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Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
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Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
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, thought provoking, uplifting, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, contemplative
Plot: islam, religious differences, peaceful mission, village, society, disagreement, strong female character, religion, christianity, religious conflict, religious, civil war, sex, women, destiny, chaos, human rights, gender, ethnicity, women of color, lebanese civil war, muslim, friendship, friends, village life ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: lebanon, middle east

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about society, hopes, social relations, friendship, friends, family relations and culture clash mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Where Do We Go Now?: Caramel (2007), 18 Days (2011), The Source (2011), Brother White (2012), Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Caramel (2007)
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, touching, humorous, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: beauty salon, sexual attraction, lesbian, friendship, self discovery, actress, wedding, police officer, love and romance, workplace, couples, gender ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: middle east, lebanon, israel, beirut lebanon, new jersey
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18 Days (2011)
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, touching, thought provoking, realistic, sad ...
Plot: revolution, rebellion, idealism, society, state affairs, political unrest, chaos, life is a bitch, hopes, nursing, rally, chaos and mayhem
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, africa, middle east
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The Source (2011)
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, feminist film ...
Plot: sexism, village life, muslim woman, battle of the sexes, rebellion, against the rules, desert, ultimatum, power relations, machismo, social relations, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, north africa
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Brother White (2012)
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, human spirit, clergy, hopes, save the day, society, fish out of water, social relations, religions or cults, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, atlanta georgia
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Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, parents and children, dysfunctional family, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, hopes, family problems, society, youth, teenage life, family relations, high school life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france
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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, assassination attempt, switching roles, culture clash, disorder, society, fall in love, parents and children, fake identity, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, egypt, middle east
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The Single Moms Club (2014)
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, racial stereotype, family relations, support group, social differences, parents and children, friends, society, friendship, women, mental illness, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Screen Door Jesus (2003)
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, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: society, social relations, small town, friendship, interracial relations, small town life, human nature, religions or cults, bittersweet, religion, preacher, miraculous event ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Mickybo and Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland
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, touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: youth, friendship, kids in trouble, mischievous children, coming of age, obsession, society, political unrest, boy, friends, boyhood, human rights ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe, belfast
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The Syrian Bride (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
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, sentimental, emotional, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot: wedding, arranged marriage, politics, occupation, ethnic, culture clash, human spirit, love and romance, nationalism, reconciliation, conservative, family feud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: syria, israel, middle east
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Mind the Gap (2007)
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, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, social differences, starting over, police, fish out of water, culture clash, society, hopes, family life, officers and cadets, academy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sweden, eastern europe
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The Mass Is Ended (1985)
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: realistic, semi serious, clever, sincere, humorous
Plot: church, religions or cults, social relations, dark humor, family problems, solace, innocence lost, society, clergy, idealism, village life, culture clash ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy
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Late Bloomers (2006)
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, self fulfillment, dream come true, self discovery, gender, feminism, follow your dream, elderly, best friends, hopes, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, europe
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The Dream Kids (2013)
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: rivalry, friendship, sport, teenage life, follow your dream, ambition, hopes, youth, social relations, lifestyle, athlete's life, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style: feel good, uplifting, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friends, follow your dream, ambition, hopes, lifestyle, family relations, underdog, prom ...
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The Priest's Children (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, tragicomedy, biting
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Duration: 102 min.
Story: Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, atmospheric, touching, semi serious ...
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Paris of the North (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, contemplative
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The Kite (2003)
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: realistic, touching, serious
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Crazy Like a Fox (2004)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real ...
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James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003)
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Looking for Miguel (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia
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Story: A wealthy Columbian politician blinded by his own privilege is forced to walk a mile in the shoes of the people he despises most after falling victim to a violent attack and subsequently losing his memory. Miguel was a man of fine stock, a ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, bleak ...
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Place: latin america, colombia
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Vizontele (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story takes place in a small town (called Hakkari) in Turkey at the beginning of the 70's. The time has come to bring technology into that small town. The first Television (or called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: culture clash, family relations, television, traditional versus modern, life changing experience, social relations, society, lifestyle, mayor, small town, radio, religion ...
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, realistic, semi serious
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The Perfect Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Style: melancholic, road movie, stylized, light, talky ...
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Flowers from Another World (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Audience: date night
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Time: 90s
Place: spain, europe
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18%
Questione di cuore (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
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18%
At Five in the Afternoon (2003)
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Country: Iran, France
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Style: thought provoking, serious, bleak, realistic, touching ...
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Night Bus (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching, talky ...
Plot: bus, travel, on the road, social differences, human nature, society, working class, night, double decker bus, one location, public transport, urban
Time: 21st century
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