Movies like Bones of Crows 2022
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Bones of Crows (2022)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, bleak, emotional, family saga, poignant, historical drama, intense ...
Plot:
indigenous people, world war two, matriarchy, survival, colonialism, oppression, resilience, trauma, teenager, violence, racism, life is a bitch, teenage life, social problems, social issues, confronting the past, troubled past, anti racism, sexual abuse, memory, resistance, grief, legacy, loss, identity ...
Time:
20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, emotional and thrilling films with plots about life is a bitch, resilience, social problems, grief, trauma, survival and memory mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Bones of Crows: My Small Land (2022), Where the Spirit Lives (1989), Bootlegger (2021), Our Own (2020), 8:46 (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, poignant ...
Plot:
kurd, refugee, family drama, immigration, social problems, social issues, relationship problems, teenage protagonist, teenager, female protagonist, adolescence, teenage girl ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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Story:
Bones of Crows is a psychological drama told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch Aline Spears, as she survives Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and ...
Style:
captivating, crying, sad, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, grief, indigenous people, resilience, colonialism, sexual abuse, trauma, survival, indians, violence, hunger, generation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be ...
Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, period piece, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
native american, boarding school, indigenous people, kidnapping, native, racism, genocide, colonialism, identity, resilience, assimilation, trauma ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
30%
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210
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Faced with the trials and obstacles of life, the tight-knit community of Ste-Adeline has always remained united. But this time it's in shock and will have to face a situation that will confront the inhabitants with their contradictions. At the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, social, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, teenager, social commentary, small town, hypocrisy, community, secrets, family drama, life, adolescence, social issues ...
Similarity:
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396
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
A glimpse into the lives of an ensemble of characters leading up to the moment the world changed forever - 8:46 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 2001.
Style:
emotional, poignant, bleak, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
terrorism, compassion, loss, humanity, 9/11, tribute, empathy, memories, terrorist attack, changing lives, terrorist bombing, social problems ...
Time:
september 11 2001
Place:
new york
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canada's First Nations children were legally required to attend government-funded schools run by various Christian faiths. There were 80 of these 'residential schools' across the ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
indigenous people, boarding school, native american, ethnicity, childhood trauma, re-education, problem, child, life is a bitch, family problems, children, memory ...
Place:
canada, montana
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Amidst rising anti-Semitism in Billings, Montana, Rae, a 22 year-old descendant of Holocaust survivors uncovers the truth about a childhood accident.
Style:
realistic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
anti semitism, coming of age, problem, holocaust, neo nazi, nazism, nationalism, life is a bitch, female protagonist, nazi, racial discrimination, tragic past ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, poignant ...
Plot:
tsunami, grief, loss, society, small town life, life is a bitch, troubled past, tragic past, healing, mourning, trauma, community ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Shadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, historical drama, emotional ...
Plot:
ethnic conflict, father daughter relationship, village, separation from family, female protagonist, family relations, father and daughter, social problems, cultural conflict, parents and children, life is a bitch, child protagonist ...
Place:
cyprus, turkey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in Hong Kong in the 1980s, the film follows a fisherman’s son who rises to become a powerful tai pan.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
class struggle, rags to riches, orphan, social climbing, ambition, colonialism, identity, coping, social problems, social issues, family secret, business tycoon ...
Time:
80s, 1940s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The film is composed around a violent incident, happened in 1956. Upon hearing the news that the Russians were approaching, the dwellers of the Home for the Disabled armed themselves. Followed by stares by people living in the area they marched ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, political, bleak, tension ...
Plot:
violence, handicapped, social issues, assault, military, wartime, physical disability, society, social relations, protector, protection, resistance ...
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, historical drama, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
female protagonist, teenager, relationships, teenage life, social issues, social problems, sorority, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, confined, isolation ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
boy, totalitarian regime, loss, tragedy, deportation, nuclear testing, oppression, social problems, foster child, reprisal, dysfunctional family, repression ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
kazakhstan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, bleak, poignant ...
Plot:
syrian refugee, musician, piano, musician's life, music, islam, life is a bitch, social problems, oppression, survival, resilience, hopes ...
Place:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, psychological, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
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656
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, bleak, captivating, thrilling, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
friendship, adolescence, summer vacation, coming of age, youth, loss of innocence, teenage life, friends, group of friends, lifestyle, best friend, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
Place:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, captivating, tense, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
war crime, world war two, investigation, war violence, attorney, genocide, massacre, tragic past, troubled past, nazi occupation, german occupation, haunting ...
Time:
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Place:
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730
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
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21%
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Country: China
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, family saga, period piece, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
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Place:
china
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, thrilling, poignant ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, bleak, emotional, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
faith, redemption, racism, violence, racial tension, black man, black american, social issues, problem, social problems, social commentary, religion ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, heartbreaking, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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