Movies like Yaaba

20 movies like Yaaba, ordered by similarity : The Dolphin(1987), A United Kingdom(2016), Tilai(1990), Zama(2017), The Forgotten Kingdom(2013), Winter Sleepers(1997), Moolaadé(2004), Billu Barber(2009), Times and Winds(2006), The Christmas Candle(2013), Kirikou and the Men and Women(2012), Pond Life(2017) ...

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Yaaba

A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When ... See full summary »

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The Dolphin

A dolphin takes the form of a human man in order to seduce the women of a fishing village.

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A United Kingdom

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

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Tilai

Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken ... See full summary »

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Zama

In the 18th century, a highly-placed servant of the Spanish crown who is obsessed with petty grudges and fantasies plots his transfer to Buenos Aires.

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The Forgotten Kingdom

What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on account of a horrific experiment gone awry?

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Winter Sleepers

Setting in a small mountain town, a man, looking for revenge because of his daughter's accidentally killing, mistakenly track out a young couple, troubling with their ordinary life problems.

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Moolaadé

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

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Billu Barber

In an Indian village, a struggling barber sees his luck begin to turn when residents learn that a famous actor he once knew is coming to town.

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Times and Winds

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The Christmas Candle

In 19th-century England, a minister's quest to modernize his village puts him at odds with people who believe that whoever lights the candle that an angel touched will receive a miracle on Christmas Eve.

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Kirikou and the Men and Women

Once again, Kirikou's noble Grandfather tell us more of his grandson's untold adventures.

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Pond Life

Summertime, 1994. In a quiet mining village just outside Doncaster, a rumour stirs about the legend of a giant carp in the nearby decoy ponds. Trevor takes watch one night at the water's ... See full summary »

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The Return of Martin Guerre

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

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The Wind Will Carry Us

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.

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Call Me by Your Name

In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.

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Mararia

Fermín is a doctor who fall in love of Mararia in silence. Beltrahn appears and wins the love of Mararia and unleash the wrath of Fermin.

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Abandoned

In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.

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Was weg is, is weg

Three brothers are finding her way home after a disastrous accident of her uncle in their childhood.

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Mediterranea

Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.

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