Movies like The Tear of the Cold

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The Tear of the Cold (2004)
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The Tear of the Cold (2004)
Original name: اشک سرما
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During the Iran-Iraq war,a soldier and a Kurdish girl come to a new understanding of the notion of animosity despite their supposedly opposite circumstances.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, islamic
Plot: iraq iran war, kurd, love, soldier, relationships, wartime, male female relationship, moral dilemma, death, degradation, minefield, persian, racist insult, racist comment, racist remark
Place: iraq, iran, persia

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Most similar movies to The Tear of the Cold

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, suspense and psychological films with plots about soldier, wartime life, persian, military, wartime, male female relationship and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like The Tear of the Cold: M for Mother (2006), Born Under Libra (2000), Little Kingdom (2019), Marooned in Iraq (2002), From Karkheh to Rhine (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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M for Mother (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father ...
Style: sincere, captivating, sad, islamic
Plot: iraq iran war, iranian, family problems, pregnancy, pregnant woman, child illness, relationship problems, illness, dysfunctional family, mother child relationship, parenthood, persian culture ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east, iraq
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100%
Born Under Libra (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Divided by student protests and conflicting politics, college lovers Daniel and Mahtab are separated when Daniel flees Tehran. But Mahtab follows, travelling south to his village. As the lovers reunite and head back to Tehran, they find themselves ...
Plot: iraq iran war, father daughter relationship, hijab, boyfriend, girlfriend, martyr, moon, university student, persian
Place: iran, iraq, persia
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44%
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Little Kingdom (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Soldier Jack deserts his unit and finds his wife Eva in isolated village in the mountains. She moved there to work in a factory unaware of the cruel owner Bar. Secret police arrives and it seems both Jack and Eva's time is up.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: soldier, world war two, military officer, military life, star crossed lovers, love affair, lovers apart, male female relationship, couple relations, love story, wartime, romantic relationship ...
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39%
Marooned in Iraq (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in ...
Style: sincere, serious, sentimental, realistic, road movie ...
Plot: kurd, military life, self discovery, military, musician's life, orphan, treasure hunt, daring rescue, escapades, battles, estrangement, village ...
Time: 2000s
Place: iraq, kurdistan, iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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From Karkheh to Rhine (1993)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Saeed who is suffering from injuries that he received in the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatments. In Germany, he meets his sister and her German husband. Saeed and his sister who have not had any relations in many years try to ...
Plot: iraq iran war, persian culture, iranian, interview, war veteran, leukemia, wound, journalist, airport, ferry, chemotherapy, mime ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east, iraq, germany
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33%
Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story: During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is ...
Style: inspirational, islamic, serious, realistic
Plot: racism, iranian, boy, iraq iran war, adoption, children, youth, mother and son, hidden treasure, xenophobia, superstition, poverty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iran, persia, iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Summer Solstice (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Coming of Age Drama in rural Poland in the summer of 1943.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, period piece
Plot: world war two, struggle for survival, nazi, male female relationship, wartime life, wartime, love affair, love story, war, tragic love, gendarmerie, skinny dipping ...
Time: 1940s
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29%
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The Night Bus (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the ...
Plot: killing, iraq iran war, martyrdom, love letter, iranian, young soldier, martyr, child soldier, poverty, pow, bus, death ...
Place: iran, persia
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28%
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Soldat blanc (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A muggy Saigon, late 1945. Stationed at a military camp in French Indochina, two young men--Robert and André--become close friends as they share the boredom and excitement of waiting for their first mission. But when they discover that instead of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, period piece
Plot: soldier, french army, pow, battles, resistance fighter, fight, moral dilemma, friends, resistance, mortal combat, indochina war, military ...
Place: vietnam, switzerland, indochina
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27%
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Godspeed (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An ex-army captain travels to Dalyan to stop his friend's beloved from marrying another man, but grief and trauma from a combat tragedy mar his journey.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, semi serious
Plot: captain, friendship, relationship problems, couple relations, friends, ex soldier, male female relationship, post traumatic stress, marriage, psychological trauma, escapades, soldier ...
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26%
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20 Cigarettes (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on director Aureliano Amadei's 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: filmmaking, wartime life, life is a bitch, director, iraq iran war, iraq war, soldier, military, filmmaker, death threat, military life, military base ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east
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26%
Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ayça and Hama Ali are together in spirit, but divided by geography. With the outbreak of the Iraq War leaving him stranded, she embarks on an odyssey from Turkey to be reunited with him.
Style: cinema verite
Plot: kurd, narration, male female relationship, prejudice, tragedy, border, love, bureaucracy, turk, iraq war, oppression
Place: iraq, iran, kurdistan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Across the River and Into the Trees (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In post WW2 Venice Italy, American Army Col. Richard Cantwell, haunted by the war, is a bona fide hero who faces news of his illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend a weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to ...
Style: romantic, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: world war two, love and romance, male female relationship, couple relations, love affair, love interest, illness, couples, terminal illness, military officer, soldier, heart attack ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Patience Stone (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Afghanistan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country delivers an engrossing, emotional monologue to her comatose husband, in novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi's poetic and politically charged allegory based on his award-winning novel. (TIFF)
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating, realistic, rough ...
Plot: sexual abuse, family problems, injustice, resentment, danger, life is a bitch, rape turns to consensual sex, couples, couple relations, society, mother daughter relationship, muslim ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style: realistic, bleak, meditative, harsh, emotional ...
Plot: kurd, children, coming of age, youth, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, family in crisis, parents and children, village, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: iraq, iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
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24%
The Breitner Commando (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: french algerian war, algerian war, torture, soldier, military life, war, problem, wartime, wartime life, military, warrior, military officer ...
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Before It Ends (2023)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees - or stand firm in the Danish ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: liberation, refugee camp, world war, wartime, great war, prisoner of war camp, war, post war, wartime life, world war two, nazi
Time: year 1945
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
 489
Franz + Polina (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A sad story of love between German soldier Franz and Russian girl Polina.
Style: captivating, exciting, touching, suspense
Plot: german soldier, deserter, nazi, soldier, occupation, world war two, military, forbidden love, war, love affair, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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A Melody to Remember (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Second Lieutenant Han Sang-yeol leads his platoon during the Korean War in the early 1950s. He carries emotional scars and pain within. So when he meets some children from a choir, who have lost everything in the war, Sang-yeol is deeply moved and ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: korean army, orphan, military, life is a bitch, wartime, soldier, children, military officer, kids in trouble, wartime life, social problems, war ...
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23%
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Hanagatami (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary ...
Style: suspense, psychological, surreal, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: wartime, world war two, wartime life, life is a bitch, teenage life, surrealism, teenager, humanity, vampire, coming of age
Time: year 1941
Place: japan, pearl harbor
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Distant Cry from Spring (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Distant Cry from Spring (TV Movies)
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: farm hand, widow, family problems, murderer, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, murder mystery, family relations, secret ...
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22%
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Blackboards (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, Italy, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, educational, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, kurd, uneducated, teacher, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, wartime life, obsessive quest, danger, hopes, teachers and students, wandering ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east, kurdistan, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 206
Foxhole (2021)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: battles, wartime life, wartime, war, world war one, alternate reality, soldier, military officer, civil war, fight, struggle for survival, american soldier ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Boys of Abu Ghraib (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: war, military, soldier, friendship, moral dilemma, prison life, prison, prisoner, american soldier, unlikely friendships, jail, jailed ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Girls of the Sun (2018)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium, Georgia, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists.
Style: independent film, islamic
Plot: kurd, isis, islam, partisan, woman with a gun, woman, terrorist, revolution, resistance, violent, girl, prostitution ...
Place: kurdistan, middle east, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Hezarpa (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 197 min.
Story: The thief accidentally notices the secret of a girl and tries to exploit this position ....
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, humorous
Plot: escapades, friendship, dishonesty, disorder, danger, chase, family relations, society, ambition, rivalry, redemption, love and romance ...
Place: iran, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
In Love and War (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After being released from an Italian prison, British officer Eric Newby (Blue) must find his way out of Italy before the Germans come. However, he is injured on the way and is left behind from his fellow soldiers. He is helped out by the local ...
Style: captivating, romantic, sincere, period drama
Plot: wartime, world war two, couple relations, love story, romantic relationship, relationships, male female relationship, love and romance, tragic love, love affair, love interest, help ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
An Irrepressible Woman (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is ready to sacrifice her freedom to mary him at Buchenwald, where he's held prisoner. They ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: romantic relationship, lovers apart, love interest, couple relations, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, politician, love and romance, political prisoner, love story, social problems, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.4
 6K
Majority (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Mertkan has a simple life in Istanbul: 'working' as an office-boy in his dad's construction company, hanging out with his male friends in malls and discos, cruising with his dad's 4-wheel drive at night. There is no urgency for ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: domineering father, class differences, father son relationship, social differences, moral dilemma, star crossed lovers, family relations, relationships, social problems, in love, male female relationship, social commentary ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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