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Bol (2011)
9K
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
A female convict on death row, her last wish is to tell her story to the media.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, psychological, inspirational, captivating, islamic, cult classic, urdu, informative ...
Plot:
social issues, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, family values, strong female presence, murder, feminist, death sentence, society, friendship, media, rape, women, lgbt, terrorism, sexual harassment, hindu, lgbtq, family life, family problems, family in crisis, family tradition, gender, unsupportive parent ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
pakistan, middle east, india
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Most similar movies to Bol
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, life is a bitch, family in crisis and family life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Bol: In the Name of God (2007), Ramchand Pakistani (2008), The Cage (2003), Mother (2015), Silent Waters (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
The film is about the difficult situation in which the Pakistanis in particular and the Muslims in general are caught up since 9/11. There is a war going on between the Fundamentalists and the Liberal Muslims. This situation is creating a drift not ...
Style:
serious, tense, bleak, realistic, islamic ...
Plot:
terrorism, islam, extremism, false accusation, forbidden love, falsely accused, culture clash, wedding planning, muslim, immigration, oppression, social relations ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
pakistan, chicago, middle east, usa, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot:
border, prison, hindu, confined, life is a bitch, family problems, injustice, missing person, prison life, wartime life, parents and children, boy ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
pakistan, india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
In the days leading up to Partition, a Hindu woman is abducted by a Muslim man. Soon, she finds herself not only forced into marriage, but living in a new country as the borders between India and Pakistan are drawn
Style:
social, patriotic, emotional, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
hindu, women, indian history, muslim woman, fall in love, politics, loveless marriage, punjabi, islam, patriot, brother sister relationship, teacher ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
pakistan, india, asia, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After the death of the family's matriarch, her husband and son must confront not only the corruption in society around them but the corruption within themselves.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, melancholic, poignant ...
Plot:
father son relationship, small town, parents, father, children, family problems, family conflict, moral dilemma, family relations, loyalty, corruption, choice ...
Place:
pakistan, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, poignant
Plot:
islam, wartime life, family life, self discovery, politics, hopes, small town life, haunted by the past, death in the family, parents and children, culture clash, family in crisis ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, year 1947, year 1979
Place:
pakistan, india, middle east, asia
Similarity:
38%
392
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brothers Yaki and Shaul live with their parents in Petah Tikva, a satellite town of Tel Aviv. Yaki is doing military service. As for all other 18-year-old Israelis, this means he is allowed to carry a gun. This weapon gives the brothers the power to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, kidnapping, family relations, unemployment, society, working class, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, soldier, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, young lovers, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, rough, informative ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, family relations, human nature, society, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, africa
Similarity:
35%
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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, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love, family relations, multiple storylines, everyday life, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
35%
603
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, tension ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, dishonesty, parents and children, family relations, police investigation, family problems, family in crisis, death in the family, shopping mall, family drama, families, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Like many Native families, Lena Mahikan grew up in the cycle of abuse. Her father, a residential school survivor, was an alcoholic until he killed himself when Lena was 10. Her mother, only 14 years her senior, turned to the slots. By the time Lena ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
small town, haunted by the past, native american, single parent, life is a bitch, society, social misfits, danger, youth, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, fish out of water, culture clash, family life, homecoming, society, family problems, terminal illness, parents and children, life is a bitch, under the surface, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, north korea, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this made-for-tv movie, an adopted woman decides to find her birth mother. Her search leads her to a shocking discovery that she has to face and why her upbringing was not an easy one.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
dilemma, mixed race, interracial rape, women, custody, parenting, parents, interracial, interracial relations, strong female presence, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, holocaust, life is a bitch, memory loss, estrangement, parents and children, deportation, uncover truth, jew persecution, past, world war two, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
34%
426
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Living in rural New South Wales, working-class single mother Rhia is struggling to evade debt collectors and raise three young daughters. The eldest, and hardened beyond her years, Lou blames Rhia for the departure of her father, who walked out 10 ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, family relations, mental illness, parents and children, aging, unfulfillment, estrangement, family in crisis, youth, forgetfulness, abandonment, debt collector ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, new south wales
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
celebrity culture, friendship, family problems, social worker, family relations, obsession, family in crisis, gays and lesbians, society, journalism, godparent, prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, youth, car accident, grief, accidental death, society, love, dealing with death, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
34%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, redemption, destiny, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, family life, parents and children, black, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
34%
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:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
environmental, biology, farm, contamination, ecology, family relations, environmentalism, family problems, dishonesty, hopes, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, michigan
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
survival, injustice, political unrest, danger, hidden identity, family relations, religions or cults, human nature, dishonesty, feminism, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, afghanistan
Similarity:
33%
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738
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, family gatherings, under the surface, parents and children, estrangement, strong female presence, family problems, siblings relations, male nudity, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, emotional, erotic
Plot:
idealism, life turned upside down, lifestyle, couples, life is a bitch, social differences, hopes, couple relations, family problems, culture clash, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two young men, Ye-joon and Jae-moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye-joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a successful financier, while the unambitious Jae-moon has opted for a much less conspicuous route. ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, unfulfillment, businessman, family problems, couples, parents and children, crumbling marriage, best friend, tragedy, love triangle, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will ...
Style:
crying, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
starving child, starvation, youth, doctor, single parent, unemployment, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, human spirit, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
clergy, friendship, religions or cults, parents and children, family relations, family life, society, village, fish out of water, disorder, village life, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Plot:
asian prostitute, dysfunctional family, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, mental disorder, alienation, artist, outsider, birthday, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tokyo, bahamas, usa
Similarity:
32%
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