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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
culture clash, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, family relations, love and romance, immigrant, political unrest, teenage love, youth, family problems, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s
Place:
iraq, israel
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America
Style:
semi autobiographical, aesthetic, existential, social, road movie ...
Plot:
greek, immigration, immigrant, emigration, migration, armenian genocide, american dream, boat, journey, determination, dream, narration ...
Time:
19th century, year 1963, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
greece, ottoman empire, new york, istanbul turkey, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Tunisia, France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
bathhouse, turkish bath, circumcision, coming of age, sexual awakening, arab, nudity, female nudity, youth, young boy, boy, erotica ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tunisia, middle east, africa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Before Slumdog Millionaire came Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s Oscar-nominated drama tells the moving story of life on the streets of Bombay as seen through the eyes of Chaipu, a twelve-year-old boy living rough in the city.
Style:
realistic, touching, social, art house, offbeat ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, drug addiction, coming of age, homeless, red light district, drug, sex, childhood, youth, corruption, betrayal, friendship ...
Time:
year 1988, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, bombay india
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Jew and an Arab in Israel become romantically involved, much to their family's dismay.
Style:
romantic drama, independent film, political drama
Plot:
incestuous relationship, israeli army, star crossed lovers, tragedy, forbidden love, interfaith relationship, middle east conflict, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic romance, social commentary, intolerance, cultural difference ...
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled, "Farewell My Concubine," that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou ...
Style:
visually stunning, visual, epic, retro, realistic ...
Plot:
homosexuality, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gender bending, theater, suicide, homoerotic friendship, crazy love, cultural revolution, chinese history, boy, sexual abuse ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 1930s, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
china, beijing china, tibet, asia, japan ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
Style:
islamic, contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
african, women of color, unwanted pregnancy, master and servant, redemption, feminism, feminist, colonialism, african diaspora, third world, girl power, women power ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, tunisia, middle east, persia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
loss of virginity, teenage sexuality, female nudity, third world, love, coming of age, bittersweet, best friend, nudity, family relations, friends, social relations ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tunisia, africa, middle east, north africa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the ...
Style:
philosophical, road movie, contemplative, avant garde, devastating ...
Plot:
male nudity, filmmaking, greek, on the road, holy grail, odyssey, symbolism, male pubic hair, marxism, art, love letter, treasure hunt ...
Time:
year 1995
Place:
greece, belgrade serbia, sarajevo, ancient greece, bosnia herzegovina ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a ...
Style:
depressing, erotic, emotional, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
prostitute, underage sex, loss of innocence, revolution, making love, cultural revolution, coming of age, women of color, corruption, death, loneliness, communism ...
Time:
year 1998, 70s, 20th century
Place:
china, tibet, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
The Legend of Bhagat Singh is a 2002 Indian historical biographical film about Bhagat Singh, a freedom fighter who fought for Indian independence.It shows in detail how Singh came to develop his views on the British Raj and his struggle for Indian ...
Style:
sincere, inspirational, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
sikh, revolution, freedom fighter, patriotism, police brutality, patriot, social decay, indian history, danger, rebelliousness, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, culture clash, haunted by the past, forbidden love, estrangement, couples, family problems, missing child, parents and children, on the run, danger, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style:
depressing, sexy, breathtaking, harsh, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suicide attempt, ethnicity, marriage, sex, immigrant, love story, relationships, culture clash, passion, extramarital affair, marriage of convenience, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot:
terrorism, prostitute, love affair, culture clash, life is a bitch, best friend, couples, injustice, cabaret, family relations, infidelity, nightclub ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, persia, latin america, algeria
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, USA, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couples, mail order bride, forbidden love, wedding, ship, fall in love, immigrant, love and romance, society, cruise, class differences, illicit affair ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
greece, new york, usa, ottoman empire
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
Style:
serious, captivating, rough, stylized, erotic ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, brothel, lesbian, prostitute, sex, drug abuse, female bonding, murder, lesbian sex, femme fatale, going straight, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, greece
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Music
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know the land their parents once had to flee.
Style:
road movie, captivating, realistic, serious, epic ...
Plot:
hopes, self discovery, homecoming, on the road, exile, infidelity, love and romance, couple relations, introspection, couples, dishonesty, social relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
spain, morocco, paris france, france, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
friendship, childhood, redemption, islam, muslim, coming of age, mission, guilt, courage, bully, rape, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
afghanistan, china, middle east, california, iraq ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, islamic ...
Plot:
wedding, politics, occupation, ethnic, border, hijab, wedding ceremony, arranged marriage, nationalism, culture clash, love and romance, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
middle east, syria, israel, palestine
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, UK, Italy, Greece, Israel, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, realistic, serious, inspirational ...
Plot:
politics, military, rebellion, friendship, battles, state affairs, rebelliousness, rivalry, danger, wartime life, political unrest, conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
israel, palestine, greece, middle east, holy land ...
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696K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style:
philosophical, touching, visually appealing, reflective, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
survival, animal, ocean, human animal relationship, loneliness, life & death, stranded, survivor, hopes, beautiful scenery, storm at sea, journey ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
india, america, asia, montreal, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Turkish man, whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup, finally returns home. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family farm, he takes his 8 year-old and tries to repair relations.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
homecoming, father son relationship, tragic hero, turk, family relations, society, trial, rebelliousness, rebel, family life, parents and children, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
turkey, maghreb, middle east, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
politics, soldier, military life, friendship, terrorism, women, danger, israeli, third world, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt ...
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, palestine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, erotic, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unsupportive spouse, dishonesty, sexual relations, crazy love, rape, winter, rough sex ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
turkey, middle east, sarajevo, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, forbidden love, lesbian interest, nude painting, religions or cults, lesbianism, rabbi, best friend, selflessness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, rebellion, british military, military, friends, state affairs, soldier, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, man boy relationship, boy ...
Time:
20th century, year 1947, 1940s, year 1977
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, jerusalem, london
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, escapades, youth, self discovery, missing person, coming of age, chases and races, hopes, judaism, third world, nun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, serious, touching ...
Plot:
rape, cultural difference, injustice, social differences, traditional versus modern, unlikely partners, love affair, innocence lost, husband wife relationship, turk, women's rights, misogyny ...
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: ...
Style:
sincere, serious, rough, emotional, bleak ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
missing person, israeli, forbidden love, society, family in danger, family feud, life turned upside down, police brutality, realism, family problems, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, jerusalem, nebraska ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers ...
Style:
anthology, multicultural, intercultural, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, memory, identity, city life, mother and daughter, nostalgia, intimate, family drama, slice of life, bittersweet, social realism ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, middle east, ottoman empire, greece
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