Movies like The Other 1999

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The Other (1999)
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The Other (1999)
Original name: الآخر
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Adam is the son of a wealthy Egyptian-American family who is studying at UCLA and returns home for a brief vacation. Upon his arrival he meets beautiful reporter Hanane, with whom he begins an intense love affair, and eventually they marry. Trouble arises when Hanane' s journalistic interests lead her to the corrupt business affairs of Adam's parents, who are interested in building an American tourist compound that would allow Americans further control of Egypt's tourist industry, and make them a whole lot richer.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, suspense
Plot: arab, terrorism, terrorist, investigative journalism, militant, obsession, politics, life is a bitch, fall in love, journalism, injustice, society, manipulation, globalization, culture clash, couple relations, workplace situations, sex, wedding, businessman, domestic violence, computer, businesswoman, architect, corruption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place: middle east, egypt, cairo egypt
Keyword: egyptian, arabic

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about society, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, couple relations, fall in love and politics mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Other: Dunia (2005), Salt of This Sea (2008), Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (2009), Messages from the Sea (2010), Cafe Setareh (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dunia (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt, Lebanon, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, realistic, serious
Plot: self discovery, liberation, friendship, husband wife relationship, sensuality, tradition, professor, audition, arab, female sexuality, sexual repression, feminism ...
Place: cairo egypt, persia, middle east, egypt
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Salt of This Sea (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. She soon ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: politics, state affairs, love affair, social differences, heist, israeli palestinian conflict, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, political unrest, discrimination, arab ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, jerusalem, persia, palestinian authority ...
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Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (2009)
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, injustice, hopes, introspection, dentist, media, rebelliousness, state affairs, idealism, couple relations, political corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, egypt, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Messages from the Sea (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
Style: realistic, captivating, sentimental, psychological, islamic ...
Plot: society, fall in love, prostitute, homecoming, unfulfillment, speech impediment, friendship, homosexuality, misfit, cause and meaning, love and romance, disintegration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Cafe Setareh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fall in love, human nature, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, family problems, society, couples, bittersweet, cafe, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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67%
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Red Rose (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Iran, Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in this fascinating drama that blends scripted scenes with on-the-ground footage from Iran’s 2009 ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: political unrest, idealism, politics, life is a bitch, society, state affairs, husband wife relationship, violence, propaganda, extramarital affair, female nudity, cigarette smoking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, tehran iran
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Two Women (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Polish Bride (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, haunted by the past, countryside, farm, happy ending, forced prostitution, flashback, rural setting, prostitute ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: holland, europe
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60%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Serenades (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, tragic love, culture clash, human spirit, injustice, true love, parents and children, society, hopes, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: australia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Reply with Photo (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Latvia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian woman and invites her to Stockholm. But what actually happens after Brigita's arrival is far ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: latvia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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September 11 (2002)
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, talky, intellectual, factual ...
Plot: terrorism, war on terror, 9/11, politics, justice, skyscraper, state affairs, danger, innocence lost, life is a bitch, injustice, love affair ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s
Place: middle east, usa, new york, iran, europe ...
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54%
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Luxor (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When British aid worker Hana returns to Luxor, a sleepy city on the banks of the Nile, she comes across Sultan, a talented archeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, disturbing, thought provoking
Plot: tourist, unfulfillment, hopes, coincidence, human relationship, society, couple relations, couples, danger, mishap, desperation, frustration ...
Place: middle east, egypt, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Greece, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
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46%
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Cairo 30 (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Mahgoub Abdel Dayem a young nihilistic college student, having his father crippled with no other source of income, he finds himself in an urgent need of a job after graduation to support himself and his parents. Having a hard time getting a job, he ...
Style: social
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44%
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Foreign Body (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, Italy, Russia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A dashing young Italian in Poland finds himself caught between two women — a novitiate nun and a ruthless corporate ladder-climber — in this lacerating vision of contemporary Poland from master filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, erotic, thought provoking
Plot: couple relations, couples, clergy, workplace situations, human nature, workplace, dishonesty, christianity, manipulation, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Focus (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: disturbing, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, suspense ...
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Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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42%
The Great Passage (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: date night
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Place: asia, japan
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42%
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The Kite (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious
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Time: 21st century
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41%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Vingar av glas är en svensk film från 2000 regisserad av Reza Bagher, det var hans debutfilm. I huvudrollerna ses Alexander Skarsgård som en "vanlig svensk kille" och Sara Sommerfeld som en invandrartjej. Det blir problem mellan dem.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, touching, teen
Audience: teens
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe
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41%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
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41%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: touching, serious, realistic, political, independent film
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40%
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Duration: 114 min.
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Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, anthology, bleak ...
Plot: politics, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, wartime life, political unrest, state affairs, anti war, society, immigration, omnibus, exodus, world war one ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, South Africa
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: serious, emotional, sincere, thought provoking, political ...
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Time: year 2004, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, year 1996
Place: south africa, africa, florida, chile
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39%
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Style: serious, realistic, erotic, costume drama, disturbing ...
Plot: social differences, infidelity, cheating on husband, master and servant, love affair, obsession, society, couples, love and romance, couple relations, power relations, fall in love ...
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Place: england, europe, britain
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37%
Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up ...
Style: bleak, captivating, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
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Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
She's So Lovely (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. When Eddie returns and finds his wife bruised, he goes ballistic, shoots a paramedic and ...
Style: melancholic, serious, psychological, realistic, talky ...
Plot: obsession, dysfunctional family, mental illness, mental institution, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, couple relations, love triangle, family problems, mentally unstable, love and romance, infidelity ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Promise (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: politics, berlin wall, spy, iron curtain, stasi, cold war, crisis, anti communism, couples, love affair, impossible love, political unrest ...
Time: 80s, 60s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, prague ...
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37%
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