Movies like Rhino Season
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Rhino Season (2012)
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Original name: وەرزی کەرگەدەن ،
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iraq, Turkey, Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, islamic, tense, contemplative, gloomy, tear jerker
Plot:
kurd, poet, love triangle, tragic love, haunted by the past, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, society, lovers apart, confined, selflessness, tragic hero, released from prison, prison life, poetry, propaganda, rape, marital rape, sexual content, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, forceful separation, nudity, sex ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
kurdistan, middle east, turkey, iran, istanbul turkey, tehran iran
Keyword:
eye candy
Most similar movies to Rhino Season
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, tense and psychological films with plots about life is a bitch, society, love and romance, confined, female nudity, haunted by the past and murder mostly in Drama, Thriller and War genres. Some movies like Rhino Season: A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), Not Without My Daughter (1991), Unrequited (2010), Manuscripts Don't Burn (2013), Betrayal (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
Style:
factual, tense, thought provoking, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
islam, domestic violence, culture clash, female protagonist, confined, violent husband, propaganda, family problems, society, life is a bitch, isolation, hopes ...
Time:
80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
iran, middle east, michigan, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
UNREQUITED is a psychological thriller and tells the story of Ben Jacobs, a troubled young man who, on his 18th birthday, has to leave the group home for "troubled teens" where he has been living for the past several months and move back ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love and romance, unrequited love, kidnapping, unfulfilled love, teenage love, danger, adaptation, abduction, teenager, loner, youth, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot:
assassination, politics, political corruption, political conspiracy, kidnapping, moral dilemma, murder, conspiracy, state affairs, mission gone awry, emotionless, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, talky, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
unfulfillment, love triangle, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, infidelity, autobiography, rivalry, friends, british pub, writers, affair ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Not Without My Daughter related movies
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
prison life, prison, survival, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, danger, confined, twists and turns, prison fight, supernatural, strong violent content, prison rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, contemplative, gloomy ...
Plot:
against the rules, self discovery, society, lovers apart, injustice, rebellion, couple relations, couples, love triangle, social decay, life is a bitch, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 180 min.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
murder, false accusation, escape, prison life, life is a bitch, frame up, confined, dishonesty, prison, disappearance, deadly
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, slow cinema, disturbing, lyrical ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
police investigation, murder, brutality, character study, road trip, isolation, forensics, everyday life, introspection, law enforcement, existentialism, european ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, maghreb, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes ...
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
journey, unfulfillment, tragic love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, missing person, ethnic conflict, self discovery, society, strong female presence, wartime life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, kurdistan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her and her daughter years earlier, must face her husband after he is unexpectedly released from a Cuban prison.
Style:
independent film, tense, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
political prisoner, immigrant, revolution, state affairs, idealism, couple relations, forbidden love, life is a bitch, society, politics, love and romance, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
miami, latin america, usa, cuba, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal ...
Style:
political, art house, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
kurd, juvenile delinquency, prison life, jail, sex crime, social injustice, traumatic childhood, politics, child abuse, revolutionary, injustice, revolution ...
Time:
80s
Place:
kurdistan, turkey, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, sexual content, violent content, nudity, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, life is a bitch, love and romance, parents and children, dull life, death in the family, alienation, women's issues, turk, sexual content, chance, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually.
Style:
independent film, fast, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
trapped, wedding, brainwashing, promotion, death, torture, fistfight, nudity, power relations, top executive, mind game, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, France, USA, South Korea, Turkey
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts. Described as a ...
Style:
rough, tense, psychological, serious, art house ...
Plot:
filmmaking, gangster, life is a bitch, obsession, estrangement, violence spree, asian, strong violent content, yakuza, eastern
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21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael ...
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Plot:
mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, death in the family, couples, midlife crisis, losing-it hero, love and romance, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, illness ...
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21st century
Place:
scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood.
Style:
serious, touching, atmospheric, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
social differences, lifestyle, society, murder, hopes, homeless, prostitute, dwarf, turk, muslim, sleeping beauty, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
330
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Day Break - based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside ...
Style:
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Plot:
prison, death row, prison life, pardon, legal, life is a bitch, society, injustice, law enforcement, legal action, compassion, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, aging, sexual tension, brothel, secret, obsession, uncover truth, older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, age difference, erotica, fetish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburg: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amusement park, is found half dead in his mill. Bellboy Barry admits to have done it - in self defense. ...
Style:
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Plot:
amusement park, profanity, couples, law enforcement, love and romance, obsession, blind ambition, dishonesty, betrayal, society, life is a bitch, protagonist as suspect ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a ...
Style:
sincere, tense, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
sex scene, moral dilemma, confined, cheating wife, prison life, love triangle, couples, sexual content, love and romance, crumbling marriage, infidelity, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own. (TIFF)
Style:
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Plot:
loneliness, disorder, haunted by the past, rape, woods, misfit, confined, introspection, social misfits, isolation, resistance, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A blind woman finds herself the target of an attacker again after the person originally convicted of her rape is found to be innocent of the crime.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense
Plot:
blindness, prison life, life is a bitch, injustice, disability, prison, woman in danger, false accusation, criminal's revenge, woman with a gun, love, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Michal has what he always dreamed of: a beautiful wife named Magda, a newborn son, his own firm. He chooses an old friend, Janek, to be the godfather of his child. This is just the beginning of Michal's plan, who asks his friend to take an ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, gloomy, bleak
Plot:
going straight, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, one more chance, friends, godparent, husband wife relationship, criminal heroes, reform, rescue from drowning, death by drowning, best friend ...
Time:
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Place:
poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Slovenia, Germany
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A police inspector investigates an unusual suicide case. The investigation develops into an obsession, inspector starts living in the apartment of the deceased, digging through his life and gradually taking over his identity.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
police investigation, mysterious character, obsession, haunted by the past, police detective, life is a bitch, destiny, father daughter relationship, guilt, death of child, ex husband ex wife relationship, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that ...
Style:
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Plot:
amnesia, beach, memory loss, isolation, island, love affair, life is a bitch, love and romance, obsession, performer's life, lie, sex scene ...
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Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two women reunite in London, where they go over the details of a life-changing event which occurred when they were teenagers in Jerusalem.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
forced sex, lesbian interest, introspection, haunted by the past, society, starting over, hopes, youth, friendship, immigrant, political unrest, lesbian ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After a husband is accused of droving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wronged her, is subpoenaed to testify on his abusive behavior during their marriage.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
abusive husband, courtroom drama, suicide, courtroom, family problems, disability, couples, power relations, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, legal action ...
Time:
90s
Place:
southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
821
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Without her husband and without her lawyer’s licence, which has been withdrawn, Noora is left pregnant and alone in her apartment. Her attempt to leave Iran turns into a fight with male chauvinism. A personal, nerve-wracking and infuriating film ...
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