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The Baby Doll Night (2008)
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Original name: ليلة البيبي دول
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Hossam returns home to Cairo for New Year's Eve after a year's separation from his wife. At the airport, his plans for a romantic night (and to conceive a child) are thwarted by several events, including a terrorist plot.
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, sad, islamic, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot:
terrorism, danger, airport, terrorist bombing, conspiracy, political unrest, society, homecoming, vengeance, rivalry, satire, nothing goes right, mistaken identity, disorder, couple relations, nazi, holocaust, night, gulf war, world trade center manhattan new york city, deadly
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
egypt, iraq, new york, africa, middle east, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Most similar movies to The Baby Doll Night
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, psychological and serious films with plots about society, danger, rivalry, deadly, terrorism, murder and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like The Baby Doll Night: Smuggler (2011), Over the Mountains (2005), I, the Other (2006), Whatever Lola Wants (2007), Sawako Decides (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
570
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, psychological, heavy ...
Plot:
gang, smuggler, rivalry, yakuza, down on your luck, life is a bitch, danger, society, gay, gangster, disorder, dangerous animal ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, poignant ...
Plot:
terrorism, islam, injustice, vengeance, society, couple relations, life is a bitch, rivalry, introspection, danger, false accusation, politics ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, paris france, france, usa, europe ...
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94%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Not available
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, terrorism, partner, rivalry, buddies, danger, confined, dishonesty, mind game, betrayal, disorder, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, sicily
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
belly dancing, belly dancer, dancing, journey, follow your dream, culture clash, hopes, society, teachers and students, fall in love, interracial relations, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
egypt, africa, middle east, usa, cairo egypt ...
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62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decider of her own life.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family business, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, workplace, fish out of water, society, rivalry, strong female presence, unfulfillment, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An American Jewish man visiting Jerusalem for the funeral of his father gets sucked into a world of violent intrigue after meeting a mysterious, beautiful Palestinian woman.
Style:
realistic, tense, emotional, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, political unrest, terrorism, couples, politics, danger, unfulfillment, undercover, society, femme fatale, life turned upside down, intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestinian authority, middle east, jerusalem
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, USA, Iran
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
Style:
disturbing, stylized, factual, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
terrorism, war on terror, politics, 9/11, justice, skyscraper, state affairs, danger, injustice, innocence lost, life is a bitch, love affair ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 2000s
Place:
middle east, usa, new york, iran, europe ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irreverence, and recreational cruelty towards those around them.
Style:
cynical, realistic, mumblecore, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
estrangement, introspection, satire, social decay, society, shallowness, hipster, life is a bitch, dull life, nihilism, nude dance, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rivalry, friends, buddies, criminal's revenge, urban ghetto life, society, dishonesty, cons and scams, black, african american, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This Is Not A Test is a comedy/drama directed by Christopher Angel. The film is based around a man called Carl (Hill Harper) who's living his everyday life whilst trying to cope with his fear of terrorist nuclear attacks. However, with the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, independent film ...
Plot:
obsession, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, satire, terrorism, society, friends, buddies, urban, eccentric family, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It was love at first sight for beautiful young lawyer Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien-Parker (Rachel Blanchard) and Henry Parker (Cameron Mathison), retiring White House Secretary of State, when Sunday's dad Danny (Jack Wagner), ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, rescue, danger, rivalry, fighting crime, uncover truth, murder, confined, hitman, couple relations, race against time, blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
51%
595
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, absurd ...
Plot:
culture clash, homecoming, haunted by the past, friendship, unfulfillment, rivalry, buddies, small town, society, racism, childhood memory, weatherman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Montine McLeod, a world-weary flight attendant, and Omar Hassan, a prematurely wise 10-year-old Pakastani-American boy connect with one another amidst the chaos of September 11, 2001. When Montine discovers the boy's direct personal link to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, terrorism, friendship, on the road, stewardess, 9/11, boy, father son relationship, cross country, terrorist attack, terror, social problems ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa, scotland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
profanity, vengeance, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, murder, unlikely couple, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, violent content, romancing a criminal, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Although not very religious and accustomed to Western ways, Ziad becomes "brothers" with some ...
Style:
serious, psychological, disturbing, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, hijacking, war on terror, muslim, obsession, political conspiracy, political unrest, danger, against humanity, vengeance, head of state, politics ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place:
northern germany, new york, manhattan new york city, hamburg germany
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this fresh take on Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Wrong Man,” Ellen Plainview, a sweet, caring, working wife and mother, answers the door one afternoon to learn that she is under arrest for attempted murder.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, legal action, law enforcement, love affair, couples, couple relations, court case, society, female protagonist, prostitute, woman, laptop ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
conspiracy, interracial relations, social relations, dishonesty, society, law enforcement, lifestyle, murder, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, doctors and patients, political unrest, injustice, society, wartime life, friendship, life is a bitch, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, palestinian authority, jerusalem
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom, courtroom drama, homecoming, friendship, legal, lawyer, family relations, danger, rivalry, law, 16 year old ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ohio
Similarity:
42%
169
Genre: Drama
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
assassination, haunted by the past, on the run, life is a bitch, prime minister, flashback sequence, rivalry, danger, society, escape, moral ambiguity, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, disturbing, islamic ...
Plot:
terrorism, muslim, suicide bomber, terrorist, terrorist attack, islam, radical, danger, society, family relations, murder, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 2012, 90s, 2000s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
middle east, tunisia, maghreb, africa, morocco
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Haiti
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of increasing political violence, a young couple, two sisters, and a father and son are driven from Haiti to New York, where they must confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, political
Plot:
culture clash, haunted by the past, immigrant, family relations, social relations, life is a bitch, society, single parent, political unrest, blaxploitation, couple relations, under the surface ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
haiti, africa, usa, new york
Similarity:
40%
402
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Colombia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Blaquito is thirty years old and lives with his mother in El Matal, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. One day, the beach turns up filled with cocaine packets. Blanquito, along with his friend Lorna, decide to travel to Guayaquil, ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
drug dealing, on the road, cons and scams, partner, unlikely criminals, love, couples, danger, survival, rich and poor, chance, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ecuador, latin america
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A female talk show host in Cairo, Egypt, stirs up a political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, tense, islamic ...
Plot:
journalism, politics, hopes, introspection, injustice, rebelliousness, idealism, state affairs, media, dentist, political corruption, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, middle east, egypt
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kelly strips – her best friend Jordan captures the event on her mobile phone. Kelly’s name is well known among the visitors of (in)appropriate online portals. The two teenagers digitally record anything and everything that crosses their paths ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
found footage, satire, profanity, desire for fame, lifestyle, on the road, nightlife, ambition, computers and web, coming of age, nudity, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Argentina, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mariana, an upper-class Chilean, feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan, a former colonel with a shady past.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
seductress, father daughter relationship, sex scene, escapades, love, chase, society, rivalry, disorder, mentor, danger, simulated cunilingus ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman witnesses the murder of a prosecutor by a criminal he is trying to convict. She informs the FBI, who then places her and her family in Witness Protection. And their lives are turned upside down. The agent tries to get the criminal but it ...
Style:
realistic, tense, psychological, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
family in danger, investigation, witnessing a crime, life turned upside down, hidden identity, betrayal, special agent, witness protection program, witness protection, murder, fbi, murder witness ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, assassination, politics, terrorist, conflict, assassin, suicide bomber, threat, criminal, struggle, war on terror, political conflict ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
india, sri lanka, asia, middle east
Similarity:
36%
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:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Overly obsessive compulsive and too premature, Sora is easily distanced by her friends. Growing up without a father is something she would like to be fussy about with her mom, but Sora is still the one and only daughter of and the biggest support to ...
Style:
semi serious, sad, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
wedding, terminal illness, family relations, parents and children, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, single mother, friendship, society, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Similarity:
36%
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