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Megantic (2023)
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Original name: Mégantic
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Mégantic is inspired by the events that occurred during the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy in 2013. This fiction follows the destinies of Méganticois marked by bereavement and trauma, but also by solidarity, courage and heroism.
Style:
bleak, poignant, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, emotional, reflective, political
Plot:
heroism, small town, train, tragedy, ecological disaster, courage, real life, train wreck, grief, aftermath, loss, bereavement, trauma, lifeguard, heroes, rescue, salvation, rescue mission, memory, memories, community, survivor, realism, mourning, solidarity ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
quebec
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, captivating and psychological films and TV series with plots about grief, loss, trauma, small town, investigation, family drama and intimate mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Megantic: L'heure bleue (2017), Under Fire (2021), Elite Short Stories: Patrick (2021), Living Memories (2013), Breathtaking (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 20 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Belgium
Duration: 47 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 36 min.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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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:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
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Story:
The sea has the power to unite, but also the cruelty to separate people forever. A country like Greece, with the sea and boat trips written in its DNA from ancient times to today.
Style:
melancholic, serious, emotional, bleak, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sea, shipwreck, loss, grief, mediterranean, survival, trauma, mourning, danger, island life, isolation, storm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece
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56%
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Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
brittany
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Country: Estonia
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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339
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
quebec
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51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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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:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
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This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Canada
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 113 min.
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Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
finland
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42%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Plot:
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Story:
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