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Lottery (2018)
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Original name: لاتاری
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails their plans, leading to an international prostitution ring to being exposed.
Style:
psychological, tense, sentimental, touching, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
family relations, immigration, aspiration, green card, love, youth, islam, parents and children, love and romance, american dream, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, troubled marriage, couple relations, teenager, friends, dream, justice, society, coming of age, marriage, revenge, death, human trafficking, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, usa, persia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, touching, sentimental and tense films with plots about couples, love, love and romance, youth, couple relations, family relations and teenager mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Lottery: Loverboy (2017), Cry Me a Sad River (2018), N.O.I.R. (2015), Don't Let Me Drown (2009), Keeper (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. Since they start seeing each other she turns into a totally different person
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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141
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
NOIR chronicles the lives of four people living in a neighborhood plagues by poverty and violence, aspiring to freedom and happiness. Kadhafi, a 26 year old aspiring rapper and ex-member of a street gang, just out of prison, wants to steer clear of ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
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502
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Maxime and Mélanie are a typical teenage couple. Like most lovestruck fifteen-year-olds, they can't get enough of each other and they think they'll be together forever. But when Mélanie becomes pregnant, their worlds are rocked.
Style:
touching, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, football, teenage boy, teenage girl, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, baby, father son relationship, couples, family relations, parents and children, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
33%
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, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, family problems, unfulfilled love, society, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, couples, bittersweet, life is a bitch, cafe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran, dubai
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
Born and raised in Kyoto, 17 years old Takatoyo spends all his summer holidays in his hometown. However, this time will be different. Takatoyo will experience his first love and first challenges, creating memories that will take him out of his ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, sincere, sentimental
Plot:
japanese schoolgirl, fall in love, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, teenager, love, couple relations, love and romance, friendship, teenage girl, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kyoto japan
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A tragedy in which a young woman from an Arab tribe, prevented from marrying her non-Arab Persian lover is forced against her wishes to marry her cousin.
Plot:
family relations, love, college, killing, islam, arab, river, tribe, dead wife, heretic, medical student, suicide ...
Place:
middle east, iran, persia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
iran, persia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A film about two brothers - Yash is a charismatic young lawyer frustrated in his pursuit of justice, while Ansh is a social recluse due to his medical limitations - and how their lives are overturned when a sociopathic criminal targets them and ...
Style:
touching, tense, psychological, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, family relations, psycho killer, sociopath, violence, vengeance, escapades, hunted, youth, chase, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
bullying, found footage, childhood friend, coming of age, friendship, love, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, couples, teenage life, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter falls in love with her; a love which is completely rejected ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
iranian, intolerance, love triangle, starting over, false accusation, teachers and students, youth, crumbling marriage, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jesse, a charismatic but down on his luck troubadour, finds himself at an existential crossroads as bad choices catch up with him during an unexpected reunion with Carla, an old flame.
Style:
tense, romantic, sincere, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
love story, character study, illegal gambling, love, love and romance, couple relations, friendship, love interest, love affair, music, family relations, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
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13K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological, touching, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
persia, iran, middle east, tehran iran
Similarity:
26%
204
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
While struggling to cope with the death of her boyfriend, a young woman begins to form romantic feelings for her new supportive female friend.
Style:
tense, romantic, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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116
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, sexy ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Takuya Okada (Takumi Kitamura) is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase (Mei Nagano) in the hospital. Mamizu Watarase suffers from the mysterious ailment “Luminescence disease.” People who have the disease show a faint ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
love, terminal illness, teenage girl, hospitalized person, bucket list, hospitalization, high school friend, hospital, classmate, japanese schoolgirl, japanese teenager, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two closeted Muslim teens hawk goods across Brooklyn and struggle to come clean about their sexuality, as their secretive behavior leads them unknowingly into the cross-hairs of the War on Terror.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, touching, tense ...
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, lgbt, closeted homosexual, muslim, teenager, gay muslim, boy, african american, religion, gay couple, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, love and romance, couples, family problems, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Elisabeth and John-John live in the same city, but they inhabit different worlds.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating, teen
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, psychological, inspirational, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
love, drunk, birthday, fall in love, musician, friendship, traumatic experience, couple relations, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ireland, illinois, chicago, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, realistic, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.
Style:
sexy, psychological, contemplative, touching, suspense ...
Plot:
japanese schoolgirl, teenage girl, japanese teenager, half brother half sister relationship, marriage, teenage boy, father son relationship, divorce, teenager, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
Style:
islamic, spiritual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
iranian, family relations, teenage love, coming of age, writer's life, innocence lost, artists and showbiz, fall in love, love and romance, youth, politics, village life ...
Time:
90s, 1940s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, teenage love, young lovers, teenager, young couple, coming of age, love, bittersweet, computers and web, infidelity, small town life, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
texas, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
On the Eve of The Norwegian Day of Liberation - a whole nation is gearing up to get drunk and disorderly. Sam and Amir, two 15 year-old boys, have decided their night is going to be an epic. The boys have known each other almost all their lives, and ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
friendship, bullying, love triangle, coming of age, party, friendship between boys, teenager, romantic triangle, friendship between teens, relationship problems, end of friendship, fall in love ...
Similarity:
22%
561
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their ...
Style:
touching, suspenseful, contemplative, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, first love, learning disability, teenager, farm, caravan, friendship, love, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot:
teenage girl, coming of age, lie, family relations, teenager, mother daughter relationship, middle class, family drama, love and romance, couples, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
21%
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