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The Begger (1983)
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Original name: المتسول
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hassanein is a poor illiterate man who leaves his village and moves to the city to live with his maternal uncle and his family. However, he fails to keep a job and has no choice but to return to his hometown, and while he is sleeping in a mosque, a strange man named Khalil takes him to a shelter where there is food and drink for the homeless. Hassanein discovers that he is staying with a gang that forces poor people to beg in the streets after they are maimed for life. As the gang members try to cut off Hassanein's leg, their boss Joma uses him to pretend that he is a blind beggar who can collect more money. He then meets Aida who thinks he is an investor and soon fall in love with each other. How will Hassanein get out of this mess without putting himself in danger from the gang's wrath?
Plot:
arab, corruption, begging, survival, street life, unemployment, social satire, fight, children, money, wedding, gang, hotel, restaurant, undercover, blind man, poverty, bus, revolt, bribery, police station, uncle, poor family, illiteracy, donkey ...
Place:
cairo egypt
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, crime drama, captivating and satirical films with plots about corruption, urban, survival, street life, moral ambiguity, satire and revenge mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Begger: Terrorism and Kebab (1992), Ala bab el wazir (1982), Esabat Hamada Wa Toto (1982) (1982), Inner City Rats (2019), Shaaban Taht El-Sifr (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, class differences, bus, corruption, husband wife relationship, little boy, justice, prostitution, children, hostage ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
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, nightclub, cruelty, materialism, debt, medical student, class differences, poverty, skull, countryside ...
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76%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Egypt
Story:
In the wake of the privatization of the Egyptian tourism industry, a couple suddenly find themselves from rags to riches...and then back again to rags.
Style:
humorous, lighthearted, slapstick, cynical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
con artists, social commentary, class struggle, city life, crime spree, heist, bank robbery, satire, moral ambiguity, anti hero, criminal, poverty ...
Place:
cairo egypt
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61%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Black market gun deals, petty scams, convenience store stick-ups, and drug-fueled parties reveal glimpses into the lives of young misfits and low level criminals across New York City.
Style:
dark comedy, crime drama, rough, humorous, tension ...
Plot:
street life, urban, street crime, realism, streetwise, urban decay, scam, survival, poverty, black market, violence, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Shaaban Taht El-Sifr
Style:
comedy drama, heartfelt
Plot:
arab, inheritance, greed, identity, mistaken identity, family conflict, deception, power struggle, impostor, small town life, social class, identity crisis ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The film revolves around an engineer working for an oil company in Dubai. He had to return to Egypt after twenty years. He was surprised that the Israeli Embassy was next to his apartment and was trying hard to sell the apartment at first.
Style:
captivating, satirical, psychological, thrilling
Plot:
apartment building, satire, arab, embassy, social problems, political unrest, political activism, social issues, israeli, political satire, social commentary, nationalism ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
cairo egypt, palestine, middle east, dubai
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45%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The events revolve around Akram, who receives an invitation to attend a masquerade party. He decides to wear police uniforms, which causes him to suffer a crisis as a police officer, while looking for a particular file.
Style:
thrilling, satirical, psychological, captivating, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
friendship, satire, costume party, mistaken identity, escapades, police investigation, sleuth, amateur sleuth, career, fighting crime, battles, police ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Story:
A small-time idol frame seller, hitches a robbery for quick money and this swirls into a big-time money hunt changing his life and others life forever and it's a divine decision which exemplifies the fact "what goes around comes ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, twist ending, suspense ...
Plot:
karma, moral dilemma, life changing, heist, fate, greed, robbery, redemption, social commentary, street life, small town, poverty ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a top secret mission to bring down a dangerous drug lord, the police recruit Hazaloum to impersonate his right hand man Adham after he is killed.
Style:
crime drama, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
police, arab, covert operation, secret mission, danger, undercover, workplace situations, police detective, detective inspector, homicide detective, police officer, workplace ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After 3 years have passed since the end of the events of the first part, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes ...
Style:
crime drama, psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
brothers, family problems, criminal, relationship problems, family life, brother brother relationship, crime boss, satire, marital problem, danger, underworld, organized crime ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two street punks, Carlos and Pedro, find themselves out of their depth on the mean streets of Santiago de Chile. As they are trying to purchase some coke for a local psychopath Yao, they are jumped by thieves who head off with his money. After Yao ...
Style:
intense, bleak, tense, independent film, fast paced ...
Plot:
poverty, street life, drug trade, urban, social commentary, violence, desperation, crime spree, urban decay, realism, gang, survival ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
santiago chile, chile, south america
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mahmoud Shuaib is a very wealthy man with two sons. He has Alzheimer's disease, which is starting to affect the way he spends his wealth. His two sons are worried that they may end up with nothing to inherit if their father keep this up, and ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, satirical, semi serious, thrilling ...
Plot:
arab, alzheimer's disease, inheritance, father, money problems, father son relationship, satire, family relations, family problems, illness, money, terminal illness ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An Egyptian-American returns to his homeland after twenty years abroad, filled with nostalgia and high hopes. But as he reconnects with his roots, he finds himself caught between two worlds—and begins to experience the reality of a country he ...
Style:
ironic, entertaining, light, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
arab, culture clash, cultural difference, irony, social relations, losing-it hero, humour, social problems, social differences, catholic, nostalgia, self discovery ...
Place:
cairo egypt, egypt
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A small-time drug-dealer gets into big trouble when a corrupt East London cop tries to steal a consignment meant for Welsh-Jamaican Yardies.
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, crime thriller, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drug dealing, corruption, police corruption, violence, corrupt cop, fight, drug dealer, death, murder, friendship, drug, gang ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
34%
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, multicultural ...
Plot:
homosexuality, politics, gender, political corruption, muslim, terrorist, prostitute, brother sister relationship, religions or cults, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples ...
Place:
cairo egypt, egypt, africa, middle east
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
poliziottesco, crime drama, tense, period piece, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
organized crime, violence, underworld, gang, drug traffic, prostitute, corruption, betrayal, moral ambiguity, informant, street life, urban ...
Time:
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Place:
milan italy
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
28 years ago, Liang gives birth to a boy named "Little Bean Jelly" in prison. When the kid turns one, the mother and son lose contact. Years later, Green Dragon Group's henchman "Ghost" is ambushed during a mission and ...
Style:
crime thriller, crime drama, emotional, dramatic, dark ...
Plot:
prison, revenge, mother son relationship, second chance, redemption, family drama, reconciliation, moral ambiguity, forgiveness, motherhood, trauma, identity ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Uganda
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, dark, tension, tense, grim ...
Plot:
gang, street life, betrayal by friend, betrayal, poverty, shooting, confrontation, desperation, urban, survival, realism, criminal underworld ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The film revolves around Saeed AL-Masri (Adel Imam), one of the pilots of the October War who lost his eye-sight after his plane crashed during the war. Saeed AL-Masri is forced to live in a home for disabled people that is managed by a very ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorist attack, love, war hero, blind man, soldier, blindness, blind character, terrorist plot, military officer, counter terrorism, mission, war on terror ...
Time:
year 1973
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the outskirts and back-alleys of Kuala Lumpur, several individuals with money problems struggle to get their lives straight, find their paths unexpectedly intersecting - with fatal results.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
corrupt cop, police corruption, money, corruption, needing money, handgun, police partner, police, money problems, police officer, urban, class conflict ...
Place:
malaysia
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story:
A trans sex worker in the Spanish barrio finds herself in an unwanted love triangle with a notorious gang leader while two drug organizations battle for supremacy suddenly finds herself tangled in a world of chaos and deceit.
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, tense, crime thriller, dark ...
Plot:
lgbt, violence, urban, sex worker, survival, identity, love triangle, gang leader, power struggle, street life, deception, organized crime ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A troubled relationship with his younger half-brother and stepfather compels Chulbul Pandey to become a corrupt but fearless cop whose life changes when he locks horns with a corrupt political leader.
Style:
masala, serious, exciting, rough, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fall in love, fight, police corruption, marriage proposal, corrupt officer, tough heroes, fighting crime, love affair, dishonesty, favoritism among siblings, law enforcement, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
El-Limby lives in a decrepit neighborhood with his mother Faransa and he develops feelings for his neighbor. However, her father objects to their marriage, and El-Limby's mother encourages him to find a job to provide for his family-to-be.
Style:
feel good, satirical, semi serious, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
arab, job seeking, wedding planning, money, mother son relationship, unemployment, working class, social problems, money problems, satire, workplace, romantic relationship ...
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal
Style:
crime drama, tense, melancholic, suspenseful, ambiguous ending
Plot:
betrayal, kidnapping, friendship, survival, manipulation, street kid, street crime, violence, prison, desperation, power struggle, loss of innocence ...
Place:
mexico, tijuana mexico
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An ex-soldier turned deliveryman is dragged into a local kingpin's bumbling gang to pull off a daring heist in an infamous South African township.
Style:
captivating, satirical, tense, thrilling, twisted ...
Plot:
heist, gang, satire, criminal, soldier, bandit, robbery, thief, theft, burglar, escapades, heist gone wrong ...
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A down on his luck street magician and his con artist ex-wife reunite to swindle an accounting firm.
Style:
captivating, twisted, fast paced
Audience:
adult
Plot:
con artists, heist, con game, accounting, swindle, con man, money, deception, robbery, ex husband ex wife relationship, ex husband, fraud ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of ...
Style:
detective, black comedy, fast, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
culture clash, fish out of water, car chase, violence, assassin, gunfight, kidnapping, chase, gangster, buddy cop, police investigation, reluctant partners ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
chicago, london, england, scotland, big ben london ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.
Style:
crime drama, emotional, suspense, neorealism, sad
Plot:
addiction, arab, brotherhood, drug trade, family conflict, deception, greed, moral corruption, family tragedy, drug lord, ethical dilemma, temptation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
cairo egypt, middle east, egypt
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
High school girl, green was the leader of a female gang fight galore, of losing knowing since I was a kid, but it was unrelated to dominate the Academy as "Oniyakko-kai". Led by Ranko, Oniyakko-kai had to mediation as a "toy" to ...
Style:
satirical, thrilling, tense, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, sexploitation, gang, girl gang, female nudity, high school student, fight scenes, japanese schoolgirl, schoolgirl, battles, satire, school ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
28%
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