Movies like Adrift on the Nile
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Adrift on the Nile (1971)
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Original name: ثرثرة فوق النيل
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
Style:
art house, philosophical, bleak, poignant, reflective, period piece, iconic, political drama, nostalgic
Plot:
arab, escapism, drug use, apathy, alienation, hedonism, moral ambiguity, literary, nightlife, urban, satire, introspection, adaptation, social realism, bohemian, boat, voyeur, politics, prostitution, girlfriend, brothel, actor, poverty, mother daughter relationship, destruction ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
middle east
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Most similar movies to Adrift on the Nile
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, bleak and existential films with plots about moral ambiguity, social realism, alienation, urban, character study, prostitution and poverty mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Adrift on the Nile: The Hookers (1967), Love and Anger (1969), Before Tonight is Over (1966), Karnak Cafe (1975), Goodbye Solidarity (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
Style:
realistic, period piece, psychological, intense, retro ...
Plot:
sex work, prostitution, sexuality, character study, women's issues, prostitute, exploitation, survival, taboo, branding iron, urban, social realism ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his ...
Style:
anthology, art house, thought provoking, political, experimental ...
Plot:
indifference, class struggle, alienation, innocence lost, political intrigue, revolution, moral ambiguity, frustration, satire, violence, urban decay, existentialism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, cuba
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a ...
Style:
experimental, intellectual, art house, reflective, poetic ...
Plot:
mythology, post war, literary, loss, adaptation, memory, anti fascist, minimalism, alienation, symbolism, mourning, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ancient greece, italy
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, realistic, poignant
Plot:
nightlife, frustration, alcoholism, nightclub, escape, slice of life, social realism, working class, alienation, regret, introspection, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, slovakia
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In one of their best roles ever, distinguished actors Nour Al Sherif and Souad Hosni star in this film depicting the unstable social and political life in Egypt during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film revolved around a group of university ...
Style:
dark, bleak, serious, historical drama, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
torture, police brutality, authoritarianism, political repression, oppression, imprisonment, social injustice, sacrifice, resistance, conscience, tragedy, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A story about the generation of 1968.
Style:
black comedy, art house, reflective, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
irony, satire, character study, male friendship, moral ambiguity, bittersweet, identity crisis, midlife crisis, melancholy, nostalgia, social realism, urban ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an individual teen prostitute as seen from the lens of her Buddhist neighbor.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
compassion, prostitution, character study, poverty, loss, empathy, social realism, loneliness, urban, slice of life, street life, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Little Fish Eat Big Fish is a Kolkata based group of no-budget film makers. The latest venture of the group is the 5 no-budget short films produced in 2009-10. They opted for a direct to DVD release in the last Kolkata Book Fair. Details for the ...
Style:
independent film, experimental, anthology, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
underground, minimalism, adaptation, experimental narrative, paranoia, social commentary, absurdism, urban, ideology, literary, improv, intimate ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wandering around wine bars and pubs drinking, thirty-year old worker Oldrich (Petr Kostka), who is celebrating the birth of his son, meets a seventeen-year old lad called Yellow T-shirt Boy (Vladimír Pucholt). Yellow T-shirt Boy is a problematic ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, poignant
Plot:
fatherhood, compassion, character study, working class, social realism, male protagonist, male bonding, friendship, alienation, bittersweet, coming of age, redemption ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The true story of seven 1960's call girls, taken straight from the accounts of a practicing Hollywood sex therapist.
Style:
period piece, bleak, art house, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
hollywood, exploitation, sex work, prostitution, intimate, biopic, urban, sex therapy, trauma, therapy, social commentary, empowerment ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, youth, family relations, society, social issues, identity, memory, adaptation, reminiscence, literary, autobiography, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
africa, algeria, north africa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Eight women wake up every morning, get dressed, eat, put on make-up, do their hair, dress up and get ready for a grueling, demeaning night of work. They're the staff at a brothel outside a major American city, serving the spoiled, rich, ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, art house
Plot:
brothel, women, prostitution, exploitation, sex work, sexploitation, social realism, working conditions, class conflict, trauma, poverty, survival ...
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The film starts with the veteran thespian Harish Mishra, he is gravely ill. The punishments of a film shoot have left the old man in a coma. His co-star, Shabnam, is wracked with worry, but their director, Siddharth, keeps strangely distant and ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, bleak, poignant ...
Plot:
movie business, movie star, actor, character study, actor's life, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, society, spectacle, movie actor, filmmaking, relationships ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Two Swedish girls fall in love with a Persian man in London. Beside this there is much dancing, much stripping and a lot of alcohol.
Style:
sensual, period piece, art house, melancholic, experimental ...
Plot:
dancing, sexuality, love triangle, eroticism, interracial relations, young lovers, nightlife, desire, sexually liberated, taboo, coming of age, urban ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london, iran
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Petros is an archaeologist who experiences the naked Greek paranoia in the center of Athens. Either by choice or coincidence, he comes into contact with people who are "different": An Arab immigrant, who comes to Greece, a land of ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, bleak, art house, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay lead character, alienation, immigration, identity crisis, xenophobia, isolation, trauma, moral ambiguity, social realism, street life ...
Place:
greece, athens greece
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
political repression, social realism, father son relationship, village life, class struggle, oppression, cold war era, moral ambiguity, resistance, revenge, betrayal, boredom ...
Time:
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Place:
hungary
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Style:
existential, melancholic, bleak, art house, period piece
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Portugal
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Feature film
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
existential, avant garde, art film, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, art house, ambiguous ending, poignant
Plot:
prostitution, corruption, female protagonist, alienation, existentialism, minimalism, moral ambiguity, character study, small town, shadow, urban, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
language barrier, forest, isolated community, moral ambiguity, anthropology, alienation, human nature, sadness, bureaucracy, language learning, bare breasts, female nudity ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, reflective, melancholic, existential, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ...
Style:
art house, bleak, reflective, melancholic, depressing
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Via the Chicago Reader: "After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges buried shells and bombs for scrap metal."
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, grim, art house ...
Plot:
survival, poverty, post war, mountain, frustration, salvation, black market, alienation, social realism, desperation, working class, trauma ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1945
Place:
alps, italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Feature film.
Style:
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Plot:
exploitation, sex work, prostitution, poverty, social problems, problem, life is a bitch, pimp, realism, street life, urban, survival ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Shashi, an urbane doctor, returns to his native village, a place seemingly mired in a backward way of life, for a short visit. As he becomes closely involved with the villagers, Shashi’s short stay threatens to become permanent.
Style:
art house, melancholic
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, dark, bleak, intense, melancholic
Plot:
drug addiction, urban decay, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence, social realism, coming of age, poverty, nightlife, character study, violence, corruption, identity crisis ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Still today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO military training range, a nine-year-old girl called Alica, ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, bleak, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
post war, cancer, child protagonist, poverty, grief, terminal illness, death, loss, family bonds, social realism, survival, desperation ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, balkan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Hans Fallada.
Style:
psychological, bleak, melancholic, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s
Place:
central europe
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