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To Take a Wife (2004)
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Original name: ולקחת לך אישה
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, period drama
Plot:
lovers, extramarital affair, coercion, conflict, marriage, family feud, divorce, israeli, dysfunctional family, synagogue, husband wife relationship, religion, family relations, arab, arranged marriage, marriage crisis, hairdresser, mother child relationship, tragic romance, feminist, married couple, hebrew, psychological drama, cigarette, calamity ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
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Most similar movies to To Take a Wife
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, israeli, family problems, society, marriage and parents and children mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like To Take a Wife: Changing Times (2004), The Seven Days (2008), Late Marriage (2001), Or (My Treasure) (2004), The Flood (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, social, art house ...
Plot:
unhappy wife, judge, divorce, courtroom drama, marital separation, fighting the system, rebellion, discrimination, injustice, legal action, society, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, maghreb, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, forbidden love, first love, marriage, dysfunctional family, aging, fall in love, siblings relations, parents and children, love affair, family problems, couples ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
morocco, south africa, tangier morocco, europe, france ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
israeli, gulf war, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, death in the family, siblings relations, family life, jewish family, brother brother relationship, divorce, death of brother ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
israel, middle east
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42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
arranged marriage, israeli, culture clash, forbidden love, social differences, fall in love, love and romance, family problems, couples, parents and children, family life, self discovery ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 70s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, tokyo
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, down on your luck, escort, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, indiana, persia, israel ...
Similarity:
34%
266
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 13, Yoni is growing up. Fast. But not fast enough for this diminutive young man who is obsessed with getting bigger, taller and stronger. On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, Yoni has no choice but to “become a man” when he’s faced ...
Style:
sincere, touching, atmospheric, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, family life, physical appearance, teenage life, dysfunctional family, misfit, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, mental illness, mentally challenged, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
33%
538
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
fall in love, unlikely couple, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, wartime life, unfulfilled love, friendship, unfulfillment, dogma, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, paris france, europe, germany ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A contractor wants to become a writer but his unhappy marriage and financial problems are suppressing him.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot:
writers, husband wife relationship, family life, marriage crisis, troubled marriage, daydreamer, money problems, marital problem, financial problem, life is a bitch, family relations, society ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Norway, Iceland
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. After a few ...
Style:
sincere, manga, touching, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, clergy, biopic, forbidden love, scandinavian culture, art history, nordic, religion, wedding, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity ...
Time:
1900s, year 1992
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
rabbi, judaism, orthodox jew, women's rights, love and romance, family relations, matchmaking, moral dilemma, wedding planning, introspection, society, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, belgium, tel aviv israel, israel
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, erotic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay love, gay, forbidden love, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, married man, gay sex, gay bashing, gay student, judaism, homosexuality, infatuation ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem, palestine, middle east, persia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
switched at birth, teenage boy, family relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, disorder, society, introspection, occupation, adolescence vs adulthood, identity crisis ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
immigrant, moral dilemma, emigration, fall in love, religions or cults, family relations, society, love and romance, parents and children, misfit, identity, engagement ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, ukraine
Similarity:
31%
62
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France, Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Yoel and Ewa have been married for a long time. While putting order in their papers, he finds a bank note informing him of a loan on an apartment he owns, which he never knew about. Yoel discovers that in that apartment, in the poor side of town, ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
family secret, family problems, holocaust survivor, marriage, nursing, marital problem, husband wife relationship, family relations, lifestyle change, changing lives, male female relationship, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. She soon ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, politics, state affairs, social differences, love affair, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, discrimination, political unrest, israeli, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, persia, new york ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
actor's life, couples, hollywood, couple relations, renewed love, paparazzi, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, infidelity, actress, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drama about a family's effort to save their antique restoration business.
Style:
psychological, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, family business, family relations, parents and children, workplace, disagreement, aging, unfulfillment, loss of partner, store, estrangement, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot:
feminist, iranian, apache tribe, world war two, friendship, village, student life, social differences, motorcycle chase, family problems, injustice, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three unmarried aristocratic Christian sisters from Ramallah have shut themselves in their villa clinging desperately to their former glory, until their orphan niece, Badia, walks into their life and turns their world upside down.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, independent film
Plot:
family relations, wartime life, isolation, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world, bittersweet, family in crisis, orphan, sister sister relationship, women, fall in love, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestinian authority, palestine, israel
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, interracial relations, rebelliousness, family life, friends, danger, terrorism, politics, society, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, palestinian authority
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Israel, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this... It wasn't that important. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, sincere, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
culture clash, musician, israeli, orchestra, small town, ethnic conflict, fish out of water, society, disorder, melancholy, desert, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, maghreb, alexandria egypt ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
Plot:
mother daughter conflict, second wife, second marriage, bedouin, impossible love, family problems, women in society, marriage, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
israel, middle east, indiana, palestine
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, royal family, politics, royalty, political intrigue, supportive spouse, state affairs, family relations, society, royal court, hollywood star, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 2014, 1900s, year 1956
Place:
monaco, monte carlo, south of france, europe, french riviera ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, flashback, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, detroit
Similarity:
30%
292
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
"Behadd" reflects upon the relationship dynamics of a 'Parent' and a 'Child', and shows how their love for one another becomes the cause of their heartache and the reflection of 'selflessness' verses ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
teenage girl, family relations, parent child relationship, selflessness, possessiveness, false accusation, mother son relationship, parents and children, relationships, mother child relationship, relationship problems, family problems ...
Place:
pakistan, middle east, india
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
Style:
christian film, realistic, serious, talky, uplifting ...
Plot:
writers, poet, jesus, art, death, faith, christianity, cancer, marriage, friendship, biopic, family problems ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
30%
311
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Israel, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect obsessed with the Bauhaus style. With their friends, they form a group, which discusses the future ...
Plot:
conflict, israeli, israeli palestinian conflict, immigrant, utopia, family relations, zionism, sex, bookstore, husband wife relationship, world war two, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
palestine, israel, tel aviv israel
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style:
realistic, touching, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, friendship, rural setting, backwoods, suburbs, art, deep south, poet, past, romantic relationship, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Style:
emotional, touching, lyrical, depressing, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, hopes, children, midlife crisis, family life, human nature, couple relations, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, love and romance, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tokyo
Similarity:
30%
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