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Sand Storm (2016)
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Original name: סופת חול
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, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
Plot:
mother daughter conflict, second wife, second marriage, bedouin, impossible love, family problems, marriage, women in society, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationship problems, family relations, domestic violence, female student, cell phone, patriarchy, hijab, college student, boyfriend, mother child separation, father daughter conflict, women, muslim ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, indiana
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Most similar movies to Sand Storm
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films with plots about family problems, family relations, female protagonist, relationship problems, life is a bitch, relationships and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Sand Storm: In Between (2016), Papicha (2019), Parched (2015), What Will People Say (2017), My Happy Family (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
israeli, arab, dating, judaism, friendship, student, female friendship, young woman, university, drug use, roommate, single woman ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, indiana, jerusalem ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a rural Indian village, four ordinary women begin to throw off the traditions that hold them in servitude in this inspirational drama.
Style:
erotic, psychological, sincere, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, tradition, feminist, countryside, coping, cultural difference, relationship problems, social problems, lifestyle, social relations, culture clash, villager ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
captivating, sincere, disturbing, intense, thought provoking
Plot:
boyfriend, double life, family values, sexual abuse, women, nordic, forced marriage, nudity, female nudity, human rights, gender equality, coming of age ...
Place:
pakistan
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2016: In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family problems, family life, lifestyle change, lifestyle, changing lives, patriarchy, relationship problems, parents and children, husband wife relationship, post soviet, problem, woman ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
middle east, indiana, tbilisi, georgia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While her husband struggles to keep his restaurant in business, a mother of three lands a job as an assistant to a powerful, but sexually harrassive realtor and brings herself to fight back.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
sexual harassment, husband wife relationship, employer employee relationship, family problems, career change, relationship vs career, money problems, financial problem, relationship problems, forbidden love, female protagonist, moral dilemma ...
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Shadowed by a strict, military father who inflicts severe methods of punishment as a form of discipline, seventeen year old Ariella commits a grave error that her father isn't willing to punish her for. Seeking a punishment of her own, Ariella ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
abusive father, daughter, father daughter relationship, violent father, dark past, father and daughter, father, family problems, secret past, family relations, life is a bitch, israeli ...
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A House on Fire follows brilliant doctor and mother Deborah Green (Stephanie March) who had the epitome of a picture-perfect life with two children, an adoring husband (Shaun Benson) and a beautiful house in an opulent neighborhood. But behind the ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional
Plot:
unhappy marriage, relationship problems, family relations, married life, relationships, male female relationship, female protagonist, married couple, marriage crisis, marriage, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When her daughter Chloé runs away from home, Jeanne is disappointed with the response of the police, for whom a teenager runaway is not a priority, and she realizes she can only rely on herself.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, teenager, runaway, missing child, mother child relationship, teenage daughter, problem, motherhood, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, touching, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
adult child friendship, mother daughter relationship, little girl, relationship problems, mother child relationship, parents and children, family problems, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, dysfunctional family, mother and daughter ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family problems, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, living with parents, relationship problems, divorced parents, family relations, tragic love, parenthood ...
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thought provoking, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
social outcast, female protagonist, women, life is a bitch, family problems, couples, relationship problems, mute woman, social problems, male female relationship, atmosphere, women's issues ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
19%
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, small town life, unemployment, social decay, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, tel aviv israel
Similarity:
19%
692
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Margaret, 35, has a history of violent behaviour which has cost her a romantic relationship. She has moved back in with her mother Christina, a fragile, immature 55-year-old woman who blames Margaret, her firstborn, for ruining her dreams of a ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, restraining order, female protagonist, relationship problems, problem, social problems, life is a bitch, pregnant woman, fight, christmas, separation, christmas present ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, sincere, suspense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, dysfunctional family, relationships, death of son, husband wife relationship, death, prediction, life is a bitch, death of child, life & death, family problems, social problems ...
Place:
north africa, africa, sudan
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ovadia Rachmim is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for 5 years. A small time gangster named Shalom, offers Ovadia a job, to be a debts collector, offering him a lot of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating
Plot:
gangster, husband wife relationship, israeli, parenthood, fatherhood, family problems, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, couple relations, criminal, outlaw gang ...
Place:
palestine, tel aviv israel, israel
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo so she sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, political, social
Plot:
entrepreneur, mother daughter relationship, small business, female protagonist, life is a bitch, social problems, society, family problems, social issues, patriarchy, woman, world war ...
Place:
kosovo, serbia, balkan
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her loving family to share some important news, but instead finds herself attempting to finally confront a difficult period from her past.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, getting home, ex boyfriend, confronting the past, family relations, relationship problems, relationships, family problems, christmas, guilt ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Suzanne McBride is excited to spend her birthday with her family. It will be the first time that her three adopted daughters will be together in years. This seems like a great time for a family reunion, but the sisters are each wrestling with unique ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
family reunited, confrontation, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, mother daughter reunion, sisters, family problems, family relations, family secret, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot:
marriage, couples, family relations, family problems, male female relationship, marital crisis, relationship problems, marriage crisis, marital problem, husband wife relationship, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When her grandmother becomes seriously ill, Camila is forced to move to Buenos Aires, leaving behind a liberal public high school for a scholastic, traditional private institution. Suddenly a senior without any friends, and with her single mother ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, relationships, life is a bitch, grownups, lifestyle change, changing lives, latinx lgbt, tattoo ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Müzeyyen is a 22-year-old high school senior living in Antalya who spends most of her time with a posse of misfits. She lives a drug-fuelled, highly troubled life outside the norms of society. When her long-lost brother Ali decides to visit her ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
drug, society, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch, drug addict, family relations, drug abuse, drug addiction, social relations, male female relationship, female protagonist ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, crying
Plot:
teacher, turk, customs, teenage boy, marriage, relationships, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, wedding preparations and rituals, troubled marriage, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drama about a family's effort to save their antique restoration business.
Style:
psychological, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, family business, family relations, parents and children, workplace, disagreement, aging, unfulfillment, loss of partner, store, estrangement, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, sexy
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, prostitute, dysfunctional family, family problems, mother daughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, single mother, family secret, family relations, single parent, social problems ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
rape, forced marriage, domestic abuse, family relations, relationships, violence, relationship problems, male female relationship, violent, life is a bitch, forbidden love, family problems ...
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Adaptation of the Erkine Caldwell novel
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
widow, mother daughter relationship, relationships, female protagonist, daughter, domestic drama, family relations, male female relationship, problem, family problems, relationship problems, family life ...
Similarity:
17%
392
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brothers Yaki and Shaul live with their parents in Petah Tikva, a satellite town of Tel Aviv. Yaki is doing military service. As for all other 18-year-old Israelis, this means he is allowed to carry a gun. This weapon gives the brothers the power to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, kidnapping, family relations, unemployment, society, working class, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, soldier, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
17%
254
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Isabel and Clara are two childhood friends separated by fate. Isabel is a naive provincial lass who works as an indigenous fabric weaver while Clara is the liberated city girl. Clara has gone wild after her mother runs off with another man. The two ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, erotic, tagalog
Plot:
murder, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, girlfriend, family relations, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, culture clash, family problems, women, friendship, life is a bitch, friends ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, doctors and patients, political unrest, injustice, society, wartime life, friendship, life is a bitch, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, palestinian authority, jerusalem
Similarity:
17%
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