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Longing (2024)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A business mogul runs into his old small town girlfriend while she is visiting the big city only to find out that they had a child together that he was unaware of.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
longing, parent child relationship, family secret, family drama, regret, bittersweet, mature, nostalgia, confrontation, midlife crisis, urban, social status, female nudity, adaptation, social realism, father son relationship, reunion
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, emotional and independent film films with plots about slice of life, bittersweet, regret, nostalgia, family drama, intimate and family secret mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Longing: Marita (2017), Weekend with Pops (2020), The Tango of Our Childhood (1985), Scent of Gardenias (1992), 3 Days with Dad (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, comedy drama, melancholic, realistic, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
sadness, family drama, broken family, empathy, bittersweet, father son relationship, reconciliation, nostalgia, intimate, personal growth, social realism, slice of life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
caucasus, eastern europe, armenia, soviet union, ussr
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub.
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Plot:
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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:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, road movie, melancholic, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
brotherhood, search for father, sibling rivalry, reconciliation, journey, european, bittersweet, confrontation, identity, self discovery, regret, family secret ...
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eastern europe
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68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Italy, France, Ireland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, tension, reflective, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
estrangement, siblings, family drama, family reunited, mature, mother daughter relationship, bonding, grief, regret, tragedy, introspection, homecoming ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, wistful
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Antonia, a young, beautiful, intelligent and successful executive, is in deep depression, she's dealing with an unwanted pregnancy from his previous relationship with his partner Sebastian, a young and dreamer, renowned photographer, who will ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
chile, santiago chile
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51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
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Place:
iceland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two Chicago couples struggle to keep their love alive when secrets and long-simmering resentments rise to the surface.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, character study, secrets, realism, husband wife relationship, marital problem, satire, lifestyle, secret, relationship problems, couple relations, relationships ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, tension, offbeat, psychological, dark comedy
Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, suspense, tension, realistic ...
Plot:
mourning, family secret, grief, family drama, funeral, mature, flashback, road trip, intimate, regret, siblings, small town ...
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146
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, realistic, existential
Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: Romania, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, africa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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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:
37%
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Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, captivating, semi serious, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, realistic, psychological, melancholic
Plot:
midlife crisis, family drama, family conflict, character study, reconciliation, acceptance, aging, introspection, urban, family gatherings, bittersweet, regret ...
Place:
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