Movies like Scream of the Ants

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Scream of the Ants (2006)
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Scream of the Ants (2006)
Original name: Faryad moorcheha
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Iran, France, India
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India...
Style: art house, islamic
Plot: feminist, relationships, spirituality, prostitute, god, train, religion, female nudity, meaning of life, male nudity, journey, atheism, hindu, surrealism, husband wife relationship, pilgrimage, guru, iranian, simple man, hinduism, persian, chair, wife husband relationship
Place: iran, india, middle east

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Most similar movies to Scream of the Ants

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, islamic, realistic and sincere films with plots about iranian, persian, family relations, husband wife relationship, society, muslim and poverty mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Scream of the Ants: Mother (1990), The Peddler (1987), The Circle (2000), The Cyclist (1989), Boycott (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mother (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old ...
Style: spiritual, islamic, interesting
Plot: iranian, persian culture, mother, carpenter, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, brother brother conflict, persian
Place: persia, iran, middle east, tehran iran
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95%
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The Peddler (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second ...
Style: anthology
Plot: poverty, iranian, old age, merchant, cripple, caretaker, insanity, abandoned baby, director, handicapped, persian
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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86%
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The Circle (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Style: bleak, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: politics, pregnancy, on the run, prostitute, life is a bitch, society, friendship, injustice, feminist, dialogue, women's rights, discrimination ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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84%
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The Cyclist (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle ...
Style: islamic, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: cycling, bicycle, immigrant, iranian, bike, economist, refugee, black market, gambling, motorcycle, religions or cults, injustice ...
Time: 80s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Boycott (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members of his political cell, and begins to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned. At ...
Plot: marxism, prison, death penalty, arrest, faith, islam, anti communist, anti communism, iranian, political activist, childbirth, doubt ...
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
A Moment of Innocence (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.
Style: independent film, poignant, islamic, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot: muslim, iranian, feminist, actor, winter, marriage proposal, autobiography, police officer, filmmaking, redemption, politics, dealing with death ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Kandahar (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Style: sincere, disturbing, surreal, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: islam, refugee, on the road, politics, desert, survival, brutality, culture clash, suicide, women, rescue, journalism ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iran, canada, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Apple (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Style: compassionate, serious, sincere, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: isolation, father daughter relationship, confined, family relations, religions or cults, society, human nature, life is a bitch, children, childhood, blindness, twins ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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 ⇓
60%
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The Actor (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems ...
Plot: actor, poverty, husband wife relationship, marriage, childlessness, gypsy, filmmaking, marital problem, hysteria, deafness, deaf mute, traffic jam ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Through the Olive Trees (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is ...
Style: contemplative, avant garde, independent film, art house, social ...
Plot: filmmaking, amor, redemption, existentialism, farming, muslim, iranian, entertainment, hipster, couples, unfulfillment, actor's life ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Travellers (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and ...
Style: realistic, serious, beautiful
Plot: iranian, wedding, newlywed, mirror, death, female protagonist, family relations, couples, dealing with death, ghost, against the rules, destiny ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
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57%
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Ten (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Style: talky, melancholic, intense, light, thought provoking ...
Plot: character study, car, storytelling, relationships, driver, society, life is a bitch, passenger, sibling relationship, family relations, hopes, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Brick and the Mirror (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on ...
Plot: iranian, cafe, taxi, class society, child abandonment, class struggle, poor, taxi driver, beggar, hijab, poverty, persian ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
Style: islamic
Plot: mistress, impersonation, drug addiction, drunkenness, debt, iranian, bromance, extramarital affair, persian, car damage
Place: persia, iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Trial on the Street (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Just a few hours to his wedding, Amir, a lad from the south of Tehran, receives a call from his closest friend Habib who insist on meeting him to speak about an urgent issue. He rushes to Habib's works place and there listens to Habib's ...
Style: islamic
Plot: prostitution, dignity, second wife, taxi driver, polygamy, hijab, abortion, friendship, love, betrayal, wedding, jealous husband ...
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Dragon Nest: Warriors' Dawn (2014)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For years, the land of Altera has observed an uneasy peace between the humans, the elves, and the beasts who are loyal to the legendary Black Dragon. But when the dragon wakes from its hibernation, mobilizing a force of beasts to make war, a small ...
Style: exciting, captivating, anime
Audience: kids
Plot: dragon, enemy, elf, battles, good versus evil, beast, fantasy world, wizards and magicians, struggle for survival, warrior, destiny, fight ...
Time: year 2014
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100%
Travelers and Magicians (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bhutan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the ...
Style: road movie, serious, captivating, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: buddhism, road trip, magic, monk, storytelling, self discovery, introspection, friendship, clergy, culture clash, on the road, buddhist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Hamoun (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Style: existential, spiritual, cult classic, islamic, psychological ...
Plot: iranian, crumbling marriage, existentialism, arab, dull life, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, starting over, introspection, couple relations, society ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Gabbeh (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh (a intricately-designed rug), while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose ...
Style: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot: family relations, happy ending, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, village, family life, forbidden love, parents and children, village life, love affair, love ...
Time: year 1996
Place: iran, middle east
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50%
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Life and a Day (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
Style: suspense, captivating, beautiful
Plot: marriage, family relations, poverty, poor, family problems, poor family, family life, relationships, life is a bitch, relationship problems, persian culture, distopia ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Here Without Me (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.
Style: disturbing, sentimental, melancholic, islamic
Plot: iranian, adaptation, love, dream, cinema, poverty, worker, money, son, delusion, renaissance, husband wife relationship ...
Place: persia, iran, middle east, tehran iran, tehran
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48%
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style: art house, contemplative, independent film, road movie, spiritual ...
Plot: suicide, existentialism, soldier, muslim, death, desert, dialogue, iranian, depression, spirituality, hard life, art ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style: philosophical, melancholic, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: kurd, countryside, small town, fish out of water, family relations, village, parents and children, coming of age, politics, village life, poetry, existentialism ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1999
Place: iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
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46%
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 3K
Shirin (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the ...
Style: experimental, contemplative, atmospheric, stylized, emotional ...
Plot: theater, feminism, artists and showbiz, strong female presence, iranian, religious, minimal dialogue, arab, cinema, face, women, persian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia
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46%
 7.5
 6K
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 ⇓
46%
Two-Legged Horse (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, bleak, art house ...
Plot: youth, street kid, life is a bitch, dehumanization, cruelty, poverty, parents and children, master and servant, family relations, power relations, lifestyle, disability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, iran, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could ...
Style: touching, stylized, talky, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: feminism, culture clash, against the odds, injustice, feminist, life is a bitch, society, rebelliousness, women, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, bicycle ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 3K
The Tenants (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.
Plot: iranian, capitalism, anti fascism, sibling relationship, collaboration, con men, irony, apartment building, marital problem, landlord, construction worker, government official ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
43%
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