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The Patience Stone (2012)
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The Patience Stone (2012)
Original name: Syngué Sabour - Pierre de patience
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, rough, captivating, realistic, independent film, inspirational, social, sad, islamic ...
Plot: sexual abuse, life is a bitch, injustice, danger, family problems, resentment, rape turns to consensual sex, couples, society, couple relations, muslim, mother daughter relationship, prostitute, civil war, poverty, sex, war in afghanistan, medicine, lady, feminist, existential crisis, marriage, social criticism, wanderlust, coma ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: afghanistan, middle east, persia
Keyword: feminist film

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, danger, family relations, society, war, soldier and war in afghanistan mostly in Drama, War and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Patience Stone: Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007), Boutique (2004), Incendies (2010), Attack on Darfur (2009), The Attack (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France, Afghanistan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young girl zealously wants to go to school and learn to read and write. Almost everywhere she is met with hostility or indifference. The only young boy who takes her to his school is thrown out by the teacher, because helping her prevented him ...
Style: tense, bleak, realistic, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: children, gender, feminism, injustice, life is a bitch, human spirit, social decay, tragic hero, hopes, coming of age, teacher, hostility ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, iran
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Boutique (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, downfall, life is a bitch, couples, bittersweet, iranian, singleness, youth, social differences, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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100%
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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 ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, heartbreaking, bleak, emotional ...
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 ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, y2k, 70s, year 1970 ...
Place: middle east, lebanon, quebec, nebraska, montreal
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100%
Attack on Darfur (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Style: disturbing, captivating, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: genocide, journalism, journalist, desert, murder, tragedy, civil war, uncover truth, against humanity, survival, photojournalist, injustice ...
Place: sudan, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Attack (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Lebanon, France, Qatar, Belgium, Egypt
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Style: tense, captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, uncover truth, terrorism, suicide bomber, danger, investigation, radical, society, occupation, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, arab ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: middle east, israel, palestine, lebanon, maghreb ...
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Earth and Ashes (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, bleak, islamic ...
Plot: boy, elderly, life is a bitch, on the road, wartime life, civil war, parent child relationship, obsessive quest, fire, desert, mine, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
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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
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50%
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style: realistic, bleak, meditative, harsh, emotional ...
Plot: kurd, children, coming of age, youth, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, family in crisis, parents and children, village, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: iraq, iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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 ⇓
27%
At Five in the Afternoon (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style: serious, bleak, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot: survival, injustice, hidden identity, danger, political unrest, religions or cults, family relations, life is a bitch, state affairs, war, dishonesty, feminism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Address Unknown (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war ...
Style: psychological, sincere, rough, serious, controversial ...
Plot: wartime life, life is a bitch, teenage life, haunted by the past, family relations, couple relations, youth, social misfits, society, rebellion, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, east asia, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Wajma, an Afghan Love Story (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, forbidden love, parents and children, society, life turned upside down, honor, student, love, couples, youth, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Afghan Luke (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke (Nick Stahl) quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom (Nicolas ...
Style: realistic, tense, thought provoking, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: war correspondent, journalism, military, anti war, danger, buddies, idealism, media, war on terror, war in afghanistan, journalist, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Black Tulip (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Mansouri family opens up a new restaurant after the fall of the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan only to be subsequently targeted by factional Taliban elements.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, islamic ...
Plot: rebellion, against the rules, fighting the system, life is a bitch, society, terrorism, hopes, danger, state affairs, human spirit, injustice, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
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: terrorism, torture, muslim, survival, politics, military, british, pow, injustice, life is a bitch, danger, warning ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 2002, year 2004, year 2003 ...
Place: middle east, united kingdom, latin america, pakistan, afghanistan ...
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23%
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Private (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: muslim, soldier, human rights, military, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, society, terrorism, rivalry, politics, confined, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, jerusalem, palestinian authority, israel
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23%
The Soldier's Star (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Afghanistan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Russian guitarist was enlisted in 1984 in the Afghan war. Imprisoned, he will meet an Afghan musician and a French journalist.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, exciting, captivating
Plot: heroes, military, fight, freedom fighter, journalism, danger, state affairs, soldier, hostage, war, prisoners of war, soviet afghanistan war ...
Time: september 11 2001
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Inbetween Worlds (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jesper is a soldier in the German army, who reports for a new tour of duty in Afghanistan. His unit is to protect a village from the Taliban.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: soldier, wartime life, translator, culture clash, danger, gain trust, battle zone, friendship, war in afghanistan, death threat, village, murder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, pakistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story: During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is ...
Style: inspirational, islamic, serious, realistic
Plot: racism, iranian, boy, iraq iran war, adoption, children, youth, mother and son, hidden treasure, xenophobia, superstition, poverty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iran, persia, iraq, middle east
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Osama (2003)
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
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Spring 1941 (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, love triangle, family in danger, confined, love and romance, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, against humanity, couples, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: middle east, eastern europe, poland, europe
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20%
Suspicious River (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young married woman (Parker) sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.
Style: psychological, rough, disturbing, erotic, tense ...
Plot: sexual abuse, prostitute, infidelity, survival, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, family problems, danger, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, small town, strong sexual content ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Time to Kill (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 1936, Italian army is invading Ethiopia. Lieutenant Silvestri suffering toothache decides to reach the nearest camp hospital. But the lorry has an accident and stop near a rock, so Silvestri continues by walk. On his way he meets and rapes a ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot: hospital, murder, italian army, danger, military, investigation, soldier, world war two, italian history, buddies, interracial, violent content ...
Time: year 1936, pre world war two
Place: africa, ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their ...
Style: erotic, sexy, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: sexual abuse, obsession, couple relations, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage, nudity, infidelity, erotica, unfulfillment ...
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Blackboards (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, Italy, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, educational, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, kurd, uneducated, teacher, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, wartime life, obsessive quest, danger, hopes, teachers and students, wandering ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Mina Walking (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Afghanistan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Saddled by a senile grandfather and a neglectful father, Mina, an impulsive twelve-year-old Afghan street seller sees her future slipping away when she is forced to neglect her education and walk the streets of Kabul to support her fragmented ...
Style: sincere, realistic, rough, social, bleak ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, rebelliousness, family relations, drug abuse, realism, child as adult, rebellion, life is a bitch, family problems, youth, parents and children, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Women Without Men (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco, Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
Style: sincere, stylized, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot: women, feminist, society, life is a bitch, social differences, state affairs, rich and poor, coping, feminism, woman, female warrior, iranian ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Yellow Birds (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
Style: tense, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, iraq war, soldier, war, courage, friendship, adaptation, military officer, danger, brutality, heroes, life is a bitch ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Brides (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Georgia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tblissi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, disturbing
Plot: prison, couple relations, prison life, family relations, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, parents and children, couples, family problems, woman, post soviet, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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M for Mother (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father ...
Style: sincere, captivating, sad, islamic
Plot: iraq iran war, iranian, family problems, pregnancy, pregnant woman, child illness, relationship problems, illness, dysfunctional family, mother child relationship, parenthood, persian culture ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
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