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Turn Left at the End of the World (2004)
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Original name: סוף העולם שמאלה
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, while the quiet Indians see the Moroccans as Ignorant and coarse. In this cultural war two girls, Moroccan and Indian, discover the sexual revolution of the 60's.
Style:
humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sweet, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
friendship, racial discrimination, desert, ethnic, female pubic hair, immigrant, settler, teenage love, teenage life, social differences, culture clash, society, youth, family relations, parents and children, social relations, village, sex scene, israeli, renaissance, making love, coming of age, generation gap, lgbt, teenager ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Israel, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Duration: 127 min.
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Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
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emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
30%
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Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 110 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Style:
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