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Season's Beatings (1999)
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Season's Beatings (1999)
Original name: La Bûche
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?
Style: sentimental, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, entertaining, masterpiece
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, family relations, midlife crisis, new year, holiday, christmas spirit, pregnancy, restaurant, parents and children, family life, love and romance, fall in love, cabaret, couples, nightclub, dysfunctional family, self discovery, infidelity, family problems, looking for love, suburbs, single parent, lifestyle, suburban life, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, russia, europe, paris france
Keyword: jewish, french, english, marketplace

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Change of Plans (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
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Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, nothing goes right, friendship, couples, uninvited guest, disorder, love triangle, midlife crisis, infidelity, couple relations, love and romance ...
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Place: france, paris france, europe
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One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
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Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Daytrippers (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station ...
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Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: midlife crisis, love, marriage, friendship, battle of the sexes, pregnancy, infidelity, introspection, lifestyle, love affair, buddies, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2004
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Family Resemblances (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
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Style: humorous, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 90s
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Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: waitress, pianist, friendship, reconciliation, fall in love, lifestyle, couples, couple relations, artists and showbiz, collector, terminal illness, marital problem ...
Time: year 2006
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Country: USA, Germany, UK
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Style: sentimental, sexy, witty, melancholic, emotional ...
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