Movies like Turtles Can Fly
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Turtles Can Fly (2004)
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Original name: لاکپشتها هم پرواز میکنند
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
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, rough, bleak, emotional, atmospheric, stylized, political, dramatic, realistic, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, blind character, war, refugee, orphan, children, coming of age, camp, child, anti war, muslim, children in wartime, survival, fall in love, siblings relations, wartime life, saddam hussein, invasion, military, politics, village, suicide, gulf war, middle east conflict, death ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
kurdistan, iran, iraq, middle east, california, berlin germany, turkey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, harsh and dramatic films with plots about culture clash, death, tragedy, runaway, childhood, storytelling and mentor mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres. Some movies like Turtles Can Fly: Innocent Voices (2004), Kandahar (2001), The Book Thief (2013), A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), Incendies (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 120 min.
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Country: Iran, France
Duration: 85 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
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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, ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
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Duration: 89 min.
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In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he ...
Style:
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Plot:
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30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 100 min.
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Style:
sincere, serious, sentimental, realistic, road movie
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
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Country: France, Norway, Lebanon, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong, China
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Duration: 112 min.
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A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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