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Zero Motivation (2014)
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Zero Motivation (2014)
Original name: Efes Beyahasei Enosh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit. In Hebrew with subtitles.
Style: funny, satirical, witty, talky, humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, cynical, semi serious, absurd ...
Plot: office, kick-butt women, military, military base, friendship, virginity, soldier, female soldier, israeli, best friend, military life, hapless soldier, administration, satire, suicide, woman, male nudity, feminism, feminist, judaism, realism, israeli culture, rape, israeli army, imperialism ...
Time: 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, russia, tokyo
Keyword: jewish, feminist film, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about israeli, friendship, soldier, military, friends, satire and love and romance mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Zero Motivation: Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer (1976), The Day We Met (1990), Close to Home (2005), Sallah (1964), James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sergio Konstanza, a Swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Seargent is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters.
Style: cult classic, not serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: israeli, conservative, israeli culture, soldier, desert, satire, silly humor, disorder, dishonesty, military, chases and races, nothing goes right ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, egypt, asia
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The Day We Met (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After being called for his mandatory yearly Israeli army reserve duty, Arik Schwartzman finds himself looking for a uniform wearing serial rapist. He is aided by Natalie, a young female soldier who looks for her lost father.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Plot: occupation, israeli, danger, soldier, army investigation, military, law enforcement, military base, woman in danger, military life, israeli army, attempted rape ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: israel
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Close to Home (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, suspense
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Place: israel, jerusalem, middle east, palestine
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Sallah (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of the big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish ...
Style: black comedy, black and white, realistic, semi serious, biting ...
Plot: israeli, islam, satire, immigrant, family relations, fighting the system, rebellion, society, family life, refugee camp, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During his journey to Jerusalem young James learns the meaning of being Israeli.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative, biting ...
Plot: wisdom of life, fish out of water, friendship, culture clash, immigrant, society, power relations, teaching the ways of the world, boss and employee, social differences, racism, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Human Resources Manager (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A tragic comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
Style: tragicomedy, sincere, road movie, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: self discovery, on the road, human nature, righting the wronged, redemption, selflessness, bribery, bittersweet, friendship, israeli, escapades, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, romania, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Noa, an officer lacking interpersonal abilities, commands orientation training for the first time and has to deal with particularly difficult soldiers, a staff that does not know what to make of her and an intolerant system
Style: entertaining, semi serious, captivating, satirical, thrilling
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Lost Islands (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, family in crisis, teenage love, parents and children, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
Story: Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain ...
Style: dark comedy, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, tragicomedy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.1
 6K
Footnote (2011)
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Duration: 107 min.
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Style: melancholic, meditative, surreal, tragicomedy, captivating ...
Plot: father son relationship, greed, israeli, secrets, existentialism, parents and children, family problems, ambition, religions or cults, estrangement, moral dilemma, writers ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014)
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Duration: 96 min.
Story: In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from outer space. Some Twitter users even expressed relief that ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, deep, contemplative ...
Plot: abduction, unlikely criminals, writer's life, danger, friendship, farce, dark humor, kidnapping, writers, psychology, friends, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
Style: erotic, sensual, sex comedy, erotic drama, romantic drama ...
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Time: 90s
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Duration: 110 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Israel
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.9
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Paratroopers (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, bleak
Plot: israeli, basic training, army investigation, military, misfit, soldier, power relations, boot camp, officers and cadets, hapless soldier, military life, bare chested male ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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