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The Last Flight (2009)
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Original name: Le Dernier Vol
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aviator Marie Vallières de Beaumont goes on a journey to find her lover Bill Lancaster after his plane disappears in the Sahara. After her plane is forced down in the Ténéré she meets Lieutenant Antoine Chauvet of the French Camel Corps who joins in the hunt for Lancaster. As the two endure hardships in the desert, they begin to develop feelings for each other.
Style:
sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, historical drama, period piece, melancholic, art house, nostalgic
Plot:
desert, aviation, missing person, obsessive quest, love and romance, escapades, disobey, aviator, journey, female protagonist, survival, isolation, determination, man versus nature, search and rescue, aircraft, resilience, aeroplane, forbidden love, airplane, romance, track down, search, adventure
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 30s
Place:
sahara, africa
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Most similar movies to The Last Flight
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, atmospheric and sentimental films with plots about escapades, love and romance, survival, isolation, danger, airplane and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Last Flight: Yvonne's Perfume (1994), The Double Steps (2011), The Red Tent (1969), Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011), Seven Vengeful Women (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, romantic drama, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love, public nudity, gay subtext, nudity, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, hotel, love triangle, love affair, couples ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
switzerland, europe, algeria
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, contemplative
Plot:
desert, treasure hunt, obsessive quest, on the road, escapades, biopic, landscape, artists and showbiz, performer's life, albino, painting, goat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Style:
historical drama, realistic, serious, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
survival, aviation, arctic, interwar period, winter, space, conquistador, post soviet, 007, nature, rescue attempt, heroes ...
Time:
1920s, year 1969
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
38%
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, historical drama ...
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, rich and poor, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, class differences ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will ...
Style:
harsh, suspense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, survival, airplane, air disaster, airplane accident, aviation, disaster, crash landing, sahara desert, thirst, isolation, pilot ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
sahara, libya, africa, middle east
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Spain, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
Style:
spaghetti western, suspense, tense, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
survival, wagon train, desert, journey, perseverance, isolation, resilience, revenge, female empowerment, anti heroine, ethnic conflict, mistrust ...
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A telling of the story of the famous U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart who attempted to fly solo around the world in 1937. She disappeared during the process.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious
Plot:
aviation, biopic, airplane, adventurer, world war one, traveler, female pilot, mysterious disappearance, gender, ambition, feminism, escapades ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
usa, pacific ocean
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
world war two, aviation, flying, airplane, air disaster, exotic locale, airplane accident, photojournalism, world war, female journalist, pilot, u.s. air force ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, the philippines
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Style:
factual, serious, sentimental, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female pilot, airplane, adventurer, biopic, flying, rocky mountains, aviation, depression, unlikely friendships, self fulfillment, lifestyle, follow your dream ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 2009, year 1932, year 1935 ...
Place:
usa, africa, ireland, atlantic ocean, indiana ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.
Style:
realistic, serious, period drama
Plot:
airplane, teenage life, youth, fall in love, female pilot, female protagonist, pilot, aviation, farm, woman, explorer, female empowerment ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and love.
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, serious, touching, indie film ...
Plot:
solitude, youth, wilderness, obsessive quest, self discovery, escapades, fall in love, philosophy, leaving home, river, fishing, skinny dipping ...
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
17. yüzyıl İstanbul’u, 4. Murat’ın demir yumruğu altında yasaklarla dolu ama fantastik karşılaşmalara da pay bırakan bir hayata sahne olmaktadır. Kendilerini uçmaya ve insan sınırlarını zorlamaya adamış iki mucit, Hazerfen ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting
Plot:
aviation, turkish history, lgbt, scientist, love, airplane, nudity, sexual content, fall in love, escapades, state affairs, ambition ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
middle east, ottoman empire, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Brazil, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, emotional, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, jungle, forbidden love, fish out of water, love affair, social differences, fall in love, society, love and romance, farm, woods, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
portugal, brazil
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
Style:
tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspense, historical drama ...
Plot:
mountain climbing, climbing, mountain, military, team, rivalry, man versus nature, escapades, danger, exploration, perseverance, sacrifice ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
Style:
melancholic, inspirational, serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
wilderness, aviation, rescue, loneliness, courage, human spirit, airplane, opposites attract, danger, daring rescue, save the day, against the odds ...
Time:
1920s, year 1985, 80s, year 1918, 70s
Place:
texas, new jersey, california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fact-based story about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidnapped by her ex-husband.
Style:
suspense, emotional, intense, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
search and rescue, desert, kidnapping, motherhood, rescue, determination, female protagonist, grief, isolation, hopes, survival, obsession ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Raisa asks his best friend, a doctor, to accompany her to the desert to cure his ailing father. But on arrival, the father dies and appoints his successor his son, a man who seduces the doctor.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, captivating
Plot:
couple relations, love triangle, fall in love, fish out of water, opposites attract, family relations, relationship vs career, society, culture clash, couples, love and romance, desert ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
27%
480
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Darling is a woman of today. It seems to always choose the wrong path. Suffers but does not look like a victim. Do not feel sorry for herself. On the contrary, shows a passion for life against all odds. She is struggling to exist. If you fall, get ...
Style:
serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
farm, hopes, love and romance, loss of innocence, resilience, female protagonist, young woman, toxic relationship, mature, small town, longing, naivete ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
"This feature-length film is set in the barren and lifeless "Broken Heart" desert of the 1920s. "Cold Sun" is the story of a prostitute searching for her dead brother, a confused excommunicated priest seeking love, two ...
Style:
atmospheric, noir, period piece, melancholic, tension ...
Plot:
desert, isolation, moral ambiguity, greed, desolation, loneliness, stolen gold, obsession, betrayal, tragedy, religious conflict, slow burn ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, impossible love, lovers reunited, couples, fall in love, tragic love, relationships, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, betrayal, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
25%
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:
enigmatic, talky, melancholic, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
filmmaking, obsession, wilderness, movie business, elephant, storytelling, obsessive quest, danger, friends, friendship, racial slur, treasure hunt ...
Time:
50s, year 1990, 20th century, 1950s, 70s
Place:
africa, uganda, london, texas, california
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young woman spends an adventurous winter with a trapper on Spitsbergen.
Style:
independent film, serious, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
winter, arctic, snow, landscape, opposites attract, island, couples, survival, unlikely couple, love and romance, escapades, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mozambique, Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, art house ...
Plot:
survival, obsessive quest, missing person, on the road, wartime life, young heroes, escapades, heroes, friendship, youth, storytelling, civil war ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
Style:
atmospheric, road movie, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
lovers, single mother, child abuse, hippie, male female relationship, islam, road trip, nightmare, culture clash, sister, self discovery, thief ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 70s
Place:
morocco, africa, london, europe, england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
memory loss, life is a bitch, surgeon, losing-it hero, prodigy, daughter, love and romance, witch doctor, healer, polish, village life, amnesia ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
IS THAT YOU? Is the story of RONNIE, 60 year old Israeli film projectionist, who has been fired from his job and is going now to the U.S. in a search for RACHEL, the love of his youth IS THAT YOU? Is a romantic, road trip journey to 'The Road ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot:
on the road, aging, unfulfilled love, love and romance, fish out of water, road not taken, escapades, introspection, journey, israeli, partner, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, israel
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, Chile
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
Style:
melancholic, captivating, sentimental, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
island, rivalry, catastrophe, love triangle, love and romance, love affair, state affairs, family feud, isolation, parents and children, adventurer, jungle ...
Time:
medieval times, 18th century, year 1994, 17th century
Place:
polynesia, chile, latin america, oceania
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Rameshchandra Chaudhry, a lawyer by profession, is in love with Hemnalini, and is displeased when he finds that his father wants him to marry Sushilla, the daughter of a widow. He initially refuses despite of his father disowning him, but changes ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, touching
Plot:
true love, fall in love, unfulfilled love, mistaken identity, family relations, dishonesty, moral dilemma, love and romance, unfulfillment, disorder, parents and children, husband ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
kolkata, india, asia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, nature, arctic, isolation, rescue, human spirit, stranded, hopes, airplane, winter, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, year 1953
Place:
canada, antarctic, persia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane and kills herself.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, erotic, black and white, sentimental ...
Plot:
couples, love and romance, haunted by the past, tragic love, obsession, love affair, fall in love, longing, desire, death of lover, european, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
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