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My Mother's Castle (1990)
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Original name: Le Château de ma mère
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
My Mother's Castle (Le chateau de ma mere) is a sequel and companion piece to My Father's Glory (La Gloire de Mon Pere), both based on the childhood recollections of Marcel Pagnol. Like its predecessor, the movie explores the adventures of the young Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) during his summers at the family summer home in Provence.
Style:
sexy, talky, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, emotional, crying, light, enigmatic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
countryside, teacher, childhood, coming of age, friendship, little girl, nostalgia, farm, school, family relations, weekend, couples, apprentice, parents and children, understanding, couple relations, heartwarming, memories, youth, summer, family drama, character study, biopic, hospital, world war one ...
Time:
1900s, year 1990, 20th century, 1910s, victorian era
Place:
provence, france, europe, marseille, paris france, tokyo, marseille provence
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Most similar movies to My Mother's Castle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and crying films with plots about family relations, friendship, father son relationship, boy, friend, death and childhood mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like My Mother's Castle: My Father's Glory (1990), Monsieur Ibrahim (2003), Toast (2010), The Go-Between (1971), Valentin (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
French adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's memoirs of his childhood in the countryside, early in the century.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
countryside, childhood, coming of age, children, childhood memory, country house, summer, precociousness, childhood friend, precocious child, brother brother relationship, boy ...
Time:
1900s, turn of the century, 19th century, year 1990, 20th century ...
Place:
france, marseille, south of france, europe, provence ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style:
sentimental, sexy, touching, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, muslim, religion, adoption, friendship, self discovery, youth, koran, generation gap, family relations, teaching the ways of the world, parent child relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place:
paris france, europe, switzerland, middle east, turkey ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Nigel's mother was always a poor cook, but her chronic asthma and ...
Style:
period piece, tragicomedy, sentimental, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
cooking, coming of age, gay interest, food, chef, cooking and food, homosexuality, lgbt, first kiss, youth, high school, cleaning lady ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, coming of age, class differences, summer, love, literary, countryside, first love, curse, magician, country estate, man boy relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, 20th century, 1950s, year 1900 ...
Place:
england, america, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive ...
Style:
sentimental, sweet, touching, realistic, lyrical ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, children, dysfunctional family, little boy, absent mother, astronaut, family problems, misfit, parents and children, elementary school, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 2002, 60s, 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
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18%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, Ireland, France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, sad ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
dog, pets, rescue, friendship, parents and children, getting home, animal, lassie, youth, christmas, little girl, child ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, scotland, yorkshire, scottish highlands ...
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18%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Style:
meditative, witty, melancholic, art house, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wine, friendship, kick-butt women, autumn, women, matchmaking, starting over, midlife crisis, human nature, parents and children, love, wedding ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
france, south of france, europe, london, paris france ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship ...
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
terminal illness, destiny, couples, insomnia, family relations, parents and children, couple relations, musician's life, life is a bitch, love and romance, single parent, chess ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
18%
97K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, children, single father, single parent, small town, kids and family, grief, teenager ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1972, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is looking for an escape from his family's stifling home life when he encounters Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of "Rambo: First Blood", Lee plans to make ...
Style:
touching, feel good, stylized, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
friendship, childhood, coming of age, filmmaking, friendship between boys, youth, bullying, small town, children, school, boy, family relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style:
sad, touching, depressing, compassionate, serious ...
Audience:
toddlers, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, ira, injustice, parents and children, youth, family relations, depression, life is a bitch, death, children, rich and poor, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 90s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son, and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors ...
Style:
period piece, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, temptation, inventor, jazz, swan, beethoven, young couple, married man, voice over narration, female nudity, child's point of view, mansion ...
Time:
1930s, year 1999, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, europe
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Goran Markovic, known more for his dramatic work, achieved something that's eluded many great filmmakers - both smart and funny comedy. Based loosely on his own life as a kid growing up in Tito's communist Yugoslavia in the 1950s, the ...
Style:
sentimental, captivating, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, dictatorship, boy, dictator, little boy, world war two, traumatic childhood, totalitarian regime, satire, obsession, politics ...
Time:
year 1992, 50s, 1950s, year 1954
Place:
former yugoslavia, balkan, bosnia, serbia, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, tense, sad ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
boy, self discovery, rescue, hopes, friendship, coming of age, children, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time:
1950s, year 1951, year 2003, post world war two, year 1952 ...
Place:
denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, road movie ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
on the road, countryside, friendship, family relations, partner, love and romance, couple relations, misfit, self discovery, buddies, fall in love, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, europe, brittany, galicia
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, ...
Style:
touching, sincere, romantic, surprise ending, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnancy, happy ending, large family, lovers apart, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, parents and children, widower, presumed dead, first love, summer, single mother ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1939, year 1940, 50s
Place:
france, provence, europe, south of france
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, emotional, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
charles dickens, greed, vengeance, fall in love, family reunited, happy ending, dysfunctional family, betrayal, uncle nephew relationship, victorian england, family relations, rescue ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1850s, year 2002, 1830s ...
Place:
london, europe, liverpool, yorkshire, england
Similarity:
17%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
teenager, father son relationship, memory, death, coming of age, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, writers ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962 ...
Place:
brighton, london, england
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A feel-good comedy about the laughter, excitement and fun that come with being a kid! Joshua is a thoughtful 10-year-old looking for some simple answers to life's eternal questions. The problem is that no one - including his concerned parents ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, light, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, happy ending, religion, life philosophy, existentialism, boys' school, death in the family, teenage life, baseball, boy, friendship ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
philadelphia, usa, rome italy
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style:
sweet, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
adoption, father son relationship, orphan, childhood trauma, imagination, writers, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, children, single father ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A story told quietly of Vincent a welder at a large and seemingly toxic plant along the Rhône, living in a village with his sons, wife, and mother, saying little to each other.
Style:
humorous, captivating, psychological, sincere, road movie ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, factory, couple relations, lifestyle, human nature, social differences, crumbling marriage, parents and children, painting, marriage proposal, alienation ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
venice, italy, europe, egypt
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic at solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
children, kidnapping, orphan, rescue, childhood, amateur detective, hospital, chase, girl, boy, school, coming of age ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 90s, year 1998, 50s ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
17%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, factual ...
Plot:
philosophy, betrayal, male virgin, loss of virginity, love and romance, family relations, writer's life, lifestyle, parents and children, poet, art, taboo subject ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
russia, europe, moscow russia
Similarity:
17%
22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get ...
Style:
teen, touching, romantic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, child romance, female protagonist, pregnancy, self discovery, small town, happy ending, voice over narration, spring break, husband wife relationship, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1974, year 1994, 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
young lovers, unfaithfulness, divorce, unhappiness, abortion, adultery, seduction, cancer, professor, friendship, infidelity, love story ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, humorous, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, best friend, happy ending, single father, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 60s, year 1967
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, boston
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood
Style:
sentimental, emotional, teen, intense, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
musician's life, music, coming of age, the beatles, follow your dream, rock and roll, biopic, childhood, prodigy, musician, adolescence, rock ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2009 ...
Place:
england, europe, new zealand, hamburg germany, liverpool ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with ...
Style:
anthology, touching, realistic, semi serious, feel good
Plot:
coming of age, voyeurism, childhood, female nudity, girl, summer vacation, boy, countryside, friendship, village life, church, bus driver ...
Time:
1950s, year 1987, 20th century, 50s
Place:
brittany, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style:
period piece, touching, emotional, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
writers, destiny, biopic, love story, friendship, mental disorder, bittersweet, couples, hospital, small town, loneliness, love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, year 1933, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new mexico, texas, ireland
Similarity:
17%
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