Movies like Baran
If you like "Baran" you are looking for touching, emotional and stylized movies about / with immigrant, true love, fall in love, unrequited love, self discovery, love and romance and youth themes of Drama and Romance genre shot in Iran.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Baran (2001)
9K
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, true love, fall in love, unrequited love, self discovery, love and romance, youth, family relations, society, human nature, parents and children, muslim, boy, refugee, secret, iranian, kurd, cooking, first love, islam, construction, arab, feminist, in love, girl ...
Time:
year 2001, contemporary
Place:
iran, middle east, japan, persia, tehran iran, afghanistan, kurdistan ...
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Baran
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, love, love and romance, youth, parents and children, father son relationship and society mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Baran: The Color of Paradise (1999), The Song of Sparrows (2008), Cairo Time (2009), The Road Home (1999), The Father (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
touching, emotional, dramatic, depressing, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
blindness, children, poverty, orphan, shame, islam, countryside, childhood, blind character, muslim, catholic, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran, tehran
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family in crisis, hopes, deaf child, family problems, family life, unemployment, parents and children, self discovery, human spirit, life is a bitch, new job, dignity ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches ...
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, romantic, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
passion, love, infidelity, tourist, marriage, character study, fall in love, dishonesty, couples, love and romance, chess, passionate love ...
Time:
1920s, 21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east, africa, alexandria egypt, cairo egypt ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Style:
romantic, road movie, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
true love, love, teacher, coming of age, funeral, loneliness, school, death, love story, grief, burial, asian history ...
Time:
year 1999, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. He travels to the southern parts of Iran, looking for work. Upon his return to his hometown, he notices certain changes in his family.
Style:
islamic, inspirational, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, humanist, chaos, child, traumatic childhood, boy, realism, little boy, muslim, family relations, parent child relationship, starting over ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?
Style:
realistic, psychological, touching, captivating, islamic ...
Plot:
blindness, hospital, temptation, couple relations, introspection, disability, injustice, life is a bitch, second chance, self discovery, illness, muslim ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, paris france, europe ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
Style:
islamic, spiritual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
iranian, family relations, teenage love, coming of age, writer's life, innocence lost, artists and showbiz, fall in love, love and romance, youth, politics, village life ...
Time:
90s, 1940s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Morocco, Bulgaria, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure ...
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
pilgrimage, on the road, travel, journey, father son relationship, family relations, culture clash, hopes, human nature, youth, society, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
belgrade serbia, jordan, serbia, france, europe ...
Similarity:
27%
Movie in collections
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, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, family problems, unfulfilled love, society, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, couples, bittersweet, life is a bitch, cafe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen when he was condemned to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the age of eighteen so that the conviction could be carried ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, psychological, sad ...
Plot:
crime and punishment, death sentence, prison, love and romance, confined, legal action, redemption, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, iranian, islam ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh (a intricately-designed rug), while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose ...
Style:
melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot:
happy ending, couples, forbidden love, scarecrow, family relations, solitude, couple relations, lifestyle, family life, village, village life, love affair ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
iran, middle east, tokyo, japan
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
immigrant, moral dilemma, emigration, fall in love, religions or cults, family relations, society, love and romance, parents and children, misfit, identity, engagement ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, ukraine
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, feel good, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
opposites attract, homecoming, family business, love affair, lifestyle, family relations, social differences, couples, love and romance, lovers reunited, village, restaurant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot:
immigrant, u.s. mexico border, single father, truck, father son relationship, theft, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, south america ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, ...
Style:
inspirational, bleak, sincere, road movie, political ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, politics, hopes, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2001
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, tehran iran, pakistan ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, young lovers, parents and children, troubled teen, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, loner, amor ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, islamic
Plot:
cafe, starting over, love affair, family relations, society, hopes, single parent, love and romance, immigrant, death in the family, mother daughter relationship, independent woman ...
Place:
iran, middle east, europe, asia, turkey ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
politics, dysfunctional family, introspection, factory worker, life is a bitch, drug dealing, parents and children, family relations, youth, factory, family life, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, japan, middle east, persia
Similarity:
20%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
I'm not Angry! is the story of Navid, a starred and expelled university student who - while trying to provide the least requirements of a normal life -, tries not to get angry when he is faced with the immoralities prevalent in the society, and ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, bleak
Plot:
forbidden love, rebellion, society, social differences, love and romance, love, college student, youth, immorality, anger, execution, twentysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, France, Netherlands
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, sentimental, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lovers reunited, love triangle, small town, love and romance, human nature, couples, crumbling marriage, introspection, couple relations, small town life, unfulfilled love, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
china, asia, shanghai
Similarity:
20%
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:
meditative, emotional, harsh, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
kurd, coming of age, children, youth, smuggling, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, parents and children, family in crisis, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia, iraq ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Style:
emotional, light, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
sisters, dancing, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, human nature, sibling relationship, life is a bitch, love and romance, brother sister relationship, sister sister relationship, pagan ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
ireland, africa, europe, england, spain
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, racism, culture clash, marriage, prejudice, immigrant, immigration, family relations, love, society, tragic love, sex ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, britain, manchester, pakistan ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, ...
Style:
heartbreaking, sweet, sentimental, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
single parent, disability, family drama, passion, friendship, father son relationship, boy, stranger, ship, passionate love, little boy, letter ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
scotland, europe, glasgow scotland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
A boy and a girl who are friends from their childhood fight and break up during their school and college. They meet again at the age of 25 and fall in love.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, entertaining
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, true love, teenage love, wooing, parents and children, rejection, family relations, young lovers, youth, school, love, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, down on your luck, escort, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, indiana, persia, israel ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter falls in love with her; a love which is completely rejected ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
iranian, intolerance, love triangle, starting over, false accusation, teachers and students, youth, crumbling marriage, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, teenage love, love story, youth, teenage life, first love, dealing with death, illness, adolescence ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, three brothers, lgbtq, redemption, gay love, hot guys, transsexual, male nudity, gay brother, gay lead character, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
alps, paris france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, Germany, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, talky ...
Plot:
culture clash, father daughter relationship, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, social differences, society, couple relations, human nature, love and romance, filmmaking, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
90s, 1900s, 1890s, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place:
china, asia, california, australia
Similarity:
18%
Related movie lists
