Movies like Leila 1997
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Leila (1997)
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Original name: لیلا
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, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
Plot:
iranian, arab, motherhood, feminist, infertility, hidden treasure, pregnancy, family relations, couples, family problems, newlyweds, strong female presence, introspection, family tradition, culture clash, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, couple relations, destructive relationship, love, medicine, love triangle, adoption, anger, polygamy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, islamic and emotional films with plots about persian, iranian, family relations, society, couples, life is a bitch and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Leila: The Pear Tree (1998), The Music Man (2007), The Last Supper (2002), Hamoun (1990), Travellers (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
islamic, spiritual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
iranian, family relations, teenage love, coming of age, writer's life, innocence lost, artists and showbiz, fall in love, love and romance, youth, politics, village life ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter falls in love with her; a love which is completely rejected ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
iranian, intolerance, love triangle, starting over, false accusation, teachers and students, youth, crumbling marriage, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
iran
Similarity:
89%
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, cult classic, spiritual, islamic, contemplative ...
Plot:
iranian, crumbling marriage, existentialism, cat, arab, unfulfillment, society, life is a bitch, starting over, couple relations, hopes, introspection ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, asia
Similarity:
87%
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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:
serious, realistic, beautiful
Plot:
iranian, wedding, mirror, newlywed, death, female protagonist, couples, newlyweds, family relations, dealing with death, ghost, against the rules ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
Similarity:
83%
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, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot:
feminist, iranian, apache tribe, world war two, friendship, village, student life, social differences, motorcycle chase, family problems, injustice, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, family problems, unfulfilled love, society, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, couples, bittersweet, life is a bitch, cafe ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman comes back from Paris to her country after a long time. She meets a man that she hardly knows, but he knows a lot about her life.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, poetic, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
nostalgia, introspection, longing, female protagonist, memory, identity, homecoming, secrets, literary, slice of life, regret, second chance ...
Place:
iran, persia, tehran
Similarity:
67%
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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:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot:
housewife, marital problem, maid, marital infidelity, social differences, iranian, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, wedding preparations and rituals ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran, dubai
Similarity:
56%
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:
captivating, thought provoking, serious, sincere, islamic ...
Plot:
injustice, fighting the system, political unrest, couples, society, feminism, state affairs, couple relations, legal, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, legal action ...
Time:
70s
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
53%
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:
realistic, serious, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
politics, dysfunctional family, introspection, factory worker, life is a bitch, drug dealing, parents and children, family relations, youth, factory, family life, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, japan, middle east, persia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A tragedy in which a young woman from an Arab tribe, prevented from marrying her non-Arab Persian lover is forced against her wishes to marry her cousin.
Plot:
family relations, love, college, killing, islam, arab, river, tribe, dead wife, heretic, medical student, suicide ...
Place:
middle east, iran, persia
Similarity:
51%
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, islamic ...
Plot:
blindness, hospital, temptation, couple relations, introspection, disability, injustice, life is a bitch, second chance, self discovery, illness, muslim ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, paris france, europe ...
Similarity:
49%
939
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
lovers apart, redemption, dysfunctional family, couples, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, rehabilitation, drug abuse, addiction, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, feel good, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
opposites attract, homecoming, family business, love affair, lifestyle, family relations, social differences, couples, love and romance, lovers reunited, village, restaurant ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rahman (Parviz Parastuyi) falls in love with a Christan woman from Lebanon. She was a Christan but she becomes Muslim before her second meeting with Rahman. So he decides to marry her.
Style:
romantic drama, thought provoking, serious, emotional, multicultural ...
Plot:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia, lebanon
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
religious drama, disturbing, sincere, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
illness, iranian, islam, family drama, muslim, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, family problems, family relations, sacrifice, compassion, faith ...
Place:
persia, iran, tehran
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
43%
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Country: Iran, France, Australia
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, heartbreaking, crying, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, stylized, lyrical, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, japan, persia, tehran iran ...
Similarity:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman tries to mend the broken pieces of her last life, as she is now involved with a new sexual relationship with a man.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Iran
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Story:
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Style:
sentimental, psychological, touching, serious, islamic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iran, persia, middle east
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
iranian, persian culture, illness, village, village life, countryside, down on your luck, split personality, losing-it hero, society, life is a bitch, mentally unstable ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, persia, asia, middle east
Similarity:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.
Plot:
iranian, anti fascism, capitalism, sibling relationship, collaboration, con men, apartment building, marital problem, landlord, irony, urban setting, satire ...
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
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820
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth ...
Style:
tense
Plot:
housewife, female protagonist, marriage, sacrifice, domestic drama, family drama, gender roles, deception, patriarchy, moral dilemma, realism, betrayal of trust ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, persia, tehran iran
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Amir and Sara are a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, they are unintentionally involved in a tragic event.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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