Movies like Falafel

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Falafel (2006)
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Falafel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.
Style: atmospheric, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: youth, obsessive quest, escapades, nothing goes right, disorder, nightlife, summer, conflict, dark humor, profanity, urban, hit and run, violent content, boy, post war, graphic violence, motor scooter, young
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: lebanon, middle east, beirut lebanon
Keyword: lebanese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and captivating films with plots about youth, disorder, friends, coming of age, nothing goes right, couples and love and romance mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Falafel: Hello Carter (2013), Son of Babylon (2009), Running Wild (1998), Voice Over (2014), If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hello Carter (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Down-on-his-luck Carter has recently become homeless, single and unemployed. Desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend, he goes off on an adventure throughout London to find her, picking up some odd helpers along the way.
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: obsessive quest, nothing goes right, unfulfilled love, love and romance, disorder, escapades, chases and races, city life, nightlife, bittersweet, bare chested male, male objectification ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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95%
Son of Babylon (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot: human spirit, political unrest, adolescence vs adulthood, youth, hopes, family relations, escapades, desert, arab, boy, international relations, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq
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63%
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Running Wild (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drama directed by Timothy Bond.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, family life, animal life, family relations, danger, obsessive quest, heroes, escapades, father daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, poaching, helicopter ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Voice Over (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, clever, realistic
Plot: family relations, couples, breakup, dull life, nothing goes right, introspection, disorder, strong female presence, unfulfillment, parents and children, siblings relations, homecoming
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, offbeat
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, society, nothing goes right, immigrant, disorder, kurd, muslim, life is a bitch, misfit, dark humor, communication problem ...
Time: 90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: iraq, paris france, france, europe
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58%
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. During these ...
Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: youth, children, disorder, nothing goes right, parents and children, bittersweet, family relations, thirtysomething life, family problems, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, custody ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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56%
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Cow (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Chinese peasant is given the responsibility of protecting his village's special dairy cow during a particularly harsh winter in 1940.
Style: touching, atmospheric, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, friendship, survival, escapades, life is a bitch, danger, war, dark humor, chinese history, refugee, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: china, asia
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56%
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Kisses (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family problems, escapades, obsessive quest, danger, innocence lost, first love, child, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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King Kelly (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Kelly strips – her best friend Jordan captures the event on her mobile phone. Kelly’s name is well known among the visitors of (in)appropriate online portals. The two teenagers digitally record anything and everything that crosses their paths ...
Style: realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: found footage, desire for fame, lifestyle, nightlife, on the road, satire, profanity, ambition, computers and web, coming of age, best friend, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Midsummer Night's Rave is a modern rave take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream released in 2002
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: rave, clubbing, party, shakespeare, dj, tragic love, club, drug use, profanity, sexual content, stoner, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Ned Rifle (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, murder, escapades, obsessive quest, chases and races, parents and children, search for father, coming of age, religion, art, politics ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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46%
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The Wild Ones (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Five juvenile delinquents break out of jail and attempt to make their way to a house in the Mendoza foothills of Argentina.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, bleak
Plot: survival, getting home, juvenile delinquency, hopes, escapades, society, human nature, youth, wilderness, social decay, disintegration, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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44%
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Self Made (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Self Made tells the story of two women - one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, they find themselves living the life of the other on the opposite side of the border.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, surreal, clever ...
Plot: couples, self discovery, society, disorder, mistaken identity, memory loss, introspection, impossible love, love and romance, artists and showbiz, military life, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestinian authority, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Ex-Wife of My Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lovers reunited, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, life turned upside down, pregnancy, couple relations, lifestyle, disorder, love and romance, couples, screwball, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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43%
Two Shots Fired (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story: One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a sixteen-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, disturbing, humorous, offbeat
Plot: friendship, family relations, teenage life, youth, parents and children, dark humor, boy, siblings relations, friends, urban, house, gun
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
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43%
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The Chef (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Året är 1969. Artonårige Martin mönstrar på som andrekock på lastfartyget "Snow Drift", med destination Kapstaden. Det är Martins tredje resa. I fartygets kök härskar förstekocken Peter Stein, här är allting underkastat hans ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Plot: youth, ship, follow your dream, nothing goes right, hopes, friendship, food, revenge, murder, cooking, restaurant, friends ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
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40%
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Love That Boy (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Love That Boy is the story of Phoebe, a socially inept overachiever, unrecognized in a world run by C students. Phoebe’s life is totally dominated by her “To Do Before Graduation” list. When Phoebe’s best friend Robyn dumps Phoebe two weeks ...
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, light, touching ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, friendship, friends, youth, college, coming of age, age difference, looking for love, teenager, obsession, love and romance ...
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.2
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Kill the Poor (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, biting, offbeat ...
Plot: pregnancy, social differences, lifestyle, couples, social decay, drug abuse, nothing goes right, social misfits, society, life is a bitch, rise to the top, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Starstruck (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A screenwriter befriends a washed up teen idol.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, humorous
Plot: hollywood, disorder, dark humor, dull life, friends, love and romance, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, unfulfillment, actor's life, buddies, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles
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39%
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Lake Tahoe (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: youth, shaolin, obsessive quest, self discovery, teenage life, family relations, small town, coming of age, boy, lake, small town life, mourning ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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35%
Laila's Birthday (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Netherlands
Duration: 71 min.
Story: "At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?" Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu Laila's wife reminds her husband. But on his young daughter's birthday, like any day, Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: taxi driver, birthday, parents and children, satire, down on your luck, one day, justice, father and daughter, love, unemployment, society, gift ...
Time: 21st century
Place: palestine, middle east
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33%
2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous
Plot: friends, friendship, partner, lifestyle, love and romance, odd couple, self discovery, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, mockumentary ...
Plot: lifestyle, ambition, obsession, actor's life, addiction, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, blind ambition, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, media ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Excuse my French (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
Style: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, sad
Plot: youth, social differences, society, teachers and students, dishonesty, family problems, hidden identity, religions or cults, discrimination, disorder, death in the family, coming of age ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Matchmaker (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story: During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
Style: sentimental, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: matchmaking, looking for love, love and romance, teenage life, best friend, apprentice, male female relationship, adaptation, holocaust, israeli culture, israeli, traumatic childhood ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: middle east, israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Falkenberg Farewell (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's the last summer in Falkenberg for five childhood friends. David yearns to be a child again and Holger never wants to move away. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jörgen finances his ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, friendship, grownups, best friend, small town, childhood friend, relocation, summer, society, nihilism, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Grown Ups (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Plot: single parent, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, love and romance, youth, teenage love, parents and children, couples, summer, disorder, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.4
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Giraffada (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: veterinarian, giraffe, zoo, obsessive quest, young heroes, father son relationship, parents and children, escapades, youth, bomb, coming of age, on the road ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: palestine, israel, palestinian authority, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Last Summer of the Rich (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Vienna's high society parties with sex, drugs, alcohol and young models. Hanna von Stezewitz stands in the center of it all. She's young, attractive and rich, head of a corporate group and one of Vienna's most important financers.
Style: humorous, sexy, suspenseful, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: lgbt, strong female presence, nightlife, sexual relations, lesbian romance, lesbian, lesbian interest, love and romance, lovers, lesbian relationship, society, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Grad Night (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of friends celebrates their graduation from Crispus Attucks High School with a jammin' party. It's hormones on overdrive, recreational drugs and lap dancing galore as the Class of 2005 goes out in style.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: tolerance, friends, youth, lifestyle, nightlife, high school life, city life, high school, love, acceptance, fight, black ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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