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Heaven Will Wait (2016)
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Original name: Le ciel attendra
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
islam, jihad, teenager, religion, teenage girl, conspiracy theory, propaganda, indoctrination, airport, brainwashing, terrorist, bare breasts, 17 year old, sister sister relationship, laptop, little sister, koran, troubled youth, teenage daughter, parents daughter relationship, manipulative person, estrangement, female terrorist, terrorism, social problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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Most similar movies to Heaven Will Wait
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, disturbing and serious films with plots about teenager, teenage girl, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, muslim, life is a bitch and sister sister relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Heaven Will Wait: The Innocents (1987), Layla M. (2016), Twisting Fate (2016), The Disintegration (2011), Young Ahmed (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama.
Style:
crying, gay cinema
Plot:
nude beach, gay interest, male homosexuality, sister sister relationship, orchestra conductor, lgbt, seaside town, hotel, airport, swimming, beach, militia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south of france, french riviera, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Jordan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
18-year-old Layla, a Dutch girl with Moroccan roots, joins a group of radical Muslims. She encounters a world that nurtures her ideas initally, but finally confronts her with an impossible choice.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot:
jihad, islam, islamic terrorism, muslim, teen rebel, terrorism, society, radical, social misfits, juvenile delinquency, suspicion, teenage life ...
Place:
netherlands
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Africa
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot:
teenage girl, loss of family, female protagonist, death of mother, teenage runaway, teenager, life is a bitch, teenage life, love, danger, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Three young men meet Djamel (Yassine Azzouz), a charismatic manipulator, who turns the three friends against society.
Style:
contemplative, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
terrorism, religion, nato, indoctrination, religious education, car bomb, cleaning lady, interracial couple, basic training, job seeking, martyrdom, terrorist attack ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, brussels, brussels belgium
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
muslim, religion, terrorist, indoctrination, friendship, disorder, youth, society, culture clash, 13 year old, religious, coming of age ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Costa Rica
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.
Style:
captivating, psychological
Plot:
teenage girl, female protagonist, social problems, teenager, parents and children, family problems, grownups, sex scene, coming of age, 16 year old, singing, police ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, teenager, redemption, parents and children, addiction, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, teen ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, youth, teenage love, family problems, teenage girl, troubled youth, drug abuse, woman, death in the family, car race, motorcycle race ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Meet 17-year-old Hala, who struggles to balance being a suburban teenager with her traditional Muslim upbringing. As she comes into her own, Hala finds herself grappling with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, inspirational, crying
Audience:
teens
Plot:
muslim girl, teenage girl, muslim woman, muslim, coming of age, teenager, mother daughter relationship, family relations, religion, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret ...
Time:
year 2019
Similarity:
43%
916
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ely is 17 years old. After school, she works few hours at a pet shop. When Ely learns that she is pregnant, her inner world explodes even though she tries to go on with her daily routine as if nothing was different. She is afraid and upset, and she ...
Style:
psychological, tense, contemplative, touching, unusual plot structure
Plot:
teenager, 17 year old, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, teen angst, pregnancy, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, friends, love, homeless ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
43%
373
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Amin has come from Senegal to work in France, leaving behind his wife Aïcha, and their three children. He leads a solitary life in France, where the only space he occupies is his home and the building sites on which he works. Most of his earnings ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, melancholic, psychological, suspense
Plot:
interracial sex, interracial romance, interracial love, nude, interracial love relationship, infidelity, worker, immigrant, father daughter relationship, sex scene, money, interracial relations ...
Place:
senegal, africa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Jozef travels from Poland to France to work and to find his son Roman, who he abandoned 15 years earlier. Jozef works for a Polish immigrant family that has successfully settled in France. Rose, the family’s teenaged daughter, volunteers to help ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
teenage girl, teenager, love story, in love, romantic friendship, forbidden love, fall in love, love affair, teen romance, search for father, relationships, romantic relationship ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style:
road movie, thought provoking, disturbing, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
homeless, solitude, freeze to death, homelessness, death, drifter, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, feminist, wine ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
religious faith, convent, hopes, koran, love, muslim, religions or cults, self discovery, clergy, human nature, youth, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Voluptuous and bored, rebellious sixteen-year-old Sabine is interested in sex and clubbing, and not much else. But when she leaves home to move to Paris, she finds herself plunged into a world harsher than she ever imagined, a minefield of ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, entertaining
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
underage sex, sexualized violence, big city, female exploitation, grownups, troubled youth, teenage protagonist, adulthood, teenage life, teenage girl, life is a bitch, coping ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she ...
Style:
anthology, contemplative, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
bare breasts, female pubic hair, urban setting, orphan, songwriter, thief, intimacy, loss of mother, search for father, father daughter relationship, public nudity, sexual initiation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, brittany, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Benjamin and Aude have loved each other for 7 years. They live together on a small island in Brittany. Benjamin dreams of starting a family but the couple learns that Aude is sterile. So Benjamin has an idea. He is the one who will bear their child ...
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
swimming pool, transgender, aggression, island, seaside, kite, dancing, little boy, hospital, pregnant woman, child, nudity ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A faithful Jehovah's Witness is forced to shun her own sister because of a religious transgression. As the separation draws out, she starts to question the meaning of God's love.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
jehovah's witness, teenage daughter, religion, british, belief in god, evangelical christianity, faith, religious cult, family problems, religious differences, sisters, sister ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
41%
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483
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Summer is a carefree teenage girl whose world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person. At first resistant to the faith, she begins to reevaluate her identity after becoming attracted to a ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desire, woman, religious conversion, coming of age, daughter, mother, teenager, youth, faith, family relations, society, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
psychological trauma, husband wife relationship, psychological torment, life is a bitch, psycho terror, sole survivor, family problems, marital problem, male female relationship, social problems, family relations, relationships ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year-old Lena meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despite their differences – or perhaps because of them – they fall in love.
Style:
psychological, contemplative, captivating, unusual plot structure, thought provoking ...
Plot:
teenage girl, pregnancy and birth, tragic love, religion, teenage protagonist, cultural difference, 17 year old, teenage boy, teenager, female protagonist, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, rough, sincere ...
Plot:
female teacher, hostage, teachers and students, juvenile delinquency, hardcase students, youth, mentally unstable, high school, life is a bitch, society, breaking point, police ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Akim, young Muslim will become imam sees his upset when he is touched by the love of Christ ... In a family chaos that opposes his brother identity Akim attempt to be accepted by his family.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, self discovery, religions or cults, society, cause and meaning, family in crisis, introspection, life turned upside down, religion, belief in god, culture clash, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
teenage girl, violence against women, muslim girl, hijab, female protagonist, sea, arranged marriage, attempted rape, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, arab, university ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
algeria, maghreb, africa, middle east, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, poignant ...
Plot:
terrorism, islam, injustice, vengeance, society, couple relations, life is a bitch, rivalry, introspection, danger, false accusation, politics ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, paris france, france, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It is a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere
Plot:
owl, madness, little girl, train, mother daughter relationship, psychotic woman, skeleton, disturbed individual, family problems, teenager, teenage girl, mental illness ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
40%
506
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, and they fall in love. But Mo carries a secret burden…
Style:
romantic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
teenage girl, speech impediment, opposites attract, love, sister sister relationship, fall in love, chance meeting, auto racing, illness, street racing, bare chested male, nudity ...
Similarity:
40%
6K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, crying, enigmatic ...
Plot:
adultery, sex scene, psychotherapist, psychoanalysis, nudity, aspiring writer, writers, bare breasts, psychoanalyst, drunkenness, female protagonist, inspiration ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.
Style:
serious, captivating, disturbing, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
drug addict, mountain, friendship, hard labor, priest, religion, christianity, new life, love, death, troubled youth, nun ...
Place:
alps, france
Similarity:
40%
575
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an old man in a vegetative state. Her isolated routine devolves into a struggle with sexuality, guilt and loss.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, teenage sexuality, woman, wheelchair bound, man in a wheelchair, relationship problems, teenage girl, nursing, teenager, care, life is a bitch, sexual relations ...
Similarity:
39%
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