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Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two sisters in their early thirties find themselves isolated in the Aegean summer cottage of their childhood, as they must deal with their uneasy sibling relationship and confront their devastating recent past past.
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
sisters, family drama, sibling relationship, isolation, grief, character study, strained relationship, intimate, family secret, guilt, sibling rivalry, memory ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
Style:
touching, political, thought provoking, captivating, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apartheid, racism, interracial relations, self discovery, politics, racial tension, priest, third world, racial discrimination, afrikaans, narration, psychology ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1946, 19th century
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
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7K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
Style:
sexy, touching, controversial, romantic, offbeat ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian love, love, gay, lesbian romance, glbt, hinduism, lgbtq, sapphic, sexuality ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
india, indiana, new delhi, asia, taj mahal ...
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8K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, offbeat, sentimental, poignant ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
masseur, politics, islam, friendship, unrequited love, women of color, muslim, independence, revenge, british, betrayal, vengeance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1947
Place:
india, new delhi, asia, pakistan, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
Style:
philosophical, slow cinema, art house, road movie, contemplative ...
Plot:
destiny, immigrant, terminal illness, coming of age, dialogue, art, storytelling, writers, greek, hospital, refugee, journey ...
Time:
90s, 1910s, year 1998, future
Place:
greece, australia, japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
interracial relations, forbidden love, sikh, love and romance, fall in love, couples, society, soldier, political unrest, social relations, muslim, male female relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
pakistan, india, africa, middle east, south africa ...
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16K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, philosophical, poignant, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hinduism, prostitute, women, prostitution, love, politics, friendship, relationships, brutality, couple relations, marriage, mentor ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, year 2005, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
india, asia, canada
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15K
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:
sexy, disturbing, emotional, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, filmmaking, politics, ethnic, painting, atrocity, war crime, self discovery, haunted by the past, against humanity, family problems ...
Time:
year 2002, 1910s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1915 ...
Place:
armenia, canada, ottoman empire, middle east, toronto ontario canada ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cultural revolution, unrequited love, dressmaker, mountain village, anti communist, love triangle, culture clash, coming of age, fall in love, love affair, social differences, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
china, asia, east asia, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Style:
emotional, touching, lyrical, depressing, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, hopes, children, midlife crisis, family life, human nature, couple relations, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, love and romance, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family relations, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family feud, interracial relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, life turned upside down, family business, realism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA, Hong Kong, Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession
Style:
sexy, touching, atmospheric, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, first lesbian experience, iranian, teenage girl, sex, closeted lesbian, propaganda, lesbian love, lgbt, oppression, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tehran iran, dubai, middle east, iran, persia ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
A young British girl travels to Israel/Palestine, retracing the steps of her grandfather - a British soldier stationed there in the 1940s.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, occupation, soldier, diary, military, wartime life, military life, society, life is a bitch, youth, political unrest, loss of family member ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
palestine, israel, middle east, palestinian authority
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A Canadian-Brith film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name. The film tells the story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England grow up in the country that is nothing like their ...
Style:
captivating, surreal, stylized, psychological, epic ...
Plot:
hopes, family relations, political unrest, youth, coming of age, love and romance, society, siblings relations, rich and poor, magic realism, coup, colonialism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s, 60s, year 1917 ...
Place:
india, bombay india, pakistan, asia, kashmir ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, Qatar
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
On a remote, isolated, unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country, the women in the village learn of this fact ...
Style:
touching, sincere, uplifting, humorous, poignant ...
Plot:
religious differences, muslim, arab, religion, peaceful mission, disagreement, society, strong female character, religious, christianity, women of color, civil war ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, maghreb, persia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crashes into Omer's car. The causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, destiny, couples, life, hopes, power of love, love triangle, love and romance, fall in love, childhood memory, love, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, slow cinema, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
murder, police investigation, forensic, brutality, forensics, character study, road trip, isolation, everyday life, law enforcement, introspection, existentialism ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, maghreb, turkey ...
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276K
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Australia
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartbreaking, crying, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
divorce, muslim, poverty, alzheimer's disease, marriage, court, marital problem, hospital, religion, islam, justice, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
iran, persia, nebraska, maghreb, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iraq, Turkey, Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, stylized, islamic ...
Plot:
kurd, poet, lovers apart, incest, tragic love, love triangle, haunted by the past, tragic hero, love and romance, society, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
kurdistan, middle east, iran, turkey, istanbul turkey ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
island, teenage girl, military, skinny dipping, fishing, building a house, flood, stranger, harvest, hiding, wounded soldier, boat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, soviet union
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
switched at birth, teenage boy, family relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, disorder, society, introspection, occupation, adolescence vs adulthood, identity crisis ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, interracial relations, rebelliousness, family life, friends, danger, terrorism, politics, society, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, palestinian authority
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A feature film that tells the story of the director's grandfather who was forced to leave Crete in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.
Style:
humorous, disturbing, captivating, sincere, educational
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
grandparent grandchild relationship, kids and family, immigration, immigrant, family relations, lifestyle, immigrant family, turk, third world, world war one, funeral, greek ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 1920s
Place:
crete, turkey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Athens - Greece - The age of Economic crisis Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, mind blowing, breathtaking ...
Plot:
true love, couple relations, couples, serendipity, love and romance, female nudity, fall in love, political unrest, multiple outcomes, parallel story, third world, parallel universe ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece
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52K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters ...
Style:
sincere, cerebral, captivating, art house, realistic ...
Plot:
coma, depression, dysfunctional family, relationships, divorce, parenthood, muslim, childhood, suicide, love and romance, haunted by the past, family reunited ...
Time:
year 2013, 90s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, iran, middle east, persia, maghreb ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their ...
Style:
funny, witty, talky, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
office, kick-butt women, satire, military, virginity, female soldier, military base, soldier, friendship, female pubic hair, israeli army, israeli ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, russia, tokyo
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43K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Style:
sad, realistic, heartbreaking, art house, social ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
sisters, teenage girl, coming of age, sexism, running away from home, sister sister relationship, virginity, teen suicide, islam, women's rights, women, arranged marriage ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 80s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east, maghreb, israel ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
lesbian, plot twist, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, twists and turns, sapphic, sex, lust, lesbian romance, lesbian sex, lesbianism ...
Time:
1930s, year 2016, ancient times, 2010s
Place:
japan, south korea, indiana, asia, korea ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Azerbaijan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight ...
Style:
thought provoking, romantic, costume drama, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
couples, turk, impossible love, forbidden love, society, world war one, christian, love and romance, family relations, secret love, friendship, dishonesty ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
azerbaijan, georgia, caucasus
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Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the ...
Style:
offbeat, captivating, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
caste system, religious differences, guilt, father daughter relationship, social differences, class differences, class conflict, couple relations, relationships, social problems, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2015, y2k
Place:
india
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