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Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
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Original name: وهلأ لوين؟
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, Qatar
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
On a remote, isolated, unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country, the women in the village learn of this fact and try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark, sabotaging the village radio, then destroying the village TV.
Style:
touching, sincere, uplifting, humorous, poignant, islamic, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, semi serious ...
Plot:
religious differences, muslim, arab, religion, peaceful mission, society, disagreement, strong female character, religious, christianity, women of color, civil war, deception, death of son, dance, sex, women, feminism, destiny, lsd, tourism, feminist, revolution, chaos, human rights ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
lebanon, middle east, persia, maghreb
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Most similar movies to Where Do We Go Now?
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and sincere films with plots about society, family relations, friendship, strong female presence, arab, muslim and social relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Where Do We Go Now?: Caramel (2007), The Syrian Bride (2004), The Kite (2003), 18 Days (2011), The Source (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sweet, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
beauty salon, arab, sexual attraction, lesbian, friendship, lesbian subtext, wedding, actress, self discovery, police officer, gender, destiny ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, lebanon, persia, maghreb, beirut lebanon ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, islamic ...
Plot:
wedding, politics, occupation, ethnic, border, hijab, wedding ceremony, arranged marriage, nationalism, culture clash, love and romance, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
middle east, syria, israel, palestine
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800
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, introspection, society, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, youth, couples, fall in love, political unrest, culture clash, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
10 Film makers made 10 Separate stories about the "25January " revolution in Egypt and the Egyptian people in the revolution and the protests against the previous President Hosni Mubarak and the departure of President Hosni Mubarak and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, islamic, sad ...
Plot:
revolution, idealism, life is a bitch, society, hopes, political unrest, state affairs, chaos, arab, ptsd, egyptian revolution, rally ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
egypt, africa, middle east
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41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, stylized, feel good, political ...
Plot:
village life, sexism, marital rape, desert, sexual relations, strike, against the rules, battle of the sexes, rebellion, ultimatum, couples, social relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, north africa
Similarity:
40%
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, parents and children, fall in love, fake identity, arab ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
egypt, africa, middle east
Similarity:
40%
22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight ...
Style:
stylized, talky, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
childhood, islam, bicycle, gender, children, coming of age, muslim girl, hijab, feminist, dream, friendship, troublemaker ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
saudi arabia, middle east, maghreb, iran, japan
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Synopsis James White (White) is one of dozens of associate pastors at a mega church in Southern California under the tutelage of television evangelist Johnny Kingman (Wise). He always longed to have his own church and jumps at the opportunity to ...
Style:
uplifting, semi serious, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
christian, church, pastor, society, human spirit, save the day, clergy, hopes, fish out of water, social relations, religions or cults, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 74 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, serious ...
Plot:
feminism, culture clash, against the odds, injustice, feminist, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, society, women, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, bicycle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, japan, paris france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic, islamic ...
Plot:
funeral, family relations, family problems, life turned upside down, family gatherings, family life, death in the family, disorder, parents and children, muslim, housekeeper, illegitimate child ...
Place:
morocco, tangier morocco, middle east
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, humorous, not serious, touching ...
Plot:
store, friendship, dream come true, self fulfillment, self discovery, best friend, feminism, hopes, follow your dream, elderly, gender, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
loss of virginity, teenage sexuality, female nudity, third world, love, coming of age, bittersweet, best friend, nudity, family relations, friends, social relations ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tunisia, africa, middle east, north africa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Comedy - This entry in director Jean-Claude La Marre's Pastor Jones series sees the beleaguered clergyman coping with a gap in the church budget. When he can't make a payment on one of the church's loans, the pastor fears he may have ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot:
friendship, ambition, music band, rescue, clergy, society, family relations, hopes, family problems, contests and competitions, collision, church ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
survival, injustice, political unrest, danger, hidden identity, family relations, religions or cults, human nature, dishonesty, feminism, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, afghanistan
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Philippines
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for Filipino guest workers Manuel and Dado.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, surreal ...
Plot:
friendship, destiny, self discovery, against the odds, obsessive quest, on the road, working class, ambition, escapades, hopes, foreigner, factory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, taipei
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Style:
melancholic, road movie, stylized, talky, light ...
Plot:
adultery, dominant woman, runaway, love affair, dishonesty, couples, fall in love, sex, bittersweet, farm, poverty, wedding ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brazil, northeast brazil, latin america
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, friendship, mischievous children, boy, coming of age, political unrest, society, obsession, boyhood, friends, little boy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
Similarity:
37%
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:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, islamic ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, rich and poor, friendship, culture clash, couples, disorder, family relations, society, parents and children, farce, satellite, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
single parent, single mother, support group, racial stereotype, social differences, parents and children, family relations, friendship, friends, society, women, sisterhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
lesbian, dysfunctional family, church, parents and children, physical appearance, couples, religions or cults, family problems, society, couple relations, gays and lesbians, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain ...
Style:
philosophical, thinking, controversial, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
marital abuse, orthodox jew, religion, judaism, israeli, arranged marriage, arab, feminism, women, couples, strong female presence, family relations ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
israel, middle east, persia, palestine, jerusalem
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco, Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
Style:
sincere, stylized, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
coup d'etat, women, coping, feminist, social differences, state affairs, prostitute, rich and poor, feminism, sex crime, female warrior, propaganda ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
iran, middle east, tehran iran, persia
Similarity:
36%
719
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. The character's lives overlap and collide. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
couple relations, family relations, family problems, immigrant, social relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, social differences, working class, culture clash, strong female lead ...
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A vision of Jesus sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper's front porch sparks misadventures as the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon and the townsfolk start to take sides. As more people flock to the door, some for guidance, ...
Style:
humorous, sincere, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
society, social relations, bittersweet, small town life, small town, interracial relations, friendship, human nature, religions or cults, religion, preacher, escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Onetime campus radical Nanni Moretti renounces his past to become a priest. Returning to his home village, Moretti is appalled at the lack of religious reverence amongst the townsfolk. Unable to communicate with any of his old friends, who've ...
Style:
spiritual, cult classic, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
priest, circus, spirit, love letter, church, religions or cults, social relations, family problems, solace, dark humor, society, clergy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two girls of different background, one a immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl that needs to get out of her fathers shadow both apply to the police academy were they become close friends.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
starting over, lifestyle, friendship, social differences, society, fish out of water, culture clash, officers and cadets, academy, family life, hopes, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
36%
5K
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.
Style:
sincere, touching, uplifting, serious, sad ...
Plot:
muslim, aids, terminal illness, human spirit, fighting illness, changing lives, support group, life is a bitch, treatment, discrimination, social problems, dignity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east
Similarity:
36%
9K
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Style:
melancholic, light, intense, art house, sincere ...
Plot:
relationships, passenger, character study, sister sister relationship, car, storytelling, solitude, driver, society, life is a bitch, sibling relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran, tehran iran ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, follow your dream, ambition, social relations, hopes, youth, boarding school, athlete's life, lifestyle, friends, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
Style:
semi serious, stylized, humorous, realistic, sad
Plot:
youth, social differences, dishonesty, teachers and students, discrimination, hidden identity, religions or cults, family problems, society, disorder, death in the family, arab ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, egypt
Similarity:
36%
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