Movies like A Son

If you like "A Son" you are looking for social movies about / with teenager, dialogue, existentialism, hospital, surgeon, corruption and father son relationship themes of Drama genre shot in Tunisia or France.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
A Son (2019)
 7.3
 1K
A Son (2019)
Original name: بيك نعيش
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 leads to discovery of a long-buried secret. Will Aziz and the relationship survive?
Style: social
Plot: teenager, dialogue, existentialism, hospital, surgeon, corruption, father son relationship, fatherhood, husband wife relationship, ambush, child trafficking, organ donation, picnic, dehumanization, emergency room, biological father, unfaithful wife, organ trafficking, cheating wife, child shot, organ harvesting
Time: 2010s, year 2011
Place: tunisia, middle east, maghreb, africa, libya, north africa
Keyword: arabic

Movie in categories

tunisia movies
47
teenager movies
11008
social movies
1756
dialogue movies
9446
maghreb movies
61
africa movies
1255

Most similar movies to A Son

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out social, psychological, independent film and serious films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, hospital, muslim, existentialism and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Son: You Will Die at 20 (2019), Noura's Dream (2019), Adam (2019), Heal the Living (2016), Red Soil (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
You Will Die at 20 (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: mother son relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, death, relationships, life & death, family relations, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, predicting the future, prediction ...
Place: north africa, sudan, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.5
 454
Noura's Dream (2019)
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, prison visit, hospital, male rape, police, adultery, interrogation, assault, children, single mother, labor, divorce ...
Place: tunisia, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.2
 2K
Adam (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal ...
Plot: breast feeding, homelessness, single mother, baby, homeless woman, female protagonist, pregnancy, little girl, newborn, woman, lgbt, 8 year old girl ...
Time: 2010s
Place: middle east, morocco, north africa, africa, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Heal the Living (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more than an illusion. ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot: hospital, surfing, surfer, surgeon, surgery, death of son, multiple storylines, doctor, death, lgbt, friends, family relations ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Movie in collections
hospital movies
7275
surgeon movies
459
corruption movies
5582
libya movies
29
 6.6
 534
Red Soil (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses ...
Plot: environmental, lesbian, meeting, contamination, government coverup, accident, interview, hospital, politician, factory, working class, dance ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
A Man of Integrity (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Reza (35), having distanced himself from urban life to work on a goldfish farm, leads a simple life along with his wife and only son in a remote village in northern Iran. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local ...
Style: independent film
Plot: chaos, father son relationship, intimidation, rural setting, corporation, crooked businessman, loan, goldfish, police, fish, school principal, money ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: middle east, iran, maghreb, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
A Family Upside Down (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Plot: mature, aging, retirement home, family relations, picnic, mother daughter relationship, death, doctor, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, dying, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.2
 8K
Foxtrot (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Switzerland, Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A personal movie inspired by Maoz’s experience as a soldier, through a tragic yet universal story of grief.
Style: social, political, surreal, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot: israeli army, bare breasts, camel, israeli, dialogue, judaism, adolescence, mossad, military service, israeli soldier, loss of son, grief ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Horses of God (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, social ...
Plot: terrorism, suicide bomber, terrorist attack, islam, muslim, radical, danger, society, family relations, murder, brother brother relationship, poverty ...
Time: year 2012, september 11 2001, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, tunisia, africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Until The Birds Return (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, anthology
Plot: husband wife relationship, family problems, crush, multiple storylines, family relations, society, frustration, forced marriage, male female relationship, social problems, lifestyle, neurologist ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: algeria, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)
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, social satire, existentialism, foreigner, muslim, arab, world war, artist, tattoo, forbidden love, bare chested male, passport ...
Place: middle east, maghreb, lebanon, syria, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.0
 5K
3 Faces (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught by a provincial girl’s video plea for help—oppressed by her family to not pursue her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help ...
Style: psychological, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating, independent film
Plot: missing person, actress, empowerment, social justice, tradition, missing girl, passion, young girl, society, family relations, friendship, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 1979
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The White Knights (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, sincere, social
Plot: children, rescue, child in peril, orphan, journalism, danger, life is a bitch, wartime life, child care, humanitarian, adoption, camp ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.4
 9K
Vortex (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Monaco
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.
Style: cult classic, serious, independent film
Plot: death, dementia, alzheimer's disease, aged person, dialogue, destiny, illness, existentialism, elderly, son, elderly woman, husband wife relationship ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
So Long, My Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 185 min.
Story: The changes in Chinese society from the 1950s to the '80s, as experienced by two families.
Style: independent film, sexy, social, non-linear
Plot: loss of son, infidelity, birth control, family relations, suburbs, runaway, working class, teenager, hospital, flashback, father son relationship, airplane ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 80s, 2000s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.4
 650
Donkey (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother ...
Style: suspense, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure
Plot: family conflict, fatherhood, mediterranean, family relations, husband wife relationship, death of mother, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, lake, donkey, wheelchair
Time: 90s
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 188 min.
Story: An aspiring writer returns to his native village in rural Turkey, where he becomes overwhelmed by his father's debts.
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, contemplative, erotic ...
Plot: writers, society, childhood, debt, family conflict, family relations, homecoming, father son relationship, family crisis, countryside, gambler, slow burn ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.6
 649
Residue (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
Style: social
Plot: teenager, swearing, friend, rain, young boy, cycling, interracial relations, childhood friend, flashback, black, police, rainstorm ...
Time: 2020s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Movie in collections
 8.4
 104K
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 ⇓
41%
 7.5
 29K
A Hero (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. Is he truly a hero?
Style: thrilling, suspense, beautiful
Plot: muslim, lonely, debt, european, prison, bad reputation, taxi, gold, rumor, stuttering, social media, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Silences of the Palace (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
Style: islamic, contemplative, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot: women of color, african, arab, master and servant, feminism, redemption, feminist, african diaspora, women power, colonialism, girl power, bondage ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: africa, tunisia, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Poetical Refugee (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he ...
Style: psychological, touching, realistic, serious
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sex addict, friendship, hospital, looking for love, family life, lifestyle, social outcast, adoption, curses spells and rituals, mentally unstable, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.4
 1K
Roma (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
Plot: writers, pianist, revolution, obsession, autobiography, existentialism, dialogue, male nudity, coming of age, past life, mother, past ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 1950s
Place: buenos aires argentina, argentina, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Movie in collections
 6.5
 432
The Conductor (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The famous conductor (Vladas Bagdonas) goes with his orchestra to Jerusalem to perform the oratorio "St. Matthew Passion." The day before he receives a telegram, stating the suicide of his son, who lived in Israel. Conductor at the time ...
Style: touching, contemplative, psychological
Plot: suicide bomber, terrorist, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, monastery, suicide, twists and turns, israeli, religion, orchestra, funeral, airport ...
Place: israel, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.1
 4K
Papicha (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage ...
Style: independent film, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: violence against women, teenage girl, muslim girl, female protagonist, hijab, sea, attempted rape, friendship, arranged marriage, university, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: algeria, maghreb, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's ...
Style: captivating
Plot: fatherhood, adultery, family relations, father son relationship, family problems, search for father, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, relationships, dysfunctional family, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.5
 109
Werther (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. ...
Plot: boy, teacher, husband wife relationship, suicide, father son relationship, love, male female relationship, surgeon, tutor, tragic event, house, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.7
 145
Sunday Lunch (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
Plot: mistress, surgeon, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, drunkenness, family relations, divorce, rain, jealousy, father, singing ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.4
 7K
The Circle (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Style: bleak, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: politics, pregnancy, on the run, prostitute, life is a bitch, society, friendship, injustice, feminist, dialogue, women's rights, discrimination ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Through the Olive Trees (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is ...
Style: contemplative, avant garde, independent film, art house, social ...
Plot: filmmaking, amor, redemption, existentialism, farming, muslim, iranian, entertainment, hipster, couples, unfulfillment, actor's life ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie