Movies like Eden 2001
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Eden (2001)
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Israel, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect obsessed with the Bauhaus style. With their friends, they form a group, which discusses the future Israeli State. A loose adaptation of Arthur Miller's novel "Homely Girl, A Life".
Plot:
conflict, israeli, israeli palestinian conflict, sex, world war two, businessman, rapist, architect, family relations, arab, utopia, father daughter relationship, bomb, historical event, letter, immigration, british army, zionism, jail, bomber, settler, husband wife relationship, land, bookstore, affair ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
palestine, israel, tel aviv israel, american
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Most similar movies to Eden
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, israeli, world war two, war, love and romance, husband wife relationship and female nudity mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Eden: Kedma (2002), Kippur (2000), Judith (1966), Lemon Tree (2008), Divine Intervention (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
818
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Israel, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, sad, gloomy ...
Plot:
military, immigrant, survival, tragic love, culture clash, escapades, against humanity, wartime life, hopes, political unrest, state affairs, society ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
rescue, soldier, military life, military, life is a bitch, danger, battle zone, realism, israeli, conflict, sex scene, israeli army ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, syria, iraq ...
Similarity:
78%
487
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Israel, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, conflict, british empire, israeli, israeli palestinian conflict, world war, girl, soldier, anti hero, injustice, religions or cults ...
Time:
year 1966, 1940s
Place:
palestine, israel, syria
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defense minister and his wife move next door; the Secret Service orders the trees removed for security. The stoic Salma seeks ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, politics, injustice, widow, occupation, reconciliation, rules and policies, hopes, life is a bitch, society, legal ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, jerusalem, persia ...
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Comedy
Country: France, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, meditative, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
culture clash, lovers apart, politics, hopes, lovers reunited, danger, society, couples, israeli, arab, conflict, hospital ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, jerusalem, argentina ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lovers, extramarital affair, coercion, conflict, family feud, marriage, divorce, israeli, dysfunctional family, synagogue, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.
Style:
talky, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family relations, mother son relationship, family life, self discovery, love triangle, death in the family, parents and children, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
ireland, texas, austin texas, europe, france
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style:
period piece, sentimental, touching, realistic, retro ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, countryside, friendship, love, farm, working class, wartime life, war, woman, wine, women, young woman ...
Time:
1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, bristol ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of ...
Style:
touching, sincere, depressing, sad, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
military, soldier, redemption, honest, character study, bereavement, human nature, officer, jihad, relationships, wartime, friendship ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
iraq, bosnia, usa, california
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Luxembourg, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how ...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, intense, thought provoking, comedy drama
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, imperialism, injustice, life philosophy, love and romance, military, society, politics, culture clash, soldier, satire, israeli army ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
palestine, israel, middle east
Similarity:
43%
538
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
fall in love, unlikely couple, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, wartime life, unfulfilled love, friendship, unfulfillment, dogma, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, paris france, europe, germany ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
israeli, gulf war, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, death in the family, siblings relations, family life, jewish family, brother brother relationship, divorce, death of brother ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. She soon ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, politics, state affairs, social differences, love affair, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, discrimination, political unrest, israeli, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, persia, new york ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Robert Ross lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena, who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
world war one, great war, matriarchy, male nudity, voice over narration, male pubic hair, father son relationship, soldier, sex, death, horse, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
pre world war one
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, society, eviction, culture clash, unfulfillment, politics, sibling relationship, siblings, estrangement, funeral, forgery, last will and testament ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, germany, palestine, france
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
friendship, racial discrimination, desert, ethnic, female pubic hair, immigrant, settler, social differences, culture clash, teenage life, teenage love, society ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
Style:
black and white
Plot:
world war two, black, josef stalin, communism, hooker, criminal, militia, shooting, communist, duke, tragic event, bombing ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1945
Place:
serbia, balkan, former yugoslavia, ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style:
political, insightful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, forbidden love, captivity, female nudity, nazi, older man younger woman relationship, desire, ghetto, holocaust survivor, nude girl, israeli ...
Time:
1940s, year 1985
Place:
eastern europe, israel, europe, poland, holland ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Germany, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Style:
philosophical, realistic, melancholic, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
post war germany, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, husband wife relationship, adultery, horny wife, infidelity, love hate relationship, world war two, love triangle, cheating on husband ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, year 1945, year 2019, year 1942 ...
Place:
hamburg germany, alps, london, northern germany
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
To escape the civil war between Christians and Muslims, a Lebanese family moves from the countryside to Beirut, only to find themselves caught in an equally dangerous situation
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, serious
Plot:
survival, terrorist, soldier, missing person, tragic event, civil war, politics, christian, moral dilemma, fall in love, lebanese civil war, mobster ...
Time:
year 1975, year 1990
Place:
lebanon, israel, beirut lebanon
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
world war two, interfaith relationship, friends, forbidden love, friendship, fall in love, father daughter relationship, couples, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, social differences ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
jerusalem, middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
33%
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:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Style:
political thriller, political, independent film, contemplative, biting ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, espionage, holocaust, politics, satire, chess, world war, radio station, book, guilt, propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
germany, israel, new york, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style:
road movie, sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
world war two, train, french resistance, love, world war, railway, occupied france, refugee, unhappy ending, judaism, wartime, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. They organize a rescue operation against the prison. ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
israeli, world war two, arab, prison, soldier, rescue mission, war, heroes, military, danger, confined, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
israel, syria, middle east
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, missing person, holocaust, occupation, wartime life, against humanity, haunted by the past, family disapproval, children in wartime, boy, family secret, jewish family ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, 1940s, 50s
Place:
europe, israel, paris france, france
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Style:
touching, romantic, sincere, uplifting, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
world war two, german occupation, writers, marriage proposal, letter, friendship, fiance fiancee relationship, nazi occupation, german soldier, strong female character, female writer, unwed mother ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1941, year 1946
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, forbidden love, love, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, farm, male female relationship, post war, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, italy
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, romantic drama
Plot:
world war two, german officer, nazi occupation, french resistance, german soldier, german occupation, nazi, french girl, female protagonist, forbidden love, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, interracial romance, hospital, death, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 1936, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, seattle ...
Similarity:
29%
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