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Message to the Ruler (1998)
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Message to the Ruler (1998)
Original name: رسالة إلى الوالي
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Egypt
Story: In the year 1807, they city of Rashid is under attack by the British forces.
Plot: time travel, horse, treasure, police, cave, womanizer, sword, mental institution, elevator, wise man, british soldier, electric shock, psychiatric hospital, urination, antique, text messaging, message
Time: 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
Keyword: egyptian, arabic

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, semi serious, humorous and disturbing films with plots about time travel, wedding, family relations, psychiatric hospital, changing the past or future, arab and police mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Message to the Ruler: Ala bab el wazir (1982), The Five Days of Milan (1973), Hvem har bestemt? (1978), The Lost Digit (2017), Terrorism and Kebab (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ala bab el wazir (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Kamal is a university student who is in love with Nora the daughter of a ruthless businessman who rejects him because he is poor and thus plots to keep him away from her. With the help of his friends they try to solve his problem especially after ...
Plot: arab, widowed father, perjury, belly dancer, young wife, class differences, skull, goat, poverty, medical student, countryside, cruelty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Five Days of Milan (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: As Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrian's,a patriotic prisoner called Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: italian history, lgbt, sexual assault, female nudity, rape, execution, attempted rape, childbirth, bare breasts, blood, thief, widow ...
Time: 19th century
Place: milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Corridors of Time: The Visitors II (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing ...
Style: funny, semi serious, humorous
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, wizards and magicians, master and servant, time machine, dentist, golf, inquisition, demon, wedding, disorder, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: middle ages, 20th century, medieval times, 12th century, 90s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Hvem har bestemt? (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The anarchist Ottar is being locked up in a mental institution after a serious of tantrums that involves rage against the machine.
Plot: harassment, nudity, psychiatric hospital, police, mental institution, masturbation, paranoia, rebel, marxism, communism, anarchy, city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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The Lost Digit (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suburban every-man George Cassermeyer cuts his middle finger off in a carpentry accident. From then on the loss of his finger has a strange and profound effect on him. Lost in his own existential crisis over his finger his marriage, career, and even ...
Plot: time travel, accident, amputation, suburbs, finger
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Terrorism and Kebab (1992)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man named Ahmed tries unsuccessfully for days to go the the government building to complete the necessary paperwork to transfer his child to another school. Repeatedly he is unable to see the employee he needs to meet with. In a scuffle that ...
Style: sad
Plot: arab, war on terror, terrorism, bus, justice, husband wife relationship, corruption, little boy, hostage, family relations, abusive boss, radicalism ...
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68%
Hassan and Marcus (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When the lives of Mahmoud, a Muslim Sheikh (Omar Sharif) and Boulos, a Christian Theologian (Adel Imam) are threatened by religious extremists on both sides, the Egyptian government inducts them into a witness protection program that requires them ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: on the run, friendship, family relations, switching roles, assassination attempt, culture clash, disorder, society, fall in love, parents and children, fake identity, arab ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, africa, middle east
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66%
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Throg (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Believing he's destined for greatness, an unlikely hero named Throg (Dana Lee) embarks on a wild adventure filled with Greek gods, Arthurian knights, certified loonies, nasty harpies, talking pigs, garbage collectors and one twisted forest ...
Style: slapstick, dark comedy, slapstick comedy
Plot: time travel, excalibur, surrealism, sword and sorcery
Time: medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji". There is a blinding flash of light and he finds himself mysteriously time-slipped into the ...
Style: exciting, funny, captivating, entertaining, humorous
Plot: time travel, mother son relationship, son, sent to the past, past, empress, woman, emperor, mother and son, ambitious woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.8
 162
The Wrestler (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Plot: psychiatric hospital, cellist, senior citizen, carriage, wrestler, train station, old age, mental institution, escape, retirement home, strongman, old couple ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Yacoubian Building (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sad ...
Plot: homosexuality, muslim, prostitute, brother sister relationship, religions or cults, couple relations, gender, politics, midlife crisis, political corruption, couples, gays and lesbians ...
Place: cairo egypt, africa, middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
2000 Years Later (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A satirical film on fads in the US. A TV host on a late night show tries to convince his viewers that they should return to Rome and Roman ways.
Style: artsy, independent film
Plot: time travel, satire, messenger, ancient rome, hollywood
Time: year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Tragic Burlesque (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the ...
Style: offbeat, black comedy
Plot: bosnian war, bride and groom, psychiatric patient, psychiatric hospital, male female relationship, mental institution, love, doctor, husband wife relationship, farce, wedding, marriage ...
Place: balkan, belgrade, serbia, belgrade serbia
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54%
Sophie's World (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Sofie is an ordinary Norwegian girl. One day she recieves a video tape on which a certain Alberto Knox talks directly to her from ancient Greece. They then start to meet at different occasions and throughout the film, Alberto takes Sofie on an ...
Style: retro, thought provoking, contemplative, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: parallel universe, free thinking, choice, logic, wisdom, nerd, philosophy, leonardo da vinci, coming of age, youth, imaginary, mysterious character ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
1000 Congratulations (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min.
Story: About a man who wakes up one morning to discover that the day repeats, a carbon copy of the day before, trapping him in an inescapable vicious circle. This man has a dream to live for 100 years, however he is living for one day only and that day ...
Style: satirical, psychological, captivating, disturbing, cerebral ...
Plot: arab, family relations, wedding, time, time loop, time paradox, time warp, changing the past or future, wedding preparations and rituals, back in time, satire, wedding day ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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80 Hussars (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly ordinary men, have heard news of the uprising and wish to return to the homeland to defend the newly independent country. The Empire, on the other ...
Plot: revolution, patriotism, bravery, army, desertion, political oppression, group
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Three Kings (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous, thought provoking, funny
Plot: time travel, time loop, time traveler, society, religion, changing the past or future, social relations, time warp, time paradox, religious faith, religious, time jump ...
Place: paris france, france
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Day of the Idiots (1981)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In this non-story of the mentally and emotionally impaired inhabitants of a clinic for the insane, the medical profession along with humanity is distorted into a long, filmic exhibition of sado-masochism, urination, and ample nudity for its own ...
Style: weird
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Kamen Rider Super Den-O Trilogy: Episode Yellow - Treasure de End Pirates (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Tracking a mysterious man leaping through the night air of Tokyo, Ryotaro and the Imagins find themselves in November 2008, where the DenLiner is stolen by none other than Kaitou Daiki, Kamen Rider Diend! As Daiki tracks his past self, he faces off ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, semi serious
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Danish Experiment (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Qadry Al-Minyawi is a widowed husband and a father of four adult sons Mahmoud, Ibrahim, Abdulrahman and Hussien. When he is later appointed as the new minister of youth and sports, his old friend asks him to host his Danish sister-in-law Anita who ...
Plot: retiring, videotaping, pizza delivery boy, boxing, prank, minister, sex education, widower, belly dancing, nightclub, cultural difference, heart attack ...
Place: denmark, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Hello America (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
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Plot: freedom, federal bureau of investigation, police officer, cousin cousin relationship, translator, cultural difference, attic, fbi, brooklyn bridge, dog, lawyer, police ...
Place: alexandria egypt, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: psychological, satirical, disturbing, captivating
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Twice Upon a Yesterday (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain, France, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, funny, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: year 1998
Place: london, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Harvey (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, and ...
Style: offbeat, feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Bernard and the Genie (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
Style: christmas classics, semi serious, feel good, humorous, offbeat
Plot: genie, time travel, desire, xmas, holiday, fantasy life, wedding, disorder, family relations, couples, hopes, misfit ...
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Frau Venus und ihr Teufel (1967)
Genre: Musical, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hans Müller finds himself on a trip in Thüringen, accompanied by his loving female friend, Moritz. Hans doesn't understand much about trust, which constantly leads to problems between the two of them. During one of their fights, Lady Venus ...
Plot: time travel, horse, singer, knight, tournament, german history
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Last Train to Christmas (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: entertaining, satirical, captivating, semi serious, disturbing
Plot: christmas, time travel, train travel, time traveler, sent to the future, time jump, relationships, male female relationship, changing the past or future, satire, couple relations, alternate timeline ...
Time: year 1985, year 1955, year 2015, year 1995, year 1945 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Time of Her Life (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two ghosts, separated by time, who have roamed the grounds of a historic English mansion, searching for each other are brought together by Ally (LAURA PENNEYCARD), a photography student who is experiencing dreams she can't explain and Emmett ...
Style: independent film, period drama
Plot: ghost, time travel, love
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.4
 2K
Duckweed (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a son attempts to reconcile with his father, a series of fateful events allow him to experience the father’s life in the past.
Style: captivating, sincere, disturbing, satirical
Plot: father son relationship, sent to the past, time travel, time loop, changing the past or future, accident, time paradox, near death experience, family relations, dealing with death, parents and children, time traveler ...
Time: year 2017, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Sensual Man (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with ...
Style: sexy, erotic, hot
Plot: erotica, womanizer, peeping, sex scene, female nudity, nudity, urination
Place: italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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