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The Goat Life (2024)
50K
Original name: ആടുജീവിതം
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India, USA, Haiti
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
The film depicts the life of Najeeb Muhammad, an Indian abused migrant worker, who was forced to survived in a desert to herd goats in Saudi Arabia.
Plot:
desert, prison, slavery, immigration, worker, jail, based on real people, escape, survival, snake, storm, muslim, farm, dune, sheep, goat, camel, animal, missing person, migrant worker, train, life, water, islam, weapons ...
Place:
saudi arabia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and atmospheric films with plots about survival, escapades, isolation, desert, danger, journey and nature mostly in Drama, Adventure and History genres. Some movies like The Goat Life: The Village Had No Walls (1996), The Way Back (2010), Follow the River (1995), Lucky Miles (2007), Passion in the Desert (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young man from the city journeys to his first teaching post, the small hamlet of Bangarwadi, deep in the jungle, inhabited by a few shepherds and farmers as well as a criminal tribe known as the Ramoshis. After the initial shock of his strange new ...
Style:
contemplative, pastoral, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
teacher, social realism, humanism, village life, teacher student relationship, literary, community, bittersweet, nostalgia, memory, journey, minimalism ...
Time:
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Place:
poetic realism
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, Poland, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style:
epic, inspirational, realistic, road movie, rough ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, prison escape, escape, journey, war, pow, freedom, gulag, world war two, explorer, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 2010s
Place:
himalaya, russia, tibet, mongolia, soviet union ...
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22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, epic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
native american white relationships, colonialism, wilderness, survival, native, danger, captivity, culture clash, settler, colonial america, escape, pioneer ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
usa, virginia
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21%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to ...
Style:
thought provoking, feel good, humorous, entertaining, sentimental ...
Plot:
journey, desert, immigration, refugee, survival, security, family relations, australian outback, father son relationship, survivor, trapped, migration ...
Place:
australia, iraq, cambodia, indonesia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers ...
Style:
surreal, independent film, philosophical, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
leopard, male nudity, exhibitionism, sahara desert, desert, bedouin, humanity, loneliness, brutality, soldier, wilderness, napoleon bonaparte ...
Time:
regency period, 18th century, year 1997, 1790s
Place:
egypt, sahara, france, ottoman empire, africa ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searching for. Aided by a mysterious prince, she battles outlaws and the desert's harsh ...
Style:
mystical, suspense
Plot:
desert, archaeology, treasure hunt, survival, legend, exploration, rescue mission, isolation, missing father, soldier, family reunited, antiquity ...
Place:
sahara
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust ...
Style:
tension, action drama, period drama
Plot:
father son relationship, railroad, construction, leadership, man versus nature, conflict, machismo, isolation, redemption, survival, industrialization, bonding ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 81 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:
atmospheric, tense, sincere, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
islam, desert, politics, on the road, brutality, survival, culture clash, suicide, women, rescue, self discovery, danger ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, canada, iraq ...
Similarity:
19%
33K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style:
touching, uplifting, sexy, scenic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
desert, wilderness, solitude, camel, photographer, human spirit, survival, independent woman, dog, explorer, obsessive quest, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, year 1976, year 1973 ...
Place:
australia, africa, new zealand
Similarity:
19%
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:
semi autobiographical, aesthetic, existential, social, road movie ...
Plot:
greek, immigration, immigrant, emigration, migration, armenian genocide, american dream, boat, journey, determination, dream, narration ...
Time:
19th century, year 1963, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
greece, ottoman empire, new york, istanbul turkey, middle east ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.
Plot:
airplane crash, sole survivor, wilderness, survival, airplane accident, female protagonist, children, aviation, air disaster, crash survivor, plane crash, teenage girl ...
Place:
peru
Similarity:
19%
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 ...
Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
desert, aviation, obsessive quest, missing person, escapades, love and romance, disobey, aviator, journey, female protagonist, man versus nature, search and rescue ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
sahara, africa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desert, sheik, woman dressed as man, treasure hunt, auto racing, cannon, valet, cross dressing, age difference, crossdresser, treasure hunter, racing ...
Time:
year 1983, 1920s
Place:
ottoman empire, north africa, detroit, africa, morocco ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
desert island, shipwreck, tropical island, robinson crusoe, survival, dog, death of dog, bare chested male, sole survivor, storm, sinking ship, tropics ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
fictional island, virginia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story revolves around the British finding out that Tok Gajah intends to go to Terengganu to seek support from the Sultan and Malay heroes of Terengganu. The British ordered the capture and elimination of Tok Gajah and his followers. Awang is ...
Style:
epic
Plot:
religious, british army, martial arts, archery, captain, rescue, gold bar, jungle, enemy, love, freedom, gold ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
asia, malaysia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When millions of people begin to disappear, Gabby, his sister, and their other companies will have to stick together for survival and to figure out what happened behind of an indescribable occurrence.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, christian film ...
Plot:
christian, christianity, teenager, survival, escape, life is a bitch, mysterious disappearance, investigation, grownups, private investigation, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A woman undergoing a medical treatment. Will she survive?
Style:
tension
Plot:
sea, rescue, survival, perseverance, storm, shipwreck, endurance, search and rescue, u.s. navy, hopes, desperation, cold war era ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
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, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, australian outback, rite of passage, boy, teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage girl, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia ...
Similarity:
18%
696K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style:
philosophical, touching, visually appealing, reflective, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
survival, animal, ocean, human animal relationship, loneliness, life & death, stranded, survivor, hopes, beautiful scenery, storm at sea, journey ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
india, america, asia, montreal, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
18%
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
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When two friends from the city take a vacation to the wilds of Montana, they find themselves lost in the depths of the big sky country.
Style:
suspense, tense, grim, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bear attack, mountain, man versus nature, wilderness, survival, hiking, stranded, isolation, bear, bad weather, struggle for survival, storm ...
Place:
montana
Similarity:
18%
12K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Jordan, UK, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
Style:
captivating, realistic, tense, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
desert, coming of age, world war one, survival, bedouin, arab, boy, sheik, journey, escapades, danger, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1916, 2010s, 1920s
Place:
middle east, jordan, saudi arabia, africa, arabia ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style:
inspirational, suspense, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, teen drama
Plot:
sailing, ocean, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, male bonding, boat, teacher, survival, mentor, life & death ...
Time:
60s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place:
jamaica, south america, west indies, cuba, connecticut ...
Similarity:
18%
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:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, stranded on an island, friendship, passionate kiss, destiny, stranded, female nudity, ship ...
Time:
year 1997, 18th century
Place:
fictional island, oceania, pacific ocean, scotland, london
Similarity:
18%
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:
sexy, road movie, erotic, scenic, visually appealing ...
Plot:
travel, sahara desert, desert, traveler, infidelity, passion, husband wife relationship, on the road, existentialism, beautiful scenery, heat wave, illicit affair ...
Time:
1940s, 80s
Place:
africa, morocco, north africa, new york, sahara
Similarity:
18%
460
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Germany, Albania
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Based on true story. Albanian man leaves oppressive family situation to a better life in Athens. Then kills someone and has to face his guilt.
Plot:
prison, greek, immigration, lgbt, dream, murder, father son relationship, train, snow, hate, riot, wound ...
Place:
greece, albania
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman struggles to survive in the Alaskan frontier after separating from her family because of an earthquake.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
survival, nature, golddigger, wilderness, isolation, missing child, remarry, child in peril, disaster, danger, escapades, heroic mission ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The rise of a Malay warrior named Mat Kilau and his friends against the British colonialists who came to Pahang in 1892. The greed of British officials and policies, which have imposed excessive taxes, confiscated land belonging to the Malays to ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, epic
Plot:
independence movement, warrior, battles, fight, heroes, war for independence, power struggle, historical figure, fight club, religious, british army, martial arts ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Similarity:
17%
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