Movies like The Island 2007

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The Island (2007)
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The Island (2007)
Original name: الجزيرة
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A drug dealing, secretive, and brutal clan control a tightknit community in Upper Egypt. The movie tracks the rise of the Mansour Hafny (Ahmed El-Sakka), the educated son of the clan’s leader, as he consolidates his power over the region. Mansour clashes with the police, enters a blood feud with a rival clan, but yearns for the daughter of his worst enemy. A police officer, Tarek (Mahmoud Abdel-Moghni), is posted to the region in order to stop Mansour, but discovers even deadlier secrets of corruption.
Style: islamic
Plot: arab, island, police, mobster, politics, community, gangster, drug, bandit, drugs
Place: egypt, middle east
Keyword: egyptian, arabic, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out islamic, independent film, suspense and disturbing films with plots about police, arab, politics, drug, muslim, revenge and police officer mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Island: Escaping Tel Aviv (2009), The Replacement (2009), The High (1985), Nasser 56 (1996), Karnak Cafe (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Escaping Tel Aviv (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 119 min.
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Place: egypt, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Treasure: Truth & Imagination (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Music
Country: Egypt
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, ...
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The Replacement (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two young brothers who are identical twins get separated from the orphanage. Faris is adopted by a police officer and his wife and later becomes a policeman, while Nabil is adopted by a belly dancer and spends his life living in poverty and becomes ...
Style: islamic
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The High (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 118 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 142 min.
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Style: black and white, political
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Karnak Cafe (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In one of their best roles ever, distinguished actors Nour Al Sherif and Souad Hosni star in this film depicting the unstable social and political life in Egypt during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film revolved around a group of university ...
Style: iconic
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Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, exciting, tense
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Style: thought provoking, emotional, touching, realistic, serious ...
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Duration: 115 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 85 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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