Movies like 7 Days 2008

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7 Days (2008)
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7 Days (2008)
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, suspense, gloomy, tension
Plot: israeli, gulf war, family relations, family life, family problems, siblings relations, death in the family, dealing with death, jewish family, brother brother relationship, religion, death, divorce, orthodox jew, funeral, grief, husband wife relationship, death of brother, sister sister relationship, bereavement, world war two, family gatherings, business, fight, mirror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991, 1990s
Place: israel, middle east
Keyword: jewish, korean, moroccan

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Most similar movies to 7 Days

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, israeli, husband wife relationship and siblings relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like 7 Days: Yellow Asphalt (2000), To Take a Wife (2004), Passover Fever (1995), Things Behind the Sun (2006), Broken Wings (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Yellow Asphalt (2000)
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, bleak ...
Plot: extramarital affair, desert, love affair, woman in danger, culture clash, forbidden love, life is a bitch, society, crime and punishment, social differences, injustice, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 612
To Take a Wife (2004)
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: realistic, disturbing, touching, serious, suspenseful
Plot: extramarital affair, marriage crisis, coercion, conflict, family feud, lovers, marriage, divorce, israeli, dysfunctional family, synagogue, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 70s
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)
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, touching, sincere, art house, detective ...
Plot: unhappy wife, judge, courtroom drama, divorce, fighting the system, rebellion, marital separation, discrimination, injustice, legal action, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, maghreb, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
 145
Passover Fever (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: israeli, twins, family relations, single parent, dealing with death, nanny, eating disorder, family problems, couples, family gatherings, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Things Behind the Sun (2006)
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, siblings relations, family life, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Broken Wings (2002)
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 ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, children, couple relations, human nature, midlife crisis, family life, innocence lost, love and romance, single parent, life is a bitch, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Fill the Void (2012)
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, society, introspection, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, israel, tel aviv israel, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Two Gates of Sleep (2010)
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, sincere ...
Plot: death in the family, hopes, introspection, last wish, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, siblings relations, brother brother relationship, minimalism, death of mother, journey ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Rock the Casbah (2013)
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: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, islamic ...
Plot: funeral, family relations, life turned upside down, family gatherings, family problems, death in the family, family life, parents and children, disorder, muslim, arab, housekeeper ...
Place: morocco, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Sacred (1999)
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: thinking, philosophical, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Plot: marital abuse, religion, judaism, orthodox jew, israeli, feminism, arab, women, strong female presence, rabbi, couples, family relations ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: israel, middle east, persia, palestine, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Or (My Treasure) (2004)
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, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: prostitution, escort, prostitute, down on your luck, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, indiana, palestine, persia, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Inheritance (2012)
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, sincere, emotional
Plot: family relations, forbidden love, family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, wartime life, family life, family gatherings, bittersweet, village, family in crisis, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: lebanon, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
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: independent film, captivating, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: sister, siblings, sisters, family relations, nubile woman, world war two, family problems, couples, matchmaking, forces of nature, family in crisis, working class ...
Time: year 1983, 20th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
 167
Villa Touma (2014)
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: serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, independent film
Plot: family relations, teaching the ways of the world, life is a bitch, isolation, wartime life, family in crisis, bittersweet, orphan, sister sister relationship, women, fall in love, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, palestinian authority, israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Jaffa (2009)
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: realistic, serious, emotional, thought provoking, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, forbidden love, interracial relations, family feud, life is a bitch, love and romance, society, life turned upside down, family business, family problems ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, israel, palestine, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Family Tree (2010)
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, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, deportation, family problems, aging, hopes, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Three Sisters (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough, touching ...
Plot: family problems, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, infidelity, small town, human nature, unfulfillment, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time: 1900s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Late Marriage (2001)
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: culture clash, social differences, love and romance, fall in love, couples, family problems, family life, parents and children, self discovery, society, couple relations, israeli ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Wings of Glass (2000)
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, teen
Audience: teens
Plot: wedding party, immigrant, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, single parent, youth, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, european, adolescence, single father ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.0
 684
Campfire (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot: friendship, teenage love, teenage life, starting over, self discovery, couples, false accusation, family life, impossible love, hopes, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 80s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 4K
Quiet Chaos (2008)
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, emotional, touching, contemplative, serious ...
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, father daughter relationship, widower ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
All the Way Home (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the ...
Style: retro, realistic, serious, gloomy, sentimental ...
Plot: grief, death of husband, family relations, small town, car accident, family problems, life turned upside down, small town life, death in the family, parents and children, family in crisis, hopes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1963, 1900s
Place: tennessee, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Rashevski's Tango (2003)
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: couples, family problems, introspection, society, youth, family life, adoption, boarding school, dealing with death, hopes, love and romance, nanny ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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My Father My Lord (2007)
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: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, life is a bitch, society, introspection, clergy, hopes, rabbi, family problems, religions or cults, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.5
 5K
The Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
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, ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: tree, mother daughter relationship, grief, family relations, loss of father, little girl, children, parents and children, death in the family, introspection, family problems, death of father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Green Chariot (2005)
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, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
Plot: fall in love, moral dilemma, love and romance, society, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, immigrant, misfit, emigration, engagement, identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.9
 703
After Him (2007)
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: realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, tense ...
Plot: bookstore, obsession, death of son, death in the family, family problems, family relations, couples, love and romance, dealing with death, best friend, grief, car accident ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
 573
Next to Her (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Rachel, 27, is raising her mentally retarded sister Gabby, 24, all by herself. When the social worker finds out she leaves her sister alone in the house while at work, she is forced to place her in a day-care center. For the first time in her life ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy, weird
Plot: mentally challenged, destructive relationship, fall in love, love and romance, family relations, family problems, sister sister relationship, love, threesome, israeli, illness, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Borrowed Identity (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot: boarding school, teenage life, friendship, teenage love, hopes, introspection, bare breasts, social misfits, misfit, friends, disorder, impossible love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1991, year 1982 ...
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Echoes of the Rainbow (2010)
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: sincere, realistic, sentimental, serious, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: social differences, family relations, society, life is a bitch, rise and fall, lifestyle, family business, money problems, family life, family problems, social problems, cancer ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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