Movies like Red Sorghum

20 movies like Red Sorghum, ordered by similarity : Woodpeckers(2017), Katyn(2007), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison(1951), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), The Good Earth(1937), Room(2015), The Elusive Corporal(1962), Middle of Nowhere(2012), Sunset Song(2015), The White Cliffs of Dover(1944), The Captive Heart(1946), The Password Is Courage(1962) ...

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Red Sorghum

The narrator tells a folk tale of his grandparents (Gong Li, Wen Jiang), their distillery and Japanese invaders in China.

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Woodpeckers

Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.

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star 7.0/10
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Katyn

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

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star 6.6/10
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

At California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden.

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star 8.3/10
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They Shall Not Grow Old

A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

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star 7.5/10
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The Good Earth

Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.

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star 8.1/10
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Room

Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

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star 7.1/10
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The Elusive Corporal

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic... See full summary »

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Middle of Nowhere

A med student (Emayatzy Corinealdi) considers leaving her long-imprisoned husband (Omari Hardwick) for a charming bus driver (David Oyelowo).

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star 6.4/10
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Sunset Song

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

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The White Cliffs of Dover

A woman (Irene Dunne) from Oklahoma marries an English aristocrat (Alan Marshal) and raises a son between World War I and World War II.

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star 7.0/10
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The Captive Heart

In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.

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star 6.8/10
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The Password Is Courage

British N.C.O. Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes from the Stalag VIII-B P.O.W. camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans.

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star 6.6/10
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Hannibal Brooks

A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.

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I Never Sang for My Father

A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out to his bitter father (Melvyn Douglas).

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Forbidden Games

A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.

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The Land Girls

While British men are fighting World War II, three female volunteers (Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel) labor on an elderly man's farm.

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star 7.3/10
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Hope and Glory

Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.

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star 6.5/10
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Mum's List

A woman dying of incurable breast cancer creates a list of memories and lessons for the husband and sons she is about to leave behind.

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star 6.4/10
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The Confirmation

A divorced father and his eight-year-old son are about to spend a somewhat predictable weekend together, nevertheless, when a valuable toolbox gets stolen, the search for the thieves will soon turn into a true family bonding.

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star 6.9/10
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Mountains May Depart

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

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