Movies like Mr. Gullible

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Mr. Gullible (1970)
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Mr. Gullible (1970)
Original name: آقای هالو
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.
Style: ambiguous ending, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: love, village, prostitute, love triangle, seduction, mistress, sad ending, job, broken heart, loss of innocence, male female relationship, hillbilly, poetry, emotional abuse, redemption, remorse, simpleton, ends with a wedding, matchmaking, same actor playing two characters simultaneously on screen, innocence lost, dual role, ex prostitute, scam, depravity ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out islamic, realistic, serious and contemplative films with plots about persian, iranian, husband wife relationship, love, poverty, society and islam mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Mr. Gullible: The Tenants (1987), The Cow (1969), Mum's Guest (2004), The Cycle (1977), Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Tenants (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.
Plot: iranian, capitalism, anti fascism, sibling relationship, collaboration, con men, irony, apartment building, marital problem, landlord, construction worker, government official ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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95%
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The Cow (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
Style: art house, depressing, islamic, controversial, contemplative ...
Plot: iranian, persian culture, illness, arab, village, village life, countryside, down on your luck, mentally unstable, society, life is a bitch, losing-it hero ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place: iran, persia, asia, middle east
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86%
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Mum's Guest (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources.
Style: islamic, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: persian culture, iranian, medical student, hospital, guest, poverty, neighborhood, persian
Place: persia, iran
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80%
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The Cycle (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
Style: banned
Plot: iranian, poverty, nurse, city, father, blood, father son relationship, treatment, illness, medical clinic, controversy, urban setting ...
Place: persia, iran, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
Style: islamic
Plot: mistress, impersonation, drug addiction, drunkenness, debt, iranian, bromance, extramarital affair, persian, car damage
Place: persia, iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Hamoun (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Style: existential, spiritual, cult classic, islamic, psychological ...
Plot: iranian, crumbling marriage, existentialism, arab, dull life, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, starting over, introspection, couple relations, society ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, asia
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64%
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The Actor (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems ...
Plot: actor, poverty, husband wife relationship, marriage, childlessness, gypsy, filmmaking, marital problem, hysteria, deafness, deaf mute, traffic jam ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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58%
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Sara (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth ...
Plot: girl, iranian, surgical operation, housewife, male female relationship, wedding dress, scandal, blackmail, bully, loan, women's rights, wealth ...
Place: iran, persia, tehran iran
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55%
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Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This film was made in Iran. The protagonist looks almost like Charlie Chaplain. He is given a chance to make films for the emperor. There are many scenes of people running on and off of movie screens, and in and out of old kinetiscope projectors. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, witty ...
Plot: filmmaking, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, politics, filmmaker, iranian, starlet, cinematographer, satire, harem, surrealism, guillotine ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, turn of the century
Place: iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
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53%
A Moment of Innocence (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.
Style: independent film, poignant, islamic, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot: muslim, iranian, feminist, actor, winter, marriage proposal, autobiography, police officer, filmmaking, redemption, politics, dealing with death ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
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50%
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Mother (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old ...
Style: spiritual, islamic, interesting
Plot: iranian, persian culture, mother, carpenter, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, brother brother conflict, persian
Place: persia, iran, middle east, tehran iran
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49%
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The Lizard (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Reza is a petty thief who escapes jail by posing as a mullah. When he has to stay in disguise longer than he expected, he accidentally becomes the revered leader of a small-town mosque, bringing people flooding in with his on the hoof sermons ...
Style: serious, rough, humorous, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: prison escape, prison, village, criminal heroes, hidden identity, fugitives, society, pretense, religions or cults, warden, small town life, iranian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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46%
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Tambourine (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, islamic ...
Plot: rich and poor, culture clash, friendship, couples, family relations, disorder, society, nothing goes right, parents and children, farce, satellite, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Blue-Veiled (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old ...
Plot: missing father, factory owner, worker, dysfunctional family, islam, son in law, factory, poverty, older man younger woman relationship, iranian, manager, persian ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Invitation (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: a film about how attitude dissimilar family against abortion .....
Style: islamic
Plot: abortion clinic, abortion, unplanned pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, wife abuse, koran, pro choice, sin, polygamy, religion, city, mistress ...
Place: persia, iran, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Hajji Washington (1983)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first Iranian (Persian) ambassador to the United States of America. After he opens the embassy, he is unable to invite statesmen to visit him. Haji fires the embassy staff due to ...
Plot: ambassador, revisionist history, president, usa president, alternate history, decapitation, caravan, embassy, cowboy, u.s. president, betrayal, corruption ...
Place: washington d.c., persia, iran, usa
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41%
The Pear Tree (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
Style: spiritual, islamic, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: iranian, family relations, teenage love, love and romance, coming of age, politics, fall in love, youth, artists and showbiz, writer's life, innocence lost, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, 1940s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Travellers (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and ...
Style: realistic, serious, beautiful
Plot: iranian, wedding, newlywed, mirror, death, female protagonist, family relations, couples, dealing with death, ghost, against the rules, destiny ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The film is set around three protagonists. Two run a gas station on the outskirts of town, on a road that gets next to no traffic anymore, and so they get next to no customers. They live and work out of a decrepit van on site, its windows covered in ...
Style: sincere, atmospheric, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: iranian, love, partner, friends, friendship, realism, workplace, talking to the dead, postman, death, dog, lie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could ...
Style: touching, stylized, talky, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: feminism, culture clash, against the odds, injustice, feminist, life is a bitch, society, rebelliousness, women, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, bicycle ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Here Without Me (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.
Style: disturbing, sentimental, melancholic, islamic
Plot: iranian, adaptation, love, dream, cinema, poverty, worker, money, son, delusion, renaissance, husband wife relationship ...
Place: persia, iran, middle east, tehran iran, tehran
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The School We Went To (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Story: Directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
Style: banned
Plot: controversy, student, repression, student protest, boys' school, school, school play, censorship
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Brick and the Mirror (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on ...
Plot: iranian, cafe, taxi, class society, child abandonment, class struggle, poor, taxi driver, beggar, hijab, poverty, persian ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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37%
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The Peddler (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second ...
Style: anthology
Plot: poverty, iranian, old age, merchant, cripple, caretaker, insanity, abandoned baby, director, handicapped, persian
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Red Carpet (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An Iranian man with high hopes of becoming a professional actor arrives in Can,France to meet Spielberg but his expectations and the reality are not so much alike.
Plot: muslim, sexism, theft, persian, film festival
Place: iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Captain Khorshid (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Captain Khorshid is a sailor who although only having one hand, manages to sail his little boat. In his village, due to its hot climate and hard living conditions, dangerous criminals are sent into exile. They want to escape from the area, so they ...
Plot: iranian, smuggling, husband wife relationship, pistol, porter, criminal, exile, boat, murder, wife, smoking, merchant ...
Place: persia, iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Offside (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Since women are banned from soccer matches, Iranian females masquerade as males so they can slip into Tehran's stadium to see the game between Iran and Bahrain. The ones who are caught and arrested are taken to a holding area and guarded by ...
Style: humorous, political, disturbing, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot: soccer, fighting the system, football, segregation, human spirit, gender disguise, politics, injustice, rebelliousness, rebellion, feminist, women ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The River's End (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young man leaves his birthplace, Isfahan, to come to capital city ,Tehran, to forgot his childhood memories. He is the storyteller and he tarts revealing his dreams which have been started a few months after the death of his father. In these ...
Plot: swimming, husband wife relationship, boy, father son relationship, disturbed individual, dead father, iranian, butcher, river, persian
Place: iran, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Curse (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, alcoholism, domestic abuse, unfaithfulness, murderer, island life, wife abuse, aborigine, house, scandal, oil well, wife murders husband ...
Time: 70s
Place: persia, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Through the Olive Trees (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is ...
Style: contemplative, avant garde, independent film, art house, social ...
Plot: filmmaking, amor, redemption, existentialism, farming, muslim, iranian, entertainment, hipster, couples, unfulfillment, actor's life ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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