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The Glass Agency (1998)
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The Glass Agency (1998)
Original name: آژانس شیشه‌ای
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the standard social norms are not in harmony with their personalities.
Style: islamic, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: iranian, iraq iran war, persian culture, hostage, siege, life is a bitch, post war, injustice, fighting the system, society, satire, unfulfillment, losing-it hero, reconnaissance, police, kidnapping, islam, stockholm syndrome, helicopter, father son relationship, war veteran, hijab, martyr, travel agent, marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, persia, middle east, iraq, tehran iran

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, islamic, serious and sincere films with plots about persian, iranian, society, life is a bitch, family relations, husband wife relationship and poverty mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Glass Agency: Killing Mad Dogs (2001), Damascus Time (2018), From Karkheh to Rhine (1993), The Willow Tree (2005), Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.
Plot: iranian, women, debt, husband, woman, husband wife relationship, money, jail, dog, poverty, female protagonist, air attack ...
Place: persia, iran, middle east, iraq, tehran iran
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Damascus Time (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: isis, pow, terrorist, torture, husband wife relationship, hijacking, jihad, airplane, terrorism, syrian war, war crime, female soldier ...
Place: syria, iran, turkey, israel, kurdistan
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100%
From Karkheh to Rhine (1993)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Saeed who is suffering from injuries that he received in the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatments. In Germany, he meets his sister and her German husband. Saeed and his sister who have not had any relations in many years try to ...
Plot: iraq iran war, persian culture, iranian, interview, war veteran, leukemia, wound, journalist, airport, ferry, chemotherapy, mime ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east, iraq, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Willow Tree (2005)
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: psychological, realistic, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot: blindness, hospital, couple relations, introspection, disability, injustice, life is a bitch, second chance, self discovery, illness, muslim, recovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story: During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is ...
Style: inspirational, islamic, serious, realistic
Plot: racism, iranian, boy, iraq iran war, adoption, children, youth, mother and son, hidden treasure, xenophobia, superstition, poverty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iran, persia, iraq, middle east
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43%
The Music Man (2007)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, islamic ...
Plot: addiction, musician, rise and fall, couple relations, drug abuse, rehabilitation, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, tragic hero, music, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
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42%
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Mother (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old ...
Style: spiritual, islamic, interesting
Plot: iranian, persian culture, mother, carpenter, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, brother brother conflict, persian
Place: persia, iran, middle east, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Night Bus (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the ...
Plot: killing, iraq iran war, martyrdom, love letter, iranian, young soldier, martyr, child soldier, poverty, pow, bus, death ...
Place: iran, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Lizard (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Reza is a petty thief who escapes jail by posing as a mullah. When he has to stay in disguise longer than he expected, he accidentally becomes the revered leader of a small-town mosque, bringing people flooding in with his on the hoof sermons ...
Style: serious, rough, humorous, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: prison escape, prison, village, criminal heroes, hidden identity, fugitives, society, pretense, religions or cults, warden, small town life, iranian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Two Women (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: feminist, iranian, world war two, friendship, apache tribe, student life, motorcycle chase, social differences, village, family problems, couples, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Border Caf? (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, islamic
Plot: cafe, starting over, love affair, family relations, single parent, love and romance, society, hopes, immigrant, death in the family, mother daughter relationship, widow ...
Place: persia, iran, middle east, asia, europe ...
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38%
Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On the day before their holiday trip to Dubai, a wife who believes her husband is unfaithful enlists the help of Roohi, a young woman sent by an agency to clean the house. She asks Roohi to make an appointment and gather information at the salon of ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot: marital problem, maid, marital infidelity, social differences, iranian, family problems, couples, society, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, couple relations, wedding preparations and rituals ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran, dubai
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Born Under Libra (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Divided by student protests and conflicting politics, college lovers Daniel and Mahtab are separated when Daniel flees Tehran. But Mahtab follows, travelling south to his village. As the lovers reunite and head back to Tehran, they find themselves ...
Plot: iraq iran war, father daughter relationship, hijab, boyfriend, girlfriend, martyr, moon, university student, persian
Place: iran, iraq, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Beautiful City (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen when he was condemned to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the age of eighteen so that the conviction could be carried ...
Style: emotional, thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: death sentence, crime and punishment, prison, confined, love and romance, redemption, hopes, legal action, life is a bitch, youth, iranian, boy ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Travellers (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and ...
Style: realistic, serious, beautiful
Plot: iranian, wedding, newlywed, mirror, death, female protagonist, family relations, couples, dealing with death, ghost, against the rules, destiny ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Hidden Half (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, islamic ...
Plot: militant, fighting the system, woman in danger, injustice, rebelliousness, legal action, society, couple relations, legal, life is a bitch, state affairs, feminism ...
Time: 70s
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
Style: islamic
Plot: mistress, impersonation, drug addiction, drunkenness, debt, iranian, bromance, extramarital affair, persian, car damage
Place: persia, iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Pear Tree (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
Style: spiritual, islamic, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: iranian, family relations, teenage love, love and romance, coming of age, politics, fall in love, youth, artists and showbiz, writer's life, innocence lost, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, 1940s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Under the Skin of the City (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, politics, introspection, life is a bitch, factory worker, family relations, couples, working class, family life, human nature, parents and children, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, japan, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Leila (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This film tells the story of a semi modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs & old generation. This is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough.
Style: thought provoking, islamic, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: iranian, girl, arab, hidden treasure, motherhood, feminist, infertility, family relations, pregnancy, strong female presence, family problems, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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The Blue-Veiled (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old ...
Plot: missing father, factory owner, worker, dysfunctional family, islam, son in law, factory, poverty, older man younger woman relationship, iranian, manager, persian ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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Boutique (2004)
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, sincere, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, downfall, life is a bitch, couples, bittersweet, iranian, singleness, youth, social differences, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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M for Mother (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father ...
Style: sincere, captivating, sad, islamic
Plot: iraq iran war, iranian, family problems, pregnancy, pregnant woman, child illness, relationship problems, illness, dysfunctional family, mother child relationship, parenthood, persian culture ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Goodbye (2011)
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: sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: rebelliousness, immigrant, woman in danger, life is a bitch, injustice, rebellion, political unrest, danger, society, chaos, arab, misfit ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Tales (2014)
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, friendship, couples, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hamoun (1990)
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: existential, spiritual, cult classic, islamic, psychological ...
Plot: iranian, crumbling marriage, existentialism, arab, dull life, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, starting over, introspection, couple relations, society ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style: realistic, bleak, meditative, harsh, emotional ...
Plot: kurd, children, coming of age, youth, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, family in crisis, parents and children, village, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: iraq, iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.9
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The Cow (1969)
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, depressing, islamic, controversial, contemplative ...
Plot: iranian, persian culture, illness, arab, village, village life, countryside, down on your luck, mentally unstable, society, life is a bitch, losing-it hero ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place: iran, persia, asia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.8
 3K
Blackboards (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, Italy, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, educational, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, kurd, uneducated, teacher, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, wartime life, obsessive quest, danger, hopes, teachers and students, wandering ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east, kurdistan, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Marooned in Iraq (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in ...
Style: sincere, serious, sentimental, realistic, road movie ...
Plot: kurd, military life, self discovery, military, musician's life, orphan, treasure hunt, daring rescue, escapades, battles, estrangement, village ...
Time: 2000s
Place: iraq, kurdistan, iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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