Movies like Mediterranea

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Mediterranea (2015)
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Mediterranea (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva adapts to life in Italy, but when tensions with the local community rise, things become increasingly dangerous. Determined to make his new situation work he attempts to weather the storm, but it has its costs.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, touching, captivating, melancholic, political, independent film, crying ...
Plot: illegal immigration, migration, interracial relations, friendship, family relations, father daughter relationship, job seeking, mother daughter relationship, drunkenness, promise, storytelling, refugee, exile, migrant, chaos, black, blaxploitation, dog, dancing, ship, fight, money, police officer, train, teacher ...
Place: italy, africa, libya, algeria, mediterranean sea
Keyword: french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about cigarette smoking, family relations, drinking, dancing, food, dancer and drink mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Mediterranea: The Ciambra (2017), My Mother (2015), Blue Bayou (2021), In This World (2002), To Chiara (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Ciambra (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio ...
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Time: year 2017
Place: italy, southern italy, rome italy
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My Mother (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
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Blue Bayou (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Style: thought provoking
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Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
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To Chiara (2021)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 121 min.
Story: The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 110 min.
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Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1968
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
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Drifters (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The young adult life of Hong Yunsheng, nicknamed Little Brother, is seen as somewhat of a failure by those that know him. A Chinese national, he stowed away on a boat to the United States, where he worked as a dishwasher in the restaurant of a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, crying
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Time: 21st century
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Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
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Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: disturbing, captivating, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
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Audience: family outing
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Time: 21st century
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Time: year 2002, 21st century
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