Movies like A Wedding

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A Wedding (2016)
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A Wedding (2016)
Original name: Noces
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Pakistan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.
Style: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, anthropological
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: muslim girl, forced marriage, pregnant teenager, muslim, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, runaway teen, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, runaway, school, motorcycle, pregnancy, murder, doctor, fire, abortion, photograph, bus, nightclub, pregnant woman, tradition, dream within a dream, nightmare, arranged marriage, marriage ...
Time: 2000s
Place: belgium
Keyword: pakistani

Most similar movies to A Wedding

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, disturbing, captivating and tense films with plots about female protagonist, teenager, family relations, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, life is a bitch and muslim mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like A Wedding: What Will People Say (2017), Mustang (2015), In Our Name (2010), Dukhtar (2014), Do it Right (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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What Will People Say (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden, France, Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, intense, thought provoking
Plot: boyfriend, double life, family values, women, nordic, forced marriage, woman, coming of age, sex crime, sexual abuse, human rights, refugee ...
Place: pakistan
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Mustang (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Style: sad, heartbreaking, realistic, art house, social ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: sisters, teenage girl, teenager, coming of age, sexism, running away from home, sister sister relationship, islam, women, teen suicide, female protagonist, virginity ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, near future
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east, maghreb
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100%
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In Our Name (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Suzy's a British soldier, born and bred, but fitting back into civilian life after fighting in Iraq isn't easy. Haunted by the responsibility she feels for the death of an Iraqi child, she becomes obsessed with the safety of her own ...
Style: realistic, tense, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Plot: soldier, paranoia, obsession, parents and children, losing-it hero, homecoming, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, military, introspection, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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100%
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Dukhtar (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Pakistan, Norway, USA, India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl's marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins.
Style: tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative ...
Plot: child bride, forced marriage, female protagonist, little girl, child marriage, feminist, family relations, on the run, chase, family feud, child in peril, woman in danger ...
Place: pakistan, middle east, indiana
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Do it Right (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenage boy, teenage girl, school, high school, death of mother, youth, parents and children, society, mother son relationship, love and romance ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: paris france
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44%
Murdered by My Father (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Every parent wants the best for their kids, and Shahzad is no exception. Ever since his wife died he's been trying to keep his two kids Salma and Hassan on track. Salma is growing up quickly, and Shahzad wants to make sure she's set up ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, touching, suspense, detective ...
Plot: death of protagonist, father daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, college student, teenage daughter, family relations, muslim, father and daughter, parents and children, relationships ...
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Papicha (2019)
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, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: violence against women, teenage girl, muslim girl, female protagonist, hijab, sea, attempted rape, friendship, arranged marriage, university, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: algeria, maghreb, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
A Regular Woman (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü, a vibrant young Turkish woman and mother is murdered at 23 by her youngest brother in an honor killing. Forced into an abusive arranged marriage with a cousin in Istanbul at 16 by her devout Muslim family, Anyur ...
Style: suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, rough
Plot: hijab, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, muslim, female protagonist, religious, forced marriage, single mother, brother sister relationship, murder of a woman, true crime ...
Time: year 2005
Place: germany, istanbul turkey, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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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42%
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Land Legs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his ...
Style: psychological, touching, contemplative, thought provoking, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: fisherman, father son relationship, divorced man, children, father daughter relationship, teenager, family relations, moral dilemma, storytelling, parents and children, dog, social worker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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42%
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Hala (2019)
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, disturbing, psychological, inspirational
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, muslim girl, muslim woman, muslim, religious conflict, teenage sexuality, religion, family relations, teenager, secret, girl, social problems ...
Time: year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Aurora (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After she read in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.
Style: suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
Plot: abortion, foster child, judge, newborn baby, burial, dead child, doctor, baby, female protagonist, junkyard, seaside, bird ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The World Belongs to Us (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On a bridge, one night, a stabbing. There is Pouga. And there is Julien. The film shows the parallel destiny of these two young men who look alike without knowing each other.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot: lifestyle, ambition, criminal heroes, athlete and trainer, human nature, athlete's life, coach, father son relationship, multiple storylines, power relations, firefighter, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brussels, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Spaceship (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When his daughter goes missing in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel's search takes him dangerously close to her strange group of so-called friends. But the further he goes inside their computer game and fantasy-obsessed world, the more he ...
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, teenager, group of friends, female protagonist, british, missing person, teenage boy, alien abduction, loss of wife, disappearance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.9
 703
Double Mommy (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After taking a break for the summer before their senior year, Ryan and Jess rekindle their relationship, and find out that Jess is pregnant with twins. When Ryan's mother demands a paternity test, they find out that Ryan is only the father of ...
Style: unusual plot structure, touching, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: pregnant teenager, teenage pregnancy, love, relationships, youth, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pregnancy, twists and turns, amnesia, infidelity, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Nenette and Boni (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, art house, sexy, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, obsession, sexuality, siblings relations, teenage life, love and romance, single parent, coming of age, runaway, siblings, incest, character study ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: vietnam, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
Plot: friendship, youth, friend, teenager, classmate, teenage boy, family relations, mother daughter relationship, friends, rape, rape victim, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 8.1
 567
Goodbye Julia (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, Sweden, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to ...
Plot: singer, police corruption, choir, death, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, school, police, murder, concert, dancing, lie ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s
Place: sudan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Twin Flower (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a South of Italy full of beauty and hidden dangers, two adolescents, abused and damaged by life, Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape together towards a new start
Style: psychological, touching, contemplative, tense, sentimental ...
Plot: teenage girl, runaway, illegal immigrant, immigrant, interracial relations, murder of father, teenager, teenage boy, death of father, runaway teen, black boy, girl ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Tokyo Shaking (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: March 11, 2011. The biggest tsunami Japan has ever experienced triggers the Fukushima disaster. Risks are being downplayed but the foreign community in Tokyo is terrified by this tragic event and the fact that no one is capable of assessing its ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: tsunami, earthquake, nuclear threat, nuclear holocaust, moral dilemma, female protagonist, choice, threat, problem, power, catastrophe
Place: tokyo
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40%
The Intestine (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min.
Story: The Intestine is the story of Maya, an unhappy young womn, fed up with her monotonous job, filthy apartment, and the responsibilities of caring for her drug-addicted mother. One night she comes across Philip, a man of wealth, and the next morning ...
Style: suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspense, independent film
Plot: mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, one night stand, drug, strange behavior, death, brother sister relationship, blackmail, ambush, painting, sewing, drinking ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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40%
Mickey and the Bear (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: teenage girl, father daughter relationship, addiction, teenager, incest, war veteran, family relations, father daughter incest, life is a bitch, parents and children, rural setting, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Sand Storm (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, social
Plot: second marriage, second wife, bedouin, family problems, mother daughter conflict, women in society, marriage, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, relationship problems, female protagonist ...
Time: 2010s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Stolen Caravaggio (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: secret, female writer, mysterious character, screenwriter, changing lives, female protagonist, lifestyle change, writer's life, ghost writer, intrigue
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: abortion, sexual abuse, friendship, unwanted pregnancy, communism, rape, realism, communist, doctor, coming of age, young woman, character study ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 2000s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: romania, transylvania, eastern europe, europe
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Through The Fire (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Centres around a Paris fire-fighter, an everyday hero, who, after being involved in a serious accident during a major fire, must rebuild his life with the love of his wife — and accept that, sometimes, even saviours need saving.
Plot: fireman, fire, firefight, nudity, pregnancy, killed in a car crash, homelessness, suicidal thoughts, arson, balloon, accident, hospital ...
Place: france, paris france
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40%
Ang Galing Galing Mo, Babes (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Babes has established a good reputation as an entertainer in Japan, that clients fight over her. But soon, the fighting becomes intense, she decides to come home-- but with a different identity. In her native land, Babes decides to continue her ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: filipina, prostitute, obsession, male female relationship, romantic obsession, troubled marriage, sexual obsession, seduction, relationship problems, spying, photograph, elopement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Young Adult Matters (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: homeless teenager, pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenager, life is a bitch, social problems, teenage life, social misfits, society, relationship problems, female homosexuality, poverty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Invisible (2017)
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, unusual plot structure, touching, tense, contemplative
Plot: teenager, female protagonist, teenage protagonist, teen angst, pregnancy, 17 year old, couples, friends, love and romance, life is a bitch, love, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Fatal Friends (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sophia is the perfect 17-year-old girl. She studies hard, stays out of trouble, and is a promising pianist. The only problem is that she’s always been quiet and keeps to herself, so when she strikes up a friendship with Grace, the new girl in ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing
Audience: teens
Plot: stalker, secret, relationship problems, problem, breaking the fourth wall, girlfriend, female protagonist, school, unlikely friendships, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, schoolgirl ...
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