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Noura's Dream (2019)
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Noura's Dream (2019)
Original name: نورة تحلم
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: With her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad — but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream.
Plot: prison, children, police, divorce, hospital, adultery, single mother, labor, factory, female protagonist, interrogation, assault, husband wife relationship, male rape, husband, prison visit, troubled relationship, female director
Place: tunisia, north africa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, independent film and serious films with plots about husband wife relationship, female protagonist, hospital, police, prison, adultery and children mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Noura's Dream: A Son (2019), Ballad of a White Cow (2020), Sofia (2018), Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (1991), The Late Liz (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a liver transplant, which ...
Style: social
Plot: dialogue, teenager, existentialism, hospital, emergency room, father son relationship, surgeon, picnic, husband wife relationship, ambush, corruption, dehumanization ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011
Place: tunisia, middle east, maghreb, north africa, africa ...
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Ballad of a White Cow (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
Style: independent film
Plot: women, muslim, woman, widow, false accusation, mother daughter relationship, single mother, deaf child, deaf, female protagonist, sign language, judge ...
Place: iran, middle east
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Sofia (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Qatar, Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the ...
Plot: girl, arab, birth, pregnant woman, cousin cousin relationship, 20 year old, telephone call, female protagonist, baby, newborn, hospital, interrogation ...
Place: morocco
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Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This women in prison drama tells us a story about the mother of three children, who was falsely accused for a crime she did not commit (drug dealing), arrested and locked up behind bars.
Plot: drug, youth, prison visit, trial, suicide attempt, solitary, learning the truth, divorce, women in prison, friendship, single mother, war on drugs ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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The Late Liz (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Religion changes a woman's attitude towards alcohol.
Style: christian film, independent film
Plot: faith, drug addiction, alcoholism, alcoholic, christianity, sleeping pill, suicide attempt, religious conversion, christian, church, drunk, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Golden Horseshoes (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. ...
Plot: torture, political prisoner, bare chested male, prison, male nudity, blood
Place: tunisia
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Pete on the Way to Heaven (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the small town of Kandalaksha, Petya lives out a fantasy life as a traffic cop. He has a holster, a wooden gun, and the locals humor him by following his "orders." When a convict escapes from a nearby prison, Petya joins the manhunt as ...
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: escaped prisoner, police officer, fighting crime, runaway, society, social problems, social relations, police, psychiatry, winter, josef stalin, death ...
Time: 1950s
Place: siberia
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Children of Iron (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Rikutaro and Mariko are in the same grade at an elementary school. They become brother and sister after Rikutaro's mother and Mariko’s father marry. After their marriage, the children become upset because they are teased by their classmates, ...
Plot: mathematics, child, husband wife relationship, tunnel, school, children, police, dispute, schoolboy, classroom, bridge
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70%
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Too Far to Go (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, ...
Plot: engagement, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, wedding, divorce, husband wife relationship, dancing, extramarital affair, marriage
Time: 1950s, 70s, 60s
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Until a Man Lives (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min.
Plot: husband wife relationship, wife, husband, colleague, engineer, secretary, hospital, doctor, nurse, patient, inventor
Place: soviet union
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Making of, le dernier film (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Tunisia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A Tunisian breakdancer falls in with fundamentalists with designs to turn the young man into a suicide bomber.
Plot: arab, dialogue, grief, breakdance, martyr, religion, young woman, confrontation, terrorist, cat, imprisonment, theft ...
Time: september 11 2001
Place: tunisia, middle east
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66%
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Karnak Cafe (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In one of their best roles ever, distinguished actors Nour Al Sherif and Souad Hosni star in this film depicting the unstable social and political life in Egypt during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film revolved around a group of university ...
Style: iconic
Plot: politics, torture, group, interrogation, prison, police, police brutality, accusation, communism, youth
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Une femme d'extérieur (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Françoise breaks up with Jacques after living with him for fifteen years. She's left alone with their three children, a lovely home, and her nursing job at a hospital. Françoise quickly refuses to assume responsibility for this new situation ...
Plot: female nudity, hospital, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, nurse, adultery, secretary, drinking, feminism, mother child relationship, city, one night stand ...
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Custody (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, dark
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Place: new york
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Shoot the Moon (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Style: realistic, emotional, offbeat, serious, psychological ...
Plot: divorce, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, marriage, infidelity, husband, wife, adultery, violence, youth, women ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: bay area, san francisco
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The World of Ludovic (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ludovic, a young boy neglected by his artsy parents, falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a piano teacher. They meet in secret places in the city. Not long after Sophie's father finds them naked together in her room, Ludovic is sent away ...
Plot: children, coming of age, first love, boy, youth, child, piano teacher, beach, photographer, police, suicide attempt, nudity ...
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The Silences of the Palace (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 127 min.
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Adam (2019)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
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42%
Family Circle (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
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Place: soviet union
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
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Country: Sudan, Sweden, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Foreign Body (2016)
Genre: Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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