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Secret Ballot (2001)
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Original name: رأی مخفی
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran, Italy, Canada, Switzerland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.
Style:
surreal, humorous, stylized, realistic, witty, semi serious, psychological, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking ...
Plot:
politics, satire, citizenship, visceral, soldier, heroes, political unrest, campaign, odd couple, state affairs, island, culture clash, father son relationship, beach, boat, journey, protest, seaside, iranian, minimalism, society, collector, media, danger, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
year 2001, contemporary
Place:
iran, middle east, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and clever films with plots about society, politics, satire, husband wife relationship, family relations, culture clash and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Secret Ballot: The Day I Became a Woman (2000), Spinning Boris (2003), Kandahar (2001), Grassroots (2012), Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 85 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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:
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43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual ...
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Plot:
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