Movies like Courage 2009
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Courage (2009)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and daughter designed to rebuild their estranged relationship with his daughter, but when a powerful storm hits they are forced to make a crash landing on the ominously named Bear Island. With Robert seriously injured and no way to reach the mainland, the three castaways find that they must rely on their faith -- and each other -- to survive the ordeal.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, inspirational, tension, suspenseful
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, island, isolation, storm, wilderness, escapades, danger, forces of nature, family relations, parent child relationship, courage, family drama, reconciliation, family bonds, love, forgiveness, faith, river, coming of age, hopes, stranded, rescue, sacrifice, spirituality, suffering ...
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to Courage
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about survival, danger, isolation, hopes, escapades, family relations and rescue mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Courage: Island of Grace (2009), Ordeal in the Arctic (1993), Dendera (2011), Endless Night (2015), Anything to Survive (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
frostbite, survival, hypothermia, snowstorm, rescue, wilderness, heroes, danger, babies and infants, family life, forces of nature, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Between the so called restrictions of her faith and the so-called freedom of the world, Megan Hughes favors the world. Things change drastically, however, when her plane crashes on a business trip. Along with two of her co-workers -the arrogant ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, inspirational, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
faith, survival, remote island, island, rescue, christian, love triangle, saving a life, coping, stranded on an island, relationships, problem ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Everybody expected military flight Boxtop 22 from Thule into the vast frozen wilderness of Canada's North Western territories to be boring routine, but in a matter of minutes a crash reduces Gulf War veteran pilot Captain John Couch's crew ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, airplane accident, space, aviation, disaster, plane crash, danger, heroes, escapades, rescue, save the day, forces of nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, greenland
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the ...
Style:
uplifting, captivating, serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
human spirit, left to die, survival, escapades, hopes, strong female presence, wilderness, elderly, aging, danger, village life, forces of nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings ...
Style:
captivating, serious, tense, psychological, stylized ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, couples, escapades, danger, friendship, women, biopic, woman, friends, visceral, struggle for survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s
Place:
greenland
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
Style:
realistic, semi serious
Plot:
island, survival, wilderness, sailboat, shipwreck, rescue, family relations, disaster, danger, confined, escapades, getting home ...
Time:
80s
Place:
alaska, british columbia, usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two isolated families meet for a summertime celebration. Food is abundant and the future seems bright, but Ningiuq, a wise old woman, sees her world as fragile and moves through it with a pervasive sense of dread. Ningiuq and her grandson Maniq are ...
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, isolation, native, human spirit, family relations, friendship, elderly, youth, hopes, escapades, island ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
wilderness survival, wilderness, hunger, human nature, cannibalism, moral dilemma, danger, isolation, hopes, snow, mountain, winter ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
TV Movie Drama - Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
survival, friendship, hopes, fighting crime, danger, right hand man, haunted by the past, negligence, rescue, family life, curses spells and rituals, death in the family ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Arctic Air is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. The owners are Mel Ivarson, an old school bush pilot; Krista Ivarson, Mel's daughter; and Bobby Martin, the son of Ivarson's deceased ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
rescue, parents and children, danger, workplace, forces of nature, eccentric family, homecoming, family business, search and rescue, isolation, sibling rivalry, blue collar ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Liz McAdams is haunted by the memories of a tornado that destroyed her home 25 years ago. Now a professional storm tracker, she and her family are in danger once again as another devastating twister rapidly gains momentum. Caught in the path of ...
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
disaster, tornado, natural disaster, danger, forces of nature, race against time, salvation, storm, twister, trauma, survival, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, midwest
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Five juvenile delinquents break out of jail and attempt to make their way to a house in the Mendoza foothills of Argentina.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, survival, hopes, wilderness, getting home, escape, youth, escapades, human nature, society, social decay, disintegration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poetic realism, argentina
Similarity:
54%
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, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
wilderness, elderly, isolation, orphan, life is a bitch, danger, woods, nature, wilderness survival, survival, post soviet, old man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story:
While a menacing typhoon approaches, an accident at the giant natural gas plant Regalia occurs. Japan Coast Guard rescue divers Daisuke Senzaki (Hideaki Ito), Tetsuya Yoshioka (Ryuta Sato) and engineer Hiroshiichirou Sakuragi (Masaya Kato) head ...
Style:
suspense, intense, suspenseful, action drama, tension ...
Plot:
survival, disaster, rescue, typhoon, one against many, catastrophe, coast guard, rescue attempt, man versus nature, destruction, race against time, escape attempt ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a series of strange earthquakes hit California, a seismologist named Kimberly Stevenson is sent to the Angeles Forest to investigate the epicenter. This might prove to be her biggest task so far, but also the one that will bring her renown. She ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, race against time, chases and races, mysterious character, escapades, danger, frame up, rescue, isolation, wilderness, disaster, catastrophe ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Story:
A comet hits Ireland, and a bigger one is on its way towards the U.S. where 900 million people have to be evacuated.
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
comet, chaos, nasa, catastrophe, disaster, evacuation, astronomer, danger, forces of nature, escapades, save the day, natural disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, ireland, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, grief, hopes, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, family problems, mother daughter relationship, mourning, loss, bereavement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
45%
253
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style:
realistic, serious, period piece, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, working class, unemployment, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, great depression, drought, family drama ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary police officers were called to duty to face the formidable Mount Erebus. As the police recovered the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, disaster, survival, uncover truth, dishonesty, escapades, heroic mission, danger, aviation, forces of nature, air disaster, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, new zealand
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Father and son try to rebuild their relationship after they have a paragliding accident and end up being stuck in an opening.
Style:
tension, tense, emotional, suspense, psychological
Plot:
survival, father son relationship, accident, bonding, family drama, trapped, reconciliation, paragliding, man versus nature, struggle, confined space, claustrophobia ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
43%
124
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, captivating
Plot:
coming of age, orphan, survival, on the run, self discovery, young heroes, mischievous children, disorder, youth, optimism, friends, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jonathan Wright has it all, a prestigious job, incredibly beautiful wife Amy, gorgeous 7-year-old daughter Megan and countless friends. In the prime of his life, Jonathan suffers a life threatening brain aneurysm that leaves him comatose. After ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, suspenseful, spiritual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
salvation, love, christian, friendship, filmmaking, family relations, best friend, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, friends, friendship between men, second chance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A fractured family, caught in a deadly lightning storm, is forced to come together to save their lives.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious, intense ...
Plot:
disaster, storm, husband and wife, mountain biking, struck by lightning, divorce, cell phone, lightning, survival, vacation, junkyard, weatherman ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support ...
Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
farm, parents and children, introspection, family relations, selflessness, countryside, father daughter relationship, elderly, father, old man, farmer, rural area ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec, france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.
Style:
psychological, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
captivity, human spirit, introspection, freedom, hopes, danger, confined, survival, solitary, faith, kidnapping, free spirit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
redemption, hopes, gang, going straight, fall in love, gangster, love and romance, family relations, chance, forbidden love, urban, mature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, serious ...
Plot:
survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, schizophrenia, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
greenland, tokyo
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nichole Jolly is a nurse at the town’s hospital, who begins her day as usual, only to face an unimaginable crisis when a wildfire rapidly engulfs the town. Torn between her duty to protect her patients and her desperate need to find her husband ...
Style:
inspirational, heartfelt, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
wildfire, courage, heroism, hopes, survival, natural disaster, evacuation, hospital, tribute, biopic, sacrifice, tragedy ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 30 min.
Story:
After having been recently shipwrecked, a group of survivors begin dealing with both the reality of being stranded on a remote island as well as with feelings of alienation and isolation. Adapted from the novel by Johann Wyss, this was the pilot ...
Style:
tension, period piece, tv series pilot
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, desert island, isolation, stranded, adaptation, jungle, family drama, perseverance, exploration, rescue attempt, coming of age ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes ...
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot:
tuberculosis, disease, wilderness, husky dog, isolation, hospital, illness, friends, hopes, human spirit, friendship, family relations ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
34%
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