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Persepolis (2007)
105K
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
Style:
adult animation, political, black and white, visually stunning, serious, realistic, depressing, social, anime, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, revolution, feminist, female protagonist, politics, iraq iran war, self discovery, biopic, childhood, repression, social problems, adolescence, culture clash, parent child relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, society, religion, feminism, rebellion, oppression, prejudice, rebelliousness, lifestyle change, identity crisis ...
Time:
80s, year 2007, 70s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1982, year 1978 ...
Place:
iran, middle east, tehran iran, france, ussr, paris france, moscow russia ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out adult animation, anime, psychological and serious films with plots about death, depression, art, storytelling, runaway, coming of age and melancholy mostly in Animation, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Persepolis: Waltz with Bashir (2008), The Breadwinner (2017), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Funan (2018), Coraline (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, USA, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Much awarded animated documentary, in which director and Israeli army veteran Ari Folman interviews friends and former soldiers about their memories of the 1982 Lebanon war and especially the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. The usage on ...
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Audience:
kids
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Style:
sincere, rough, heartbreaking, sad, adult animation ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
touching, depressing, anime, sad, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Cambodia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards ...
Style:
adult animation, anime, disturbing, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, communism, struggle for survival, khmer rouge, separation from family, little boy, husband wife relationship, leech, cambodian civil war, teenager, labor camp, starvation ...
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cambodia
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, dark fantasy, dark, scary ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
oregon, michigan, usa, north america, texas
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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kids, teens, adult
Plot:
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australia, oceania, persia, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our ...
Style:
philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, surreal, cerebral ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
philosophy, existentialism, dream, surrealism, alternate reality, trippy, consciousness, bohemian life, sleeping, meaning of life, life philosophy, imagination ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, tibet
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
Style:
adult animation, social, captivating, thought provoking, psychological ...
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Time:
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Place:
afghanistan, asia
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75%
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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adult animation, serious, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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iran, tehran iran, middle east
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sentimental, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, anime, witty, feel good ...
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Plot:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Audience:
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1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
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Audience:
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giant robot, brutality, apocalypse, post apocalypse, mental illness, escapades, good versus evil, man versus machine, imaginary, danger, dystopian future, heroes ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Biography
Country: Spain, Poland, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness ...
Style:
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Story:
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
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27%
Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
adult animation, psychological, captivating, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Japan, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg
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Story:
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Style:
anime, historical drama, bleak, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, stylized, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a strange boy named Assaji, who can predict the future, a monk with only one eye and Depa. Siddhartha ...
Style:
anime, thought provoking, spiritual, philosophical, disturbing ...
Plot:
buddhism, journey, travel, prince, self discovery, enlightenment, fight, prediction, power struggle, fortune teller, suffering, religious ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The story is centred on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, ...
Style:
adult animation, disturbing, heartbreaking, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
horror for children, adult
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dog, laboratory, animal rights, pets, danger, chase, animal testing, mature, escapades, fugitives, animal experimentation, compassion ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
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1.2M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives ...
Style:
touching, feel good, inspirational, sweet, tear jerker ...
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kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
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Story:
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Style:
adult animation, captivating, light, sentimental, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
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art student, husband wife relationship, family home, servant, world war two, art, international relations, married couple, depression, family relations, worried mother, sad ending ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, year 1939, 1930s, 1950s ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
25%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
mecha, atmospheric, anime, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
androids and robots, artificial intelligence, female warrior, chaos, angel, battles, supernatural, save the world, parent child relationship, dystopian future, imaginary, man versus machine ...
Time:
near future
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a disÂpatcher at the small railway ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague, czech republic, poland, central europe ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Romania, Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An animated feature-length documentary telling the story of the life of Crulic, a 33 year-old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from an important Polish judge. Crulic was brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to ...
Style:
thought provoking, stylized, disturbing, serious, adult animation ...
Plot:
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Place:
poland
Similarity:
25%
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