Movies like Paradise Now

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Paradise Now (2005)
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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, political, rough, dramatic, intense, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, freedom, friendship, suicide, muslim, conflict, israeli palestinian conflict, islam, manipulation, self sacrifice, israeli, bomb, occupation, introspection, mission gone awry, civil war, danger, deal, political unrest, destiny, life is a bitch, suffering, hopes, arab ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: middle east, palestine, israel, jerusalem, maghreb, palestinian authority, france ...
Keyword: palestinian, arabic, jewish, sweden, keys, challenge

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Most similar movies to Paradise Now

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about terrorism, politics, danger, terrorist, military, muslim and conflict mostly in Drama, Thriller and War genres. Some movies like Paradise Now: The Battle of Algiers (1966), Munich (2005), Incendies (2010), Bethlehem (2013), Omar (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style: political, black and white, art house, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: revolution, freedom, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, terrorism, french algerian war, revolutionary, resistance, insurrection ...
Time: year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place: algeria, africa, middle east, france, maghreb ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
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Munich (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 164 min.
Story: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style: political, intense, suspense, brutal, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, espionage, vengeance, assassination, mossad, judaism, politics, murder, spy, terrorist, islamic terrorism, cia ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place: middle east, israel, palestine, germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
 197K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 2K
Bethlehem (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur, the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited Sanfur when he was just 15, and developed a ...
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, sad ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, spy, terrorism, special agent, undercover, moral dilemma, danger, double agent, society, informant, israeli, murder ...
Time: year 2013, year 2005, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, venice, palestinian authority
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Omar (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Palestine
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The drama, the story of three childhood friends and a young woman who are torn apart in their fight for freedom, is billed as the first fully-financed film to come out of the Palestinian cinema industry.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking, mind blowing, political ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, muslim, friendship, moral dilemma, confession, resistance, power of love, gain trust, life is a bitch, danger, terrorism, social problems ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, palestinian authority, israel, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 7K
Lemon Tree (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defense minister and his wife move next door; the Secret Service orders the trees removed for security. The stoic Salma seeks ...
Style: sincere, uplifting, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, human spirit, loneliness, injustice, neighbor, widow, occupation, fighting the system, rules and policies, reconciliation, love and romance, legal ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: palestine, middle east, israel, jerusalem, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.1
 5K
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.9
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.9
 134K
Syriana (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, cerebral, political, tense ...
Plot: terrorism, cia, corruption, capitalism, espionage, politics, spy, oil, globalization, conspiracy, middle east conflict, political conspiracy ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, usa, israel, iran, lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 58K
Rendition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
Style: serious, rough, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, conspiracy, terrorist, war on terror, kidnapping, cia, islamic terrorism, espionage, torture, islam, spy ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, washington d.c., illinois, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.5
 472K
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Style: realistic, emotional, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: iraq war, military, terrorism, sniper, war, soldier, army, bomb squad, marines, terrorist, gulf war, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, afghanistan, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.0
 239K
Body of Lies (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – ...
Style: clever, political, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: terrorism, spy, cia, espionage, cia agent, terrorist, intelligence agency, secret service, government agency, conspiracy, danger, politics ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, jordan, syria, virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Honourable Woman (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 467 min.
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Story: Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, spy, mistrust, political unrest, political intrigue, muslim, secret service, family relations, undercover, state affairs, society, guilt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, england, israel, jerusalem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Hamburg Cell (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Although not very religious and accustomed to Western ways, Ziad becomes "brothers" with some ...
Style: psychological, serious, bleak, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, war on terror, muslim, obsession, political unrest, political conspiracy, politics, assassination, danger, against humanity, head of state ...
Time: september 11 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place: northern germany, new york, manhattan new york city, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.0
 678
Cavite (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Adam, a security guard, travels from California to the Philippines, his native land, for his father's funeral. He arrives in Manila. As he waits, a phone rings in his backpack; he answers it, and a male voice tells him that his mother and ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot: hostage, terrorism, heroes, leadership, danger, confined, chases and races, politics, homecoming, extremist, ransom, death of father ...
Place: the philippines, asia, manila philippines, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: military, confined, arab israeli conflict, sergeant, tank, mission gone awry, military life, moral dilemma, leadership, danger, battle zone, deathtrap ...
Time: year 1982, year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place: lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.2
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'71 (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, political, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, war, ira, soldier, military, survival, violence, brutality, wartime, chase, riot, tragedy ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century, year 2014
Place: ireland, northern ireland, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: True story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Armed ...
Style: touching, tense, sincere, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nazism, politics, world war two, nazi germany, nazi, death sentence, resistance, gestapo, historical character, trial, lawyer, rebellion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2005, 2000s, year 1943
Place: germany, munich germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.1
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Redacted (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Redacted is a film written and directed by Brian De Palma that is a fictional drama loosely based on the Mahmudiyah killings in Iraq.
Style: serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Plot: iraq war, found footage, war, soldier, military, military life, terrorism, journalist, journalism, danger, media, society ...
Time: year 2006
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Style: clever, bleak, tense, political, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: espionage, terrorism, spy, intelligence, surveillance, immigrant, war on terror, islam, secret service, investigation, betrayal, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2014, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, hamburg germany, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.7
 80K
Black Book (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min.
Story: In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Style: tense, erotic, psychological, realistic, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, holocaust, espionage, spy, nazism, nazi, war, revenge, resistance, occupation, gestapo, ss ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 2006, 20th century, y2k ...
Place: netherlands, holland, germany, israel, amsterdam ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Death of a President (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A fictional investigative documentary looks back on the "assassination" of George W. Bush and attempts to answer the question of who committed the murder. Perhaps less morbid and disturbing to watch now than during Bush's presidency, ...
Style: controversial, mockumentary, satirical, stylized, serious ...
Plot: assassination, terrorism, politics, sniper, investigation, conspiracy, president, culture clash, brutality, state affairs, danger, political conspiracy ...
Time: year 2006, year 2007, near future, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: iraq, chicago, middle east, washington d.c., usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Hunger (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
Style: disturbing, bleak, political, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: prison, prison life, ira, suicide, dying, rebellion, idealism, police brutality, resistance, suffering, nudity, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 90s, 2000s, year 1981 ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.0
 92K
Unthinkable (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: terrorism, counter terrorism, nuclear bomb, investigation, fbi, violence, terrorist, cia, politics, spy, manipulation, interrogation ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Out in the Dark (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue in this striking debut feature from Israeli director Michael Mayer.
Style: emotional, touching, serious, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay relationship, forbidden love, gay couple, gay student, gay interest, israeli, gay love, gay sex, male homosexuality, love affair, lgbtq ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east, israel, tel aviv israel, palestine, palestinian authority ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.3
 10K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
29%
 7.1
 258K
Valkyrie (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style: factual, bad ending, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, war, nazi germany, hitler, conspiracy, resistance, german soldier, politics, wehrmacht, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, bavaria, tunisia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Style: atmospheric, tense, political, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: politics, corruption, character study, police detective, danger, fighting crime, political unrest, teacher, dancing, dictatorship, dictator, assassination ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: latin america, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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