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Halima's Path (2012)
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Halima's Path (2012)
Original name: Halimin put
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot: un, adoption, wartime life, loss of son, muslim, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, bodies, missing person, adopted son, birth mother, destiny, bosnian war, conflict, grief, war on terror, unsettling, childbirth, strong female presence, woman, mystery, child birth, search, track down
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place: bosnia, balkan, eastern europe, croatia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and touching films with plots about life is a bitch, family relations, society, wartime life, parents and children, war and youth mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres. Some movies like Halima's Path: Go West (2005), The Search (2014), Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), Witnesses (2003), Twice Born (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Go West (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War, Western
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the nineties the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken ...
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, tense, islamic ...
Plot: hidden identity, love and romance, political unrest, tragic love, state affairs, gays and lesbians, danger, society, life is a bitch, wartime life, love affair, bosnian war ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: bosnia, balkan, serbia, europe, former yugoslavia
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The Search (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Georgia
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, non-linear ...
Plot: life is a bitch, wartime life, soldier, torture, war crime, violence, murder, orphan, war violence, war, conflict, caucasian ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, year 1999, 21st century
Place: chechnya, russia, caucasus
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, harsh, political, brutal ...
Plot: journalism, adoption, bosnian war, civil war, journalist, genocide, family relations, military, anti war, rescue, danger, politics ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: bosnia, england, sarajevo, former yugoslavia, europe ...
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Witnesses (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, tense, rough, serious ...
Plot: balkan war, military, soldier, investigation, murder, danger, police investigation, criminal heroes, amateur detective, human nature, political unrest, war ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Twice Born (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, romantic, suspenseful ...
Plot: power of love, redemption, balkan war, rape, life is a bitch, parents and children, haunted by the past, hopes, single parent, family relations, italian soldier, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina, europe
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36%
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, psychological, serious ...
Plot: bosnian war, coming of age, depression, support group, life is a bitch, parents and children, haunted by the past, parent child relationship, family relations, single parent, civil war, rape ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: bosnia, eastern europe, croatia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina ...
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Ode to My Father (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Amid the chaos of refugees fleeing the Korean War in December 1950, a young boy, Duk-soo, sees his fate change in the blink of an eye when he loses track of his younger sister and he leaves his father behind to find her. Settling at Gukje Market in ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, social ...
Plot: family relations, war, father, coal mine, parents and children, hopes, human spirit, friends, coming of age, children in wartime, asian, korean war ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 60s, 70s
Place: korea, south korea, busan
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Deep in My Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In this made-for-tv movie, an adopted woman decides to find her birth mother. Her search leads her to a shocking discovery that she has to face and why her upbringing was not an easy one.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot: dilemma, mixed race, women, parents, parenting, custody, interracial, interracial relations, interracial rape, strong female presence, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot: bosnian war, soldier, muslim, forbidden love, war, rape, life is a bitch, love affair, escape, love and romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Mother of Mine (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: 1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She ...
Style: emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, secrets, children, boy, loneliness, wartime, life is a bitch, family relations, wartime life, adoption, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Perfect Circle (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come ...
Style: islamic, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
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Time: 90s
Place: bosnia, iraq, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia ...
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29%
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Circles (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after ...
Style: serious, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: society, hopes, life is a bitch, post war, haunted by the past, redemption, moral dilemma, bosnian war, metaphor, surgery, destiny, serial killer ...
Time: year 2013, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: bosnia, serbia, eastern europe, balkan, croatia ...
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29%
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Alexandra (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: military, soldier, military life, human nature, homecoming, parents and children, anti war, family relations, fish out of water, grandmother grandson relationship, underground, minimalism ...
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 91 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized
Audience: girls' night
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Savior (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
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25%
Comanche Territory (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In June 1950, soon after the start of the Korean War, a troop of North Korean soldiers enter a small South Korean village. Captain Jeong-woong proclaims that they came to liberate the villagers but their true agenda is to ferret out the ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, sentimental, realistic
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Time: 50s, 20th century
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25%
For the Love of a Child (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
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24%
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 120 min.
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Style: captivating, serious, tense, emotional, realistic ...
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The Last Winter (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
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Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
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Genre: Drama
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Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, anthology, bleak ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Missing in America (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: vietnam veteran, friendship, homecoming, exile, solitary, life is a bitch, society, orphan, redemption, farm, family relations, children ...
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22%
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Nicholas' Gift (1998)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style: spiritual, depressing, realistic, serious, emotional ...
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Silent Waters (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, France, Germany
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, poignant
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Secret of the Ant-Child (2011)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 108 min.
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Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
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21%
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