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Shtisel (2013)
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Shtisel (2013)
Original name: שטיסל
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a haredi family in Jerusalem. Shulem Schtisel the father of a large family is dealing with his younger son who he wants to see married soon. His daughter, Giti is dealing in secret with marital problems while his other son Zvi Arie tries to patch everything up.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, talky, gothic, mysterious, sincere
Plot: jewish family, jewish culture, orthodox jew, family relations, parents and children, dating, looking for love, religions or cults, love and romance, society, retirement home, unfulfillment, israeli, friendship, marriage, magical, religion, grief, aging, siblings, rabbi, religious community, jewish life, singleness, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: israel, jerusalem
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films and TV series with plots about family relations, parents and children, society, love and romance, couple relations, family life and couples mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Shtisel: Srugim (2008), The Slap (2011), Ushpizin (2004), Lucky 7 (2013), Jerusalem Brew (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Srugim (2008)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 35 min.
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Place: israel, middle east, jerusalem
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The Slap (2011)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 354 min.
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Ushpizin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
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Time: year 2004, 21st century
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Lucky 7 (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: What would you do if you won the lottery? How would it change your life? Follow a group of seven gas station employees in Queens, New York, who have been chipping into a lottery pool for years, never thinking they'd actually win. They need to ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: The series opens as widow Shimon Sadeh, a successful general contractor, is finishing the year of mourning for his deceased wife. He marries Leah, his daughter's piano teacher. Shimon's eldest son, Ephraim, has become ultra-Orthodox, ...
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Plot: family life, couples, family relations, couple relations, society, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, religions or cults, family business, rabbi
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Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
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Plot: parents and children, couples, family life, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, estrangement, couple relations, friendship, unfulfillment
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Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
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Unorthodox (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 53 min.
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Story: A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians -- until her past comes calling.
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Audience: teens
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