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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.
Style: sentimental, clever, realistic, talky, independent film, tense, touching, serious, witty, contemplative ...
Plot: writers, coming of age, friendship, world war two, dysfunctional family, family relations, father daughter relationship, culture clash, adopted son, half brother, obsession, youth, nanny, soldier, orphan, parents and children, love and romance, couples, teenage life, family problems, single parent, lifestyle, writer's life, human nature, eccentric family ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1998, 20th century, 1960s
Place: paris france, france, new england, europe, tokyo

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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexual
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new england, maine
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Cet amour-là (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, serious, sincere ...
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Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Wild Iris (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
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Sisters (2009)
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Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
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Place: italy, lyon, europe, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: touching, sad, sentimental, realistic, sincere ...
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Ricochet River (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
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54%
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Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
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Duration: 113 min.
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42%
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37%
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32%
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Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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32%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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