Movies like Incendies

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Incendies (2010)
 8.3
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Incendies (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
Style: disturbing, psychological, heartbreaking, bleak, emotional, thought provoking, visually appealing, suspense, sad, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, rape, civil war, incest, last will and testament, torture, pregnant from rape, unwanted pregnancy, unknown father, incest rape, twin brother and sister, psychology, family problems, twins, family drama, muslim, university, mother son incest, self discovery, family secret, islam, death, haunted by the past, uncover truth, brutality ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, y2k, 70s, year 2009, year 1970, 20th century ...
Place: middle east, lebanon, quebec, nebraska, montreal, canada, montreal quebec ...
Keyword: lebanese, arabic, disgust, outburst, palestinian, challenge

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Most similar movies to Incendies

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and sad films with plots about death, blood, family relations, murder, life is a bitch, mission and moving mostly in Drama, Mystery and War genres. Some movies like Incendies: Oldboy (2003), The Lives of Others (2006), Turtles Can Fly (2004), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Atonement (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Oldboy (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style: bleak, twist ending, intense, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, distant future, y2k, near future ...
Place: south korea, korea, persia, oceania, east asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Lives of Others (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style: political thriller, gloomy, political, sincere, suspense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surveillance, cold war, berlin wall, spy, stasi, communism, iron curtain, secrets, loneliness, voyeurism, politics, suicide ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, year 1984 ...
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France, Iraq
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Style: sincere, bleak, emotional, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: childhood, orphan, children in wartime, blind character, refugee, children, coming of age, camp, child, muslim, anti war, survival ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: kurdistan, iraq, middle east, iran, afghanistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, human spirit, hopes, stephen king, life, friendship between men, friendship, plot twist, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s, 2010s, year 1994 ...
Place: usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Atonement (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, sad, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, wartime, tragic love, redemption, injustice, unfulfilled love, love story, false accusation, love and romance, forbidden love, innocence, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 2007, 2000s, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, dunkirk, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears ...
Style: disturbing, political, bleak, harsh, dramatic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: war, civil war, child soldier, life is a bitch, children in wartime, adaptation, violence, justice, military, moral ambiguity, violent, culture clash ...
Time: year 2015, 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, west africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: poverty, missing person, small town, family in crisis, female protagonist, bail, dysfunctional family, down on your luck, mental illness, rural setting, family crisis, uncle niece relationship ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Circle of Deceit (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
Style: political, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: journalism, reporter, journalist, female nudity, photograph, photographer, lebanese civil war, cold war, correspondents, raf, politics, adoption ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: lebanon, germany, middle east, east berlin, west berlin west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ararat (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Style: disturbing, emotional, realistic, sexy, meta ...
Plot: genocide, armenian genocide, filmmaking, politics, freedom, atrocity, war crime, self discovery, haunted by the past, against humanity, family problems, painting ...
Time: year 2002, 1910s, 20th century, year 1915, 1930s ...
Place: armenia, canada, ottoman empire, middle east, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 117K
Talk to Her (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Style: psychological, emotional, surreal, sexy, sincere ...
Plot: rape, tragic love, friendship, suicide, loneliness, female nudity, obsession, impossible love, tragic event, hospital, sex, women ...
Time: near future, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, jordan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style: surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, lookalikes, obsession, nightmare, surrealism, disturbed individual, actor, existentialism ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Patience Stone (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Afghanistan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country delivers an engrossing, emotional monologue to her comatose husband, in novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi's poetic and politically charged allegory based on his award-winning novel. (TIFF)
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating, realistic, rough ...
Plot: sexual abuse, family problems, injustice, resentment, danger, life is a bitch, rape turns to consensual sex, couples, couple relations, society, mother daughter relationship, muslim ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Brothers (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A Danish officer, Michael (Thomsen), is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some ...
Style: emotional, tense, disturbing, serious, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family drama, courage, depression, brutality, politics, relationships, family relations, war, brothers, family problems, brother brother relationship, prisoner ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, scandinavia, europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, surreal, visual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: vietnam war, insanity, jungle, mission, anti war, army, military, violence, secret mission, soldier, violent, river ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 60s, year 1969
Place: vietnam, cambodia, southeast asia, asia, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Prisoners (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.9
 483K
Mystic River (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style: psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.9
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About Elly (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: missing person, matchmaking, family relations, friendship, guilt, journey, iranian, parents and children, couples, couple relations, love and romance, teacher ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The White Ribbon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Style: disturbing, black and white, art house, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: children, punishment, sexual abuse, priest, physical appearance, suicide, small town, death, child abuse, cruelty, family secret, village life ...
Time: year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, 90s, 1920s ...
Place: germany, europe, northern germany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Paradise Now (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paradise Now is filmed from the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel. This is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.
Style: disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, controversial, depressing ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, freedom, friendship, suicide, muslim, conflict, israeli palestinian conflict, manipulation, islam, self sacrifice, israeli ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, israel, jerusalem, maghreb ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 360K
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story: A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in ...
Style: depressing, epic, harsh, psychological, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, anti war, russian roulette, friendship, war, hunting, escape, suicide, survival, friendship between men, hunter, death of friend ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 60s
Place: vietnam, pittsburgh, asia, usa, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style: emotional, touching, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, war, children, childhood, nazi, friendship, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008
Place: germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style: realistic, epic, breathtaking, captivating, tense ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, kids, date night, adult
Plot: war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, friendship, nazi, army, d day, rescue ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: normandy, poland, germany, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, psychological, clever ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, anti war, suicide, soldier, basic training, boot camp, sniper, military life, brutality, blood ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, year 1968, year 1987, 60s ...
Place: vietnam, persia, america, asia, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.0
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Magnolia (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, sincere, depressing, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: social problems, multiple storylines, depression, human nature, child prodigy, dysfunctional family, introspection, cancer, terminal illness, loneliness, alienation, coincidence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1950s ...
Place: los angeles, california, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 71K
Mother (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Memories of Murder (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style: realistic, neo noir, psychological, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, police, rape, police investigation, murderer, murder, twists and turns, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, true crime ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, y2k, year 1986, 20th century ...
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
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The Hunt (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Style: bleak, thought provoking, psychological, depressing, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: injustice, life turned upside down, child abuse, false accusation, divorce, social injustice, social relations, pedophile, parents and children, teacher, church, punched in the face ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot: psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, depression, mental illness, sociopath, teenager, antisocial behavior, childhood, mother son relationship, boy ...
Time: year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, united kingdom, connecticut, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Seeds of Yesterday (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
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Story: The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: brother sister incest, sex scene, incest, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, family life, death in the family, sexual relations, siblings relations, male nudity, mansion, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A drama set in 1986 Iran and centered on a man, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village and enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant had a ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, sexy, touching ...
Plot: injustice, death penalty, discrimination, society, sadism, loss of family member, conspiracy, destructive relationship, abusive husband, religion, corruption, hijab ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 80s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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