Movies like Summer in Berlin

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Summer in Berlin (2005)
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Summer in Berlin (2005)
Original name: Sommer vorm Balkon
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer comedy but it’s not. This film is an intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, psychological, offbeat, emotional, sexual, soap opera ...
Plot: friendship, unemployment, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, lifestyle, single parent, sexual intercourse, love, drinking, loneliness, mother son relationship, drinking alcohol, drug addiction, monkey, sex scene, summer, stasi, berlin wall, making love, european, disco, thirst, nursing, nurse, friend ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and humorous films with plots about family relations, friendship, love and romance, couples, friends, youth and life is a bitch mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Summer in Berlin: Steam (2007), Whiskey with Vodka (2009), More Sex & the Single Mom (2005), Take Care of My Cat (2001), Something Like Happiness (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Steam (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Style: serious, talky, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: sauna, widow, introspection, female friendship, life is a bitch, human spirit, self discovery, love and romance, elderly, hopes, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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Whiskey with Vodka (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: alcohol abuse, lifestyle, love and romance, showbiz, troublemaker, actor's life, aging, artists and showbiz, drinking, drunk, actor, addiction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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More Sex & the Single Mom (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family gatherings, parents and children, looking for love, family relations, love and romance, midlife crisis, lifestyle, youth, couples, teenage life, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Take Care of My Cat (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer ...
Style: lyrical, psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, adulthood, cat, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Actor Gyung-soo (Kim Sang-kyung) is passed over for a part and decides to leave Seoul and visit a friend. His friend tells him the legend of the "Turning Gate," which foreshadows future events. During his visit, Gyung-soo meets Myung-sook ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, poetic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unemployment, love and romance, couples, friendship, infidelity, adultery, stranded, husband wife relationship, lie, mental disorder, gate, memories ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
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Something Like Happiness (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, eccentric family, love and romance, single parent, working class, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Do Fish Do It? (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 16-year old Jan is absent-mindedly strolling through the streets when he's run over by roller-skating Nina. As fast as she has stormed into his life, however, she rushes off again. Nina is 15 years old and full of crazy ideas. She lives ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: aids, youth, friendship, fish, best friend, family relations, breakup, first time, couples, skating, love and romance, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Breakfast with Curtis (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Syd is an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine. He caused a rift 5 years ago between his bohemian housemates and the family next door, but now tries to recruit his 14-year-old neighbor as a collaborator.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, friends, drug, teenage boy, coming of age, death threat, depression, love and romance, love, couples, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Berlin Is in Germany (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, serious
Plot: berlin wall, fish out of water, prisoner, friendship, society, social differences, estrangement, unsociability, jail, taxi driver, stasi, german reunification ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, german democratic republic, europe, germany, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Good Day, Ramon (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, motivational ...
Plot: friendship, immigrant, hopes, society, fish out of water, beggar, life is a bitch, unemployed, migration, old age, friends, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Law of Enclosures (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the Gulf War in the Middle East.
Style: psychological, touching, emotional, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot: family relations, elderly, retirement home, family problems, fall in love, couple relations, infidelity, haunted by the past, terminal illness, couples, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: iraq, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Sonja (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Sonja is struggling to deal with her parent separation, and find her feelings for her best friend might not just be a phase.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, sexy, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: coming of age, lesbian, friendship, love and romance, family relations, youth, friends, couples, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, best friend, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Bliss (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: prostitute, female nudity, couples, love and romance, fall in love, lgbt, prostitution, refugee, homeless, punk rock, bare breasts, flashback ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Harrison Montgomery (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot: elderly, lifestyle, friendship, follow your dream, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, buddies, love and romance, danger, poverty, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
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81%
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Aftermath (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young married couple has to deal with their emotional breakdowns after the death of their only daughter.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot: estrangement, breakdown, family problems, family relations, death in the family, life is a bitch, couple relations, vengeance, unemployment, grief, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
As We Were Dreaming (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Everything Is Fine (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, bleak ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Woman Is the Future of Man (2004)
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Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, and the other, a struggling filmmaker recently returned from the United States. After their reminiscences, they finally decide to go in search of the ...
Style: psychological, sentimental, emotional, touching, romantic comedy ...
Plot: friendship, love triangle, obsession, buddies, fall in love, lifestyle, longing, mature, mental disorder, college, male female relationship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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78%
Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental, serious ...
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78%
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Style: sincere, touching, realistic, sexual, offbeat ...
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78%
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
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Phantom Pain (2009)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
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77%
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: captivating, humorous, touching, feel good, light ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Girl from the Wardrobe (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: psychological, realistic, touching, atmospheric, cute ...
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76%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: disturbing, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
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