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The Terrorist (1994)
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The Terrorist (1994)
Original name: الإرهابي
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Islamic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer, but as he escapes from the authorities he gets hit by a car driven by Sewsan, the daughter of a respected Muslim family living in the Maadi district. Sewsan's father who is a surgeon and his family take care of the injured terrorist who then tries to conceal the truth about his personality, such as his dislike of music, unveiled women and Western life styles.
Plot: terrorism, islam, surgeon, love, writers, religion, muslim, tourist, neighbor, lust, car accident, christian, drunkenness, patriotism, polygamy, redemption, mistaken identity, soccer, video store, assassination plot, terrorist, shot to death, tour bus
Place: middle east
Keyword: egyptian, arabic

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, tense and realistic films with plots about love, terrorism, muslim, religion, islam, murder and society mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like The Terrorist: Captive (2012), The Promise (2008), Love at First Sight (1975), Cal (1984), Incendiary (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Captive (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Philippines, Germany, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, psychological thriller, serious
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, danger, captivity, rescue, journalist, hostage, murder, muslim, religion, military, jungle ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia
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The Promise (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Story: First production of Mahmoud Baraka through his company's pool of technical and production of film revolves around human error and why faulting Is motivated to error and also speaks of man you have the ability to tolerance for errors that ...
Plot: church, cancer patient, motorcycle, beauty salon, funeral home, hitman, religion, muslim, mobile phone, villa, christian, murder ...
Place: morocco
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78%
Love at First Sight (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Murad, a Muslim guy brought up in the noisy yard of Tbilisi, falls in love with a Belorussian girl Anya, who lives in the same neighborhood, though Anya is impervious to Murad’s feelings.
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, christian, muslim, islam, christianity, soviet
Place: caucasus, tbilisi, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Cal (1984)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
Style: art house, political, contemplative, tense, serious ...
Plot: ira, terrorism, trouble, guilt, religion, international relations, war on terror, anglo irish relations, female pubic hair, couples, political unrest, tragic love ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: northern ireland, europe, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Incendiary (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An adulterous woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: adultery, love triangle, grief, guilt, betrayal, starting over, sex scene, dangerous attraction, terrorist, haunted by the past, love affair, infidelity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Dahek A Burning Passion (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Bengali-speaking Monalisa lives a middle-class lifestyle in Mumbai along with her mom and wheelchair-bound dad. She and her mom had to endure considerable hardships since she was six years ...
Plot: interfaith relationship, love, murder, rain, hindu, forbidden love, muslim, ex convict, religious fanatic, hindi, bollywood
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Verses of Love (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Ayat-Ayat Cinta is a beautifully portrayed Islamic love story – a tale of a virtuous Muslim protagonist who overcomes all obstacles of life maintaining pure ideals.
Style: philosophical, psychological, thought provoking, mind bending, indonesian
Plot: muslim, islam, religion, student, human relationship, love affair, life changing experience, bittersweet, doubts and hesitations, adolescence, couple relations, life ...
Place: egypt, indonesia, cairo egypt
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62%
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Mary (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Following the shooting of a film on the life of Jesus called This Is My Blood, Marie Palesi (Juliette Binoche), the actress who plays Mary Magdalene takes refuge in Jerusalem in search of the truth behind the myth. The director of the film, Tony ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
Plot: filmmaking, religion, christian, virgin mary, hopes, self discovery, obsession, society, religions or cults, redemption, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jerusalem, new york, israel, usa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Body (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint ...
Style: sexy, talky, suspenseful, philosophical, exciting ...
Plot: politics, faith, christianity, religion, kidnapping, christian, self discovery, religions or cults, obsessive quest, clergy, rebellion, society ...
Time: year 2001
Place: israel, middle east, rome italy, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Death Without Consent (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: Chris Carrington looses his father to hereditary kidney disease. He is painfully aware he may die from it as well. While dealing with the agony of his loss, Chris is unexpectedly contacted by a mysterious Russian immigrant who tells him his father ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, serious
Plot: conspiracy, government, crisis of faith, deception, intrigue, terrorism, religion, underground, weapon of mass destruction
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
We Are the Bus People (1979)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Directed by Hussein Kamal.
Style: islamic
Plot: mossad, prison, spy, terrorism, conflict, cop, bus, anger, humiliation, death, torture, mutiny ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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
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55%
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Lottery (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails ...
Style: psychological, tense, sentimental, touching, suspense ...
Plot: aspiration, family relations, immigration, green card, love, islam, american dream, troubled marriage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, usa, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Dash Akol (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love ...
Plot: thug, fight, parrot, loneliness, hijab, wedding, funeral, dancer, child abuse, prostitute, love, death ...
Time: 1920s
Place: iran, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Nikaah (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Nikaah is a 1982 Hindi film produced and directed by B. R. Chopra. The film stars Raj Babbar, Deepak Parashar and Salma Agha in her Hindi movie debut role. The film also had Asrani, Iftekhar and Gufi Paintal in support roles. The films music is by ...
Plot: indian woman, wedding night, remorse, workaholic, muslim, newspaper editor, divorce, love triangle, social commentary, dysfunctional marriage, failed marriage, remarry ...
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Between You and Me (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Through pain and aggression, two people with opposing addictions find more to their memories than they failed to care for. When their feelings for each other force a crying soberness and sadistic relations are noticed, realization of life takes over ...
Plot: drug, crazy, hopes, self awareness, trust, psychiatrist, mother daughter relationship, dementia, love, betrayal, violence, nightmare ...
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50%
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Submergence (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James Moore, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersive to the ocean floor. In their ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, lyrical, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: lovers apart, beach, hostage, love, male female relationship, terrorism, couples, underwater, espionage, diving, beautiful scenery, adaptation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: somalia, africa, france, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Keyamot Theke Keyamot (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Raaj and Reshmi fall in love, despite having a belligerent past between their families.
Plot: family feud, tourist, father son reunion, imprisonment, forbidden love, tragedy, university student, birthday party, family business, sunset, released from prison, suicide ...
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46%
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Rendition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
Style: serious, rough, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, conspiracy, terrorist, war on terror, kidnapping, cia, islamic terrorism, espionage, torture, islam, spy ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, washington d.c., illinois, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Rebel (1973)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on ...
Style: cult classic, independent film
Plot: terrorism, fbi, business, group, bomber
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Seventh Target (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ventriloquist, elevator, car chase, airport, police, car bomb, extortion, on the run, chases and races, journalism, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Harem (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story: A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, sentimental, tense ...
Plot: revolution, sultan, abduction, anger, escape attempt, murder, death, female protagonist, woman in danger, islam, romantic relationship, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Time: turn of the century, 1900s
Place: middle east, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Human Stain (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark ...
Style: emotional, erotic, sexy, melancholic, talky ...
Plot: couples, haunted by the past, loneliness, redemption, character study, justice, brutality, tennis, self destructing, writers, hidden identity, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1944, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new england, massachusetts, new jersey, oxford university, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Azad (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this futuristic thriller based around resistance against a tyrant government that's propagating religious, political, and racial polarization and xenophobia, a Muslim immigrant flees The West in hopes of leaving his secretive past behind to ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, resistance, new world order, islamophobia, judaism, government, religion, freedom, radical, discrimination, democracy, anti semitism ...
Time: future
Place: turkey, russia, china, america, pakistan ...
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41%
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 20K
The Ledge (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
Style: psychological, tense, emotional, sincere, surreal ...
Plot: unfaithful wife, adultery, atheist, atheism, religion, moral dilemma, infidelity, life turned upside down, introspection, hopes, cheating on husband, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Labyrinth (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A massive explosion rips though a busy street in Istanbul, Turkey. 95 people are dead; 30 Americans and 5 British. The massacre sends shock waves from Turkey to London and Washington, DC. A new terrorist organization is behind the attack. The ...
Style: political
Plot: terrorist, islam, secret service, turk, spy, terrorism, jihad, intelligence, muslim, bomb
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.8
 495
Misbehavior (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two female teachers and a male student hit with the inevitable disturbance of a coming whirlpool.
Style: sincere, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: sex, high school, deception, revenge, infidelity, teacher student sex, murder, jealousy, rivalry, disorder, society, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.8
 1K
Khadgam (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Khadgam is a 2002 Telugu language Patriotic movie produced by Sunkara Madhu Murali under Karthikeya Movies banner. The film features Srikanth, Ravi Teja, Prakash Raj, Sangeetha, Sonali Bendre and Kim Sharma in the lead roles. Music has been ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot: police officer, murder, brother brother relationship, religious fanatic, terrorism, love interest, terrorist, aspiring actor, islam, patriotism, casting couch, death of girlfriend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.6
 227K
Match Point (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would bring ...
Style: romantic, psychological, talky, clever, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, lust, adultery, seduction, passionate interest, destructive relationship, couples, love and romance, fatal attraction, murder, passion ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, united kingdom, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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