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The Town (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.
Style: aesthetic, art house, black and white, slow cinema, independent film
Plot: art, minimalism, alienation, muslim, small town, spring, town, children, rural setting, turk, smoking, cemetery ...
Place: turkey, middle east
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He Didn't Want to Kill (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It’s about a 13th-century Georgian legendary avenger, the noble robber Matsi Khvitia, who bravely fought against the princes’ arbitrary rule.
Plot: sultan, young man, tree, mountain, hanging, wound, best friend, fictional war, pursuit, love, kidnapping, friend ...
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Calendar (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Armenia, Germany
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.
Style: spiritual, independent film, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: photography, identity, photograph, photographer, spy, ruins, family relations, translator, dating, husband wife relationship, chaos, couples ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: armenia, macedonia, canada, turkey
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Baran (2001)
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 ...
Style: touching, emotional, lyrical, stylized, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: immigrant, fall in love, self discovery, love and romance, family relations, youth, human nature, society, unrequited love, parents and children, muslim, refugee ...
Time: year 2001
Place: iran, middle east, japan, persia, tehran iran ...
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Ararat (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Style: disturbing, emotional, realistic, sexy, meta ...
Plot: genocide, armenian genocide, filmmaking, politics, freedom, atrocity, war crime, self discovery, haunted by the past, against humanity, family problems, painting ...
Time: year 2002, 1910s, 20th century, year 1915, 1930s ...
Place: armenia, canada, ottoman empire, middle east, new york ...
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Mendirman Jaloliddin (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Uzbekistan, Turkey
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah, the ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire, initiated a tragic but united struggle against the Mongol invasion. After unsuccessful attempts by the Khwarazm shahs to stop the Mongol invasion that began in the Central Asian ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, costume drama
Plot: genghis khan, sultan, empire, leader, power struggle, warrior, political conspiracy, fight for supremacy, political unrest, historical figure, political intrigue, battles ...
Time: 13th century
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Big Man, Little Love (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hejar, meaning "Dispossessed", a little Kurdish orphan war victim, educates a Turkish judge!
Style: sincere, suspense, sentimental, islamic, political ...
Plot: racism, kurd, nationalism, children, orphan, neighbor, political oppression, old man, cultural difference, injustice, murder, police ...
Place: kurdistan, turkey
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A Punters Prayer (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young gambler makes a large, risky bet on a horse race. When the odds turn in his favour, more than one party has sudden interest in the winning betting slip, and they'll do anything to get their hands on it.
Style: independent film
Plot: british gangster, gambling, poker, horse race, turk, money, gangster, british, greek, roulette, jamaican, cash ...
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Taste of Cherry (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style: art house, contemplative, independent film, road movie, spiritual ...
Plot: suicide, existentialism, soldier, muslim, death, desert, dialogue, iranian, depression, spirituality, hard life, art ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
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Ray (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, pianist, disability, blind character, heroin ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, 20th century, 60s, 50s ...
Place: georgia, new york, indianapolis indiana, california, usa ...
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Harem (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story: A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, sentimental, tense ...
Plot: revolution, sultan, abduction, anger, escape attempt, murder, death, female protagonist, woman in danger, islam, romantic relationship, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Time: turn of the century, 1900s
Place: middle east, ottoman empire
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On Board (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The sailors who were duped by woman sellers, want to steal their capitals to retaliate from them. There are four men and one woman in a ruined boat. Four lazy and dissatisfaction sailors. The woman represent lust, delectation and appalling potential ...
Style: art house, aesthetic, islamic, independent film, exciting ...
Plot: ship, thief, destructive relationship, metaphor, lonely, theft, kidnapping, isolation, prostitute, hashish, virgin, power ...
Time: 90s
Place: balkan, istanbul turkey, turkey
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The Wall (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal ...
Style: political, art house, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: kurd, juvenile delinquency, prison life, jail, sex crime, social injustice, traumatic childhood, politics, child abuse, revolutionary, injustice, revolution ...
Time: 80s
Place: kurdistan, turkey, europe, france
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Chiko (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest cities but every beast has its belly and here, in the very underbelly, Chiko lives in a world where violence, staking and keeping a claim, and ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealer, gang, cocaine, immigrant, friendship, rivalry, ambition, murder, smuggling, betrayal, deception, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hamburg germany, germany, europe
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Saf (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul ...
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: murder, missing person, hiding place, death, immigration, refugee, family relations, couples, police station, prison, female protagonist, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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Heads on Fire (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Film by Erwin Michelberger.
Plot: turk, urban setting, alienation, abandoned warehouse, teenage boy, arranged marriage, musician, vandalism, teenage girl, male prostitute, band
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Black and White Love (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min.
TV show
Story: Ferhat is a hitman working for his criminal uncle. Aslı is a young and idealistic doctor. One day, their roads crossed in the most unexpected way: Aslı is forced to operate on a man that Ferhat had shot.
Style: emotional, touching, disturbing, melancholic, light ...
Plot: opposites attract, forced marriage, power of love, rescue, fake marriage, jealousy, love, love story, strong female character, self sacrifice, marriage, doctor ...
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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Halam Geldi (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "Halam Geldi"(My Aunt has Arrived) does not just tell a story in the Greek village of Northern Cyprus, where the sounds of the Ezan is accompanied by the church bells, it also underlines a tradition in Anatolia; the drama of child brides. ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, touching, crying
Plot: child bride, military, family relations, friendship, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, school, corruption, loss of child, domineering father, young girl, border crossing ...
Place: cyprus
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Mixed Kebab (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ibrahim chooses to fall for young and handsome Kevin over marrying his cute but expensive cousin Elif while kid brother Furkan converts to Islamic fundamentalism.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay relationship, gay, gay couple, closeted homosexual, muslim, tradition, family relations, culture clash, interracial relations, self discovery, opposites attract, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: antwerp, europe, turkey, belgium
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Midnight at the Pera Palace (2022)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: At a historic Istanbul hotel, a journalist is unexpectedly thrust into the past and must stop a plot that could change the fate of modern Turkey.
Style: disturbing, entertaining, captivating
Plot: hotel, conspiracy, time travel, time loop, hotel room, sent to the past, political intrigue, time traveler, political campaign, changing the past or future, time jump, historical character ...
Time: pre world war one, post world war one, 1910s, 20th century
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey, ottoman empire
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Town & Country (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, farce, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, architect, relationship vs career, family problems, couple relations, introspection, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, new york, mississippi, paris france, manhattan new york city
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The Shadow Line (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A noir thriller with diverse individuals whose worlds become interwoven after the murder of drug baron Harvey Wratten. From the cop with a bullet in his brain, whose amnesia leaves him doubtful of his own moral compass; to the drug-lord driven by a ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, detective, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, who to trust, police corruption, uncover truth, investigation, conspiracy, forensics, mysterious character, hitman, one last job, death, secret ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Mehmed: The Conqueror (2018)
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: In the year 1451, Young Sultan Mehmed headed to Edirne with a dream after he got the news regarding his father, the Sultan who had passed away.
Style: tense, exciting, factual, serious, bloody ...
Plot: sultan, throne, historical character, revenge, conspiracy, marriage, death, power, father son relationship, death of brother, love, death of father ...
Time: 15th century
Place: ottoman empire, turkey, constantinople
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The Bus (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Turkey
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away.
Style: sad, art house, comedy drama, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: immigrant, migration, money, group, bitch, underground, racism, turk, gay, nightclub, snow, bus ...
Place: stockholm sweden, turkey, germany
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The Kidnapping of the Maidens (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don't oppose them.
Plot: arabian nights, islam, harem, ruler, tribute, palace, muslim, turk, christianity, secret passageway, corporal punishment, maiden ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century
Place: romania
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When the Greeks (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At the turn of the twentieth century a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the ...
Plot: fate, group, hiding place, police, tradition, ransom, kidnapping, rich man, bandit, greek, freedom, mountain ...
Time: 1890s
Place: greece, turkey, athens greece
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The Soimaresti Clan (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.
Plot: folklore, decapitation, medieval, battles, punishment, peasant, barbarian, revolt, turk, christianity, loyalty, village ...
Time: 17th century, medieval times
Place: romania
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The Daughter of the Sun (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The plain of Thessaly, 1910. The tenant farmers suffer untold hardships, both from the Arvanites invaders who ravage and seize their possessions and from the chief landlord of the area Stratos Karatzas, who claims the lion’s share of their ...
Plot: woman, daughter, son, killing, rural setting, marriage, torture, justice, feudalism, desire, loyalty, greek ...
Time: 1900s, 70s
Place: hellas, greece
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Happy Birthday, Türke! (1992)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's ...
Style: detective, neo noir
Plot: private investigator, foster home, turk, private detective, police, secret, missing person, male nudity, male pubic hair, underworld, pubic hair
Place: europe, germany
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Rage (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family. Simon Laub, professor of literature, and his wife Christa, real ...
Plot: bullying, boy, harassment, rudeness, youth, youth gang, teenager, humiliation, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, assault, home invasion ...
Place: berlin germany, turkey
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