Movies like The Irishman 1978
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The Irishman (1978)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family relations, family life, society, wilderness, lone wolves, culture clash, against the odds, horse, technology, irish, team, horse riding, outback, progress, australian outback, bush, adventure, family
Time:
1920s, 20s
Place:
ireland, australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about family relations, society, love and romance, couples, family life, fall in love and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Irishman: Falling for a Dancer (1998), Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), The Waiting City (2009), The Call of the Toad (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, countryside, pregnancy, couples, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, love and romance, society, haunted by the past, love affair, tragic love, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
ireland, europe
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95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot:
forbidden love, rich and poor, fall in love, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, islam
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
indonesia
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91%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
family relations, mischievous children, downfall, family life, couples, family problems, society, human nature, love and romance, dysfunctional family, parents and children, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, 20th century, 1890s
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, realistic, touching, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
adoption, couple relations, family relations, hopes, society, city life, love, rivalry, culture shock, spirituality, couples, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
fascism, family relations, society, love and romance, stereotypes, nazi germany, grandfather grandson relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother son relationship, heist, marketplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
couples, taxi, love affair, forbidden love, journalism, immigrants, society, politics, love and romance, misfit, immigration, greek ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
ira, anglo irish relations, murder, estate, couples, revolution, family relations, political unrest, alcohol abuse, family life, fall in love, vengeance ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with her.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, family life, parents and children, homecoming, single parent, unsupportive spouse, family relations, older man younger woman relationship, love, women, family problems, troubled relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
irish republican army, political unrest, coming of age, society, state affairs, mysterious character, youth, dangerous attraction, teenage boy, ira, friendship, independence ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
disorder, midlife crisis, leaving home, introspection, crumbling marriage, family problems, estrangement, family relations, family life, change of heart, career change, birthday ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, ireland, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
true love, ira, anglo irish relations, irish republican army, snitch, family problems, religions or cults, militant, family relations, society, love and romance, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
family relations, labor union, farm, against the odds, down on your luck, family life, workplace situations, survival, life is a bitch, society, farm hand, great depression ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, culture clash, single parent, society, neo nazism, immigration, holocaust survivor, jewish, misfit, siblings relations, immigrants ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
israel, middle east, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
family relations, nubile woman, couples, family problems, matchmaking, family life, working class, siblings relations, family in crisis, forces of nature, world war two, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
interracial relations, culture clash, tragic love, forbidden love, human spirit, true love, fall in love, parents and children, injustice, youth, couple relations, society ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
australia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, coming of age, affair, love, age-gap relationship, family relations, youth, friendship, family disapproval, sexual initiation, shyness ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
tragic love, family relations, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, looking for love, diary, baby born, baby, letter, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 480 min.
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Style:
serious, captivating, stylized, saga, realistic
Plot:
love affair, couple relations, family life, culture clash, strong female presence, society, parents and children, bittersweet, social relations, family relations, couples, village life ...
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80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
love and romance, obsession, buddies, teenage love, teenage life, best friends, coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, fascism, friends, youth, society ...
Time:
70s
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
youth, family relations, love affair, teenage love, family problems, love and romance, lifestyle, society, teenage life, family life, life turned upside down, farm ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, forbidden love, parents and children, society, social misfits, unlikely couple, village life, village, self discovery, family relations, drunkenness, girl ...
Time:
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Place:
estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each ...
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Audience:
teens
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faith, sibling rivalry, introspection, moral dilemma, family problems, redemption, society, love affair, family life, love triangle, religious, mormon ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s, 1820s
Place:
new york state, vermont, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
Style:
touching, realistic, compassionate, psychological, twisted ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
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mental institution, diary, tragic love, female protagonist, destiny, mental illness, irish, life is a bitch, injustice, false accusation, obsession, priest ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
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ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style:
political, realistic, serious
Plot:
australian aboriginal, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native american, segregation, couples, family relations, life is a bitch, youth, love and romance, misfit, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet in Jerusalem involving a Palestinian woman and an Israeli man.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, against the odds, opposites attract, unlikely couple, social differences, religions or cults, couples, young lovers, love and romance, society, fall in love, tragic love ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
jewish, moral dilemma, fall in love, love and romance, society, immigrants, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, misfit, engagement, emigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
ireland, europe
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43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Bollywood film about the famous courtesan of the title. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
Style:
captivating, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
courtesan, life is a bitch, social differences, forbidden love, prostitute, society, impossible love, destiny, curses spells and rituals, abduction, brothel, politics ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
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chick flick
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marriage of convenience, fall in love, couples, death in the family, society, religions or cults, cardiologist, family tradition, family relations, friendship, love and romance, happy ending ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
greece, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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