Movies like Memory Box
If Memory Box's mix of quebec, lebanon war and suicide of father stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Memory Box's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Incendies
2010 · Directed by Denis Villeneuve · 131 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: lebanon · Also a French drama
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young…
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The Insult
2017 · Directed by Ziad Doueiri · 112 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
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Custody
2018 · Directed by Xavier Legrand · 93 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
Miriam and Antoine have recently separated. While she’s willing to permit their 17-year-old daughter Josephine to decide living arrangements for herself, Miriam is desperate to keep her youngest, 11-year-old Julien,…
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Live and Become
2005 · Directed by Radu Mihăileanu · 140 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
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.
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Polytechnique
2009 · Directed by Denis Villeneuve · 77 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
A dramatization of the École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, on December 9, 1989, where 14 female engineering students were murdered (and 13 were wounded) by a 25 year old psychotic misogynist armed with a…
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Caché
2005 · Directed by Michael Haneke · 118 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
As the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has…
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Elle
2016 · Directed by Paul Verhoeven · 131 min6.6
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life.
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Causeway
2022 · Directed by Lila Neugebauer · 94 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: mother daughter relationship · From the same decade (2020s)
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.