Movies like Under the Moonlight 2001
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Under the Moonlight (2001)
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Original name: زیر نور ماه
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Seyyed Hassan, a young seminary student, is preparing to don the clerical attire. While the other students are also busy with similar preparations, Seyyed Hassan's supplies are stolen by a small boy. To identify the culprit, Seyyed Hassan sets out for the suburban area where he meets people who have never met a cleric and know nothing about the clerical profession. Under such unfamiliar circumstances, Seyyed Hassan acquires a new understanding of society and human beings.
Style:
contemplative, tense, suspenseful, exciting, touching, suspense, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic
Plot:
clergy, human nature, religions or cults, suburbs, introspection, suburban life, hopes, criminal heroes, muslim, boy, little boy, life is a bitch, society, persian
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
middle east, iran, persia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and touching films with plots about society, life is a bitch, persian, iranian, hopes, family relations and human nature mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Under the Moonlight: The Deserted Station (2002), Iron Island (2005), My Father My Lord (2007), The Willow Tree (2005), Goodbye (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go ...
Style:
sentimental, psychological, touching, serious, islamic ...
Plot:
teacher, self discovery, prodigy, on the road, teachers and students, society, youth, isolation, religions or cults, school, train, courtroom drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a ...
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Plot:
forbidden love, young lovers, ship, human nature, power relations, injustice, misfit, hopes, human spirit, anarchist, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, persia
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84%
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
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
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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:
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Without her husband and without her lawyer’s licence, which has been withdrawn, Noora is left pregnant and alone in her apartment. Her attempt to leave Iran turns into a fight with male chauvinism. A personal, nerve-wracking and infuriating film ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative, islamic ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, immigrant, woman in danger, society, danger, rebellion, life is a bitch, injustice, political unrest, chaos, arab, strong female presence ...
Place:
persia, middle east, iran
Similarity:
58%
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, sincere, realistic, serious, islamic ...
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, bittersweet, couples, downfall, life is a bitch, love and romance, iranian, city life, social differences, singleness, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Style:
melancholic, light, intense, art house, sincere ...
Plot:
relationships, passenger, character study, sister sister relationship, car, storytelling, solitude, driver, society, life is a bitch, sibling relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran, tehran iran ...
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
survival, injustice, political unrest, danger, hidden identity, family relations, religions or cults, human nature, dishonesty, feminism, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, afghanistan
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy, biting ...
Plot:
social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, immigrant, realism, life is a bitch, discrimination, society, interracial relations, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, sexual ...
Plot:
introspection, religions or cults, idealism, clergy, fall in love, society, hopes, self discovery, priest, friendship, love, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, serious, sincere, islamic ...
Plot:
injustice, fighting the system, political unrest, couples, society, feminism, state affairs, couple relations, legal, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, legal action ...
Time:
70s
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
44%
939
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
lovers apart, redemption, dysfunctional family, couples, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, rehabilitation, drug abuse, addiction, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
44%
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:
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Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love, family relations, multiple storylines, everyday life, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
20 short films about human rights.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, gloomy, contemplative ...
Plot:
human spirit, introspection, redemption, youth, life is a bitch, social differences, discrimination, idealism, injustice, hopes, society, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
religious faith, convent, hopes, koran, love, muslim, religions or cults, self discovery, clergy, human nature, youth, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Asia is a young Iranian woman whose brother has been tortured in prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the recent controversial presidential elections in Iran. She goes to Berlin to find the grave of Hitler fulfilling a promise made to her ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, tense, serious, poignant ...
Plot:
society, strong female presence, rabbi, religions or cults, political unrest, iranian, promise, human rights, political repression, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, exile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, islamic, gloomy ...
Plot:
couples, family relations, boy, deaf, sign language, youth, little boy, family problems, protecting from truth, mute or deaf, misfit, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, tehran
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Style:
compassionate, serious, sincere, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
isolation, father daughter relationship, confined, religions or cults, society, human nature, life is a bitch, children, blindness, childhood, twins, social worker ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, middle east, japan, tokyo
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Style:
existential, cult classic, spiritual, islamic, contemplative ...
Plot:
iranian, crumbling marriage, existentialism, cat, arab, unfulfillment, society, life is a bitch, starting over, couple relations, hopes, introspection ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, asia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, art house, avant garde, independent film, social ...
Plot:
filmmaking, iranian, redemption, existentialism, farming, amor, hipster, muslim, entertainment, couples, fictional reality, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, kurdistan
Similarity:
35%
74
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral.
Style:
sincere, serious, psychological, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, clergy, introspection, moral dilemma, church, society, elderly, religions or cults, religion, catholic church, moral ambiguity, guilt ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Alam, a very profiled specialist in neurology and a successful surgeon, is drowned in his professional and social work, in a way that he has totally forgotten all about his son Saman. Samantha the beautiful nights of desert with it starfull sky ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, psychological, islamic
Plot:
father son relationship, desert, father son estrangement, father and son, alienation, estranged father, estrangement, life philosophy, family relations, iranian, hidden treasure, neurologist ...
Place:
persia, iran, middle east
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A female talk show host in Cairo, Egypt, stirs up a political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, tense, islamic ...
Plot:
journalism, politics, hopes, introspection, injustice, rebelliousness, idealism, state affairs, media, dentist, political corruption, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, middle east, egypt
Similarity:
34%
800
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, introspection, society, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, youth, couples, fall in love, political unrest, culture clash, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle ...
Style:
islamic, serious, realistic, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
cycling, bicycle, immigrant, iranian, economist, bike, refugee, gambling, black market, motorcycle, injustice, religions or cults ...
Time:
80s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, afghanistan
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Reza is a petty thief who escapes jail by posing as a mullah. When he has to stay in disguise longer than he expected, he accidentally becomes the revered leader of a small-town mosque, bringing people flooding in with his on the hoof sermons ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, humorous, rough, islamic ...
Plot:
village, prison escape, prison, criminal heroes, hidden identity, society, fugitives, pretense, warden, religions or cults, small town life, iranian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
kurd, countryside, small town, village, fish out of water, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, politics, village life, death, existentialism ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1999
Place:
iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia, asia
Similarity:
32%
535
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
clergy, amateur detective, self discovery, uncover truth, redemption, religions or cults, family relations, homecoming, social relations, society, friendship, direction and purpose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
31%
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