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The Irishman (1978)
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The Irishman (1978)
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: independent film, 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, team, horse riding, outback, progress, australian outback, bush, adventure, family
Time: year 1978, 1920s, 20s
Place: ireland, australia
Keyword: irish

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The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)
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 ...
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Time: 19th century, 1900s, edwardian era, 1890s
Place: america
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The Waiting City (2009)
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 ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, kolkata
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Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011)
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, indonesian
Plot: forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, rich and poor, love and romance, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: indonesia
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The Call of the Toad (2005)
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: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot: fascism, family relations, society, love and romance, stereotypes, nazi germany, grandfather grandson relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother son relationship, woman, mugging ...
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Fools of Fortune (1990)
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, independent film
Plot: ira, anglo irish relations, murder, family relations, arson, family life, alcohol abuse, political unrest, society, vengeance, rebellion, state affairs ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
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Costas (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Drama directed by Paul Cox.
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Place: australia, greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
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This Is the Sea (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 100 min.
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The Green Chariot (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
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Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
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Love Is Blind (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia
Duration: 98 min.
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The Brown Girls (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 480 min.
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My Australia (2011)
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Duration: 97 min.
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Waiting for the Clouds (2004)
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An Italian Romance (2004)
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The Dawning (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
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Duration: 98 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 109 min.
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Duration: 120 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
Story: An emotional and poetic story of Elise, a beautiful young woman haunted by a tragic event in her youth. As Elise attempts to piece together the mystery of her sister's disappearance at the beach, twenty years before when both were children, she ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
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Over the Hill (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
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The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
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