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Rhino Season (2012)
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Rhino Season (2012)
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
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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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A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
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, ...
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Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: iraq, iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
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Not Without My Daughter (1991)
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.
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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
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Unrequited (2010)
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
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Manuscripts Don't Burn (2013)
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…
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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 ⇓
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Time: year 1983, 80s
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Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 180 min.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
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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
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Duration: 86 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Lipstikka (2011)
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Duration: 109 min.
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