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Laila's Birthday (2008)
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Laila's Birthday (2008)
Original name: عيد ميلاد ليلى
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Netherlands
Duration: 71 min.
Story: "At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?" Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu Laila's wife reminds her husband. But on his young daughter's birthday, like any day, Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty, and a sticker reminding passengers that smoking and carrying AK-47s are prohibited. Rather than address politics or document holy war heroics and villainy, Laila's Birthday focuses on the toll that the unending Palestinian-Israeli conflict extracts from civilians clinging to both employment and a semblance of normal life amidst chaos and corruption, missile attacks and bursts of gunfire.
Style: realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, captivating, humorous, semi serious
Plot: birthday, taxi driver, parents and children, down on your luck, satire, one day, justice, father and daughter, love, society, unemployment, gift, israeli, taxi, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, couples, obsessive quest, chaos and mayhem, wedding, cell phone, explosion, candle, birthday cake
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: palestine, middle east
Keyword: palestinian, arabic

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, captivating and psychological films with plots about society, family relations, parents and children, couples, life is a bitch, love and family problems mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Laila's Birthday: Tales (2014), Wajma, an Afghan Love Story (2013), Aviva, My Love (2006), Wedding Dress (2010), Lovelorn (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Wajma, an Afghan Love Story (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, forbidden love, parents and children, society, life turned upside down, honor, student, love, couples, youth, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
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Aviva, My Love (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, writer's life, family problems, working class, dysfunctional family, creative block, small town, unemployment, social decay, small town life, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, tel aviv israel
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Wedding Dress (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Overly obsessive compulsive and too premature, Sora is easily distanced by her friends. Growing up without a father is something she would like to be fussy about with her mom, but Sora is still the one and only daughter of and the biggest support to ...
Style: semi serious, sad, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, wedding, family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, single mother, friendship, society, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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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
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A Way Back Home (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Famous country singer Trey Cole is finally returning home after cruelly abandoning the town many years ago and never looking back, even when his brother died serving in the military. Now, realizing he's lost himself along the way, Trey ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, emotional, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: homecoming, parents and children, small town, family relations, store, friends, memories, barbershop, death of friend, regret, musician, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Everyone's Going to Die (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Melanie's life in a seaside town is going nowhere until she meets Ray, back in town with a shady job to do. A moment's escape becomes a chance to save themselves, and each other.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot: homecoming, redemption, hopes, cause and meaning, unfulfillment, small town, gangster, friends, love, rivalry, society, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Choco (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: optimism, family relations, family problems, hopes, society, parents and children, unemployment, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, strong female presence, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, colombia, latin america
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Three Dollars (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: couple relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, hopes, redemption, moral dilemma, family relations, love triangle, love, society, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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49%
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Last Winter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gloomy
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Live-In Maid (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and her live-in maid changes dramatically.
Style: semi serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, touching
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Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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Lost Kisses (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A 13-year-old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles.
Style: semi serious, sincere, touching, captivating, biting ...
Plot: miraculous event, family relations, teenage life, satire, family problems, youth, hopes, lifestyle, society, parents and children, dysfunctional family, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sicily, italy, europe
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Everyday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Walker Payne (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A small-town father is forced to make difficult, heartbreaking decisions in order to save his two daughters.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, gloomy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 85 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 115 min.
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Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed (2010)
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Country: USA
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Duration: 72 min.
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Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, life is a bitch, society, introspection, clergy, hopes, rabbi, family problems, religions or cults, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
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35%
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Whatever (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: realistic, independent film, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
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Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
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Place: denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe
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