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Baran (2001)
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Baran (2001)
Original name: باران
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Kurdish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. When Lateef is given heavier tasks to compensate for new Afghan worker Rahmat, he resents his displacement and treats Rahmat cruelly. After one of his pranks, however, Lateef discovers Rahmat's secret--he is a girl named Baran. Latif's heart softens towards Baran and he shows his new affection for her by doing what he can to ease the hardships she suffers at work. revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.Baran is a 2001 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi, based on an original script by Majid Majidi. The movie is set during recent times in which there are a large number of Afghan refugees living on the outskirts of Tehran. Almost a silent movie, Baran won a number of awards both nationally and internationally for the director and writer Majid Majidi.
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, lyrical, serious, realistic, inspirational, compassionate, crying, islamic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: immigrant, fall in love, self discovery, love and romance, youth, family relations, society, human nature, unrequited love, parents and children, muslim, refugee, secret, iranian, true love, boy, cooking, first love, islam, construction, arab, feminist, in love, girl, bus ...
Time: year 2001, contemporary
Place: iran, middle east, japan, persia, tehran iran, afghanistan, tokyo ...
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The Color of Paradise (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the ...
Style: emotional, touching, dramatic, depressing, realistic ...
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Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
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The Song of Sparrows (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
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Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
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Cairo Time (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 90 min.
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The Road Home (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 89 min.
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Plot: true love, love, love story, death, teacher, coming of age, winter, first love, village life, loneliness, snow, school ...
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Duration: 91 min.
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Style: inspirational, islamic, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
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Plot: blindness, hospital, couple relations, introspection, disability, injustice, life is a bitch, second chance, self discovery, illness, muslim, recovery ...
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Cafe Setareh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fall in love, human nature, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, family problems, society, couples, bittersweet, cafe, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Gabbeh (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
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Duration: 75 min.
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Style: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, touching, serious ...
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The Green Chariot (2005)
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Duration: 47 min.
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Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
Plot: fall in love, moral dilemma, love and romance, society, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, immigrant, misfit, emigration, engagement, identity ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 116 min.
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20%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: realistic, bleak, meditative, harsh, emotional ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Cyclist (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: islamic, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.5
 4K
Leila (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 102 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Duration: 108 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 116 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
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Time: 1940s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 8K
Somersault (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sexy, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
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Time: year 2004
Place: australia, new south wales
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19%
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