Movies like The Cow
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The Cow (1969)
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Original name: گاو
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
Style:
art house, psychological, atmospheric, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, controversial, gloomy ...
Plot:
animals, persian culture, village, countryside, split personality, tribe, life is a bitch, farm, village life, society, down on your luck, animal life, social relations, human becoming an animal, mentally unstable, losing-it hero, protecting from truth, schizophrenia, peasant, insanity, cow, government, controversy, animal death, disturbed individual ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
iran, asia, middle east
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and gloomy films with plots about society, life is a bitch, family relations, village life, village, down on your luck and human nature mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Cow: Hamoun (1990), Iron Island (2005), Tales (2014), Last Winter (2011), The Cycle (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, biting, sincere ...
Plot:
crumbling marriage, existentialism, artist, domestic violence, couple relations, working class, conservative, hopes, society, starting over, life is a bitch, introspection ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
iran, asia, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a ...
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serious, realistic, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
ship, forbidden love, human nature, injustice, power relations, hopes, young lovers, human spirit, misfit, anarchist, love and romance, society ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
society, love, family relations, everyday life, multiple storylines, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
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73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
countryside, farm, estrangement, workplace situations, nothing goes right, society, workplace, down on your luck, life is a bitch, social relations, village, village life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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693
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
Style:
banned
Plot:
nurse, poverty, treatment, father son relationship, controversy, urban setting, medical clinic, illness, blood transfusion, blood, censorship
Place:
iran, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
teacher, self discovery, prodigy, youth, on the road, human nature, teachers and students, society, village, religions or cults, isolation, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Story:
Directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
Style:
banned
Plot:
repression, boys' school, student protest, controversy, student, school play, censorship
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is ...
Style:
art house, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
farming, redemption, existentialism, filmmaking, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, actor's life, hopes, fictional reality, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
lifestyle, friendship, bittersweet, life is a bitch, love and romance, downfall, couples, down on your luck, singleness, city life, friends, twentysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?
Style:
realistic, psychological, touching, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
blindness, hospital, introspection, couple relations, injustice, disability, life is a bitch, second chance, self discovery, recovery, temptation, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, france, middle east, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, hopes, starting over, misfit, urban ghetto life, addiction, husband wife relationship, settler, courage, melancholy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
prostitute, starting over, love affair, homecoming, released from prison, family relations, reconciliation, life is a bitch, hopes, society, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
black sea, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the ...
Style:
experimental, atmospheric, stylized, art house, emotional ...
Plot:
theater, artists and showbiz, feminism, strong female presence, cinema, movie theatre, women, play, one location, auditorium, persian, watching a movie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Style:
emotional, touching, atmospheric, psychological, experimental ...
Plot:
introspection, social decay, haunted by the past, rebellion, human nature, immigrants, life is a bitch, revolution, state affairs, society, mental institution, postmodernism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A routine run for a truck driver turns into a nightmare he can’t escape in this psychological drama from filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. Georgy (Viktor Nemets) is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police ...
Style:
road movie, disturbing, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, murder, life is a bitch, social relations, disorder, nothing goes right, human nature, countryside, on the road, suicide, mental disorder, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.
Style:
ambiguous ending
Plot:
loss of innocence, ends with a wedding, broken heart, simpleton, sad ending, innocent man, male female relationship, remorse, same actor playing two characters simultaneously on screen, mistress, seduction, love ...
Place:
iran, tehran iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
boss and employee, doctors and patients, village life, self discovery, workplace, hopes, fish out of water, countryside, workplace situations, doctor, loneliness, social relations ...
Time:
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Place:
russia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, emotional, serious, gloomy
Plot:
rebellion, estrangement, life is a bitch, society, family relations, rebelliousness, miscarriage, strong female presence, pregnancy, politics, depression, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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790
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Without her husband and without her lawyer’s licence, which has been withdrawn, Noora is left pregnant and alone in her apartment. Her attempt to leave Iran turns into a fight with male chauvinism. A personal, nerve-wracking and infuriating film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, rebellion, political unrest, immigrants, woman in danger, life is a bitch, society, injustice, chaos, strong female presence, misfit, lawyer ...
Place:
iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
783
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style:
stylized, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, controversial ...
Plot:
physical appearance, family relations, mysterious character, isolation, couple relations, losing-it hero, human nature, obsession, love and romance, family problems, wilderness, forest ...
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, emotional, art house, captivating ...
Plot:
journey, tragic love, unfulfillment, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, missing person, ethnic conflict, self discovery, society, strong female presence, uncover truth ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, kurdistan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation, family problems, drug abuse, parents and children, doctors and patients, mental institution, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, family relations, power relations, addiction ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, biting, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, countryside, suspense, life is a bitch, survival, society, injustice, social differences, village, anti semitism, life turned upside down ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, family relations, unfulfillment, tragic hero, life is a bitch, society, hopes, ambition, racism, rivalry, gambling ...
Time:
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Place:
asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
Style:
serious, sincere, atmospheric, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
winter, society, unemployment, love affair, working class, social issues, marriage crisis, realism, human nature, life is a bitch, survival, family life ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 439 min.
Story:
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of ...
Style:
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Plot:
animal abuse, poverty, suicide, farm, countryside, multiple perspectives, loneliness, mental illness, mental disorder, changing lives, alienation, destiny ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
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thought provoking, serious, bleak, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
survival, injustice, political unrest, hidden identity, religions or cults, family relations, state affairs, dishonesty, human nature, feminism, war, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iran
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
Style:
captivating, realistic, emotional, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, village life, golden years, village, haunted by the past, immigrants, culture clash, memories, love, identity, nostalgia ...
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Place:
greece, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
destiny, parents and children, family problems, love and romance, dull life, life is a bitch, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, chance, sexual content, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
105
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Jiro Sawada was a sophomore in high school he was framed for something he did not do. Afterwards, he left his hometown in a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Jiro Sawada goes back to his ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family problems, youth, dishonesty, family relations, village, village life, frame up, tsunami, high school life, getting home, false accusation, earthquake ...
Time:
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Place:
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