot: music, friendship, love triangle, fall in love, rise to the top, ambition, desire for fame, love and romance, society, rising to stardom, youth, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, new york
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95%
Vanished Empire (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with ...
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: love triangle, friendship, youth, politics, society, lifestyle, university, young lovers, hopes, idealism, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 6.4
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The Kite (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious
Plot: introspection, teenage life, wartime life, political unrest, culture clash, military, youth, society, life is a bitch, fall in love, couples, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: lebanon, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Dust of Time (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: love affair, love and romance, parents and children, introspection, love triangle, couple relations, politics, starting over, society, state affairs, hopes, political unrest ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: kazakhstan, greece, new york, germany, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Civil Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rachel is a widow during the Civil War who holds the South responsible for her husband's death. When a wounded enemy soldier takes refuge in her barn, Rachel reluctantly helps him. As she gets to know him more, she realizes she must protect him ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, independent film
Plot: american civil war, family relations, fall in love, wartime life, hopes, soldier, life is a bitch, love and romance, hapless soldier, parents and children, farm, strong female presence ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Tear This Heart Out (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: couples, infidelity, fall in love, crumbling marriage, family problems, rise to the top, love and romance, social climbing, state affairs, revolution, ambition, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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 ⇓
65%
The Bag of Flour (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic
Plot: teenage life, rebellion, rebelliousness, discrimination, teenage love, society, youth, love and romance, political unrest, feminism, orphan, little girl ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, year 1984
Place: morocco, africa, middle east, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Pope Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: terminal illness, follow your dream, hopes, parents and children, family relations, coming of age, young lovers, teenage life, unfulfillment, human nature, mother son relationship, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A coming-of-age drama set in contemporary Italy.
Style: serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, melancholic
Plot: politics, family relations, parents and children, misfit, state affairs, hopes, family problems, ship, boy, illegal immigration, immigrant, ocean ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, mediterranean sea, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Banaras: A Mystic Love Story (2006)
Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Banaras: A Mystic Love Story is the name of an Indian Bollywood film directed by Pankaj Parashar released in 2006. The film takes place in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi (the city, once known as Banaras, serves as a destination for the pilgrimage ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: hinduism, guru, family relations, social differences, love affair, culture clash, love and romance, society, fall in love, couples, family problems, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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 ⇓
52%
Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, rough ...
Plot: sexual abuse, life is a bitch, family relations, social decay, woman in danger, rich and poor, family problems, city life, urban ghetto life, gender, youth, sexual harassment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 2K
18 Days (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min.
Story: 10 Film makers made 10 Separate stories about the "25January " revolution in Egypt and the Egyptian people in the revolution and the protests against the previous President Hosni Mubarak and the departure of President Hosni Mubarak and ...
Style: thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, anthology ...
Plot: revolution, idealism, life is a bitch, chaos, hopes, political unrest, state affairs, society, ptsd, arab, egyptian revolution, rally ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 357
Eden (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: disability, multiple sclerosis, housewife, boarding school, waking up, teacher, infatuation, family relations, power relations, couples, unfulfillment, youth ...
Time: year 1996, 60s, 20th century
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Everyday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Beautiful Secret (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, ...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, human nature, rebellion, rebelliousness, hopes, youth, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, elderly, boyhood, bittersweet, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
What the Day Owes the Night (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great ...
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: young lovers, teenage love, friendship, french algerian war, political unrest, revolution, friends, youth, love and romance, love story, love, fall in love ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1953, year 2010 ...
Place: algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Pleasure Boy Komola (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A teenage boy is hired by a colonial era landlord to entertain him until the annual flood is over.
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic
Plot: life is a bitch, youth, society, music band, jealous spouse, child abuse, artists and showbiz, theater, homosexuality, bengali, world, folk music
Place: asia, bangladesh
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Five Hours from Paris (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Only 5 flight hours from Paris, in a working-class suburb of Tel Aviv, two people meet. He is a bred-and-born Israeli and she is a Russian immigrant. He is a taxi driver and she is a music teacher. He has no aspirations. She gave up hers long ago. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, feel good
Plot: single parent, love and romance, family relations, society, fall in love, immigrant, love, divorced parents, music teacher, fear of flying, taxi driver, choir ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Booky's Crush (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: youth, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, society, love and romance, family life, parents and children, working class, coming of age, first love, child ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Mother's Prayer (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Mother's Prayer, starring Robin Givens (Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys), Johnny Gill (legendary R&B singer), Shirley Murdock (Man of Her Dreams) and Jermaine Crawford (HBO's The Wire), tells the compelling, heartwarming ...
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Plot: self discovery, family life, redemption, family relations, family in crisis, last wish, love and romance, hopes, estrangement, family problems, dealing with death, soul ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Under the Same Moon (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: immigrant, friendship, survival, loneliness, obsessive quest, family reunited, escapades, young boy, society, custody, family drama, immigration ...
Time: year 2007
Place: mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 593
President (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot: fall in love, idealism, ambition, intern, politics, hopes, parents and children, family relations, head of state, political intrigue, state affairs, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 422
2 Jacks (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, family relations, parents and children, follow your dream, ambition, hollywood, nightlife, hopes, filmmaking, love and romance, fall in love, gambling ...
Time: year 1992, year 2012, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.3
 485
Wild Iris (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: parents and children, dysfunctional family, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, introspection, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 214
White Water (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: missing child, young heroes, danger, youth, racism, society, family problems, parents and children, discrimination, interracial relations, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 269
Bottled Up (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A solitary woman (Melissa Leo) earning her living by delivering mail and body piercing, makes every attempt to help her volatile adult daughter (Marin Ireland) get on her feet, and in-so-doing neglects herself, channeling all of her womanly desires ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, fall in love, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch, drug abuse, addiction, single parent, profanity, domestic drama, petty theft, contaminated water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Bye Bye Blackbird (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: circus, workplace romance, love affair, couples, working class, artists and showbiz, fall in love, travel, love, friendship, inspiration, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, london, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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