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In This World (2002)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
Style:
bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, sincere, suspenseful, political, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, politics, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, hopes, migration, society, death, immigration, muslim, refugee camp, migrant, child, children, boy, kurd, camel, storytelling, drinking, war in afghanistan, military ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2001, contemporary
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, turkey, pakistan, tehran iran, italy ...
Keyword:
english, reading, russian
Most similar movies to In This World
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and crying films with plots about family relations, society, life is a bitch, refugee, photograph, immigrant and boy mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like In This World: The Return (2003), Capernaum (2018), Kandahar (2001), The Kite Runner (2007), Osama (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style:
bleak, art house, road movie, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, brother, journey, survival, children, parents and children, father son relationship, existentialism, wilderness, childhood, on the road, character study ...
Time:
year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style:
social, sad, thought provoking, depressing, rough ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, neglected child, life is a bitch, low lives, child protagonist, child neglect, starving child ...
Time:
2010s, future
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, maghreb ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, surreal, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
islam, refugee, on the road, politics, desert, survival, brutality, culture clash, suicide, women, rescue, journalism ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, canada, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
childhood, friendship, muslim, coming of age, guilt, courage, islam, betrayal, rape, mission, haunted by the past, child ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, china, iraq, bay area ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Teenage girl Osama cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widowed mother and grandmother. When Osama is called by the Taliban to join school and military training she embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
coming of age, islam, taliban, survival, oppression, child abuse, injustice, life is a bitch, brutality, justice, religion, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iraq, persia, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
italy, africa, libya, algeria, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
New York attorney Libby (Juliette Lewis) is a go-getter who won't let anyone stand in the way of her success. But when she accepts a pro bono case involving young Afghan dissident Meena (Layla Alizada), Libby finds her corporate dreams replaced ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, disturbing, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot:
fighting the system, deportation, courtroom drama, rebellion, injustice, legal, danger, life is a bitch, terrorism, hopes, idealism, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Guatemala
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
Style:
road movie, serious, touching, rough, sincere ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
immigrant, u.s. mexico border, on the road, coming of age, friendship, follow your dream, hopes, leaving home, border crossing, border, danger, slaughterhouse ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, central america, guatemala, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Style:
disturbing, rough, realistic, intense, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2006, 2000s, year 2002, year 2004, year 2003 ...
Place:
middle east, united kingdom, latin america, pakistan, afghanistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed ...
Style:
realistic, political, melancholic, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, beverly hills, tijuana mexico, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, intense, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, society, end of the world, post apocalyptic, brutality, catastrophe, survival, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still ...
Style:
disturbing, sad, realistic, biting, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The young adult life of Hong Yunsheng, nicknamed Little Brother, is seen as somewhat of a failure by those that know him. A Chinese national, he stowed away on a boat to the United States, where he worked as a dishwasher in the restaurant of a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, touching, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, epic, political ...
Plot:
immigrant, realism, working class, fighting the system, employment agency, injustice, society, workplace, legal, life is a bitch, workplace situations, social differences ...
Time:
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Place:
britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, hopes, friendship, injustice, starting over, society, leaving home, political unrest, friends, fugitives, migration ...
Time:
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Place:
iraq, iran, turkey
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, emotional, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
refugee, survival, life is a bitch, political unrest, danger, escapades, immigrant, illegal immigration, post war, rescue from drowning, illegal immigrant, river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia, croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Kurdish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. When Lateef is given heavier tasks to compensate for new Afghan worker Rahmat, he resents his displacement and ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, sin, life is a bitch, starving child, society, family problems, parents and children ...
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, breathtaking, inspirational ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
russia, soviet union, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, family bonds, adolescence, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle ...
Style:
islamic, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Style:
serious, sincere, bleak, informative, political ...
Plot:
vietnam war, human spirit, fighting the system, refugee, parents and children, political unrest, re-education, hopes, military, tragic hero, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
vietnam, california, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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