Movies like Big Man, Little Love

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Big Man, Little Love (2001)
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Big Man, Little Love (2001)
Original name: Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hejar, meaning "Dispossessed", a little Kurdish orphan war victim, educates a Turkish judge!
Style: sincere, sentimental, suspense, political, islamic, banned, banned film
Plot: racism, kurd, children, nationalism, orphan, old man, neighbor, injustice, cultural difference, political oppression, police, murder, poverty, prejudice, chaos, judge, family relations, journey, disappearance, housekeeper, discrimination, misery, turk, independence, secret police ...
Place: kurdistan, turkey

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Most similar movies to Big Man, Little Love

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and touching films with plots about family relations, racism, society, injustice, life is a bitch, kurd and murder mostly in Drama and War genres. Some movies like Big Man, Little Love: Away from Home (2001), The Herd (1978), In Nowhere Land (2002), The Road (1982), On the Way (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Away from Home (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to ...
Plot: voice over narration, rural setting, immigrant, narration, turk, urban setting, orphan, lottery, immigration, passport, journey, search for father ...
Place: turkey, new york, russia, istanbul turkey
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100%
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The Herd (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, ...
Style: art house, political
Plot: kurd, lonely, marxism, women's issues, prejudice, nationalism, political repression, political oppression, injustice, killing an animal, police corruption, independence ...
Time: year 1979
Place: kurdistan, turkey, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
In Nowhere Land (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sükran who works at pay box of Haydarpasa is around 40 ages. She has a son whose name is Veysel. He works in a factory. She suffered from her husband's political actions, so she wants to keep away Veysel from political actions. Veysel get ...
Plot: kurd, resistance, missing son, turk, friend, military police, politics, missing person, journalist, hotel receptionist, 40 year old, tragic event ...
Place: turkey, kurdistan
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59%
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The Road (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world outside.
Style: road movie, black and white, political, art house, uplifting ...
Plot: kurd, racism, love, muslim, turk, social injustice, road trip, lonely, social commentary, strike, union, labor ...
Time: year 1982
Place: turkey, kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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On the Way (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on true events, Yolda is the story of Yilmaz Guney, at the time the most celebrated filmmaker in Turkey, and the final years of his life in prison.
Plot: kurd, nationalist, artist, wedding, prison, racism, celebrity, curfew, road trip, prejudice, martial law, political oppression ...
Place: kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Wall (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal ...
Style: political, art house, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: kurd, juvenile delinquency, prison life, jail, sex crime, social injustice, traumatic childhood, politics, child abuse, revolutionary, injustice, revolution ...
Time: 80s
Place: kurdistan, turkey, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Journey to the Sun (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon ...
Style: road movie, sad, serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: kurd, human rights, female fight, female fighter, anarchist, injustice, friendship, politics, discrimination, racism, self discovery, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: kurdistan, turkey, iraq, istanbul turkey, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Glue Sniffer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, homelessness, child in peril, survival, poverty, children, misery, street life, street kid, desperation, brutality, police brutality ...
Place: venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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American Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.
Style: suspenseful, heartbreaking, thought provoking, suspense, sad ...
Plot: racism, police, racial discrimination, 18 year old, discrimination, african american woman, racial injustice, black, murder, investigation, ex husband, divorced parents ...
Place: miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Sky Is Gray (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Drama - From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the ...
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: racism, african american, blaxploitation, youth, injustice, family relations, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, interracial relations, bittersweet, dignity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: louisiana
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32%
A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: racism, family relations, discrimination, injustice, social differences, parents and children, rich and poor, single parent, couple relations, follow your dream, black, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, america, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Blue Eyes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by ...
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot: redemption, haunted by the past, prostitute, introspection, society, police, racism, xenophobia, murder, journey, released from prison, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
My Only Sunshine (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany ...
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, sentimental, art house ...
Plot: single parent, youth, parents and children, family relations, poverty, society, teenage life, elderly, social misfits, grandfather granddaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, lonely ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, greece, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Fratricide (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak, disturbing
Plot: kurd, politics, racism, immigrant, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, orphan, friendship, social decay, injustice, vengeance, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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White Water (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: missing child, young heroes, danger, youth, racism, society, family problems, parents and children, discrimination, interracial relations, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: alabama, usa
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29%
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Pororoca (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Cristina and Tudor have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. They are in their thirties and live an ordinary life in a nice apartment in a Romanian town, but one Sunday morning when Tudor takes his kids to the park, Maria ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: missing daughter, child abduction, children, child, missing person, husband wife relationship, little girl, mysterious disappearance, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family relations, father daughter relationship ...
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28%
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Jin (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A bitter conflict has raged between guerrillas and the army in Turkey's Kurdish regions for over 30 years. Large expanses have now become war zones. Countless young people have lost their lives to the conflict. This dangerous but incredibly ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: kurd, society, social problems, social issues, social relations, life is a bitch, partisan, feminist, resistance, lonely, girl, female terrorist ...
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Just the Wind (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drawing inspiration from the death-squad murders of several Gypsy families in Hungary in 2008, director Bence Fliegauf's chilling and unforgettable real-life horror story follows a family whose dreams of emigration and escape are suddenly, ...
Style: serious, sincere, bleak, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot: gypsy, racism, family in danger, social decay, murder, family life, life is a bitch, social misfits, realism, society, danger, secret place ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Nobody's Daughter (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adoptive parents.
Plot: orphan, adoption, coming of age, child rape, child abuse, children, erotica, hell, poverty, runaway, slavery, brutality ...
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25%
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The Negro (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A black teenager vandalizes a racist lawn ornament.
Style: serious, tense, sincere, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: racism, interracial relations, uncover truth, police investigation, murder, vandalism, society, life is a bitch, law enforcement, violence, blaxploitation, discrimination ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, canada
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25%
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style: realistic, bleak, meditative, harsh, emotional ...
Plot: kurd, children, coming of age, youth, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, family in crisis, parents and children, village, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: iraq, iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
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25%
I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yemen, France, United Arab Emirates, USA, Sweden, Jordan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Nojoom was forced to marry a 30-year-old man. The dowry offered the family a small income and 'one less mouth to feed'. Nojoom discovers that her life will take a turn for the worse. Her husband is indifferent to her age. ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, touching, thought provoking
Plot: child bride, marital abuse, little girl, rape, sexualized violence, forced marriage, tradition, divorce, family honor, judge, escape, courtroom ...
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75%
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Australia Day (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of ...
Style: multicultural, touching, sincere, suspense, steamy ...
Plot: nationalism, sociology, human trafficking, immigration, criminal underworld, racial tension, manhunt, gang, on the run, racist, society, culture ...
Time: 2010s
Place: australia, austria, china, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Bliss (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: cultural difference, rape, injustice, social differences, traditional versus modern, unlikely partners, love affair, innocence lost, husband wife relationship, sexual humiliation, turk, women's issues ...
Place: middle east, turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Shadrach (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, sincere ...
Plot: slavery, african american, old man, segregation, slave, interracial, youth, suburbs, social justice, interracial relations, family relations, racial segregation ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998
Place: virginia, usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
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24%
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Sam & Me (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.
Style: independent film, intercultural
Plot: immigrant, tradition, friendship, friend, transvestite, uncle nephew relationship, servant, party, fired from the job, family relations, interracial relations, tragic event ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Come to My Voice (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This is the story of two women on opposite ends of a lifetime, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, against the odds, elderly, youth, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, family in crisis, false arrest, on the road, kurd, military, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kurdistan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Kitchen Toto (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
Style: independent film, grindhouse, thought provoking, biting, serious ...
Plot: youth, african, independence, blaxploitation, conflict, nudity, violent content, power relations, family relations, family problems, culture clash, social differences ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 50s
Place: africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
My Sweet Pepper Land (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, France, Germany, Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: law enforcement, society, rivalry, kurd, social relations, village life, village, justice, violence, police, smuggler, arab ...
Time: year 2013, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, kurdistan, middle east, maghreb, iran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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