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Seven Billiard Tables (2007)
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Original name: Siete mesas de billar francés
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, when he suddenly takes ill. However, they arrive to discover that he has just passed away. Charo, the dead man's lover, explains the dire traits suffered by the paternal business: a hall with seven billiard tables.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
billiards, family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, swimming pool, grief, loss, family drama, character study, single mother, debt, female protagonist, working class, realism, resilience, bereavement, social realism, slice of life, inheritance, community, family secret, urban, bittersweet, female empowerment ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
spain
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, family drama, bittersweet, family problems, parents and children, slice of life and working class mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Seven Billiard Tables: Do I Know You? (2007), Happy 140 (2015), Brighton 4th (2021), Saltwater (2000), The Hotel (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Grandfather of Ana is clearly experiencing Alzheimer. Family as no choice and make some decisions. This tense situation will change the life of Ana.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, poignant ...
Plot:
memory loss, aging, family relations, elderly, life is a bitch, mental illness, grandfather granddaughter relationship, retirement home, senior citizen, alzheimer's disease, family drama, family conflict ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.
Style:
humorous, cynical, semi serious, light, touching ...
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, disorder, friends, friendship, discussion, lottery, life turned upside down, holiday, advocate, helicopter, actress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, canary islands
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Follows Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York. His aim is to get his son out of a gambling debt. He meets people who help him and people who ignore him.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional, intercultural ...
Plot:
father son relationship, gambling debt, immigrant, family drama, life is a bitch, gambler, financial problem, debt, needing money, father and son, money problems, family problems ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
68%
378
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, family relations, grief, family problems, money problems, family business, problem, life is a bitch, satire, financial problem, realism ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
64%
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129
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A single mother named Maria unespectedly inherits an hotel from her deceased father, where she will find the truth about her past while she tries get the business going.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, relationships, problem, family problems, family relations, satire, resort hotel, family business, hotel, business, hotel manager ...
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
63%
194
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: South Korea, France, Canada, China
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to support her family and earn enough money to get her husband out of jail, a woman with an unusual crying style becomes a professional mourner.
Style:
melancholic, bleak, realistic, crying, tragic
Plot:
mourning, female protagonist, family drama, prison, grief, desperation, working class, survival, poverty, character study, ritual, social commentary ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
china
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Carmina, 58, runs a shop selling Iberian products in Seville. After several robberies and no help from her insurance company, she comes up with a way to recover the money she needs to keep her family. While she waits in her kitchen for her plan to ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, humorous, captivating, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family business, workplace, parents and children, insurance, family relations, eccentric family, female protagonist, survival, family drama, resilience, storekeeper, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, andalusia
Similarity:
59%
103
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nandi, Grabi and Rober are three unemployed 30-year-olds living with their mothers. They pass their days sitting on a bench waiting for something to happen.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, satirical, melancholic, existential ...
Plot:
satire, unemployment, social satire, unemployed, society, family relations, social problems, family problems, lifestyle, character study, slice of life, living with parents ...
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film, dark comedy
Plot:
grief, family drama, family relations, healing, reconciliation, mourning, mother son relationship, bereavement, memory, funeral, personal growth, bittersweet ...
Place:
cleveland ohio
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Steelworker Chen has a passion for music and plays the accordion in a local band with a close group of friends. When his estranged wife returns one day after years of absence, she demands a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Chen is at a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, art film ...
Plot:
hopes, working class, factory worker, bittersweet, disagreement, prodigy, family relations, family problems, society, piano, musician, asian ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 90s
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
50%
74
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Joy Levine lives in an old apartment that, in complete contrast to her, is shabby and worn-out on the outside while well-kept and filled with joy on the inside. Her life changes when she auditions for a TV show called "Gotta Be Happy". To ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
optimism, parents and children, family relations, family life, misfit, family problems, dysfunctional family, physical appearance, fictional reality show, family drama, forgiveness, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, light, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
working class, tragedy, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, mafia, loss of child, murder, friendship, grief, poverty ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
italy, sicily
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ola sets off to Ireland to bring her father's body back to Poland after he dies in a building site accident. But never mind her dad, Ola wants to know if he had saved money for the car he had promised her. Dealing with foreign bureaucracy in ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, satirical, emotional ...
Plot:
personal growth, father daughter relationship, self discovery, coming of age, loss, family relations, lifestyle, relationships, family reunited, female protagonist, satire, intimate ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
poland, ireland
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, light ...
Plot:
bittersweet, family relations, fall in love, parents and children, society, love and romance, workplace situations, workplace, father son relationship, optimism, humanism, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Worker Agostino, one day returning to his apartment in the suburb of a big city, after the First Communion of his child, finds the house occupied by another family. Thus begins his personal battle to get it back together with his grandfather, his ...
Style:
sincere, humorous, semi serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
eviction, working class, satire, life turned upside down, family relations, forced into action, family life, society, family problems, righting the wronged, hopes, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic, islamic ...
Plot:
funeral, family relations, family problems, life turned upside down, family gatherings, family life, death in the family, disorder, parents and children, muslim, housekeeper, illegitimate child ...
Place:
morocco, tangier morocco, middle east
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, father and son, family life, parents and children, family drama, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, estranged parent, child protagonist, search for father, fatherhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF)
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, poignant ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, elderly, little girl, grandfather grandson relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, cousin cousin relationship, little boy, family drama, elderly man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. The character's lives overlap and collide. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
couple relations, family relations, family problems, immigrant, social relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, social differences, working class, culture clash, strong female lead ...
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, parents and children, society, family problems, elderly, dysfunctional family, family drama, alienation, grief, assimilation, diaspora ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, light, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
family drama, parents and children, life, family problems, confronting the past, father son relationship, family relations, relationship problems, revelation, dealing with the past, relationships, guilty conscience ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Montse, divorced and with two children who have long ignored her, prepares for a family reunion at her home on the Costa Brava.
Style:
hilarious, dark comedy
Plot:
family drama, family reunited, mother daughter conflict, divorce, family secret, single mother, female protagonist, slice of life, siblings, weekend getaway, slow burn, regret ...
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
38%
368
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
One Sunday in May, at home with Carolina, the hours are counted. The following Monday will have to publicly adhere to the collective emotion that overwhelmed a small community on the sea, a few kilometers from the capital. Mauro Secondari left, a ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
fatal accident, death, mourning, grief, loss, loss of family member, life is a bitch, bereavement, loss of spouse, family relations, family problems, female protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Selfish, opportunistic Benito returns to his home in Navarre when he learns that his father is dying. There, he reconnects with his younger brother Lalo, a metal sculptor who is emotionally needy. Benito also develops a surprising bond with Ainara, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
family relations, family in crisis, family problems, lifestyle, self discovery, youth, siblings relations, pretense, high maintenance, dealing with death, mentally unstable, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, madrid
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he screens movies over the course of decades, while also witnessing turbulent events of the times, ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working class, family relations, couples, hopes, longing, bittersweet, society, idealism, family life, life, social change, nostalgia ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 90s, 60s ...
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The movie tells a story about a family in France, in contemporary times, and its problem such as bittersweet and sincere, breakup, family problems, parents and children.
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, captivating
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, breakup, parents separation, hopes, starting over, bittersweet, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, separation, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A 40-year old actress (single and strong, yet lonely), her sister (an emotionally unstable schoolteacher whose married-with-kids life appears more orderly) and their domineering father, who gradually loses control over his family due to his ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
sisters, illness, family drama, fighting illness, family problems, sister sister relationship, parents and children, family relations, mother and daughter, mother daughter relationship, sister, sick mother ...
Similarity:
37%
864
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, family relations, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, everyday life, family drama, society, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
widow, depression, bittersweet, crumbling marriage, family relations, feminist, middle school, male female relationship, age-gap relationship, career, starting over, lottery ...
Time:
80s
Place:
baltimore, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towards him.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, parents and children, criminal heroes, vengeance, heist, heist gone wrong, family relations, money problems, resentment, family drama, reconciliation, regret ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
35%
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