Movies like My Sweet Pepper Land

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My Sweet Pepper Land (2013)
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My Sweet Pepper Land (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, France, Germany, Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.
Style: serious, tense, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, art house, independent film, gloomy
Plot: rivalry, society, law enforcement, kurd, village, village life, social relations, justice, police, violence, smuggler, arab, women, iraq war, feminist, chaos, inspiration, backpacking, horse, female teacher, good versus evil, tough law enforcer, honest law enforcer, school, children ...
Time: year 2013, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: iraq, kurdistan, middle east, iran, indiana, maghreb, europe
Keyword: arabic

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Most similar movies to My Sweet Pepper Land

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sincere films with plots about society, village, village life, life is a bitch, social relations, family relations and persian mostly in Drama, War and Family genres. Some movies like My Sweet Pepper Land: Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019), If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011), About Elly (2009), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), Last Winter (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Bhutan, China
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A teacher struggling for inspiration travels to the most remote school in the world. It takes being so far away to understand the importance of his work... and to appreciate the value of yak dung!
Style: inspirational, disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: teacher, school teacher, teacher student relationship, character change, changing lives, lifestyle change, small village, coping, children, foreigner, remote village, village life ...
Time: 2010s
Place: himalaya, china
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100%
If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, offbeat
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, society, nothing goes right, immigrant, disorder, kurd, muslim, life is a bitch, misfit, dark humor, communication problem ...
Time: 90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: iraq, paris france, france, europe
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83%
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About Elly (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: missing person, matchmaking, family relations, friendship, guilt, journey, iranian, parents and children, couples, couple relations, love and romance, teacher ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style: philosophical, melancholic, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: kurd, countryside, small town, fish out of water, family relations, village, parents and children, coming of age, politics, village life, poetry, existentialism ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1999
Place: iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Last Winter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gloomy
Plot: farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, society, workplace, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, social relations, village life, village ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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59%
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Kilometer Zero (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Iraq, Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
Style: emotional, captivating, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: on the road, travel, kurd, military life, military, society, obsessive quest, escapades, genocide, oppression, life & death, arab ...
Time: 80s
Place: kurdistan, iraq, middle east, iran, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style: realistic, bleak, meditative, harsh, emotional ...
Plot: kurd, children, coming of age, youth, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, family in crisis, parents and children, village, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: iraq, iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Boutique (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, downfall, life is a bitch, couples, bittersweet, iranian, singleness, youth, social differences, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Son of Babylon (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot: human spirit, political unrest, adolescence vs adulthood, youth, hopes, family relations, escapades, desert, arab, boy, international relations, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Cow (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
Style: art house, depressing, islamic, controversial, contemplative ...
Plot: iranian, persian culture, illness, arab, village, village life, countryside, down on your luck, mentally unstable, society, life is a bitch, losing-it hero ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place: iran, persia, asia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Deserted Station (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go ...
Style: serious, psychological, sentimental, touching, islamic ...
Plot: teacher, prodigy, self discovery, youth, teachers and students, on the road, society, religions or cults, isolation, school, train, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Before Snowfall (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Iraq
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family ...
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chase, on the run, young heroes, survival, family relations, on the road, family life, wedding, reluctant hero, winter, family honor, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kurdistan, iraq, turkey, greece, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Women Without Men (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco, Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'Ă©tat, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
Style: sincere, stylized, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot: women, feminist, society, life is a bitch, social differences, state affairs, rich and poor, coping, feminism, woman, female warrior, iranian ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Marooned in Iraq (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in ...
Style: sincere, serious, sentimental, realistic, road movie ...
Plot: kurd, military life, self discovery, military, musician's life, orphan, treasure hunt, daring rescue, escapades, battles, estrangement, village ...
Time: 2000s
Place: iraq, kurdistan, iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Tales (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: society, love, family relations, everyday life, multiple storylines, friendship, couples, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east
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44%
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Lovelorn (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A retired teacher who returns to Istanbul after years away, Nazim tries to reacquaint himself with his hometown, which has changed significantly. While waiting for his pension to begin, Nazim takes a temporary job as a taxi driver and frequently ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: stalking, village, family relations, couples, love and romance, sleazy, society, single parent, hopes, fall in love, village life, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
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43%
A Long and Happy Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and also tolerate his more or less clandestine love-affair with ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, tense, stylized ...
Plot: farm, society, injustice, rebelliousness, social relations, fighting the system, rebellion, rivalry, hopes, village life, social problems, showdown ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
From What Is Before (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 338 min.
Story: The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation ...
Style: bleak, serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: forces of nature, village life, isolation, danger, clergy, confined, society, chaos, village, very little dialogue, army, fired from the job ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1970, year 1971
Place: the philippines
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43%
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Paradise Lost (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Mayor of a small Flemish town is determined at all costs to save a unique bird sanctuary from a ruthless businessman who advocates a housing development on the site. The main story, though, centres on a childhood trauma that unites the two men ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, captivating
Plot: cousins incest, incest, femme fatale, teenage sex, female nudity, male nudity, ego clash, rivalry, social relations, campaign, village, village life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, belgium
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Future Lasts Forever (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, emotional, art house ...
Plot: journey, unfulfillment, tragic love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, missing person, ethnic conflict, self discovery, society, strong female presence, wartime life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, kurdistan, turkey
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41%
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A drama set in 1986 Iran and centered on a man, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village and enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant had a ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, sexy, touching ...
Plot: injustice, death penalty, discrimination, society, sadism, loss of family member, conspiracy, destructive relationship, abusive husband, religion, corruption, hijab ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 80s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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39%
Just Like a Woman (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, disturbing, sex comedy ...
Plot: belly dancing, dancing, friendship, lifestyle, starting over, self discovery, hopes, on the road, society, unfulfillment, secret, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Circle (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Style: bleak, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: politics, pregnancy, on the run, prostitute, life is a bitch, society, friendship, injustice, feminist, dialogue, women's rights, discrimination ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Kandahar (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Style: sincere, disturbing, surreal, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: islam, refugee, on the road, politics, desert, survival, brutality, culture clash, suicide, women, rescue, journalism ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iran, canada, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Autumn (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: starting over, love affair, homecoming, released from prison, life is a bitch, hopes, society, love and romance, family relations, reconciliation, parents and children, fighting illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: black sea, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Runaway (2000)
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: captivating, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, interracial relations, murder, social relations, dishonesty, law enforcement, lifestyle, society, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Orphan (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Chilean family deals with the new values in a quickly changing world.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere
Plot: family relations, social differences, family problems, parents and children, family life, hopes, society, introspection, human spirit, village, family in crisis, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Gospel of the Flesh (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: redemption, family relations, hopes, undercover, life is a bitch, law enforcement, society, terminal illness, multiple storylines, confession, soccer, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Mothers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning ...
Style: captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: parents and children, murder, elderly, introspection, estrangement, family relations, gender, society, life, small town life, relationships, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Invisible Eye (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: high school life, political unrest, society, youth, rebellion, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, argentina
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