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The Clay Bird (2002)
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Original name: মাটির ময়না
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film, smart, thinking, islamic
Plot:
muslim, hopes, politics, bangladesh liberation war, tradition, family relations, village, coming of age, estrangement, state affairs, school, parents and children, village life, revolution, social relations, political unrest, idealism, religions or cults, youth, boarding school life, violence, islam, childhood, independence, boy ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
middle east, bangladesh, pakistan, india
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Most similar movies to The Clay Bird
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about society, family relations, parents and children, youth, coming of age, state affairs and hopes mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like The Clay Bird: Silent Waters (2003), Miral (2010), Paradesi (2013), Kanchivaram (2008), Son of Babylon (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, poignant
Plot:
islam, wartime life, family life, self discovery, politics, hopes, small town life, haunted by the past, death in the family, parents and children, culture clash, family in crisis ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, year 1947, year 1979
Place:
pakistan, india, middle east, asia
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95%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Israel, Italy, India, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
Style:
realistic, stylized, emotional, sentimental, breathtaking ...
Plot:
politics, orphan, hopes, arab, refugee, injustice, rebellion, human spirit, society, fall in love, idealism, rebelliousness ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, persia, palestinian authority ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Before independence during the 1940's depicts the lives of poor carefree villagers who are lured to work in tea plantation farms and how they are forced to live rest of their lives as slaves with no traces of hope and freedom.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, heartbreaking, social ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, master and servant, life is a bitch, hopes, society, tragedy, village life, hindu, village, plantation, power relations ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A poor silk weaver promises his wife to dress their newborn daughter in a silk saree for her marriage. Facing systemic oppression and the vicissitudes of his fortune, he struggles to keep his word.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, social ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, jail, injustice, life is a bitch, family relations, hopes, political unrest, fighting the system, idealism, revolution, society, village ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
Style:
captivating, emotional, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
hopes, desert, human spirit, escapades, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest, family relations, arab, boy, international relations, battlefield ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, kurdistan
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story is based in Banaras and is about a Hindu Priest Chaturvedi (Pankaj Kapoor) who follows the scriptures to practice Hindu religion. When a child is abandon by a woman and brought in his house by his daughter - after initial hesitation but ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hindu, adoption, religion, clergy, salvation, parents and children, family relations, family life, babies and infants, society, family problems, priest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, heartbreaking, serious, depressing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, hotel, dysfunctional family, against the odds, child's point of view, loneliness, children, family problems, parents and children, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time:
1930s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
missouri, california, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
clergy, friendship, religions or cults, parents and children, family relations, family life, society, village, fish out of water, disorder, village life, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
culture clash, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, family relations, love and romance, immigrant, political unrest, teenage love, youth, family problems, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s
Place:
iraq, israel
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
child prostitution, little girl, poverty, family relations, family problems, social relations, estrangement, social misfits, youth, hopes, parents and children, leaving home ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
82%
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, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with ...
Style:
sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, period piece ...
Plot:
young lovers, love triangle, youth, friendship, university, political unrest, lifestyle, idealism, politics, hopes, revolution, society ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, friendship, teenage life, social relations, social differences, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, interracial relations, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 231 min.
Story:
Follow-up to the TV trilogy "Heimat", this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, society, parents and children, diary, village life, social problems, magic realism, social relations, youth, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2013
Place:
brazil, germany, south america
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, epic, atmospheric, saga ...
Plot:
family relations, politics, political unrest, rivalry, intrigue, revolution, dishonesty, society, family life, palace intrigue, victorian england, power struggle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
80%
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 ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
survival, injustice, political unrest, danger, hidden identity, family relations, religions or cults, human nature, dishonesty, feminism, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, afghanistan
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict with deeply-rooted ...
Style:
serious, sincere, atmospheric, touching, thinking ...
Plot:
rebellion, forbidden love, introspection, self discovery, haunted by the past, hopes, society, youth, love and romance, against the rules, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, family relations, coping, parenthood, haunted by the past, teenage life, parents and children, youth, coming of age, orphan, mountain, criminality ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.[Synopsis from the director, courtesy of Cannes Film Festival] : "The Time That Remains" is a semi biographic film, in four historic episodes, about a ...
Style:
thought provoking, humorous, psychological, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, political unrest, unfulfillment, family life, state affairs, life is a bitch, parents and children, wartime life, family relations, intrigue, world war two, arab ...
Time:
2000s, 1940s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, follow your dream, rich and poor, working class, society, youth, hopes, state affairs, parents and children, political unrest, social differences, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india, bombay india
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
switched at birth, teenage boy, family relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, disorder, society, introspection, occupation, adolescence vs adulthood, identity crisis ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: India, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
With Gandhi My Father, producer Anil Kapoor and director Feroz Abbas Khan have shed light onto Gandhi the person, rather than Gandhi the icon. Using Gandhi’s political career as a canvas, the film paints a picture of his intricate, complex, and ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
father son relationship, independence movement, racism, tragedy, fighting the system, human spirit, rebelliousness, rebellion, rise to the top, family problems, family relations, injustice ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1910s, 1920s
Place:
india, africa, south africa, asia
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
Style:
depressing, political, realistic, controversial, thought provoking ...
Plot:
children, communism, asian history, revolution, politics, cold war, activist, prisoner of war camp, family relations, reform, unfulfillment, society ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1993, 50s, 70s
Place:
china, asia, japan, tokyo, california
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, rebellion, british military, military, friends, state affairs, soldier, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, man boy relationship, boy ...
Time:
20th century, year 1947, 1940s, year 1977
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, jerusalem, london
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
During the first euphoric years following independence, two friends, Djaffar and Hamid, are promised a bright future in a free Algeria until one day when betrayal separates them.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
betrayal, life turned upside down, rebellion, dishonesty, rebelliousness, political unrest, social decay, friendship, life is a bitch, society, state affairs, friends ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
algeria, africa
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, life is a bitch, on the road, estrangement, family relations, poverty, single parent, parents and children, search for father, journey, grownups ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
europe, caucasus, georgia
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, interracial relations, rebelliousness, family life, friends, danger, terrorism, politics, society, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, palestinian authority
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot:
operation condor, coming of age, life is a bitch, family life, family in danger, dictator, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Jordan, Greece, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jordan, 1967: displaced to a refugee camp after the occupation of their West Bank village, an eleven-year old boy and his mother enact the emancipating dream that every refugee has imagined countless times, in Annemarie Jacir's passionate and ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, camp, hopes, parents and children, forceful separation, youth, family relations, teenage life, search for father, missing father, freedom fighter, runaway child ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
jordan, palestine, middle east, greece
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, factual, banned
Plot:
politics, chinese history, revolution, society, state affairs, head of state, social differences, rebellion, communist party, chinese civil war, patriotism, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
76%
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