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The Preacher (2016)
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Original name: مولانا
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Egypt
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A seemingly traditional journey of a young sheikh in a governmental mosque who moves from leading prayers to becoming a TV celebrity issuing "fatwas" that are accepted by millions who have become fans of his as a result of his courage and his attempts to deviate from the usual religious rhetoric in a society heavily influenced by fundamentalism. From Behind the scenes that exposes religion and authority struggle - Mawlana is a movie that defy boundaries.
Style:
thought provoking, religious drama, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, intellectual, controversial, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
power struggle, hypocrisy, moral ambiguity, fundamentalism, social commentary, ethical dilemma, life is a bitch, changing lives, self discovery, society, social problems, lifestyle change, corruption, family drama, satire, political satire, character study, urban, ramadan, dialogue driven, censorship, freedom of speech, free speech
Time:
2010s, contemporary
Place:
egypt, middle east
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Most similar movies to The Preacher
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, tense and realistic films with plots about moral ambiguity, urban, social commentary, social problems, life is a bitch, character study and revenge mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Preacher: The Originals (2017), All of a Sudden (2016), The Blood of the Innocent (2005), Virodhi (2011), Cargo (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
espionage, surveillance, family relations, changing lives, problem, relationships, social problems, lifestyle change, money problems, money falling through the air, secret organization, conspiracy ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
relationships, hypocrisy, hypocrite, intrigue, relationship problems, character study, intimate, moral ambiguity, tragedy, small town, male protagonist, provincial ...
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84%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Shiga Michinari was a well-respected deputy editor-in-chief of a major publishing company "Shukan Shuncho". However, his reputation and happiness hit the bottom when his son Kensuke was involved in a stalker's murder case and later ...
Style:
dark, bleak, psychological, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, grief, parent child relationship, family tragedy, character study, problem, private investigation, family problems, life is a bitch, lifestyle change, sleuth, crime solving ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to get involved with terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Jaber earns his living by fraud and deceit and ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, islamic, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
love and romance, love story, tragic love, problem, love affair, life is a bitch, relationship problems, love interest, class conflict, social inequality, working class, poverty ...
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story:
Political journalist Jayadev (Meka Srikanth) unearths several scams made by a politician (Ahuti Prasad) who in turn invites him to bribe him. The but idealistic Jayadev refuses to relent, and as they discuss, a group of Maoists attack the politician ...
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
journalism, political corruption, problem, relationships, journalist, investigative journalism, outlaw, investigative reporter, social commentary, moral ambiguity, corrupt politician, hostage situation ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bahamas
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Bahamian Fisherman with a gambling addiction in Nassau takes a job smuggling Haitians to Florida in a desperate ploy to support his family.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, crime drama, tension ...
Plot:
smuggling, social problems, smuggler, life is a bitch, gambler, family problems, money problems, human trafficking, desperation, illegal immigration, gambling addiction, social commentary ...
Place:
bahamas, caribbean, florida
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on the Ayyat train accident that killed 361 in 2002, this ensemble drama delves into the intense human stories of the passengers in a third-class coach car during the hour and a half before the crash.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
train wreck, social issues, accident, social problems, catastrophe, society, social commentary, social realism, mourning, poverty, claustrophobia, survival ...
Place:
egypt
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169
Genre: Drama
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
assassination, haunted by the past, on the run, life is a bitch, prime minister, flashback sequence, rivalry, danger, society, escape, moral ambiguity, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. From working class origins, she has reached the top of her game. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, emotional, social, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lawyer, female lawyer, justice, courtroom, barrister, trauma, female protagonist, patriarchy, law, lifestyle change, social problems, problem ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Mickey Ryan falls from grace due to a series of downward spiraling events beyond his control. With his life turned upside down, Mickey tries valiantly to resolve his issues but hooks up with the wrong people who blind him with anger and hate.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot:
family man, criminal, organized crime, changing lives, problem, life is a bitch, social problems, loss of control, desperation, redemption, moral ambiguity, character study ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Police officer Omar al-Attar which is exposed to the position turns over his career and personal upside down, when the killing of his wife verse at the hands of a gang, seeks to avenge her, something that enters into a series of cascading problems ...
Style:
thrilling, action thriller, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, police officer, changing lives, vengeance, police, murderer, avenge, loss of wife, cop, bereavement, career, murder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
Style:
tense, intense, bleak, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
bullying, investigation, suicide, mental health, adolescence, crime investigation, secret, murderer, murder mystery, murder investigation, murder, social problems ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up in trafficking opium with Mounir, his brother-in-arms who was wounded in the ambush, Lafayette, a ...
Style:
crime drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark ...
Plot:
soldier, war veteran, ptsd, social problems, life is a bitch, drug, drug dealer, criminal, family drama, brotherhood, loyalty, violence ...
Place:
france, afghanistan
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Avinash wants to quit his marketing job at a top cigarette company, but it comes with consequences
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
tobacco, marketing, advertising, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, lifestyle change, job, problem, changing lives, manipulation, corruption, social commentary ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Egypt
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Raouf is an interior designer and an owner of a home furniture gallery. He is a very suspicious person when it comes to dealing with all people around him. It is only when he goes into a coma, he started to realise his mistakes and discover what ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, comedy drama ...
Plot:
paranoia, suspicion, life is a bitch, waking up from a coma, paranoid schizophrenia, intrigue, character study, mistrust, coma, conspiracy, self discovery, obsession ...
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of three women whose worlds collide - a social commentary about the 'sound bite' society we are becoming, where perception becomes reality and judgments based on limited facts quickly spread, without regard for the truth or the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, society, intern, media, media satire, computers and web, urban, social media, cyberbullying, privacy invasion, social commentary, human nature ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
Style:
psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, fight, vengeance, criminal underworld, problem, investigation, father son relationship, secrets, family tragedy, grief, justice ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Four anthologies about revenge explore the need for vengeance, the effects of self-harm, and forgiveness through the lives of different people.
Style:
anthology, dark, intense, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, revenge, vengeance, forgiveness, social commentary, trauma, self harm, quarantine, pandemic, violent, gangster ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drug-dealer Sev and his equally broken girlfriend Maddie accept a risky deal from an old childhood friend, setting off an irreversible chain of events.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, drug dealer, white trash, life is a bitch, social problems, social issues, drug, social decay, junkie, royalty, social misfits, society ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Purusha Pretham, focuses on Inspector Sebastian as he handles an unidentified male body and becomes entangled in a procedural, personal and emotional maze. Somewhere between his personal troubles and procedural flaws, all hell breaks loose when he ...
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, police, discrimination, police procedural, police investigation, police officer, criminal, society, crime investigation, law enforcement, legal investigation, police station ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A nightmarish crisis occurs after a pregnant young Greek immigrant takes a job as a nanny to a young professional couple, in this stunning drama from Germany’s Christian Zübert.
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, intense, tense ...
Plot:
nanny, pregnancy, female protagonist, family drama, motherhood, responsibility, immigration, loss of child, grief, guilt, unwanted pregnancy, social problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
athens greece
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Explores the idea that not everyone accused of a crime is guilty. Delves into how even good people can be affected by the errors in the system and turn gangsters.
Style:
crime thriller, realistic, tense, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
courtroom, wrongful accusation, innocence, moral ambiguity, corruption, perjury, ethical dilemma, miscarriage of justice, social commentary, evidence, police investigation, vigilantism ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Coming off a lengthy prison sentence, Mike White is coming home to a world changed drastically by technology and a mindset of just trying to live a normal life running his Gentlemen's club and taking care of his family.
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
ex convict, prison, organized crime, life is a bitch, problem, changing lives, lifestyle change, family drama, getting home, gangster, mafia, urban ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Albania, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.
Style:
sincere, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
desperation, debt, society, life is a bitch, rivalry, money, violence, redemption, escapades, life philosophy, adaptation, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Larissa competed for the Rio Military Police in search of the ideal of “protecting the citizen”.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, military police, violence, realism, urban, social inequality, social problems, police officer, society, coworker, workplace situations, policewoman ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When high-school literature teacher Ana Bauch innocently recommends a film to her students, a parent's complaint spirals her life into chaos.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, female teacher, school teacher, problem, social problems, social commentary, misunderstanding, satire, ethical dilemma, small town, bittersweet, empowerment ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
american indian, getting home, independence, women, smuggler, bootlegging, ethnic conflict, problem, conflict, female protagonist, life is a bitch, class conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Redemption, violence, and faith define a young black man, a reckless white nationalist, and a pair of traveling vacationers during a random encounter within northern Idaho.
Style:
spiritual, thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
faith, redemption, racism, violence, racial tension, black man, black american, social issues, problem, social problems, social commentary, religion ...
Similarity:
42%
362
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When the son of Ukrainian immigrant Irina is attacked, the whole city stands up in solidarity with her family and condemns their Roma neighbors, who allegedly committed the crime. But soon another truth starts to emerge.
Style:
crime drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
false accusation, racial tension, prejudice, family drama, ethnic conflict, secret, family relations, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, suspicion, xenophobia ...
Place:
czech republic
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, thought provoking, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
colonialism, african, civil war, racial injustice, interracial relations, racial tension, life is a bitch, social problems, post colonialism, british colonialism, colony, choice ...
Similarity:
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