Most Similar Movies to Boat People (1983)


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This Is Congo (2017), Zama (2017), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), The Field (1990), The Pedestrian (1974), Eboli (1979), Vizontele (2001) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

This Is Congo (2017)

This Is Congo (2017)

7.7/10 Documentary, War, Drama, History

An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.

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Zama (2017)

Zama (2017)

9.6/10 Drama, History

In the 18th century, a highly-placed servant of the Spanish crown who is obsessed with petty grudges and fantasies plots his transfer to Buenos Aires.

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The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)

The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)

7.6/10 Drama, War

A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society through the verite camera used in most...Read all

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The Field (1990)

The Field (1990)

7.4/10 Drama, Adventure

When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.

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The Pedestrian (1974)

The Pedestrian (1974)

6.5/10 Drama

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.

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Eboli (1979)

Eboli (1979)

8.9/10 Drama

A fact-based account of author-artist Carlo Levi's political exile in a remote Italian village during the 1930s.

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Vizontele (2001)

Vizontele (2001)

8.8/10 Drama, Comedy

In 1974 the mayor (Altan Erkekli) of a small Turkish town introduces television as an alternative to movies.

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Caterpillar (2010)

Caterpillar (2010)

8.5/10 War, Drama, History

In 1940s Japan a villager must fulfill her duty to her husband, a decorated soldier who returned from war a quadruple amputee.

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Apocalypse Now (1979)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

8.4/10 War, Drama, Mystery

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

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The White Ribbon (2009)

The White Ribbon (2009)

7.8/10 Thriller, Drama, History, Mystery

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

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L'Amore (1948)

L'Amore (1948)

7.5/10 Drama

Two films, "The Miracle" and "The Human Voice," tell the story of a woman (Anna Magnani) who sleeps with a bum (Federico Fellini) that she thinks is Saint Joseph.

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The Tale (2018)

The Tale (2018)

7.3/10 Drama

A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.

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First They Killed My Father (2017)

First They Killed My Father (2017)

7.2/10 Biography, Drama, History

Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.

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Half Moon (2006)

Half Moon (2006)

7.2/10 Comedy, Drama

Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up fem...Read all

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3 Faces (2018)

3 Faces (2018)

7.1/10 Drama

Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.

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Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978)

Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978)

7.1/10 Drama

Rupa (Zeenat Aman) grew up being cursed as "unlucky" in the village she was born in. Her mother died during childbirth. Then a kitchen accident leaves half her face disfigured. This is an artistic exploration of beauty and disfigurement, society's values and more importantly how a girl, teenager and a bride was treated during the times. Rajeev (Shashi Kapoor) the ster...Read all

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The Divine Order (2017)

The Divine Order (2017)

7.1/10 History, Drama

In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.

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Yaaba (1989)

Yaaba (1989)

7.0/10 Drama

A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.

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