Movies like Raja 2003
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Raja (2003)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with this poor local girl. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempts at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication.
Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
opposites attract, fall in love, social differences, unlikely couple, obsession, youth, rich and poor, orphan, love and romance, couples, society, unfulfilled love, culture clash, destructive relationship, language barrier, girl, older man younger woman relationship, young love, family relations, manipulation, master and servant, unrequited love, interracial relations, post colonialism, age difference ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
africa, morocco
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Most similar movies to Raja
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about society, love and romance, youth, family relations, couples, social differences and culture clash mostly in Drama and Musical genres. Some movies like Raja: Great Expectations (1974), Face (2002), Française (2008), Same Same But Different (2009), You All Are Captains (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, contemplative
Plot:
charles dickens, youth, rich and poor, lost love, napoleonic era, hopes, coming of age, orphan, love and romance, criminal heroes, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, london
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100%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
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152
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, emotional, spooky ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, teenage life, introspection, culture clash, hopes, society, homecoming, immigrant, love and romance, youth, family life, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, france, africa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, young lovers, unlikely couple, love affair, interracial relations, life is a bitch, social differences, society, terminal illness, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, europe, asia, germany
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Morocco
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
filmmaking, culture clash, social differences, introspection, village, hopes, society, children, self discovery, research, youth, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, morocco, tangier morocco
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, lifestyle, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, social differences, infidelity, youth, male female relationship ...
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A French football playing exchange student falls in love.
Style:
sexual, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
white male black female relationship, interracial couple, interracial romance, age difference, interracial, interracial relations, college, couples, love and romance, fall in love, self discovery, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1994, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place:
virginia, paris france, france, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Shot on digital , HD and 8 mm. Filmed through both sides of North America. 'Vicious Circle' pushes the limits of what can be accomplished on a bike. Featuring the first ever 65 foot 'Double Road Gap' , some of the gnarliest ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, lifestyle, false accusation, teenage life, family relations, society, destructive relationship, youth, love and romance, chess, interracial relations, skater ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
fall in love, fish out of water, couples, social differences, culture clash, couple relations, society, love and romance, class system, maid, wedding, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
paris france, france, philadelphia
Similarity:
25%
441
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:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Aged eight, Victoria spends a night in the home of a wealthy white family; years later, she encounters them again and her life is changed forever.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
interracial couple, adoption, family life, family relations, youth, society, hopes, parents and children, rich and poor, class differences, family reunited, awkward situation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, family relations, realism, misfit, youth, social misfits, parents and children, culture clash, society, resilience, single mother, discrimination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
23%
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, sincere, realistic, serious, islamic ...
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, bittersweet, couples, downfall, life is a bitch, love and romance, iranian, city life, social differences, singleness, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, Colombia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel, this is the unsettling story of 13-year-old noble Sierva and the dog bite that changes her life forever. Abandoned, displaced, in the midst of a sexual awakening and finally exorcised, Sierva finds an ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
forbidden love, secret relationship, fall in love, convent, against the rules, priest, obsession, youth, society, isolation, rebellion, sexual awakening ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
latin america, colombia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, culture clash, haunted by the past, forbidden love, estrangement, couples, family problems, missing child, parents and children, on the run, danger, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, eccentric family, single parent, friendship, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, unrequited love, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two guys, a thief and a rich man, meet in a journey that the latter starts to find love. On their way they find the destinies of their lives.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, emotional, telegu ...
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, idealism, self discovery, society, rich and poor, hopes, power relations, social differences, fashion, village, thief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
18-year-old Hannah Yoder is ready to become an Amish adult - which means baptism into the Church and marriage to her boyfriend, Samuel. However, her friends convince her to visit Hollywood for Rumspringa where she meets Josh and the two hit it off ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, forbidden love, amish, religions or cults, couples, youth, society, love and romance, culture clash, love affair, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, gang, dishonesty, society, orphan, life is a bitch, danger, rich and poor, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cape town south africa, south africa, africa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
Style:
emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, injustice, culture clash, unfulfillment, innocence lost, society, love and romance, couples, power relations, doomed love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
22%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, single parent, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, youth, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style:
political, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot:
australian aboriginal, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native, native american, family relations, segregation, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, coming of age, misfit ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, australia
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Banaras: A Mystic Love Story is the name of an Indian Bollywood film directed by Pankaj Parashar released in 2006. The film takes place in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi (the city, once known as Banaras, serves as a destination for the pilgrimage ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Plot:
hinduism, guru, family relations, love affair, culture clash, social differences, love and romance, society, couples, religions or cults, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dilber lives with her family in a very poor eastern village, her only dream is to marry her childhood lover, Ali. But when she finds out that it won't happen because of a reason that she can't get away with, she gets crazy and lock herself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, bleak, emotional
Plot:
true love, gender, couple relations, couples, love and romance, disability, wooing, unlikely couple, introspection, hopes, family tradition, village life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love triangle, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, playwright, society, friendship, rivalry, older man younger woman sex, female nudity, nude women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wedding, broken heart, parents and children, pregnancy, love and romance, society, social differences, couple relations, unfulfillment, couples, rich man, sailor ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
france, marseille, south of france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has become a famous star, but his success threatens his relationships with Déa and Ursus.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot:
disfigured face, orphan, social differences, rising to stardom, love and romance, social misfits, society, haunted by the past, noble, disfigurement, blind girl, unfulfillment ...
Time:
17th century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
social differences, rivalry, youth, couples, family life, society, interracial relations, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, football team, football ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Morocco, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic
Plot:
rebellion, rebelliousness, teenage life, love and romance, youth, society, teenage love, discrimination, feminism, political unrest, orphan, little girl ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, year 1984
Place:
morocco, africa, middle east, belgium
Similarity:
21%
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