Movies like 7 Days 2008
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7 Days (2008)
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Original name: Shiva
Genre: Drama, Romance
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:
tense, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
jewish, family relations, gulf war, family life, family problems, siblings relations, death in the family, dealing with death, jewish family, brother brother relationship, religion, death, divorce, suspense, orthodox jew, funeral, grief, husband wife relationship, death of brother, sister sister relationship, israeli, bereavement, world war two, family gatherings, business ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991, 1990s
Place:
israel
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, family problems, society, parents and children, siblings relations, husband wife relationship and death in the family mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like 7 Days: To Take a Wife (2004), Yellow Asphalt (2000), Passover Fever (1995), Two Gates of Sleep (2010), Three Sisters (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: 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, thought provoking, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot:
judge, unhappy wife, courtroom drama, divorce, fighting the system, rebellion, marital separation, injustice, life is a bitch, unsupportive spouse, society, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama
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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, disturbing, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
coercion, extramarital affair, lovers, family feud, marriage crisis, conflict, marriage, divorce, dysfunctional family, synagogue, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
desert, woman in danger, culture clash, love affair, life is a bitch, society, injustice, family problems, crime and punishment, social differences, forbidden love, feminism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
twins, family relations, dealing with death, nanny, single parent, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, siblings relations, family life, death in the family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
death in the family, hopes, introspection, last wish, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, siblings relations, brother brother relationship, journey, river, nature ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, captivating, feminist film ...
Plot:
family problems, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, infidelity, small town, unfulfillment, human nature, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain ...
Style:
controversial, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
marital abuse, religion, orthodox jew, judaism, jewish, women, rabbi, family problems, religions or cults, family relations, couples, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
israel, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot:
funeral, family gatherings, life turned upside down, family problems, family life, death in the family, family relations, disorder, parents and children, muslim, actress, illegitimate child ...
Place:
morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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 ...
Plot:
prostitution, escort, down on your luck, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, prostitute, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, tel aviv israel, tel aviv
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
family relations, nubile woman, couples, family problems, matchmaking, family life, working class, siblings relations, family in crisis, forces of nature, world war two, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Films like To Take a Wife
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, serious ...
Plot:
rabbi, orthodox jew, judaism, arranged marriage, love and romance, family relations, matchmaking, moral dilemma, women's rights, society, introspection, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, belgium, tel aviv israel, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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:
psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, coma, husband wife relationship, hospital, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Vingar av glas är en svensk film från 2000 regisserad av Reza Bagher, det var hans debutfilm. I huvudrollerna ses Alexander Skarsgård som en "vanlig svensk kille" och Sara Sommerfeld som en invandrartjej. Det blir problem mellan dem.
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, touching
Plot:
wedding party, immigrants, family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, youth, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, single father, strong female presence, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebanon. Internal conflicts explode between the family - secrets are revealed and lies are unmasked. The ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sincere
Plot:
family relations, forbidden love, family problems, human nature, life is a bitch, love and romance, wartime life, family life, family gatherings, bittersweet, village, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
family problems, couples, youth, introspection, society, family life, adoption, boarding school, nanny, hopes, aging, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
jewish, moral dilemma, fall in love, love and romance, society, immigrants, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, misfit, engagement, emigration ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
767
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives.
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family feud, interracial relations, forbidden love, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, family business, life turned upside down, realism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A story about a girl named Priya (Preity Zinta) who is the apple of her parents' eyes. She defied the Indian culture when she got pregnant out of marriage by Saif Ali Khan
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
pregnancy, family relations, hopes, against the rules, redemption, family problems, family life, love and romance, unfulfillment, single parent, siblings relations, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
family relations, wartime life, isolation, confined, teaching the ways of the world, life is a bitch, bittersweet, family in crisis, orphan, sister sister relationship, women, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
starting over, family problems, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, hopes, death in the family, brother brother relationship, single father, rescue from drowning, loss of wife, widower ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
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Plot:
family relations, deportation, coming out, family problems, haunted by the past, introspection, hopes, aging, bittersweet, death in the family, gender, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. Camille voit sa vie brisée par la disparition de son fils dans un accident de la route. Incapable de faire le deuil, elle ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
obsession, death in the family, couples, family problems, family relations, dealing with death, love and romance, car accident, mother, guilt, death of son, grief ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
social differences, family relations, life is a bitch, society, rise and fall, family business, family problems, social problems, money problems, lifestyle, family life, youth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In order to to see his idol, Jimi Hendrix, a twelve year old boy attempts a journey from his Quebec village to Woodstock.
Style:
psychological, realistic, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
death of father, family problems, family relations, youth, death in the family, best friends, coming of age, teenage boy, child protagonist, dream, boy, children ...
Time:
20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place:
canada, woodstock, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, ...
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, tense
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, jewish, coming of age, self discovery, clergy, society, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, parents and children, rabbi, religions or cults ...
Time:
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Place:
israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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