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My Mother's Castle (1990)
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My Mother's Castle (1990)
Original name: Le château de ma mère
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, 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: talky, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, emotional, sexy, crying, light, enigmatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: countryside, teacher, childhood, coming of age, friendship, memories, school, family relations, weekend, couples, apprentice, little girl, nostalgia, parents and children, understanding, couple relations, heartwarming, farm, youth, summer, family drama, character study, biopic, hospital, journey ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 1990, 20th century, 1910s
Place: provence, france, europe, marseille, paris france, tokyo, marseille provence
Keyword: french, rose, watching a movie, salute, mass, trunk, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and crying films with plots about family relations, friendship, kiss, singing, father son relationship, parents and children and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like My Mother's Castle: My Father's Glory (1990), Jean de Florette (1986), Toast (2010), Valentin (2002), Miss Potter (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Father's Glory (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
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, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, coming of age, countryside, childhood, children, brother brother relationship, childhood memory, country house, childhood friend, cottage, boy, heartwarming ...
Time: 1900s, turn of the century, year 1990, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: france, marseille, south of france, europe, provence
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Jean de Florette (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, independent film, realistic, cynical ...
Plot: village life, farm, conspiracy, inheritance, countryside, society, life is a bitch, parents and children, village, greed, wildlife, culture ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 1920s
Place: provence, europe, france
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Toast (2010)
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: tragicomedy, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cooking, chef, cooking and food, food, youth, coming of age, lgbt, teenage life, homosexual, family problems, maid, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london
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21%
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Valentin (2002)
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, touching, sweet, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, dysfunctional family, children, loneliness, astronaut, family problems, misfit, parents and children, elementary school, unfulfillment, little boy ...
Time: year 2002, 60s, 20th century
Place: latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
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19%
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Miss Potter (2006)
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: sentimental, touching, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: writers, artist, writer's life, biopic, female artist, family relations, snobbism, painting, art, friendship, first love, rabbit ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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Autumn Tale (1998)
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: melancholic, meditative, witty, 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
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My Life So Far (1999)
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, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, inventor, jazz, youth, siblings, interwar period, estate, infidelity, family relations, couples, swan, voice over narration ...
Time: year 1999, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, europe
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19%
Kings and Queen (2004)
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, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: terminal illness, adoption, family relations, parents and children, destiny, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, musician's life, life is a bitch, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: france, paris france
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Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
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: costume drama, period piece, emotional, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
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Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2002, 1830s, 1850s
Place: london, europe, liverpool, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 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: touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, muslim, adoption, religion, friendship, self discovery, youth, man boy relationship, childhood, koran, generation gap, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, middle east, switzerland, turkey ...
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19%
The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 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, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: happy ending, father daughter relationship, pregnancy, parents and children, large family, sister sister relationship, lovers apart, widower, presumed dead, first love, summer, single mother ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1939, 50s
Place: france, provence, europe, south of france
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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: emotional, touching, sentimental, period piece, cult classic ...
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Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: texas, louisiana, usa, new mexico
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Monday Morning (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
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Duration: 124 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, road movie ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 90s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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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: touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
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Time: 1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
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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: father son relationship, memory, coming of age, teenager, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, death, writers ...
Time: year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962, year 1989
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Tito and Me (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 118 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, humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
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Style: emotional, sentimental, humorous, uplifting, melancholic ...
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Style: heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
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Duration: 85 min.
Story: An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 178 min.
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Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
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18%
The Last Station (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Style: sentimental, factual, period piece, touching, melancholic ...
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The Party (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Look at Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: stylized, lyrical, semi serious, sincere, humorous ...
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Place: france, paris france
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It's Easier for a Camel... (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: captivating, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Nowhere Boy (2009)
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, intense, emotional, sincere, witty ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 50s, 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place: europe, england, liverpool, hamburg germany, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.8
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Paris (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious ...
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Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris
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