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There Is No Evil (2020)
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There Is No Evil (2020)
Original name: شیطان وجود ندارد
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Iran, Czech Republic
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Heshmat, an exemplary husband and father, gets up very early every day. Where does he go? Pouya cannot imagine killing another man, yet he is told he must do so. Javad doesn’t know that proposing to his beloved won’t be the only surprise on her birthday. Bahram is a physician but is unable to practice medicine. He has decided to explain to his visiting niece the reason for his life as an outcast.
Style: psychological, intellectual, independent film, captivating, non-linear, philosophical, social, sad, surprise ending, anthology ...
Plot: society, life & death, love, friendship, destiny, multiple storylines, adaptation, human nature, youth, justice, life is a bitch, rivalry, wisdom of life, life philosophy, disorder, terminal illness, uncle niece relationship, prisoner, prison, death, revolution, integrity, family secret, marriage proposal, military service ...
Place: iran, middle east
Keyword: dutch

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Most similar movies to There Is No Evil

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sincere, psychological and serious films with plots about society, life is a bitch, friendship, love, persian, family relations and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like There Is No Evil: Tales (2014), A Man of Integrity (2017), Iron Island (2005), Goodbye (2011), Seventeen (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tales (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: society, love, family relations, everyday life, multiple storylines, friendship, couples, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east
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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
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87%
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Iron Island (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: ship, forbidden love, human nature, injustice, power relations, human spirit, hopes, misfit, young lovers, anarchist, youth, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Goodbye (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Without her husband and without her lawyer’s licence, which has been withdrawn, Noora is left pregnant and alone in her apartment. Her attempt to leave Iran turns into a fight with male chauvinism. A personal, nerve-wracking and infuriating film ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: rebelliousness, immigrant, woman in danger, life is a bitch, injustice, rebellion, political unrest, danger, society, chaos, arab, misfit ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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Seventeen (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: To find his therapy dog, a 17-year-old escapes from juvie and embarks on a journey of reconnection with his brother and grandmother through Cantabria.
Style: disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: dog, teenager, society, ambition, destiny, friendship, youth, rescue, hopes, escapades, love, disorder ...
Place: iberian peninsula
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58%
Forgive Us Our Debts (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Albania, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.
Style: captivating, sincere, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: society, life is a bitch, life philosophy, violence, adaptation, redemption, money, rivalry, escapades, lawyer, politics, debt collector
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Day Break (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Day Break - based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside ...
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: prison, death row, prison life, pardon, legal, life is a bitch, society, injustice, law enforcement, legal action, compassion, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Fly Away Solo (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the ...
Style: offbeat, disturbing, psychological, captivating, mind blowing ...
Plot: love, caste system, guilt, religious differences, father daughter relationship, class conflict, social differences, class differences, male female relationship, social problems, relationships, couple relations ...
Time: year 2015, y2k
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Boutique (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, downfall, life is a bitch, couples, bittersweet, iranian, singleness, youth, social differences, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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Feed (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Style: touching, psychological, disturbing, suspense, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anorexia, eating disorder, love, youth, hospital, hospitalization, life is a bitch, adaptation, mental illness, illness, redemption, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Letters to Father Jacob (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and ...
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: forgiveness, blind character, friendship, blindness, pardon, mentor, depression, loneliness, adaptation, life philosophy, justice, life & death ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: finland, europe
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43%
Under the Skin of the City (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, politics, introspection, life is a bitch, factory worker, family relations, couples, working class, family life, human nature, parents and children, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, japan, persia, middle east
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42%
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, human spirit, hopes, stephen king, life, friendship between men, friendship, plot twist, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s, 2010s, year 1994 ...
Place: usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
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40%
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Lemonade (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. When the process of ...
Style: suspense, rough, sentimental, tense, psychological ...
Plot: mother son relationship, green card, abuse of power, marriage, culture clash, society, escapades, dishonesty, life is a bitch, family relations, love, violence ...
Place: usa
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The Deserted Station (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go ...
Style: serious, psychological, sentimental, touching, islamic ...
Plot: teacher, prodigy, self discovery, youth, teachers and students, on the road, society, religions or cults, isolation, school, train, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
Style: sentimental, psychological, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mentally challenged, prison, innocent, mental patient, parent child relationship, prison sentence, father daughter relationship, arrest, jail, mental illness, murder, love ...
Time: 2010s, year 1983, year 2004
Place: turkey
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Four Hours (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Unhinged gangster Capone (Paul Bibb) walks into a bar with accomplice Tung (Peter Peralta,) with the plan of stealing the contents of the safe. The situation gets complicated when they have to wait four hours to get the code to the safe. For Capone ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot: heist, chase, society, rivalry, robbery, hacking, youth, escapades, violence, hostage situation, heist gone wrong, burglar ...
Time: year 2011
Place: london
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35%
Wajma, an Afghan Love Story (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, forbidden love, parents and children, society, life turned upside down, honor, student, love, couples, youth, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
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35%
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Ten (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Style: talky, melancholic, intense, light, thought provoking ...
Plot: character study, car, storytelling, relationships, driver, society, life is a bitch, passenger, sibling relationship, family relations, hopes, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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35%
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style: philosophical, melancholic, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: kurd, countryside, small town, fish out of water, family relations, village, parents and children, coming of age, politics, village life, poetry, existentialism ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1999
Place: iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
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33%
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It's Winter (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: winter, society, unemployment, working class, love affair, social issues, marriage crisis, realism, human nature, life is a bitch, survival, leaving home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: starting over, love affair, homecoming, released from prison, life is a bitch, hopes, society, love and romance, family relations, reconciliation, parents and children, fighting illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: black sea, turkey
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32%
The Hidden Half (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, islamic ...
Plot: militant, fighting the system, woman in danger, injustice, rebelliousness, legal action, society, couple relations, legal, life is a bitch, state affairs, feminism ...
Time: 70s
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Facing Mirrors (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same ...
Style: psychological, touching, disturbing, suspense
Plot: transsexual, escape, hijab, lgbt, forced marriage, friendship, domineering father, taxi driver, muslim, taxi, patriarchy, wedding planning ...
Place: iran, middle east
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September 11 (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, USA, Iran
Duration: 134 min.
Story: 11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
Style: disturbing, stylized, talky, intellectual, factual ...
Plot: terrorism, war on terror, 9/11, politics, justice, skyscraper, state affairs, danger, innocence lost, life is a bitch, injustice, love affair ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s
Place: middle east, usa, new york, iran, europe ...
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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
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Days (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Style: psychological, sincere, disturbing, slow cinema, erotic drama ...
Plot: massage, society, gay sex, gay, lgbt, friendship, disorder, class differences, youth, social satire, life philosophy, unemployment ...
Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Last Queen of the Earth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Leaving his family in Afghanistan to find work in Iran, Ali Bakhsh returns home to Afghanistan in search of his family in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the following U.S. invasion.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: refugee, family man, job seeking, getting home, life is a bitch, self discovery, homecoming, introspection, immigrant, violence, hardship, letter ...
Place: iran, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Young Ahmed (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.
Style: captivating, sincere, disturbing, psychological
Plot: muslim, religion, arab, disorder, friendship, society, youth, culture clash, indoctrination, coming of age, religious, terrorist ...
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29%
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Hadewijch (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.
Style: thought provoking, touching, psychological, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: religious faith, convent, religions or cults, self discovery, love, muslim, human nature, clergy, friendship, youth, hopes, koran ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, middle east, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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