Movies like Jellyfish

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Jellyfish (2007)
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Jellyfish (2007)
Original name: Meduzot
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, art house, existential, humorous, witty, stylized ...
Plot: wedding, israeli, honeymoon, friendship, family relations, city life, estrangement, beach, maid, orphan, parents and children, couples, lifestyle, hopes, jealousy, nurse, celebration, metaphor, women, magic realism, israeli culture, young woman, missing person, actress, corpse ...
Time: contemporary
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, tel aviv israel, asia, mediterranean sea
Keyword: jewish, english, watching a movie, poster, tel aviv

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and psychological films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, love and romance, hopes, society and israeli mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Jellyfish: Self Made (2014), The White Angel (2007), Broken Wings (2002), Aviva, My Love (2006), Campfire (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Self Made (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Self Made tells the story of two women - one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, they find themselves living the life of the other on the opposite side of the border.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, surreal, clever ...
Plot: couples, self discovery, society, disorder, mistaken identity, memory loss, introspection, impossible love, love and romance, artists and showbiz, military life, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestinian authority, middle east
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The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, friendship, retirement home, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Broken Wings (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Style: emotional, touching, lyrical, depressing, stylized ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, children, couple relations, human nature, midlife crisis, family life, innocence lost, love and romance, single parent, life is a bitch, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Campfire (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot: friendship, teenage love, teenage life, starting over, self discovery, couples, false accusation, family life, impossible love, hopes, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 80s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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41%
Live and Become (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Style: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: adoption, racism, boy, family relations, rescue, refugee, rabbi, hidden identity, love of one's life, fall in love, orphan, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 80s
Place: africa, israel, middle east, palestine, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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In Between (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and ...
Style: sincere, humorous, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot: israeli, muslim, dating, arab, friendship, female friendship, student, young woman, university, single woman, roommate, drug use ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, maghreb, jerusalem ...
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38%
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The Exchange (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A family man becomes obsessed with looking at his own life out of context.
Style: contemplative, psychological, serious, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family life, midlife crisis, couple relations, obsession, introspection, hopes, surrealism, husband wife relationship, lie, routine ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
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35%
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The Dune (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An Israeli man searches for his father in France.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, family problems, estrangement, hopes, investigation, haunted by the past, parents and children, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, gender, aging ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Princess (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: teenage sexuality, parents and children, family relations, friendship, mother daughter relationship, friends, israeli, pedophile, child, woman, women, role playing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Alone (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style: touching, serious, erotic, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: pregnancy, hospital, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, parents and children, drinking alcohol, society, relationships, redemption, poverty, friendship ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: spain, europe, andalusia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Hysterical Blindness (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style: psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, working class, loneliness, character study, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Things Behind the Sun (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot: estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, interracial relations, rebelliousness, family life, society, danger, terrorism, politics, friends, teenage life, political unrest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, palestinian authority, israel
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32%
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Distant (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf, but the mingling of their lives does little ...
Style: sincere, bleak, art house, lyrical, stylized ...
Plot: loneliness, unemployment, midlife crisis, isolation, art, complex characters, family relations, culture clash, photography, love and romance, introspection, existentialism ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey, maghreb, balkan, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Ushpizin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods, it's Succoth, seven days celebrating life's essentials in a sukkah, a temporary shack of both deprivation and hospitality. A devout couple, Moshe and Mali, married nearly five years and ...
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: rabbi, charity, orthodox jew, religious, uninvited guest, redemption, couples, family relations, religions or cults, society, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Matchmaker (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story: During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
Style: sentimental, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: matchmaking, looking for love, love and romance, teenage life, best friend, apprentice, male female relationship, adaptation, holocaust, israeli culture, israeli, traumatic childhood ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: middle east, israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Noel (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: christmas, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, angel, couple relations, holiday, winter, new year, jealousy, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2004
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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28%
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Week-ends (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: friendship, introspection, couple relations, self discovery, breakup, disorder, family problems, countryside, couples, family crisis, old woman, rural setting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Eel (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a ...
Style: enigmatic, captivating, psychological, touching, independent film ...
Plot: self discovery, starting over, human nature, social relations, hopes, crimes of passion, haunted by the past, murder, suicide attempt, prison, adultery, obsession ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
What If God Were the Sun? (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: hospital, terminal illness, family relations, doctors and patients, hopes, family problems, religions or cults, unfulfillment, wedding, nurse, faith, nurse patient relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Water (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two ...
Style: touching, bleak, melancholic, poignant, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hinduism, women, prostitute, prostitution, friendship, love, marriage, politics, relationships, mentor, sin, brutality ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, year 1938
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Melting Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, bittersweet, father son relationship, gay, transgender, hospital, israeli, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.7
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Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Other Son (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot: switched at birth, teenage boy, family relations, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, disorder, introspection, society, occupation, family in crisis, interracial relations ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Little Jerusalem (2005)
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, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, society, lifestyle, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, infidelity, social differences, youth, male female relationship ...
Place: middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Face (2002)
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, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Wild Iris (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: parents and children, dysfunctional family, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, introspection, lifestyle ...
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25%
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