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Visit to a Chief's Son (1974)
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Visit to a Chief's Son (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
Style: independent film, uplifting, touching, offbeat, serious, realistic, learning
Plot: african tribe, youth, anthropologist, friendship, parent child relationship, friends, family relations, parents and children, society, solar eclipse, culture clash, human nature, curses spells and rituals, school, airplane, nature, lion, owl, education, ritual, father son relationship, hyena, elephant, buffalo, zebra ...
Time: 70s
Place: africa
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, youth, friendship, friends, parents and children, coming of age and society mostly in Drama, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like Visit to a Chief's Son: Face (2002), Exit Marrakech (2013), Smile (2005), Under the Starry Sky (2013), White Hunter Black Heart (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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Exit Marrakech (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and ...
Style: sincere, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: interracial relations, impossible love, defiant, teenage boy, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, conflict, prostitute, family problems, estrangement, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, africa
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Smile (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Introduced to a volunteer opportunity with the Doctor's Gift Program, Katie (Mika Boorem) signs up for a trip to China, where she meets Lin (Yi Ding), a girl with whom she shares a birthday. Lin has a facial deformity that discourages her from ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: friendship, social differences, culture clash, teenage life, human spirit, human nature, society, misfit, teaching the ways of the world, disfigured, journey, rich and poor ...
Time: year 2005
Place: china, california, usa, asia, malibu california ...
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76%
Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
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White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa
Style: talky, melancholic, enigmatic, exciting, serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, obsession, wilderness, hunting, movie business, elephant, storytelling, obsessive quest, friendship, danger, friends, racial slur ...
Time: 50s, year 1990, 20th century, 1950s
Place: africa, uganda, london
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Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, russia, europe
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Off the Black (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nick Nolte) gets a younger friend (Trevor Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic
Plot: parents and children, teenage life, friendship, family relations, sport team, high school, high school life, youth, father son relationship, baseball, alcoholic, brother sister relationship ...
Time: year 2006
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54%
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, self discovery, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, misfit, life is a bitch, society, coming of age ...
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The Lion (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are ...
Style: romantic drama
Plot: jungle, lion, lost world, safari, youth, explorer, wilderness, human animal relationship, stepfather, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, husband wife relationship, girl ...
Place: africa, kenya, east africa
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52%
An American Girl: Saige Paints the Sky (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Meet nine-year old Saige, a talented artist with a passion for horses, in this modern-day story about finding your voice! Saige is excited about the new school year, until she discovers that art-her favorite class-has been cut. On top of that, her ...
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, horse, american girl, friendship, school, family relations, balloon, singing, art, friends, female protagonist, teenage girl
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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51%
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Arcadia (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Greta's dad Tom is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a California paradise to his kids. All that's missing is Mom.
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: road trip, coming of age, family relations, father daughter relationship, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, single father, single parent, on the road, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri, oklahoma, california
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50%
Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Plot: social misfits, lgbt, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy
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50%
Dodson's Journey (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: youth, single parent, bittersweet, family relations, couples, family problems, parents and children, breakup, unfulfillment, human nature, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
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Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After young Kirra (Bindi Irwin) leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather (Beau Bridges) in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, uplifting
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: animal rescue, killer whale, family relations, friendship, confined, captivity, heroes, mischievous children, young heroes, ocean, orca, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa, australia
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50%
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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A Touch of Fate (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
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Place: usa, north carolina, new york
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Dad (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: After a long separation, a father and his son spend the day fishing on the river bank. On a beautiful autumn Sunday, surrounded by the majestic countryside, they seem to be alone in the world. They must start all over again.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, stylized, serious ...
Plot: family relations, youth, parent child relationship, countryside, parents and children, father son relationship, nature, kids and family, father and son, separated parents, father, river ...
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Place: europe
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48%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 109 min.
Story: Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
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Swimmers (2005)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
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Smoke (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Chris is haunted by the death of his father and resentful of his stepfather Cal. He befriends a lost dog and names it Smoke, but tries to keep it a secret for fear Cal will take the dog away.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, feel good, touching ...
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The Cure (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their ...
Style: sad, touching, tear jerker, inspirational, realistic ...
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Living Free (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, wild
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: lion, wildlife, animal, pets, lion cub, animal lover, heroes, hopes, danger, escapades, adventurer, getting home ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: africa, south africa, kenya
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A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
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Genre: Drama
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