Movies like Wolf and Sheep

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Wolf and Sheep (2016)
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Wolf and Sheep (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.
Plot: shepherd, wolf, mountain, female nudity, cancer, muslim, theft, forced marriage, bull, cow, river, sheep, arranged marriage, goat, cigarette smoking, death of father, dead animal, donkey, wound, wounded, nudity, stealing, child marriage, children, nude ...
Place: afghanistan, middle east

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and disturbing films with plots about female nudity, nudity, cigarette smoking, family relations, muslim, society and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Wolf and Sheep: The First Teacher (1965), Stray Dogs (2004), Kuduz (1989), Happy Times Will Come Soon (2016), Earth and Ashes (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The First Teacher (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Dyuishen is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It is 1923 and the Civil war has ended. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing the Leninist ...
Style: political
Plot: post soviet, reflection, world war one, nudity, child marriage, teacher, children, arranged marriage, river, bare breasts, sheep, communist ...
Place: soviet union, russia
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Stray Dogs (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two children are orphaned in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
Plot: boy, child, dog, children, muslim, war in afghanistan, social injustice, traumatic childhood, street kid, father, cinema, prison ...
Place: afghanistan, middle east, iran
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Kuduz (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills ...
Plot: female nudity, muslim, bride and groom, adultery, hiding, outlaw, revenge motive, mountain, nudity, jealousy, drunkenness, prison ...
Place: bosnia, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Happy Times Will Come Soon (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tommaso and Arturo are on the run in a remote forest. They hunt for food, trying to survive and find their way through the lush nature. It’s quiet, almost peaceful, until the sound of gunshots… Many years later, this forest has a wolf problem. ...
Plot: forest, legend, wolf, public nudity, voice over narration, woods, man in underwear, male female relationship, young man, skinny dipping, shooting, female nudity ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Earth and Ashes (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, bleak, islamic ...
Plot: boy, elderly, life is a bitch, on the road, wartime life, civil war, parent child relationship, obsessive quest, fire, desert, mine, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
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Still Life (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: There are victims that arrive by night. They intuit, unaware of the danger that awaits them. They may attempt to resist, but a young man leads them to their deaths before dawn. A dog is the only witness of this terrifying world that seems certain ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful
Plot: slaughterhouse, dog, killing an animal, cow, pig, animal, animal cruelty, cattle ranch, farm, dead animal, cigarette smoking, swimming ...
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Facing Mirrors (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same ...
Style: psychological, touching, disturbing, suspense
Plot: transsexual, escape, hijab, lgbt, forced marriage, friendship, domineering father, taxi driver, muslim, taxi, patriarchy, wedding planning ...
Place: iran, middle east
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In This World (2002)
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: bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: refugee, immigrant, politics, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, hopes, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time: year 2002, year 2001
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iran, pakistan, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Times and Winds (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their ...
Style: psychological, touching, serious, rough, art house ...
Plot: coming of age, solar eclipse, youth, islam, friendship, dream, teenage life, society, introspection, generation gap, family life, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poetic realism, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
At Five in the Afternoon (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style: serious, bleak, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot: survival, injustice, hidden identity, danger, political unrest, religions or cults, family relations, life is a bitch, state affairs, war, dishonesty, feminism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, iran
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37%
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Centaur (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kyrgyzstan, Netherlands, Germany, France, Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a racehorse at night. A story inspired by the myth when horses became the wings of men.
Plot: racehorse, rural area, theft, mute woman, muslim, horse riding, thief, mute, police, female doctor, video surveillance, interrogation ...
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The Father (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. He travels to the southern parts of Iran, looking for work. Upon his return to his hometown, he notices certain changes in his family.
Style: inspirational, islamic, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, boy, chaos, child, traumatic childhood, humanist, realism, muslim, family relations, village, parent child relationship, youth ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the ...
Style: art house
Plot: politics, preacher, male female relationship, revolutionary, gunfight, sex scene, bishop, christian, garbage dump, church, smuggling, alienation ...
Time: medieval times, 15th century
Place: paris france, germany, chicago
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Le Garcu (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pailhas).
Plot: nudity, male female relationship, death of father, female nudity, extramarital affair, little boy, vacation, old age, childhood, immaturity, father, unfaithfulness ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france
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Vagabond (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
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, art house, disturbing, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: homeless, loneliness, freeze to death, homelessness, feminist, death, wine, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, freedom ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
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A Bigger World (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In order to forget the death of Paul, the man of her life, Korine leaves Paris for a few weeks, to direct a report in Mongolia. Her meeting with the shaman Oyun will change her life: Korine has a rare gift that Oyun intends to unveil. Korine will ...
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, powerful
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each other’s lives.
Style: semi serious, rough, erotic, sexual, captivating ...
Plot: nudity, strong sexual content, heist, dishonesty, family life, female pubic hair, society, petty theft, sex, airport, thief, theft ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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29%
The Artist and the Model (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a famous old sculptor, weary of life and the folly of men, who finds, thanks to the arrival of a Spanish girl escaped from a refugee camp, the desire to return to work and sculpt your final work in occupied France in 1943. Model and ...
Style: atmospheric, light, touching, melancholic, visually appealing ...
Plot: art, female nudity, artist, painter, model, muse, world war two, sculptor, inspiration, sculpture, young girl, painting ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: france
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The Kite Runner (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style: disturbing, emotional, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: childhood, friendship, muslim, coming of age, guilt, courage, islam, betrayal, rape, mission, haunted by the past, child ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: afghanistan, middle east, china, iraq, bay area ...
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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
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The Party Is Over (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Despite their differences, Celeste and Sihem quickly become inseparable. The common will to get out of drugs seals their fusional friendship. This will be as much a force as an obstacle when, transferred from the center that welcomes them, they find ...
Plot: friendship, addiction, nudity, rehabilitation, bare breasts, hospital, male nudity, drug addiction, train station, drug addict, massage, female nudity ...
Time: year 2017
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R.M.N. (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium, Sweden
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the ...
Style: interesting
Plot: female nudity, domestic drama, back in hometown, pig, cello, hanged man, motorcycle, christmas, snow, hanging, bear, night ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Osama (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Teenage girl Osama cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widowed mother and grandmother. When Osama is called by the Taliban to join school and military training she embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, islam, taliban, survival, oppression, child abuse, injustice, life is a bitch, brutality, justice, religion, police investigation ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iraq, persia, pakistan
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?
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The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.
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The Horse Thief (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when ...
Style: spiritual, poetic
Plot: minimal dialogue, entertainment, spirituality, cowboy, thief, horse, dancer, survival, cruelty, animal abuse, buried alive, nomad ...
Time: year 1986, 1920s
Place: china, tibet, himalaya
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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 ...
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Place: north africa, algeria, maghreb, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Few of Us (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, silent ...
Plot: survival, landscape, post soviet, minimalism, wilderness, underground, love letter, erotica, alienation, drinking, horse riding, snow ...
Place: siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Wajma, an Afghan Love Story (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, forbidden love, parents and children, society, life turned upside down, honor, student, love, couples, youth, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Two-Legged Horse (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, bleak, art house ...
Plot: youth, street kid, life is a bitch, dehumanization, cruelty, poverty, parents and children, master and servant, family relations, power relations, lifestyle, disability ...
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