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Tight Spot (1973)
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Tight Spot (1973)
Original name: تنگسیر
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 114 min.
Story: This film, based on a well-known novel of the same name by Sadegh Chooback, is about a wronged man seeking revenge. Director Amir Naderi's inspiration for making the film was one of his childhood heroes, the legendary Zar Mohammad, who waged a one-man war against four swindlers and provoked wide spread popular sentiment against tyranny.
Plot: serial killer, sea, revenge, fight, heroes, police, partisan, assassin, death, sheik, priest, theft, boat, heroism, fighting the system, revolt, government, class struggle, social injustice, good versus evil, bazaar, police officer killed, corrupt priest, freedom fighter, struggle ...
Place: persia, iran

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out islamic, realistic, serious and contemplative films with plots about iranian, persian, husband wife relationship, police, death, poverty and hijab mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like Tight Spot: Dash Akol (1971), The Runner (1984), Travellers (1992), The Brick and the Mirror (1966), Mother (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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The Runner (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in school. In school, he has conflict with other students. Finally ...
Plot: boy, coming of age, iranian, child, minimal dialogue, social injustice, traumatic childhood, children in wartime, ice, winning, competition, running ...
Place: iran, persia
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Travellers (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and ...
Style: realistic, serious, beautiful
Plot: iranian, wedding, newlywed, mirror, death, female protagonist, family relations, couples, dealing with death, ghost, against the rules, destiny ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Brick and the Mirror (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on ...
Plot: iranian, cafe, taxi, class society, child abandonment, class struggle, poor, taxi driver, beggar, hijab, poverty, persian ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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62%
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Mother (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old ...
Style: spiritual, islamic, interesting
Plot: iranian, persian culture, mother, carpenter, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, brother brother conflict, persian
Place: persia, iran, middle east, tehran iran
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Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.
Plot: iranian, women, debt, husband, woman, husband wife relationship, money, jail, dog, poverty, female protagonist, air attack ...
Place: persia, iran, middle east, iraq, tehran iran
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A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The film is set around three protagonists. Two run a gas station on the outskirts of town, on a road that gets next to no traffic anymore, and so they get next to no customers. They live and work out of a decrepit van on site, its windows covered in ...
Style: sincere, atmospheric, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: iranian, love, partner, friends, friendship, realism, workplace, talking to the dead, postman, death, dog, lie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Cycle (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
Style: banned
Plot: iranian, poverty, nurse, city, father, blood, father son relationship, treatment, illness, medical clinic, controversy, urban setting ...
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The Curse (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, alcoholism, domestic abuse, unfaithfulness, murderer, island life, wife abuse, aborigine, house, scandal, oil well, wife murders husband ...
Time: 70s
Place: persia, iran
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No Date, No Signature (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.
Style: psychological, touching, contemplative, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, crime investigation, husband wife relationship, death, remorse, introspection, father son relationship, road accident, husband wife conflict, secrets, forgiveness, muslim ...
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The Peddler (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second ...
Style: anthology
Plot: poverty, iranian, old age, merchant, cripple, caretaker, insanity, abandoned baby, director, handicapped, persian
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Captain Khorshid (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Captain Khorshid is a sailor who although only having one hand, manages to sail his little boat. In his village, due to its hot climate and hard living conditions, dangerous criminals are sent into exile. They want to escape from the area, so they ...
Plot: iranian, smuggling, husband wife relationship, pistol, porter, criminal, exile, boat, murder, wife, smoking, merchant ...
Place: persia, iran, middle east
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The Hidden Half (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, islamic ...
Plot: militant, fighting the system, woman in danger, injustice, rebelliousness, legal action, society, couple relations, legal, life is a bitch, state affairs, feminism ...
Time: 70s
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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45%
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Hamoun (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Style: existential, spiritual, cult classic, islamic, psychological ...
Plot: iranian, crumbling marriage, existentialism, arab, dull life, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, starting over, introspection, couple relations, society ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, asia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 114 min.
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Duration: 124 min.
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Style: art house, depressing, islamic, controversial, contemplative ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iraq, Turkey, Iran
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, psychological, stylized, islamic ...
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41%
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Just 6.5 (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 131 min.
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39%
Night of the Hunter (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: serial killer, police, preacher, murder, treasure, child in peril, family crisis, tickling
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The Night Bus (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
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Plot: killing, iraq iran war, martyrdom, love letter, iranian, young soldier, martyr, child soldier, poverty, pow, bus, death ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources.
Style: islamic, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: persian culture, iranian, medical student, hospital, guest, poverty, neighborhood, persian
Place: persia, iran
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38%
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The Traveler (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Traveler is a 1974 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that tells the story of Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town. He wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: soccer, truancy, iranian, boy, football, coming of age, city, money, smoking, bus, corporal punishment, director ...
Place: persia, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth ...
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Place: iran, persia, tehran iran
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The River's End (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young man leaves his birthplace, Isfahan, to come to capital city ,Tehran, to forgot his childhood memories. He is the storyteller and he tarts revealing his dreams which have been started a few months after the death of his father. In these ...
Plot: swimming, husband wife relationship, boy, father son relationship, disturbed individual, dead father, iranian, butcher, river, persian
Place: iran, persia
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The Hawk (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always ...
Style: independent film
Plot: serial killer, mental health, rain, paranoia, mental illness, husband wife relationship, murder, racist comment, racist remark, off screen murder
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36%
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M for Mother (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father ...
Style: sincere, captivating, sad, islamic
Plot: iraq iran war, iranian, family problems, pregnancy, pregnant woman, child illness, relationship problems, illness, dysfunctional family, mother child relationship, parenthood, persian culture ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Nargess (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
Plot: iranian, age-gap relationship, police officer, love, love triangle, hospital, police, muslim, islam, thief, theft, older woman younger man relationship
Place: iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Shirin (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the ...
Style: experimental, contemplative, atmospheric, stylized, emotional ...
Plot: theater, feminism, artists and showbiz, strong female presence, iranian, religious, minimal dialogue, arab, cinema, face, women, persian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Along Came a Spider (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a teacher kidnaps a girl from a prestigious school, homicide detective, Alex Cross takes the case and teams up with young security agent, Jezzie Flannigan in hope of finding the girl and stopping the brutal psychopath. Every second counts as ...
Style: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: serial killer, kidnapping, police investigation, serial murder, investigation, profiler, psychopath, twists and turns, secret service, psychologist, manipulation, conspiracy theory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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