Movies like Independence

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Independence (2009)
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Independence (2009)
Original name: Independencia
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Philippines, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest, and decides to bring her home.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, gloomy, black and white
Plot: family in danger, survival, parents and children, fugitives, couples, isolation, political unrest, state affairs, woods, husband wife relationship, colonialism, sick mother, mountain, family relations, rape, forest, cold, dream, runaway, rain, child, spaniard, independence, death of mother, mother son relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: the philippines, asia
Keyword: american, filipino

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, society, couples, life is a bitch, youth and family problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Independence: The Dust of Time (2008), When the Night (2011), Kamchatka (2002), Liverpool (2008), Let the Wind Blow (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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95%
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When the Night (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: family relations, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, parents and children, mountain, cheating wife, brother brother conflict, unfaithful husband, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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 ⇓
62%
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Liverpool (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: sailor, homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, rich and poor, follow your dream, social differences, political unrest, parents and children, society, youth, state affairs, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Prize (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: school, dictatorship, military, rebelliousness, parents and children, political unrest, family in danger, family relations, repression, rebellion, dishonesty, village ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Among Us (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a mysterious stranger with ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: couple relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, thoughtful, life turned upside down, family in crisis, down on your luck, family relations, cigarette smoking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Siberia, Monamour (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. ...
Style: touching, gloomy, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: wilderness, elderly, danger, life is a bitch, isolation, orphan, woods, survival, nature, wilderness survival, post soviet, old man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Yuki & Nina (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Yuki finds out that her parents are separating and she is moving to Japan with her mother, she and her best friend Nina devise ways to reunite the feuding adults.
Style: serious, touching, stylized, sincere, aesthetic ...
Plot: friendship, forceful separation, best friend, starting over, youth, hopes, on the run, family problems, family relations, breakup, parents and children, parents separation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: life is a bitch, world war two, parents and children, nationalism, wartime life, political unrest, japanese military, state affairs, unsupportive parent, single parent, death in the family, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Maddened by His Absence (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: starting over, couple relations, lovers reunited, parents and children, couples, family relations, death in the family, dead son, loss of child, dealing with death, basement, dead brother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
I Travel Alone (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, youth, friends, society, couples, nordic, twentysomething life, student life, night ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Chronicle of the End of the World (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A retired teacher fears the world is coming to an end when his jobless son is abandoned by his wife after having a baby.
Style: touching, serious, suspenseful, sexy, gloomy
Plot: family relations, parents and children, couples, crumbling marriage, human nature, elderly, husband wife relationship, family crisis, father son relationship, conflict, urban, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
45%
Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: snowstorm, survival, frostbite, hypothermia, rescue, wilderness, babies and infants, danger, heroes, isolation, forces of nature, family life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Drama starring Norma Aleandro, Conrado Valenzuela, Fabio Aste
Style: serious, touching, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, isolation, estrangement, dictatorship, relocation, death of mother, youth, grandmother grandson relationship
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Dance Town (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: social differences, starting over, couples, injustice, political corruption, forceful separation, life is a bitch, state affairs, couple relations, dishonesty, society, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, north korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.1
 184
Bad Girl (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: parents and children, family problems, couples, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female nudity, bullfighting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 427
Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Melancholia (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 450 min.
Story: A story about victims of summary executions. Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies.
Style: bleak, psychological, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: sex show, friendship, friends, wilderness, haunted by the past, survival, danger, life is a bitch, prostitute, therapy, pimp, underground ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, death in the family, parents and children, against humanity, love and romance, society, trial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, germany, middle east, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Buffalo Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. ...
Style: touching, contemplative, serious, realistic
Plot: boy, father son relationship, corpse, poverty, family relations, society, introspection, youth, self discovery, forces of nature, parents and children, occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, indochina, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Balancing Act (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, breakup, life is a bitch, couples, unfulfillment, downfall, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Cruel Embrace (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy, touching ...
Plot: mental disorder, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, isolation, kids in trouble, family relations, estrangement, family problems, single parent, misfit, mentally challenged ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Father and Son (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A small family "a father and a son" lives on the top floor of an old house. The father retired from the military, when he was a student in flight school, he experienced the first and the only love of his life. This girl became his wife and ...
Style: serious, psychological, touching, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: father son relationship, youth, family relations, soldier, parents and children, single parent, haunted by the past, human nature, homosexual subtext, adolescence vs adulthood, lgbt, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
My Friend & His Wife (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two young men, Ye-joon and Jae-moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye-joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a successful financier, while the unambitious Jae-moon has opted for a much less conspicuous route. ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family in crisis, family relations, unfulfillment, family problems, parents and children, couples, crumbling marriage, best friend, love triangle, tragedy, betrayal, car accident ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
At Five in the Afternoon (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style: serious, bleak, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot: survival, injustice, hidden identity, danger, political unrest, religions or cults, family relations, life is a bitch, state affairs, war, dishonesty, feminism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Adela (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Adela, (Philippines' screen legend Anita Linda) a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday. Alone, and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone by. Mundane events take on heightened meaning as Adela ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: realism, human spirit, elderly, aging, society, life is a bitch, parents and children, family life, loneliness, slum, girl, cemetery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Stand-by (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, offbeat, independent film
Plot: prostitute, airport, friendship, feminism, starting over, couples, breakup, fish out of water, husband wife relationship, self esteem, sex, relationships ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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