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Beyond the Ocean (2000)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, USA, Austria
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young pregnant woman arrives in New York City from Russia, and her mind drifts to the past when she was coming of age in a coal mining town in Russia.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, grim, intercultural, independent film
Plot:
pregnancy, immigrant, coming of age, loneliness, outsider, search for father, flashback, character study, trauma, isolation, alienation, city life, abandonment, dark past, identity, survival, betrayal, working class, language barrier, resilience, exploitation, moral ambiguity, intimate, friendship, nostalgia ...
Place:
new york, russia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and independent film films with plots about identity, coming of age, friendship, slice of life, survival, resilience and loneliness mostly in Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Beyond the Ocean: Preparation for the Next Life (2025), I Am (2005), Gold In The Streets (1997), Collect Call (2002), Desiré (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters Skinner, a young American soldier who has just returned from three tours ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An Irish illegal immigrant (Karl Geary) works for a bartender (James Belushi) while struggling to survive and adapt to life in the Bronx.
Style:
melancholic, intercultural, independent film
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Guatemala
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Oscar, a young man who as a child starred in the first feature film from Guatemala which received international attention, is now living with his family in the Guatemalan country side and dreaming of starting a show biz career in the US. He makes a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
new york, guatemala
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Desiré is a Neapolitan girl of Senegalese origins, she is sixteen years old and lives day by day. She has no friends, no interests, no great passions, her world appears as empty as the gaze of her mother, a drug addict who can't stand upright. ...
Style:
grim, intense, art house, noir
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon ...
Style:
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Plot:
coming of age, character study, mature, social realism, survival, isolation, escape, alienation, street life, slice of life, identity crisis, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Los Jornaleros presents the interwoven stories of three young Hispanic men who come to this country to pursue te American dream and instead end up struggling as day-laborers.
Style:
hispanic, realistic, independent film, bilingual
Plot:
gay, immigrant, american dream, working class, poverty, survival, frustration, social commentary, struggle, social realism, identity, exploitation ...
Time:
2000s
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198
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, uplifting, sincere, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese ...
Style:
emotional, intercultural, art house, melancholic, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women, fashion, mortality, identity, self discovery, cancer, makeup artist, modeling, immigration, ambition, resilience, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
In and around America and the autumn of 1963. A man and his tools. A boy and his shoes.
Style:
independent film, reflective, art house, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
compassion, empathy, intimate, character study, isolation, small town life, minimalism, solitude, abandonment, trauma, autumn, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
america, massachusetts
Similarity:
49%
173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motherhood, domestic drama, character study, identity, female protagonist, gender roles, intimate, realism, family secret, trauma, friendship, intimacy ...
Similarity:
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666
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.
Style:
melancholic, grim, dark, period drama
Plot:
survival, forest, wilderness, isolation, brothers, family drama, resilience, family tragedy, man versus nature, traumatic childhood, abandonment, childhood memory ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A gritty realistic story about a young film school student from middle-class India who's forced to drop out to support his family while staying in the United States as an undocumented worker.
Style:
captivating, emotional, sentimental, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, neorealism, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
post war, journey, immigration, struggle, social realism, hopes, resilience, working class, poverty, coming of age, friendship, survival ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
new york, naples italy, italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style:
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Plot:
friendship, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, female friendship, coming of age, personal growth, character study, society, couples, small town, identity ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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567
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, melancholic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Story:
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
female friendship, grief, trauma, friends, changing lives, hidden truth, bereavement, neighbor neighbor relationship, relationship problems, women, tragic past, troubled past ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, tense
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Leon, a young bootmaker tends not to have relation with others for some reason. But when he meets Sona, a drunken Korean lady at his favorite park, everything around him starts to change.
Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, realistic, road movie ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A microcosm of the fathomless suffering that remains more than 16 years since the siege of Sarajevo ended, writer-director Aida Begic’s follow-up to her 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize-winning debut Snow tells the story of two orphaned ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, orphan, society, social decay, youth, siblings relations, post war, siblings, survival, trauma, friendship, resilience ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that ...
Style:
art house, independent film, melancholic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
forest, orphan, hospital, taxi, motorcycle, innocence lost, escape, coming of age, isolation, survival, outsider, realism ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Daniel Moulin goes to New York on a business trip and decides to take advantage of his time in the Big Apple to try and locate the father he never knew. The only thing he has to go on however is an address in the Bronx that is 25 years old.
Style:
emotional, independent film, realistic, melancholic, intercultural
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Cover-boy racconta l’amicizia fra Ioan (Eduard Gabia) e Michele (Luca Lionello) l’uno rumeno e l’altro italiano. Due mondi che casualmente s’incontrano: l’esperienza di chi, figlio della rivoluzione post comunista, è fuggito dal proprio ...
Style:
intercultural, realistic, independent film, bleak, melancholic
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