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Omar (2013)
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Original name: عمر
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Palestine
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The drama, the story of three childhood friends and a young woman who are torn apart in their fight for freedom, is billed as the first fully-financed film to come out of the Palestinian cinema industry.
Style:
thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic, political, social, controversial, islamic, mind blowing, bleak ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, power of love, friendship, moral dilemma, resistance, confession, terrorism, family relations, love and romance, love affair, social problems, danger, mistrust, gain trust, society, occupation, love, prisoner, betrayal, insurgent, blackmail, informant, arab, israeli, militant ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
palestine, middle east, palestinian authority, maghreb, israel
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Most similar movies to Omar
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about society, murder, violence, friendship, danger, family relations and love and romance mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Omar: Paradise Now (2005), The Attack (2012), Ali and Nino (2016), Bethlehem (2013), Out in the Dark (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel, Netherlands, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Paradise Now is filmed from the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel. This is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, depressing, political, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, friendship, islam, suicide, destiny, muslim, conflict, israeli, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, jerusalem, maghreb ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Lebanon, France, Qatar, Belgium, Egypt
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
suicide bomber, israeli palestinian conflict, uncover truth, occupation, terrorism, danger, investigation, radical, society, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, civil war ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, lebanon, maghreb ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Azerbaijan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight ...
Style:
thought provoking, romantic, costume drama, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
couples, turk, impossible love, forbidden love, society, world war one, christian, love and romance, family relations, secret love, friendship, dishonesty ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
azerbaijan, georgia, caucasus
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur, the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited Sanfur when he was just 15, and developed a ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, sad ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, spy, terrorism, danger, undercover, moral dilemma, double agent, special agent, society, informant, israeli ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestinian authority, venice
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40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue in this striking debut feature from Israeli director Michael Mayer.
Style:
emotional, homoerotic, sincere, serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, forbidden love, gay relationship, gay couple, gay love, gay student, gay sex, israeli, male homosexuality, love affair, gay romance ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, palestinian authority, asia ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
ira, terrorism, police detective, on the run, moral dilemma, injustice, law enforcement, rebellion, rebelliousness, society, love and romance, danger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
ireland, europe, belfast, paris france, dublin ireland
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Based on a true story- A group of robbers broke into a house at night with the intention of committing robbery. The house was inhabited by two young girls and a disabled child and their mother. Not getting the desired money, the robbers started ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, gangster, danger, criminal, bandit, family relations, rivalry, youth, friends, society, gang, vengeance ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
25%
305
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
friendship, love, betrayal, murder, danger, gangster, friends, couple relations, couples, criminal underworld, vengeance, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Style:
brutal, disturbing, enigmatic, social, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bullying, friendship, grownups, love and romance, murder, social problems, relationships, romantic relationship, asian, love, chaos, dishonesty ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, doctors and patients, political unrest, injustice, society, wartime life, friendship, life is a bitch, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, palestinian authority, jerusalem
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. She soon ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, politics, state affairs, social differences, love affair, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, discrimination, political unrest, israeli, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, persia, new york ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
Style:
serious, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
muslim, human rights, soldier, military, dysfunctional family, society, politics, terrorism, rivalry, confined, family problems, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, jerusalem, palestinian authority, israel
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: ...
Style:
sincere, serious, rough, emotional, bleak ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
missing person, israeli, forbidden love, society, family in danger, family feud, life turned upside down, police brutality, realism, family problems, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, jerusalem, nebraska ...
Similarity:
23%
6K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
mexican drug cartel, drug cartel, torture, cocaine, drug dealing, corrupt law enforcer, society, urban ghetto life, factory worker, small town, kids in trouble, nudity ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, interracial relations, rebelliousness, family life, friends, danger, terrorism, politics, society, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, palestinian authority
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The affaire of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot:
sex scene, hot and sexy, moral dilemma, forbidden love, pregnant wife, arrest, political prisoner, pregnancy, violence, danger, encounter, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style:
black and white, political, philosophical, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
revolution, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, french algerian war, politics, terrorism, insurrection, independence, revolutionary ...
Time:
year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1954, year 1966 ...
Place:
africa, algeria, middle east, france, north africa ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet set within the Los Angeles underworld.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
love, love and romance, mafia, killing, rise to the top, vengeance, chase, organized crime, society, criminal heroes, gang war, crime boss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, bleak ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, rebellion, danger, state affairs, terrorism, social decay, swat, rebelliousness, society, social differences, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
20%
42K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, intense, suspense, political thriller ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, espionage, war on terror, terrorist, mossad, covert operation, israeli, assassination, terror, murder, danger, government agency ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, belgium
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, lovers reunited, betrayal, couple relations, love triangle, haunted by the past, love affair, dishonesty, unfulfillment, hidden identity, infidelity, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
florida, new york, usa, miami
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Baba and Avinash are brothers who lives in a shanty house with their widowed mother, who makes a living as a housemaid. When a stalker attempts to rape their mother, Baba knives him to death, and the three, along with an orphan named Nawab, take ...
Style:
heroic, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
heroic bloodshed, gangster, friendship, urban ghetto, hitman, family relations, frame up, urban ghetto life, disagreement, wooing, murder, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Awarapan is the story of man called Shivam (Emraan Hashmi) who searched for joy but found nothing but pain and loneliness. It is the journey of a godless heartbroken lover who in order to escape from the ghosts of his tragic past dedicates himself ...
Style:
romantic, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
redemption, unrequited love, atheist, gangster, hitman, tragic love, love, love and romance, criminal heroes, unfulfillment, fall in love, tragic event ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when ...
Style:
captivating, bleak, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
small town, juvenile delinquency, gangster, danger, friendship, love and romance, betrayal, love triangle, farm, rivalry, hot and sexy, jealousy ...
Place:
texas, britain, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defense minister and his wife move next door; the Secret Service orders the trees removed for security. The stoic Salma seeks ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, politics, injustice, widow, occupation, reconciliation, rules and policies, hopes, life is a bitch, society, legal ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, jerusalem, persia ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
An exploration of America’s social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. The film centers on a black man and black woman who go on a first date that goes awry after the two are pulled over by a police officer at a ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, exciting, sad, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
racist cop, on the run, legacy, black, police officer killed, blaxploitation, black lives matter, society, police officer, ghetto, women, chase ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
cleveland ohio, florida, cuba, kentucky, ohio ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sweet, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
love, love story, true love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, young love, young lovers, relationships, couple relations, soldier ...
Time:
2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, afghanistan, south carolina, usa, ireland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style:
stylized, bloody, serious, rough, hood ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
ghetto, hip hop, friendship, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, violence, coming of age, gangster, organized crime, street gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, north america
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A Qing encounters the photographer Xiao Qi at the full moon banquet of the daughter of the big brother Ren Ge at the corner of the Beiguan. They fall in love with each other. But, sadly, they aren't able to stay together at the end.
Style:
suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
gangster, mafia, prison, youth, criminal heroes, mercilessness, society, brutality, pride and honor, love and romance, chase, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
Style:
sexy, tense, suspense, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot:
murder, twists and turns, gambling, loser, redemption, investigation, debt, moral dilemma, siblings relations, sailing, remorse, hitman ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
london, brighton, england
Similarity:
18%
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