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Tramontane (2016)
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Tramontane (2016)
Original name: ربيع
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is fake. Now he must travel across Lebanon in search of his identity.
Plot: lebanese civil war, choir, blindness, passport, identity, sheik, singer, orphan, blind man, single mother, war veteran, violin, bureaucracy, wedding party, uncle nephew relationship, secret past, adopted son, fake identification, false identity, braille, hit by a car, stage performance, drumming, fake id
Time: 2010s
Place: lebanon
Keyword: lebanese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, serious, realistic and captivating films with plots about blind man, blindness, blind character, single mother, family relations, women and disability mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Tramontane: Whisper to God (1988), Memory Box (2021), I Want to See (2008), Away from Home (2001), Insight (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Whisper to God (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When her boyfriend leaves for Japan on a singing contract, a dancer is so distraught she does not see the car that hits her. The driver pretends to be a helpful passer-by; they fall in love and gets married. Only bringing her to a more complicated ...
Plot: brain tumor, tumor, homicide, blindness, blind man, kidnapping, jail, friend, singer, rape, dancer, road accident
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.6
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Memory Box (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, Canada, France, Qatar
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia sent to her best friend from 1980’s Beirut. Maia refuses to open the box or confront ...
Style: semi autobiographical
Plot: painful memories, suicide of father, mother daughter relationship, death of brother, woman, photography, lebanese civil war, loss of father, christmas eve, church, reading someone else's diary, snow ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, year 1982
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I Want to See (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 75 min.
Story: July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine Deneuve and a friend, actor and artist Rabih Mroue;, on the roads of South Lebanon. Together, they will drive through the regions devastated by the ...
Style: semi documentary, fake documentary
Plot: car, actress, celebrity, actress playing herself, minefield, israeli army, sleeping in a car
Time: 2000s
Place: lebanon, beirut lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.4
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Away from Home (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to ...
Plot: voice over narration, rural setting, immigrant, narration, turk, urban setting, orphan, lottery, immigration, passport, journey, search for father ...
Place: turkey, new york, russia, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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 6.5
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Insight (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Pavel Zuev has to start his life over from darkness after he looses his sight. The young man has to learn again how to eat, walk, wash himself, do simple housework, and even how to look out of the window without seeing anything. All connections to ...
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Capernaum (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style: social, sad, thought provoking, depressing, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, neglected child, life is a bitch, low lives, child protagonist, child neglect, starving child ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, maghreb ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Beg, Borrow, or Steal (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Three disabled men--one blind, one with no legs and one with no hands--get together to pull off a museum robbery
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Directed by Robert Kramer
Style: experimental, captivating, touching, serious
Plot: family relations, immigrant, husband wife relationship, working class, mysterious man, dysfunctional family, blindness, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, money, wedding, flashback ...
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62%
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 6.6
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Little Q (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Little Q is an aspiring guide dog, training to be a guide for the blind. Soon Little Q is partnered with Bo-ting, a renowned pastry chef who’s losing his sight. But Bo-ting is irritable and reluctant, constantly losing his temper at those around ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: dog, blindness, seeing eye dog, human dog relationship, owner dog relationship, blind man, social problems, blind character, slice of life, lifestyle, novel
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.9
 315
The Paper Man (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 8.1
 567
Goodbye Julia (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, Sweden, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to ...
Plot: singer, police corruption, choir, death, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, school, police, murder, concert, dancing, lie ...
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Place: sudan
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.0
 191
Year Zero (2004)
Genre: Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
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Time: 17th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Style: captivating
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 7.3
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 7.1
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 6.5
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 7.2
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 5.4
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Time: 80s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1981, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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