Movies like America America

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America America (1963)
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America America (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America
Style: road movie, social, art house, existential, aesthetic, semi autobiographical, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot: greek, immigrant, immigration, emigration, migration, armenian genocide, american dream, boat, time travel, yacht, exile, poverty, refugee, social injustice, social criticism, age-gap relationship, bribery, hopes, dream, journey, odyssey, determination, turkish history, massacre, hardship ...
Time: 19th century, year 1963, 20th century, 1890s
Place: greece, ottoman empire, new york, middle east, turkey, istanbul turkey, persia ...
Keyword: american, fez, armenian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about family relations, singing, death, singer, society, father son relationship and money mostly in Drama, Adventure and Romance genres. Some movies like America America: I Am David (2003), In This World (2002), The North (1983), King Jack (2015), The Immigrant (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Am David (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time: year 2003, 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1952
Place: denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
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95%
In This World (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, ...
Style: bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: refugee, immigrant, politics, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, hopes, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time: year 2002, year 2001
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iran, pakistan, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The North (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Style: political, depressing, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, immigration, magic realism, culture clash, indigenous people, chicano, working class, american dream, strike, border, racism, tragedy ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: los angeles, mexico, guatemala, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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King Jack (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bullying, teenage boy, friendship, small town, teenage life, brutality, violence, party, mental illness, cruelty, drinking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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The Immigrant (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style: atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation, sisters ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 20th century
Place: poland, israel, america, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Journey of Hope (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Turkey, UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave ...
Style: sad, serious, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot: immigrant, migration, coming of age, immigration, youth, road trip, refugee, family relations, escapades, obsessive quest, hopes, human nature ...
Time: year 1990, 80s
Place: switzerland, middle east, turkey, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story: "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early ...
Style: road movie, touching, inspirational, political, breathtaking ...
Plot: self discovery, motorcycle, travel, freedom, on the road, revolutionary, poverty, revolution, road trip, journey, traveler, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 50s, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: latin america, chile, cuba, south america, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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A Better Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot: immigrant, single father, u.s. mexico border, american dream, truck, father son relationship, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Angela's Ashes (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style: touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature, childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Kite Runner (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style: disturbing, emotional, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: childhood, friendship, muslim, coming of age, guilt, courage, islam, betrayal, rape, mission, haunted by the past, child ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: afghanistan, middle east, china, iraq, bay area ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Style: road movie, scenic, visually appealing, surreal, erotic ...
Plot: desert, sahara desert, travel, infidelity, on the road, traveler, husband wife relationship, existentialism, beautiful scenery, sex scene, heat wave, art history ...
Time: 1940s, 80s
Place: africa, morocco, north africa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of ...
Style: sad, inspirational, political, perverse, historical drama ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vietnam war, father son relationship, minefield, friendship between men, black lives matter, war veteran, black, military, widower, post traumatic stress disorder, gunfight, racism ...
Time: 70s, 2020s, year 1971, year 1962, year 1969 ...
Place: vietnam, oakland california, washington d.c., brooklyn new york city, memphis ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
Style: independent film, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot: ghetto, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, human nature, parents and children, family life, couple relations, family problems, african american, blaxploitation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Katie Tippel (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
Style: cult classic, touching, sexual, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: prostitution, sex crime, dutch history, family relations, prostitute, sexual abuse, male nudity, rape, erection, poverty, nudity, couples ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975, 20th century, 1880s
Place: amsterdam, europe, netherlands, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Mediterranea (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, captivating ...
Plot: illegal immigration, migration, interracial relations, job seeking, storytelling, family relations, promise, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, friendship, drunkenness, refugee ...
Place: italy, africa, libya, algeria, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: youth, labor, korean war, migration, quarantine, strike, union, immigrant, coming of age, family relations, bittersweet, innocence lost ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: minnesota, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
An American Rhapsody (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, family bonds, adolescence, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place: hungary, california, europe, austria, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Roads to Koktebel (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot: boy, on the road, father son relationship, parents and children, family relations, human nature, hopes, alcohol abuse, family life, coming of age, journey, death of wife ...
Place: russia, moscow russia, ukraine, black sea, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Man Push Cart (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however,the pattern ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, informative ...
Plot: immigrant, loneliness, society, hopes, rich and poor, fall in love, haunted by the past, city life, survival, sadness, life is a bitch, food ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa, barcelona, brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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41%
Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, compassionate, disturbing, meditative ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father son relationship, coming of age, boy, immigrant, poverty, working class, farm, children, bullying, corporal punishment, youth, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, year 1987, 1870s, 1890s
Place: denmark, europe, eastern europe
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41%
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, emotional, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: charles dickens, family reunited, dysfunctional family, greed, betrayal, haunted by the past, family relations, rescue, uncle nephew relationship, boarding school, fall in love, siblings relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2002, 1830s, 1850s
Place: london, europe, liverpool, yorkshire
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40%
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Walkabout (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style: road movie, atmospheric, visual, visually stunning, scenic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, teenage girl, australian outback, rite of passage, culture clash, children, brother sister relationship, language barrier ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
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40%
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: fascism, artist, world war two, painter, world war one, anarchist, biopic, world war, italian fascism, solar eclipse, revolt, strike ...
Time: year 1979, 1930s, year 1936, year 1935
Place: italy, naples italy, europe, turin italy, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Blue Butterfly (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, spiritual
Plot: butterfly, family life, parents and children, family relations, child illness, disability, single parent, tragic hero, child in peril, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, rain forest ...
Place: latin america, central america, costa rica, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Under the Same Moon (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: immigrant, friendship, survival, loneliness, obsessive quest, family reunited, escapades, young boy, society, custody, family drama, immigration ...
Time: year 2007
Place: mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The City (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Style: black and white, independent film, anthology, serious, realistic ...
Plot: immigrant, homeless, working class, culture clash, money, father daughter relationship, school, storytelling, poverty, photographer, boy, ethnicity ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.2
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Eve's Bayou (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic, spooky ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: witchcraft, curse, coming of age, dysfunctional family, all black cast, black, implied incest, black history, african american, infidelity, redemption, women of color ...
Time: year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, indiana, usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Hester Street (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Steven Keats plays a Russian emigre who prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by ...
Style: black and white, romantic, historically accurate, aesthetic, independent film ...
Plot: culture clash, infidelity, rabbi, immigration, woman, religious, gilded age, women, judaism, social issues, studying, migration ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975, 1890s, 1900s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa, america, egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Exiles (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Music
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know the land their parents once had to flee.
Style: road movie, captivating, serious, realistic, epic ...
Plot: self discovery, homecoming, on the road, exile, infidelity, love and romance, introspection, couple relations, hopes, couples, dishonesty, social relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: spain, morocco, paris france, europe, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Kandahar (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Style: sincere, disturbing, surreal, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: islam, refugee, on the road, politics, desert, survival, brutality, culture clash, suicide, women, rescue, journalism ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iran, canada, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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