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Plot Summary:
Directed by Moshé Mizrahi.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min
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Wildfire (1988)
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Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, Dave foolishly attempted to rob a bank with a water pistol, and ended up in jail for eight years. Meanwhile Kay was sent to foster parents, where she met the successful business man Mike, whom she married and bore two kids. Now Frank is released from prison and immediately starts wooing Kay again. Although she's happy with Mike, she can't withdraw herself completely. Old memories and her husband's jealousy make her spend more and more time with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Circus Palestina (1998)
Plot Summary:
Israel's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Adrift on the Nile (1971)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 750
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: iconic
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The Second Wife (1967)
Plot Summary:
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
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Kuduz (1989)
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After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for years. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
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Made in Israel (2001)
Plot Summary:
Egon Schultz, the last Nazi criminal, is extradited by Syria to Israel. Hoffman, A wealthy businessman and son of a holocaust survivor, puts out a 2 million dollar contract on his head and a group of people turned Nazi-Hunters make their way through the heavy snows of Ramat Ha'Golan, to catch Schultz and bring him unharmed to the highest mountain, where Hoffman plans to kill "The Nazi Beast".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 113 min
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Zinat (1994)
Plot Summary:
The conflict felt by a modern Iranian woman as she is forced to choose between her career and the traditional obligations of a housewife are examined in this drama. Until she married Hamed, Zinat worked in a public health clinic in a small Iranian town. She loved her job and was deeply committed to helping the community. After the wedding, her in-laws and family force her to quit and become a full-time housewife. She does try, but her former patients keep returning for help. Zinat cannot, in good conscience, turn them away so she helps them. She then suffers the wrath of her mother-in-law, but even after the irate in-law locks Zinat in the house, the plucky young woman still continues to help people.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 87 min
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Trial on the Street (2009)
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Just a few hours to his wedding, Amir, a lad from the south of Tehran, receives a call from his closest friend Habib who insist on meeting him to speak about an urgent issue. He rushes to Habib's works place and there listens to Habib's devastating claim that his future wife is not the sexually innocent girl he believed. In a mixture of rage and bafflement, he takes the bride to the wedding place and then departs to reveal the truth about her past. At the same time, a guy named Nekooyi, the owner of a broken company gets stabbed by his friend who seems to have an affair with his wife, Nasim. To get to the airport and leave the country they take a taxi, driven by nobody but the guy sought by Amir.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Too Far to Go (1979)
Plot Summary:
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Eyes of a Thief (2014)
Plot Summary:
A father with a dangerous secret searching for his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Voices from the Heartland: Slaves of the Lord (2003)
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In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah (confirmation), which will take place on Passover. Becoming convinced that she is impure, and growing increasingly scared and depressed, she forces herself into an endless ritual of cleaning, while attempting to silence the whispering inner obsessional thoughts that are detailing every inch of her relentless guilt, over and over again. To make matters worse, Tamar's only friend, Rachel, lures her into sinful mischief: peeping into the Mikveh (bath house), turning a light on during the Sabbath. The girls even dare to secretly bathe at the Mikveh when Tamar gets her first period. Will Tamar succumb to her fears? A dark and unflinching portrayal of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and the inner turmoil of an adolescent girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining
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Bride of Fire (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tragedy in which a young woman from an Arab tribe, prevented from marrying her non-Arab Persian lover is forced against her wishes to marry her cousin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Virgina (1991)
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"Virgina" tells a tale from the end of the 19th century. It took place in a isolated village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife of a farmer gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man, so that she can work and be the family heir. This heartbreaking story of Virgina's life is told with strong words, augmented with harsh environment.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Sand Storm (2016)
Plot Summary:
A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
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To Take a Wife (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fill the Void (2012)
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Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, Mordechay. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira's promised match. Everything changes when a match is proposed to Yochay-Esther's late husband-to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it's too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls' mother finds out that Yochay may marry the widow and move to Belgium with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart's wish and her family duty. She will find out that the void which she must choose exists only within her heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, captivating, psychological, sincere, serious, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Diane (2018)
Plot Summary:
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, captivating, melancholic, existential, cult classic
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Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (2016)
Plot Summary:
You don’t need politics to make a political film… Love, pleasure, beauty and food are serious enough.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Wedding in Galilee (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Madame Rosa (1977)
Plot Summary:
Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Closed Season (2012)
Plot Summary:
1942 - Fritz and Emma are hiding Albert, a Jewish refugee, at their remote farm. Since their marriage has remained childless, Fritz asks Albert to sleep with Emma and conceive a child on his behalf.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Campfire (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, crying
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Ushpizin (2004)
Plot Summary:
In Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods, it's Succoth, seven days celebrating life's essentials in a sukkah, a temporary shack of both deprivation and hospitality. A devout couple, Moshe and Mali, married nearly five years and childless, are broke and praying for a miracle.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, sincere, serious, independent film, thinking, emotional, realistic, contemplative, surprise ending
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Live and Become (2005)
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In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, contemplative, sexy, indie film, realistic, gloomy, cult film
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Osama (2003)
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Teenage girl Osama cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widowed mother and grandmother. When Osama is called by the Taliban to join school and military training she embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Iran
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, bleak, thought provoking, breathtaking, talky, stylized, captivating
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Close to Home (2005)
Plot Summary:
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 friendship as they deal with their own emotional issues, the crushes and break-ups in their love lives, as well as the political realities.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
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The House on Chelouche Street (1973)
Plot Summary:
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, weird
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Bliss (2007)
Plot Summary:
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), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he cannot complete the task.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, touching, serious, contemplative, surprise ending, sweet
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20 Fingers (2004)
Plot Summary:
A film in several episodes with Bijan Daneshmand and Mania Akbari, exposing some of the issues of men and women within the confines of tradition and family life in Iran. Each episode displays a different form of male/female interaction. The placing of the actors in a moving vehicle or against a moving back drop signifies the movement of life despite all the obstacles in its way. The film deals with the roots of dependencies, limitations, power struggles and conflict that are the familiar stuff of life of couples in the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, clever, contemplative, talky, sexual, islamic, sexy
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My Father My Lord (2007)
Plot Summary:
"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 gap between the impish child and the stern father. When the father's all-consuming obsession with observing religious ritual inadvertently leads to tragedy, his previously subservient wife rages against both her husband and God. A dramatic retelling of the story of Abraham.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, captivating, sad, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative