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Jacquou the Rebel (2007)
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Jacquou the Rebel (2007)
Original name: Jacquou le Croquant
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the PĂ©rigord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
Style: sincere, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, stylized, period drama
Plot: forbidden love, young lovers, rivalry, haunted by the past, injustice, rich and poor, orphan, love and romance, rebelliousness, nobility, napoleonic era, vengeance, peasant, youth, rebellion, social differences, society, power relations, costume, young, adventure
Time: 19th century, victorian era, georgian era
Place: france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about society, youth, love and romance, social differences, power relations, family relations and orphan mostly in Drama, Adventure and Romance genres. Some movies like Jacquou the Rebel: The Whale (2013), The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975), Iron Island (2005), Great Expectations (1999), Freedom (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Whale (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, suspense, scenic ...
Plot: whale, lost at sea, ship, survival, danger, dangerous animal, ocean, escapades, shipwreck, rescue, isolation, catastrophe ...
Time: 19th century
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100%
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, period piece, action adventure, contemplative ...
Plot: revenge, napoleonic era, swashbuckler, prison escape, prison, chivalry, ancient, historical event, fencing, peplum, sorcery, betrayal ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1830s
Place: paris france, france, europe, provence, marseille
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100%
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Iron Island (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: ship, forbidden love, human nature, injustice, power relations, human spirit, hopes, misfit, young lovers, anarchist, youth, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Great Expectations (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, ...
Style: serious, emotional, costume drama, period piece, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couple relations, charles dickens, social differences, society, rise to the top, power relations, hopes, generosity, rags to riches, makeover, napoleonic era, orphan ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style: serious, uplifting, sentimental, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: rich and poor, charles dickens, dysfunctional family, social differences, injustice, family relations, power relations, youth, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, siblings relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s
Place: england, europe, london
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30%
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Freedom (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned". Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: world war two, gypsy, holocaust, racism, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, social differences, family in danger, rebelliousness, rebellion, concentration camp, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009
Place: france, europe
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27%
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Kidnapped (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Scottish orphan David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer (Donald Pleasance), who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that Unk can claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, independent film ...
Plot: sea, historical event, courage, literary, sailing, pirate, captain, intrigue, ship, kidnapping, vengeance, orphan ...
Time: 18th century, year 1971
Place: scotland, europe, france
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26%
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The Sea Wall (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film centers around a young French widow and her two adolescent children attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930's. Their efforts are hampered each year ...
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic, semi autobiographical ...
Plot: corruption, righting the wronged, social differences, fighting the system, lack of money, dam, landowner, family relations, interracial relations, rich and poor, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: cambodia, indochina, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Small World (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, investigation, memory loss, haunted by the past, society, family relations, family life, flashback, power relations, amateur detective, social differences, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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170 Hz (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Nick and Evy are in love. Knowing that Nick is deaf, Evy’s parents do not consent to their relationship. They run away and move into an abandoned submarine, hidden from judgmental eyes. Their runaway love brings them new opportunities and new ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, stylized, atmospheric
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mute or deaf, love affair, love and romance, youth, forbidden love, young lovers, coming of age, rebelliousness, sign language, deaf, women, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Wuthering Heights (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff ...
Style: gothic, costume drama, atmospheric, romantic drama, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, vengeance, wuthering heights, true love, murder, haunted house, past, control, 007, family relations, orphan, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era
Place: yorkshire, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
David Copperfield (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An orphan with a rough childhood becomes a barrister.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, charles dickens, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, social differences, young heroes, society, life is a bitch, child as adult, adulthood, rich and poor, orphan ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Raja (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Plot: opposites attract, fall in love, unlikely couple, social differences, love and romance, society, obsession, youth, orphan, destructive relationship, couples, rich and poor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, africa
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24%
Les Misérables (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 220 min.
Story: The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.
Style: fairy tale, uplifting, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: napoleonic era, manhunt, revenge, broadway, redemption, harassment, falsely accused, wrongful arrest, french revolution, promise, mother love, injustice ...
Time: 19th century
Place: paris france, france
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24%
Great Expectations (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: charles dickens, youth, rich and poor, napoleonic era, social differences, humble, generosity, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, boarding school life, once in a lifetime opportunity, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, victorian era
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24%
Nomadic Childhoods (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Russia, Mongolia, India
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 3 stories, 3 countries. Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia. Nomad children fill a hostile world with their wishes and their dreams. At major cross-roads in their lives, they are confronted by love, danger and death.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: youth, society, love and romance, wilderness, coming of age, danger, tradition versus modernity, hopes
Time: 21st century
Place: mongolia, tibet, asia, russia
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24%
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Jane Eyre (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem ...
Style: costume drama, gothic, atmospheric, emotional, spiritual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: age difference, literary, couples, society, fall in love, youth, love, haunted house, young love, education, spirituality, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel. At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: haunted by the past, tragic hero, redemption, hidden truth, social relations, rise and fall, betrayal, society, family problems, victorian england, dishonesty, mayor ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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On Guard (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his ...
Style: funny, mesmerizing, epic, stylized, serious ...
Plot: fencing, time machine, love story, hunchback, older man younger woman relationship, swashbuckler, disguise, murder, betrayal, father daughter relationship, french countryside, vengeance ...
Time: 18th century, year 1997, 17th century
Place: france, europe
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22%
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
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22%
Araf/Somewhere in Between (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their empty, monotonous ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, art house ...
Plot: forbidden love, against the rules, rebelliousness, love and romance, teenage life, dull life, adolescence vs adulthood, deadend life, pregnancy, miscarriage, women's issues, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey
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22%
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Silent Voice (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An elderly woman wants to meet her son’s murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: prison, youth, redemption, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, love and romance, hopes, confined, prison life, romancing a criminal, teenage love, switching roles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
David Copperfield (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, charles dickens, david copperfield, swing, orphan, boarding school, family relations, family problems, power relations, youth, life is a bitch, young heroes ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: europe, england
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22%
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Dog Sweat (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Intertwines the lives of six young Iranians as they struggle to satisfy their private desires in the face of conservative Islamic society.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, underground film ...
Plot: forbidden love, youth, young lovers, society, love and romance, injustice, bittersweet, repression, muslim, infidelity, hijab, islam ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, tehran iran
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21%
Living on Love Alone (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, youth, love and romance, college graduate, adolescence vs adulthood, love affair, couples, rebelliousness, clubbing, twentysomething life, nudity, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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21%
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Sub terra (2003)
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: serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative, epic ...
Plot: working class, injustice, rebellion, fighting the system, workplace, rebelliousness, political unrest, workplace situations, family business, love affair, racism, society ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.7
 25
G.H.B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, strong female presence, friends, love
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Great Expectations (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: generosity, unfulfilled love, orphan, love and romance, redemption, social differences, charles dickens, hopes, rise to the top, haunted by the past, youth, benefactor ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Restless (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
Plot: love and romance, couples, teenage life, family relations, haunted by the past, youth, teenage love, estrangement, elderly, relationship vs career, aging, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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21%
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
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Story: Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: charles dickens, adoption, single parent, family relations, boarding school, boarding school life, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family in danger, rich and poor, social differences, down on your luck ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
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21%
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