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Let Them Come (2015)
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Let Them Come (2015)
Original name: Maintenant Ils Peuvent Venir
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this remarkable adaptation of Arezki Mellal’s novel, a family must defend itself amidst the onslaught of violence between government forces and radical Islamists in 1980s Algeria.
Plot: terrorism, chaos, terrorist, father daughter relationship, night, mediterranean, car breakdown, fundamentalism, islam
Time: 90s, 1990s
Place: algeria, north africa, maghreb
Keyword: algerian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and suspenseful films with plots about terrorism, terrorist, society, danger, politics, soldier and family relations mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Let Them Come: Girls of the Sun (2018), I still hide to smoke (2016), The Hamburg Cell (2004), Atlantis (2019), The Battle of Algiers (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Girls of the Sun (2018)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium, Georgia, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists.
Style: independent film, islamic
Plot: kurd, isis, islam, partisan, woman with a gun, woman, terrorist, revolution, resistance, violent, girl, prostitution ...
Place: kurdistan, middle east, maghreb
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I still hide to smoke (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: bathhouse, women, pregnancy, muslim, female nudity, underage girl, bare breasts, terrorist attack, terrorist bombing, terrorism, life is a bitch, social problems ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: north africa, algeria, maghreb, africa
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34%
The Hamburg Cell (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Although not very religious and accustomed to Western ways, Ziad becomes "brothers" with some ...
Style: psychological, serious, bleak, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, war on terror, muslim, obsession, political unrest, political conspiracy, politics, assassination, danger, against humanity, head of state ...
Time: september 11 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place: northern germany, new york, manhattan new york city, hamburg germany
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34%
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Atlantis (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
Style: art house, bleak, moody
Plot: crisis, politics, trauma, wartime, ptsd, war zone, female nudity, environmental destruction, female pubic hair, armed conflict, soldier, terrorism ...
Time: 90s, near future
Place: ukraine, russia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style: political, black and white, art house, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: revolution, freedom, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, terrorism, french algerian war, revolutionary, resistance, insurrection ...
Time: year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place: algeria, africa, middle east, france, maghreb ...
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The Question (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Plot: french algerian war, political violence, electric torture, writing a book, wanted, dissident, torturer, communist, tortured to death, political repression, french army, political prisoner ...
Time: 60s, year 1956, 1950s, year 1957
Place: algeria, france
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White Material (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Cameroon
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Maria is a White farmer who runs a failing coffee plantation in an unnamed African country in the present day. Civil war has broken out and rebel soldiers, many of them child soldiers, are advancing on the area. Rebels on the radio advocate attacks ...
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, emotional, rough ...
Plot: coffee, family relations, civil war, chaos, political unrest, family business, family in danger, state affairs, danger, single parent, colonialism, african ...
Time: 90s, year 2009, 2000s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Little Soldier (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man ...
Style: political, black and white, political thriller, serious, realistic ...
Plot: spy, algerian war, assassination, politics, assassin, fighting the system, revolution, death, hotel, torture, lovers, exodus ...
Time: year 1958, 1950s
Place: algeria, switzerland, france, europe, geneva switzerland ...
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28%
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Killer Kid (1994)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Laïd lives in war-torn Lebanon. Chosen and trained by an extremist organisation, he has been forced to enter the adult world far too early. He has been transformed into a fanatical and programmed machine, whose life could be summed ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, disturbing, crying
Plot: coming of age, youth, boy, children in wartime, age-gap relationship, terrorism, orphan, friendship, immigrant, french president, child in peril, young heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: middle east, paris france, france, europe, marseille ...
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Comanche Territory (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, emotional, gloomy
Plot: photograph, photojournalist, female journalist, jungle, war zone, photojournalism, yugoslav war, journalism, violent content, sexual content, profanity, war ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia, europe, bosnia herzegovina
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23%
The Army of Shadows (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style: noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, espionage, terrorist, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, world war, betrayal, nazism, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: paris france, vichy, marseille, lyon, europe ...
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23%
Un Dimanche à Kigali (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial ...
Style: serious, emotional, political, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: genocide, rwandan genocide, fall in love, aids, social differences, love affair, interracial romance, love and romance, life is a bitch, hopes, against humanity, society ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: rwanda, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Far from Men (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: teacher, journey, algerian war, french algerian war, forced into action, prisoner, hostage, danger, on the run, misfit partners, political unrest, on the road ...
Time: 20th century, year 2014, 1950s, year 1954, 50s
Place: algeria, france, nebraska, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The War Is Over (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A group of Spanish refugees try to organize protests from France. Their network is under constant threat by the police and some of them have recently been arrested. The main character (played by Yves Montand) dedicated his whole life to the battle ...
Style: political, anthology, political thriller, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: civil war, espionage, protest, spy, female nudity, revolution, spanish civil war, time travel, secret mission, spanish history, idealism, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, year 1965
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22%
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Savior (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
Style: bleak, disturbing, depressing, tense, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, atrocity, rape, redemption, genocide, breast feeding, war crime, ethnic cleansing, mercenary, soldier, hopes, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia, europe, serbia, balkan ...
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Land of Plenty (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
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Style: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, multicultural ...
Plot: terrorism, vietnam veteran, politics, hopes, introspection, redemption, self discovery, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, society, on the road, racism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
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Daresalam (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Burkina Faso, Chad
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a small Central African village, boyhood friends Djimi and Koni have come of age under a post-colonial government that levies crippling taxes and legally robs local farmers of their meager crops. When impulsive Koni savagely attacks a visiting ...
Plot: blaxploitation, african, village, friendship, massacre, childhood friend, rebel, revolt, friend, politics, taxes, rebel army ...
Place: africa, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Line in the Sand (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Drama - Set in the present-day Iraq war, this tense and gripping drama unfolds as two US Marines find themselves stranded and alone in the desert after their unit is all but destroyed in a routine mission. One of their team is taken hostage in the ...
Plot: war on terror, iraq war, terrorism, military, hostage, soldier, insurgent, rogue soldier, fight, sergeant, desert, survival ...
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Lemon Tree (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defense minister and his wife move next door; the Secret Service orders the trees removed for security. The stoic Salma seeks ...
Style: sincere, uplifting, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, human spirit, loneliness, injustice, neighbor, widow, occupation, fighting the system, rules and policies, reconciliation, love and romance, legal ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: palestine, middle east, israel, jerusalem, persia ...
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21%
The Kick of Sirocco (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.
Plot: french algerian war, autobiography, con artists, bombing, migrant, homesickness, jealous husband, mediterranean, soccer match, new life, business partner, depression ...
Time: 60s, 1950s
Place: algeria, montmartre paris, paris france
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21%
The Boy Soldier (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
Plot: world war two, traumatic childhood, anti war, french soldier, border, killed in action, cadet, french army, military school, military officer, french military, teenage boy ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939, pre world war two
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21%
Living in Paradise (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium, Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.
Plot: politics, racism, arab, young love, exile, migration, immigrant, racist cop, slum, algerian war, family relations, interracial relations ...
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20%
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Lost Command (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The film begins with the final moments of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, when the final assault of Viet Minh is imminent. The weakened French garrison awaits reinforcements that arrive with a single plane under the command of Major De ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak
Audience: boys' night
Plot: algerian war, vietnam war, military, terrorism, revolution, struggle, conflict, revolutionary, freedom, african, cold war, french foreign legion ...
Time: year 1966, 1940s, year 1954
Place: algeria, africa, vietnam, asia
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20%
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The Wars (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Robert Ross lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena, who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any ...
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20%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: military, indochina war, courtroom, french algerian war, wartime life, military life, false accusation, righting the wronged, obsessive quest, couple relations, rebellion, heroes ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1957
Place: algeria, france, brittany
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20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several ...
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, abduction, italian history, hijacker, sea, terrorist
Time: 80s
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20%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Mauritania, Qatar
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. A look at the brief occupation of Timbuktu by militant ...
Style: disturbing, harsh, compassionate, emotional, intense ...
Audience: family friendly
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20%
Horses of God (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, social ...
Plot: terrorism, suicide bomber, terrorist attack, islam, muslim, radical, danger, society, family relations, murder, brother brother relationship, poverty ...
Time: year 2012, september 11 2001, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, tunisia, africa, morocco
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20%
The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and an interesting job: she has no motive to be troubled, but she decides to join him and to become his lover. She ...
Style: crying
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A Day in October (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, bleak ...
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Place: denmark, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe, copenhagen
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