Movies like The Edge of Heaven
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The Edge of Heaven (2007)
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Original name: Auf der anderen Seite
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey,where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.
Style:
emotional, touching, breathtaking, lyrical, psychological, contemplative, political, independent film, realistic, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, tragic event, lgbtq, prostitute, student, loss of daughter, multiple storylines, rebelliousness, lgbt, coincidence, prison, migration, kurd, destiny, funeral, stepmother, gay, muslim, refugee, european, death, tragedy, lesbian, heaven and hell, love ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, contemporary
Place:
germany, turkey, hamburg germany, middle east, istanbul turkey, balkan, europe ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about society, family relations, couples, hopes, love and romance, parents and children and couple relations mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Edge of Heaven: Head-On (2004), After the Wedding (2006), In This Tricky Life (2001), Unveiled (2005), The God of Wood (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style:
depressing, sexy, breathtaking, harsh, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suicide attempt, ethnicity, marriage, sex, immigrant, love story, relationships, culture clash, passion, extramarital affair, marriage of convenience, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
wedding, marriage, poverty, nordic, destiny, family bonds, wealth, family relations, family problems, family secret, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, india, bombay india
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Uruguay, Cuba, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, romantic ...
Plot:
infidelity, prostitute, hopes, transsexual, love and romance, dysfunctional family, fall in love, social decay, looking for love, unrequited love, womanizer, downfall ...
Place:
spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, uruguay
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, gender, lgbtq, gender bending, lesbian, lgbt, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, misfit, politics, fall in love, disorder, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Yao (Madi Diocou) and Moroccan Rachid (Soufiane Ouaarab) arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa (Marisa Paredes) ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, love and romance, culture clash, fall in love, gender, family relations, lifestyle, society, parents and children, gays and lesbians, sexuality, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
28%
23K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…
Style:
art house, psychological, gloomy, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
prison, death, advice, turk, slow burn, women's issues, kurd, muslim, hidden treasure, lonely, couples, murder ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
turkey, middle east
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28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, multicultural ...
Plot:
homosexuality, politics, gender, political corruption, muslim, terrorist, prostitute, brother sister relationship, religions or cults, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples ...
Place:
cairo egypt, egypt, africa, middle east
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, hopes, love and romance, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
27%
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272K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, emotional, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, courtroom drama, hiv, lawyer, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, discrimination, gay interest, homosexual, lawsuit, medical ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
27%
957
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tania, a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son Ivan. Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested.
Style:
captivating, touching, emotional, sentimental, political ...
Plot:
illegal alien, escape, human spirit, fighting the system, social differences, injustice, immigrant, family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, parents and children, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
26%
328K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France, Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style:
emotional, breathtaking, inspirational, sincere, cerebral ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, redemption, woman urinating, cultural difference, deaf girl, desert, mexican border, sex, death, destiny, language barrier, multiple perspectives ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and ...
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
couples, politics, love affair, parents and children, hopes, couple relations, love triangle, state affairs, society, introspection, love and romance, political unrest ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 70s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
kazakhstan, greece, new york, canada, russia ...
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, lgbt, self discovery, couple relations, society, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, sea turtle, mother's day, birth mother ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, 60s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A teenager prisoner awaits his release when two weeks before that happens he's told that his mother is returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a Sociology student, Ana, working in the penitentiary as an intern.
Style:
serious, rough, touching, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
forced sexual contact, prison warden, teenage love, redemption, power relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, confined, society, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
romania, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
muslim, islam, society, faith, koran, politics, family relations, solitary, fall in love, new job, religions or cults, heaven ...
Place:
turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match ...
Style:
sexy, contemplative, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, gay, sex work, gay lead character, homosexuality, gay couple, gay sex, gay relationship, gay love, male male relationship, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
26%
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:
released from prison, starting over, love affair, homecoming, mother son relationship, society, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, reconciliation, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, black sea
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
cyclist, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes, disability, parents and children, human nature, misfit, human spirit, redemption, family relations, new love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
25%
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337
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
sisters, introspection, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, surgical operation, journey, dealing with death, unfulfillment, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany, hamburg germany, paris france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dilber lives with her family in a very poor eastern village, her only dream is to marry her childhood lover, Ali. But when she finds out that it won't happen because of a reason that she can't get away with, she gets crazy and lock herself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, bleak, emotional
Plot:
true love, gender, couple relations, couples, love and romance, disability, wooing, unlikely couple, introspection, hopes, family tradition, village life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
25%
431
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict with deeply-rooted ...
Style:
serious, sincere, atmospheric, touching, thinking ...
Plot:
rebellion, forbidden love, introspection, self discovery, haunted by the past, hopes, society, youth, love and romance, against the rules, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. ...
Style:
erotic, captivating, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitute, coming of age, murder, couples, vengeance, parents and children, female friendship, revenge, illegal prostitution, family relations, redemption, love and romance ...
Place:
east asia, germany, europe, south korea, korea ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Irene discovers that she must eat hearts in order to survive the alien invasion in Sicily.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, touching, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, society, businesswoman, introspection, love, gay, loss of friend, couple relations, workaholic, character change, friends, lifestyle change ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
Style:
saga, realistic, costume drama, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family business, fall in love, workplace, society, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, victorian england, rivalry, impossible love, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the boarder between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
Style:
contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
border, immigrant, politics, danger, human spirit, couples, political unrest, life is a bitch, state affairs, rebelliousness, hopes, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, germany, ukraine, europe
Similarity:
24%
127
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris (Andoy Ranay) is a documentary filmmaker with a well-regarded body of work and a large community of ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
breakup, love affair, couples, gender, fall in love, sexual relations, bittersweet, trust, love, gays and lesbians, friendship, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Style:
depressing, philosophical, touching, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, life, professor, destiny, loneliness, self discovery, friendship, jazz, arrest, lawyer, midlife crisis, existentialism ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
new york, connecticut, michigan, senegal, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
24%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A retired teacher who returns to Istanbul after years away, Nazim tries to reacquaint himself with his hometown, which has changed significantly. While waiting for his pension to begin, Nazim takes a temporary job as a taxi driver and frequently ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
stalking, village, couples, family relations, love and romance, sleazy, society, hopes, single parent, village life, fall in love, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, hopes, couple relations, misfit, starting over, culture clash, family life, immigrant, society, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
china, washington d.c., usa, asia, persia
Similarity:
24%
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