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Last Days in Jerusalem (2011)
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Original name: Tanathur
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
About the emotional upheaval of a Palestinian couple's last moments before leaving voluntarily Jerusalem, their native city, to forge a brighter future in France.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, atmospheric, gloomy
Plot:
hopes, couples, self discovery, society, introspection, leaving home, interracial relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, emigration, relocation, exile, alienation, melancholy, nostalgia, intimate, isolation, diaspora, retiring, trauma, resilience, hopelessness, surgeon, theater, actress ...
Time:
future, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
israel, jerusalem, middle east, palestinian authority
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Most similar movies to Last Days in Jerusalem
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about introspection, hopes, couples, society, couple relations, unfulfillment and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Last Days in Jerusalem: Manpower (2014), Self Made (2014), Dilber's Eight Days (2008), Epilogue (2012), My Australia (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy, biting ...
Plot:
social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, immigrant, realism, life is a bitch, discrimination, society, interracial relations, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
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95%
240
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Self Made tells the story of two women - one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, they find themselves living the life of the other on the opposite side of the border.
Style:
realistic, surreal, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
couples, self discovery, mistaken identity, love and romance, memory loss, introspection, disorder, society, impossible love, performer's life, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestinian authority, middle east
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dilber lives with her family in a very poor eastern village, her only dream is to marry her childhood lover, Ali. But when she finds out that it won't happen because of a reason that she can't get away with, she gets crazy and lock herself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, bleak, emotional
Plot:
true love, gender, couple relations, couples, love and romance, disability, wooing, unlikely couple, introspection, hopes, family tradition, village life ...
Time:
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Place:
turkey
Similarity:
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205
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them. After years of struggle, the two refuse to let go of their communal dreams, and of their revolutionary plans to build a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
elderly, introspection, fighting the system, life is a bitch, society, idealism, anti capitalism, social decay, husband wife relationship, elderly lovers, public health, old age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
self discovery, immigrant, immigration, family relations, culture clash, society, single parent, neo nazism, holocaust survivor, identity, family drama, anti semitism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
israel, middle east, poland, australia
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
aging, self discovery, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, couple relations, unfulfillment, elderly, marriage, retirement, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, introspection, breakup, couple relations, self discovery, countryside, family problems, disorder, rural setting, old woman, family crisis, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, normandy
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, vengeance, crumbling marriage, family problems, parents and children, love affair, dishonesty, redemption, introspection, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story is one of an architect that has lost his inspiration and goes looking for those motivations that pushed him as a youngster to take up the profession. Inspiring him was the baroque movement and all of its artifices: the Guarini in Turin and ...
Style:
sexy, serious, stylized, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
couple relations, introspection, follow your dream, hopes, human nature, family problems, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, illness, architect ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, rome italy
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, psychological, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, midlife crisis, family life, couple relations, introspection, obsession, hopes, surrealism, husband wife relationship, lie, routine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, lifestyle, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, social differences, infidelity, youth, male female relationship ...
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
Similarity:
50%
345
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator who marries Hai, a taxi driver who is two years her junior. Duyen thinks the marriage will make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, closeted lesbian, lgbt, couples, infidelity, sexual relations, self discovery, forbidden love, unfulfillment, family problems, estrangement, tour guide ...
Time:
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Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
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129
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, psychological, erotic ...
Plot:
self discovery, starting over, breakup, family problems, couples, couple relations, introspection, hopes, unfulfillment, minimalism, suspicion, singleness ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Philippe lives in a world controlled by a caste system. Those who play the "game" correctly become higher and more powerful. Phillipe plays the game well but his wife wants him to return to reality. Its a love story after marriage.
Style:
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Plot:
couple relations, introspection, fighting the system, crumbling marriage, human nature, social decay, society, estrangement, life is a bitch, couples, dark humor, emotionless ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
introspection, rehabilitation, accident, starting over, family relations, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment, couples, trauma, recovery, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, catalonia, europe
Similarity:
46%
593
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Place:
south korea, asia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
self discovery, couple relations, hopes, lifestyle, introspection, estrangement, dull life, society, vandalism, social misfits, unfulfillment, misfit ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes ...
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
journey, on the road, unfulfillment, haunted by the past, tragic love, life is a bitch, missing person, ethnic conflict, self discovery, society, wartime life, black market ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, kurdistan, turkey
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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377
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Renowned actress Colleen West abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But the peace and quiet she longed for is disrupted by the noisy construction of neighboring housing developments. Before long, Colleen discovers that she ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, psychological, black and white ...
Plot:
actor's life, introspection, direction and purpose, artists and showbiz, aging, unfulfillment, love affair, ambition, society, art, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
39%
800
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, introspection, society, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, youth, couples, fall in love, political unrest, culture clash, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Journey through the human experience as the pandemic tests what we are made of both as individuals and as a culture.
Style:
psychedelic, captivating, thrilling, emotional, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, introspection, self discovery, social isolation, social problems, culture, relationship problems, mental disorder, society, lifestyle, problem, loneliness ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Morocco
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
filmmaking, culture clash, social differences, introspection, village, hopes, society, children, self discovery, research, youth, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, morocco, tangier morocco
Similarity:
37%
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