Movies like The Kite 2003
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The Kite (2003)
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Original name: Le cerf-volant
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, as brutal as our countries and the events that are to follow.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, introspection, military, youth, life is a bitch, fall in love, couples, society, culture clash, political unrest, wartime life, politics, hopes, coming of age, women of color, muslim, woman, soldier, family relations, village life, sexual relations, wiretap, gender, state affairs, family tradition ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about society, youth, family relations, hopes, coming of age, parents and children and teenage life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Kite: Silent Waters (2003), The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020), The Dove Flyer (2013), Face (2002), Youth (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, poignant
Plot:
islam, wartime life, family life, self discovery, politics, hopes, small town life, haunted by the past, death in the family, parents and children, culture clash, family in crisis ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, year 1947, year 1979
Place:
pakistan, india, middle east, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Qatar, Cyprus, Turkey
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
Style:
existential, twist ending, surprise ending
Plot:
syrian refugee, forbidden love, artist, tattoo, social satire, foreigner, existentialism, arab, muslim, world war, bare chested male, visa ...
Place:
lebanon, syria, middle east, maghreb, brussels ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
culture clash, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, family relations, love and romance, immigrant, political unrest, teenage love, youth, family problems, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s
Place:
iraq, israel
Similarity:
36%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
34%
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392
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brothers Yaki and Shaul live with their parents in Petah Tikva, a satellite town of Tel Aviv. Yaki is doing military service. As for all other 18-year-old Israelis, this means he is allowed to carry a gun. This weapon gives the brothers the power to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, kidnapping, family relations, unemployment, society, working class, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, soldier, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, interracial relations, rebelliousness, family life, friends, danger, terrorism, politics, society, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, palestinian authority
Similarity:
29%
279
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage life, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, society, prodigy, political unrest, siblings, brother, brothers, family relations, gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
29%
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, hopes, introspection, injustice, rebelliousness, idealism, state affairs, media, dentist, political corruption, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, middle east, egypt
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
hip hop, introspection, lifestyle, teenage life, youth, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, family life, siblings relations, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, young lovers, unlikely couple, love affair, interracial relations, life is a bitch, social differences, society, terminal illness, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, europe, asia, germany
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
coming of age, youth, religions or cults, injustice, politics, self discovery, life is a bitch, society, state affairs, political unrest, unemployment, friendship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ireland, california, los angeles, england, northern ireland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, emotional, spooky ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, teenage life, introspection, culture clash, hopes, society, homecoming, immigrant, love and romance, youth, family life, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, france, africa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
20 short films about human rights.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, gloomy, contemplative ...
Plot:
human spirit, introspection, redemption, youth, life is a bitch, social differences, discrimination, idealism, injustice, hopes, society, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, asia, usa, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dilber lives with her family in a very poor eastern village, her only dream is to marry her childhood lover, Ali. But when she finds out that it won't happen because of a reason that she can't get away with, she gets crazy and lock herself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, bleak, emotional
Plot:
true love, gender, couple relations, couples, love and romance, disability, wooing, unlikely couple, introspection, hopes, family tradition, village life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, lifestyle, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, social differences, infidelity, youth, male female relationship ...
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy, biting ...
Plot:
social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, immigrant, realism, life is a bitch, discrimination, society, interracial relations, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
25%
698
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot:
impossible love, friendship, teenage love, teenage life, self discovery, starting over, couples, family life, false accusation, fall in love, society, politics ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Liu returns to his native city Shanghai after 50 years spent in Taiwan. He has come to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant. In the meantime, Qiao has married and formed a family. But Liu is determined to get the ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, love affair, lovers reunited, homecoming, soldier, unfulfillment, politics, aging, elderly, hopes, political unrest, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 21st century
Place:
taiwan, china, asia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
politics, soldier, military life, friendship, terrorism, women, danger, israeli, third world, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt ...
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, palestine
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Switzerland, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, family life, teenage life, self discovery, introspection, hopes, parents and children, siblings relations, mother daughter relationship, arab, youth ...
Place:
tunisia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, love and romance, society, pregnancy, youth, hopes, coming of age, road not taken, small town, wooing, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Shot on digital , HD and 8 mm. Filmed through both sides of North America. 'Vicious Circle' pushes the limits of what can be accomplished on a bike. Featuring the first ever 65 foot 'Double Road Gap' , some of the gnarliest ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, lifestyle, false accusation, teenage life, family relations, society, destructive relationship, youth, love and romance, chess, interracial relations, skater ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, follow your dream, rich and poor, working class, society, youth, hopes, state affairs, parents and children, political unrest, social differences, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india, bombay india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Zion, aged 14 and his brother Meir, 17, are facing a crisis in their relationship after a terrible accident. They keep the secret to themselves and it haunts them until, finally, Zion re-examines his loyalty towards his older brother and decides ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, youth, society, introspection, teenage life, haunted by the past, working class, family in crisis, siblings relations, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
missionary, couples, redemption, self discovery, life is a bitch, youth, working class, terminal illness, disorder, family relations, tragic hero, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
switched at birth, teenage boy, family relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, disorder, society, introspection, occupation, adolescence vs adulthood, identity crisis ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
Similarity:
22%
497
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, talky, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, unlikely couple, hopes, family relations, family problems, teenage life, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, single parent ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hopes, follow your dream, parents and children, family relations, young lovers, coming of age, teenage life, unfulfillment, human nature, mother son relationship, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
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