Nomad movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant nomad movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, independent film and road movie films and TV shows about / with nomad, friendship, death, loneliness, love and romance, murder, love, husband wife relationship, storytelling and coming of age plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Action genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nomad: The Legend of Tomiris (2019), Nomad: The Warrior (2005), The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005), Nomadland (2020), Tengri: Blue Heavens (2008), Far North (2007), Deathsport (1978), Attila (2013), Seven Songs from the Tundra (2000), The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998).

List of nomad movies

The Legend of Tomiris (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 156 min.
Story: This is the story of the life of the great queen of of the steppe - legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the Scythian/Saka tribes under her authority.
Style: costume drama, captivating, brutal, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: czar, nomad, turkish history, female soldier, strong female character, barbarian, female warrior, throne, female protagonist, revenge, daughter, coping ...
Time: ancient times, 10th century, 6th century
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Nomad: The Warrior (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Kazakhstan, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.
Style: rough, exciting, serious, epic
Plot: nomad, battles, danger, war, tragic hero, heroic mission, folk hero, ambition, political unrest, rivalry, rise and fall, state affairs ...
Time: medieval times, 18th century, 1800s, 19th century
Place: kazakhstan, asia
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The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Mongolia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The little nomad girl, Nansal, finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend - against all rejections of her parents. A story about a Mongolian family of nomads - their traditional way of life and the rising call of the City.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, lighthearted ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: reincarnation, nomad, dog, human animal relationship, little girl, family life, parents and children, rescue, danger, husband wife relationship, bonding, survival ...
Time: year 2005
Place: mongolia, east asia, asia
Is relevant?
 7.3
 216K
Nomadland (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style: road movie, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: van, homeless, motor home, on the road, loss of job, road trip, nomad, journey, desert, homelessness, skinny dipping, healing ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: nevada, nebraska, arizona
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Tengri: Blue Heavens (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France, Kyrgyzstan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral village in the Kyrghyz Mountains. He discovers soon after his arrival that he is a misfit in this ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: forbidden love, impossible love, true love, love affair, against the rules, rebellion, fall in love, society, hopes, couples, social relations, husband wife estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia
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 6.1
 3K
Far North (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A soldier's unexpected arrival affects two women's simple existence.
Style: captivating, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: arctic, isolation, eskimo indian, curse, hunting, wilderness, mother daughter relationship, dog sled, love triangle, nomad, survival, betrayal ...
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 4.1
 3K
Deathsport (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 1000 years into the future, after the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastelands and isolated city-states. Notorious "Desert Ranger" Kaz is forced to fight in the DeathSport, dueling on futuristic motorcycle ...
Style: serious, stylized, apocalyptic, tense, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, biker, chase, dystopia, gladiator, motorcycle, post nuclear war, capture, dictator, good versus evil, motorcycle chase, supernatural power ...
Time: future, year 1978
Place: texas, usa
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 2.1
 701
Attila (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When American soldiers inadvertently steal Attila the Hun's secret riches, the wrath of the barbarian is awakened; the mummified warrior will stop at nothing to kill the intruders.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, captivating, rough, exciting ...
Plot: barbarian, monster, characters murdered one by one, supernatural, murder, underground, killed in action, military base, fictional war, soldier, mummy, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Seven Songs from the Tundra (2000)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000
Plot: kolkhoz, indigenous people, marriage, soldier, summer, communism, culture clash, socialism, oppression, fishing, parent child relationship, reindeer ...
Time: 20th century
Place: siberia, soviet union, ussr
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
Style: sensual, erotic, sexual, avant garde, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: dog sex, innocence lost, woman urinating, sex, fetish, passion, woman peeing, sexuality, desert, erotica, male female relationship, elderly lovers ...
Time: 1950s, year 1999, 20th century, 50s, stone age
Place: africa, tunisia, england, kenya, london ...
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Tuareg: The Desert Warrior (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Action
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: battles, camel, fortress, conflict, african, rescue, desert, state affairs, escapades, heroes, war, confined ...
Time: 80s
Place: africa
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Cirque du Soleil: Varekai (2003)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He is suddenly in a strange, new world full of creatures he has never seen before. Parachuted into the shadows of a magical forest, a kaleidoscopic world ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, disturbing, surreal, colorful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: circus, acrobatics, acrobat, imagination, live performance, spectacle, magic, nomad, fantasy world, magical creature, quest, magic realism ...
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 6.0
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Samra (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lebanon
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Story: The story revolves around the marginalized who are neglected by life, but are saved by love, through the story of Samra, the attractive gypsy, who was able to translate the poverty and despair, into a dance wandering the streets. Then she meets a ...
Style: atmospheric, captivating, entertaining, dramatic
Plot: female protagonist, pretty girl, woman, relationships, male female relationship, dancehall girl, nomad, dancing, love affair, feminine beauty, love and romance, love ...
Time: year 2016
Place: middle east, lebanon
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A Bride of the Seventh Heaven (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An elderly Nenet woman in teepee on northern Russia's Jamal Peninsula recounts her early life betrothed to a deity for the entertainment of a blind young girl. In the Nenet culture, a girl child can be married to holiest of holies, Num, before ...
Plot: curse, indigenous people, love, marriage, storytelling, husband wife relationship, revenge, death, friend, tradition, blind man, fiancee ...
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The Last Warrior (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: These are times when one civilization is replacing another. A new era is about to begin in Central Eurasia. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone. The few of their descendants have become ruthless mercenary assassins, the “waves of ...
Style: heroic, epic, exciting, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: legend, rivalry, ancient history, warrior, danger, murder, culture clash, vengeance, medieval, violence, battles, fight ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, 11th century
Place: russia
Is relevant?
 7.2
 2K
The Stroll (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live ...
Style: twist ending, road movie, romantic drama, melancholic
Plot: young adult, youth culture, coming of age, city life, urban, slice of life, friendship, intimate, realism, bittersweet, street life, flirting ...
Place: russia
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I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 75 min.
Story: José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative, experimental ...
Plot: self discovery, dedication, human nature, society, isolation, hopes, wilderness, village, loneliness, in love, road trip, social realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: northeast brazil, brazil, latin america
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Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous ...
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: minimalism, immigrant, road trip, on the road, hipster, immigration, slacker, dialogue, existentialism, coming of age, melancholy, culture clash ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place: florida, new york, ohio, manhattan new york city, cleveland ohio ...
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Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style: cult classic, road movie, independent film, depressing, grim ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, addiction, heroin, dark humor, drug addiction, drug, junkie, friendship, on the road, drug addict, beat generation, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place: usa, portland oregon
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The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets ...
Style: erotic, talky, stylized, independent film, retro ...
Plot: writers, beat generation, friendship, making love, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, older man teenage girl relationship, suicide attempt, art, poet ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 60s, post world war two ...
Place: colorado, usa, denver colorado, new mexico, mexico ...
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 7.6
 23K
In July (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey, Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Can Daniel follow the sun from Hamburg to the Bosporus by Friday to meet his love?
Style: offbeat, humorous, road movie, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: on the road, hot and sexy, nothing goes right, hitchhiker, looking for love, summer vacation, true love, travel, border crossing, male female relationship, summer, road trip ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: hamburg germany, germany, istanbul turkey, turkey, budapest ...
Is relevant?
 5.5
 2K
Beat (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: beat generation, love triangle, infidelity, writers, lifestyle, writer's life, celebrity culture, drug abuse, addiction, adultery, rebellion, rebel ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place: new york, mexico, usa, latin america, mexico city
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Bread and Tulips (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her begin. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.
Style: sweet, feel good, touching, romantic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: fall in love, housewife, love and romance, self discovery, marriage, destiny, friendship, relationships, food, florist, hopes, life philosophy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, venice, rome italy
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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, UK, USA, 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, breathtaking, touching, political, cerebral ...
Plot: self discovery, motorcycle, revolutionary, poverty, on the road, road trip, journey, travel, politics, idealism, revolution, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 50s, 1950s, y2k ...
Place: latin america, south america, chile, bolivia, argentina ...
Is relevant?
 6.6
 934
A Trip (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Style: emotional, realistic, road movie, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, journey, love triangle, on the road, coming of age, youth, nomad, lesbian, lgbt, picnic, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovenia
Is relevant?
 5.4
 59
Places (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A coming of age story about love, loss and revenge centers around two teenage friends, Adam (Vladimír Polívka) and Marek (Jan Cina), whose aimless lives in a small town are suddenly disrupted by the appearance of Anna (Johana Matousková), the ...
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, tense, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: revenge, small town, love, love triangle, friendship between men, best friend, teenage girl, secret, prank, father daughter relationship, murder, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: central europe
Is relevant?
 7.8
 2K
Hobal (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events shakes the family's foundation and they find them in a struggle between life and death.
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, grim ...
Plot: desert, isolation, family conflict, survival, family drama, tradition, confined, loneliness, moral dilemma, resilience, family secret, claustrophobia ...
Time: 90s
Place: saudi arabia
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Queen of the Gypsies (1976)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, ...
Style: mystical, serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: gypsy, opposites attract, tragic romance, conquering, summer, music, thief, horse, horse thief, dance, mystery woman, white horse ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, 20th century
Place: soviet union, lithuania, eastern europe, ussr
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 6.7
 3K
A Love Song (2022)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
Style: romantic comedy, romantic, slow cinema, independent film
Plot: widow, loneliness, lake, mountain, radio, widower, canoe, lost love, grief, nomad, childhood love, marriage proposal ...
Time: 2020s
Place: colorado
Is relevant?
 5.3
 1K
Mom (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly ...
Style: christmas horror, dark, bleak, independent film, humorous ...
Plot: xmas, full moon, monster, female werewolf, villain, wolf, christmas, creature feature, creature, nomad, danger, vampire ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
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