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Excuse my French (2014)
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Excuse my French (2014)
Original name: لا مؤاخذة
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
Style: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, sad
Plot: youth, social differences, teachers and students, discrimination, society, family problems, hidden identity, dishonesty, religions or cults, disorder, death in the family, coming of age, boy, arab, catholic, student life, high school life, high school, social relations, power relations, school, little boy, world, reality
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: middle east, egypt
Keyword: egyptian, arabic

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Rockford (1999)
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Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
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Quitters (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
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Duration: 83 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
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Duration: 99 min.
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