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Before Snowfall (2013)
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Original name: Før snøen faller
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Iraq
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family reputation. The mission proves a dangerous one for the inexperienced Siyar. First stop is Istanbul, where he meets Elvin, a young girl who becomes his travel companion. On the way from east to west, through Europe and all the way to Norway, Siyar comes to realize his own need for respect, and for love.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, sincere, touching, inspirational, tragic ending
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
wedding, chase, survival, on the run, young heroes, on the road, family relations, family life, reluctant hero, winter, boy, love, friendship, journey, family honor, unlikely hero, honor, hiding, refugee, kurd, migration, human rights, little boy, immigrant, revenge ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
kurdistan, iraq, greece, germany, turkey, europe, istanbul turkey ...
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Most similar movies to Before Snowfall
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, boy, society, friendship, youth, little boy and journey mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Before Snowfall: Letter to the King (2014), Before Your Eyes (2009), Sleepwalking Land (2007), Fratricide (2005), Journey to the Sun (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, anthology ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, love, revenge, social misfits, dishonesty, society, hopes, life is a bitch, misfit, redemption, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After their parents are murdered, two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, bleak, inspirational ...
Plot:
kurd, youth, terrorist, survival, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, orphan, siblings relations, family relations, street life, disappearance, children ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
turkey, kurdistan, middle east
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mozambique, Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, art house ...
Plot:
survival, obsessive quest, missing person, on the road, wartime life, young heroes, escapades, heroes, friendship, youth, storytelling, civil war ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
africa
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75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, bleak, disturbing
Plot:
kurd, politics, racism, immigrant, orphan, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, social decay, friendship, injustice, society, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe, kurdistan
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon ...
Style:
road movie, sad, serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
kurd, human rights, female fight, female fighter, anarchist, injustice, politics, racism, discrimination, friendship, self discovery, social misfits ...
Time:
90s
Place:
kurdistan, turkey, iraq, istanbul turkey, germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, hopes, friendship, injustice, starting over, society, political unrest, leaving home, friends, fugitives, migration ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
iraq, iran, turkey
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, life is a bitch, on the road, estrangement, family relations, poverty, single parent, parents and children, search for father, journey, grownups ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
europe, caucasus, georgia
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In the southeast region of Turkey, the Altun family lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war, making their daily life a hellish struggle. As the war continues to intensify, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, clever ...
Plot:
culture clash, on the run, starting over, wartime life, pregnancy, social relations, terrorism, gay, migration, lgbt, turk, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, europe, istanbul turkey, oslo norway
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
Style:
philosophical, slow cinema, art house, road movie, contemplative ...
Plot:
destiny, immigrant, terminal illness, coming of age, dialogue, art, storytelling, writers, greek, hospital, refugee, journey ...
Time:
90s, 1910s, year 1998, future
Place:
greece, australia, japan, tokyo
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Although he is only ten years old, Jack is responsible for himself and his little brother Manuel and this fills him with pride. Their single mother works during the day and often goes out at night. There’s no father in sight. One day, Manuel burns ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
boy, young heroes, teenage life, youth, self discovery, brother brother relationship, child as adult, child care, coming of age, family relations, life turned upside down, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, ...
Style:
inspirational, bleak, sincere, road movie, political ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, politics, hopes, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2001
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, tehran iran, pakistan ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
clergy, friendship, religions or cults, parents and children, family relations, family life, society, village, fish out of water, disorder, village life, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Guatemala
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
Style:
serious, road movie, touching, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
u.s. mexico border, immigrant, border crossing, on the road, hopes, mexican american border, coming of age, friendship, slaughterhouse, teenage boy, wagon train, follow your dream ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, central america, guatemala, usa, latin america
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
hopes, danger, fall in love, desert, survival, on the road, rescue, starting over, love and romance, immigrant, follow your dream, immigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nigeria
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, tense
Plot:
tourist, moral dilemma, society, refugee, immigration, family relations, family problems, rules and policies, family life, ocean, misfit, migration ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
sicily, italy, southern italy, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a charismatic new friend and a quirky young woman begin to draw him out of his shell.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
boy, teenage boy, therapist, teenage life, mother son relationship, family relations, self discovery, coming of age, youth, single parent, problem, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, uplifting, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, kurd, swimming, obsessive quest, self discovery, family disapproval, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, misfit, hopes, bittersweet, migration ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, english channel, london, england, iraq
Similarity:
38%
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4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, dog, danger, life is a bitch, society, coming of age, child, boy, little boy, pets, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, France, Germany, Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
kurd, law enforcement, rivalry, society, social relations, village life, village, justice, police, violence, smuggler, arab ...
Time:
year 2013, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
kurdistan, middle east, maghreb, iran, indiana ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. ...
Style:
sincere, slow cinema, thought provoking, art house, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, father son relationship, youth, melancholy, existentialism, refugee, dysfunctional family, immigration, illegal immigration, teenage boy, little boy ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
antwerp, france, belgium, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
Style:
captivating, emotional, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
hopes, desert, human spirit, escapades, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest, family relations, arab, boy, international relations, battlefield ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, kurdistan
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family problems, obsessive quest, escapades, innocence lost, danger, childhood sweetheart, child romance, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe, dublin ireland
Similarity:
34%
8K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, serious, touching ...
Plot:
rape, cultural difference, injustice, social differences, traditional versus modern, unlikely partners, love affair, innocence lost, husband wife relationship, turk, women's rights, misogyny ...
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
How should you spend your time if your days are numbered? This is the question facing Linda, a young woman suffering from a congenital heart defect. Contrary to her doctors’ expectations she has managed to survive to celebrate her thirtieth ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
sisters, introspection, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, surgical operation, journey, dealing with death, unfulfillment, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany, hamburg germany, paris france
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, islamic, gloomy ...
Plot:
couples, family relations, boy, deaf, sign language, youth, little boy, family problems, protecting from truth, mute or deaf, misfit, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, tehran
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
child abuse, farm, brother brother relationship, punishment, friendship, survival, intergenerational friendship, dedicated educator, adoption, orphan, boyhood, con artists ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.
Style:
touching, emotional, road movie, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
on the road, communism, birthday, hopes, self discovery, immigrant, fall in love, migration, grandfather grandson relationship, travel, car accident, european ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
serbia, eastern europe, germany, europe, italy ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Style:
sentimental, harsh, inspirational, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
children, orphan, youth, orphanage, boy, escape, coming of age, adoption, drinking, friendship, adolescence, family relations ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2002, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union, italy, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
33%
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, retirement home, friendship, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, couples, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
Similarity:
32%
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