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Home Coming (2006)
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Home Coming (2006)
Original name: Eve Dönüş
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story: September 1980. Mustafa 'Mehmet Ali Alabora' and his wife, who're both laborers are married for 5 years. The couple has nothing to do with politics and spend their days happily with their 3 year old daughter and their TV, despite the clamor of guns clashing outside every night. One Friday morning, they wake up and hear the voice of Hasan Mutlucan on radio and observe soldiers marching through the streets, the very confirmation of the military coup that has taken place. Arrests begin instantly in workplace and neighborhood. Yet Mustafa, far from being disturbed, assumes that all apprehensions must have rightful reasons. Until the night he's taken into custody, charged with the crimes of a militant code named "Sehmuz".
Style: art house
Plot: revolution, mistaken identity, military coup, politics, prison, torture, male nudity, political unrest, homecoming, wrongful arrest, physical torture, electric torture, post traumatic stress disorder, bare chested male, male pubic hair, wrongful imprisonment, pubic hair
Place: middle east, turkey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, art house and disturbing films with plots about male nudity, male pubic hair, pubic hair, bare chested male, politics, prison and male objectification mostly in Drama and History genres. Some movies like Home Coming: Karnak Cafe (1975), Golden Horseshoes (1989), The Little Drummer Girl (1984), Embryo (2008), Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Karnak Cafe (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In one of their best roles ever, distinguished actors Nour Al Sherif and Souad Hosni star in this film depicting the unstable social and political life in Egypt during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film revolved around a group of university ...
Style: iconic
Plot: politics, torture, group, interrogation, prison, police, police brutality, accusation, communism, youth
Place: egypt
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100%
Golden Horseshoes (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. ...
Plot: torture, political prisoner, bare chested male, prison, male nudity, blood
Place: tunisia
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28%
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Style: political thriller, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mossad, espionage, terrorism, secret agent, intrigue, politics, state affairs, political intrigue, danger, dishonesty, mistaken identity, double agent ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east, lebanon, beirut lebanon, israel, germany ...
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23%
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Embryo (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.
Style: art house, independent film
Plot: bdsm, girl, male nudity, alienation, sex, politics, kidnapping, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers ...
Style: anthology
Plot: diaspora, genocide, greek, armenian genocide, musician, turkish history, city, daughter, mother
Place: turkey, middle east, greece, ottoman empire, istanbul turkey
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22%
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Life (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A highly cinematic adaptation of John Brumpton’s play about a group of inmates incarcerated in an isolated HIV-positive section of a prison.
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, female nudity, bare butt, bare chested male, male pubic hair, male nudity, jail, prison sex, aids, male objectification, hiv, prison life ...
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22%
Baptism of Blood (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the ...
Plot: torture, dictatorship, dictator, brazilian military dictatorship, liberation theology, catholic, catholic church, male pubic hair, male nudity, liberation, bare chested male, nudity ...
Place: brazil
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22%
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Autumn (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: starting over, love affair, homecoming, released from prison, life is a bitch, hopes, society, love and romance, family relations, reconciliation, parents and children, fighting illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: black sea, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Cover boy: L'ultima rivoluzione (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Cover-boy racconta l’amicizia fra Ioan (Eduard Gabia) e Michele (Luca Lionello) l’uno rumeno e l’altro italiano. Due mondi che casualmente s’incontrano: l’esperienza di chi, figlio della rivoluzione post comunista, è fuggito dal proprio ...
Plot: gay, immigration, male nudity, gays and lesbians, lgbt, male pubic hair, skinny dipping, male prostitution, revolution, friendship, travel, poverty ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Mathieu Denis (Corbo) and Simon Lavoie (Le torrent) evoke Godard’s La Chinoise with this stunning fusion of fiction and documentary about a radical Quebec leftist cell seeking to sow mayhem in Montreal as a prelude to overthrowing the government.
Style: avant garde, serious, disturbing, realistic, political ...
Plot: gay interest, transgender, politics, group of friends, rebellion, violence, rebel, protest, revolution, lgbtq, male nudity, lgbt ...
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21%
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Block C (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.
Style: art house, serious, psychological, realistic
Plot: male nudity, crumbling marriage, master and servant, couples, family relations, cause and meaning, escape from reality, naked in public, woman, public nudity, mental disorder, absent husband ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Dry Summer (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.
Style: art house, educational, black and white, tense, realistic ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, summer, social commentary, muslim, animal abuse, water, prison, drought, rural setting, farmer, village, siblings relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Happy Day (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled prisoners. The everyday life of the people who live there consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners ...
Style: absurd, allegory
Plot: torture, prison, politics, island, greek civil war, satire, insanity, death, military, violence, surrealism, brainwashing ...
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Cars of the Revolution (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story: It is just after the military take over of the administration in 1960. The new head of state believes Turkey can only be independent if it is economically strong. After sounding out the weak private sector and most of the senior bureaucrats, it is ...
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, serious, art house ...
Plot: working class, contests and competitions, patriotism, factory, inventions and discoveries, politics, race against time, chases and races, turk, economist, leadership, labor union ...
Time: 60s, 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Destiny (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bekir is in love with Ugur, who loves Zagor, who loves to commit crimes.
Style: serious, tense, art house, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: romancing a criminal, life is a bitch, on the run, fall in love, estrangement, hopes, crime gone awry, love and romance, murder, destiny, fighting illness, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, balkan, asia, europe, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Three Monkeys (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A family battles against the odds to stay together when small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, art house, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, political corruption, family secret, injustice, family life, workplace, innocence lost, life is a bitch, boss and employee, hidden identity, hidden truth, politics ...
Place: turkey, middle east, maghreb, balkan, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
False Eyelash (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A story of love and heartbreak. Of hope and despair. Of passion and abandonment. After two years together, John has left Marita, a mature woman that has kept him until he has found Adela, another woman from whom get her money.
Plot: lgbt, love, boy, male pubic hair, bare chested male, nudity, male objectification, man with glasses, male nudity, clothed male naked male, towel, man wearing glasses ...
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20%
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Oh, Moon! (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
Style: surreal, art house
Plot: dialogue, existentialism, classical music, moon, girl, grandfather, spinster, seagull, aunt niece relationship, english teacher, bedridden, young
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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They've Got Knut (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in the early '80s, a time when a new wave of leftist political consciousness and activism had swept German youth (and was just about to disappear as quickly as it arrived), this satiric comedy follows a young couple, Ingo (Hans-Jochen ...
Style: independent film
Plot: male pubic hair, nudity, brother sister relationship, ski, political activism, political activist, friendship, sex, politics, male nudity, ice, breakup ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Big Big World (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that ...
Style: art house, crying
Plot: forest, hospital, motorcycle, taxi, lonely, goat, hugging, taxi driver, orphan, magic realism, bleeding
Place: turkey
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20%
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Frig (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Frig — a film in three parts (Love, Shit and Sperm) — is an experimental drama beginning with the end of a love affair. Love and the resulting experience are presented as a metaphor that goes beyond the personal and into a deeper consideration ...
Style: avant garde, art house, allegory, experimental, queer cinema ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, performance art, art, dance, imposture, sadomasochism, bare chested male, male pubic hair, anal rape, perversity ...
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20%
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Strip Search (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.
Style: realistic, serious, political, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot: terrorism, male nudity, confined, government agency, life is a bitch, captivity, manipulation, male pubic hair, politics, prison, nudity, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, usa
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19%
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Policeman (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, bleak
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, state affairs, fighting the system, rebellion, terrorism, danger, social decay, swat, society, rebelliousness, social differences, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Herbert (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Plot: boxing, stasi, berlin wall, male pubic hair, male nudity, bare butt, bare chested male, male objectification, party, bully, male bonding, tattoo ...
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19%
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Lovelorn (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A retired teacher who returns to Istanbul after years away, Nazim tries to reacquaint himself with his hometown, which has changed significantly. While waiting for his pension to begin, Nazim takes a temporary job as a taxi driver and frequently ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: stalking, village, family relations, couples, love and romance, sleazy, society, single parent, hopes, fall in love, village life, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Minute of Silence (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
Plot: male nudity, male objectification, miner, town, male pubic hair, bare chested male, washing someone, pubic hair, shower, group shower, shower room, male in shower ...
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19%
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Egg (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the ...
Style: realistic, serious, art house, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: village life, poet, love and romance, homecoming, parents and children, family relations, dealing with death, village, curses spells and rituals, small town life, small town, loss of mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Impetus: A Decision (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Impetus: A Decision follows our hero, Jay Fossier, as he returns home to the states after serving his third and final tour in the middle east. He is forced to return due to P.T.S.D. Home is not so sweet when he returns.
Plot: post traumatic stress disorder, military, racism, dessert
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Bank of Broken Hearts (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.
Style: disturbing, dramatic, captivating, serious, suspenseful
Plot: violence, running, violence against women, blood, torture, physical abuse, dream, violent, tragedy, graphic violence, shakespeare
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Amazon Forever (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nicholas is a young cinematographer, shooting a documentary about the ancient tribal ritual in an Indian village near the Amazon, where he fell in love with the daughter of a chief, at the same time more and more like the side of the original ...
Plot: amazon rainforest, environmental, male pubic hair, male nudity, bare chested male, female nudity, wrestling, environmental issue, deforestation, native american, filmmaker, male objectification ...
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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