converging storylines

[JollyRott3n]

Name movies that show different characters living completely separate lives but at some point or in some way their stories converge. I'm having one of those days where my brain is completely stumped because I'm remembering an awesome movie from the early 2000s about a stern father in Japan, and a poor family in the Middle East, and somehow their stories affected one another. I'm trying to think of that and others...

Ahhhh I hate this feeling...it's on the tip of my brain...I need more crack.

[Derelict Coin-op]

Would it happen to be Babel by any chance?

[Josso]

Symbol (2009) has an amazingly funny storyline merge, can't help you on your specific film though