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Don Quixote's Children (1966)
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Original name: Дети Дон-Кихота
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The head of maternity clinic is nicknamed Don Quixote by his neighbors. He spends days and nights with newborn children, forgetting about his own growing sons.
Style:
sentimental, uplifting, emotional, comedy drama, period piece, nostalgic
Plot:
children, parenting, fatherhood, large family, sacrifice, loyalty, humanism, family drama, heartwarming, community, everyday life, coming of age, optimism, patriarch, siblings, slice of life, medical, small town, resilience, social realism, family relations, hospital, father son relationship, don quixote, lonely man ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, feel good, uplifting and comedy drama films with plots about slice of life, heartwarming, coming of age, family drama, community, small town and parenting mostly in Family, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Don Quixote's Children: Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964), I Bought a Father (1963), Dad, I'm Sorry (2021), Neymar (2023), Pyali (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
Style:
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Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of Ba Sang – the second of the 4 noisy siblings: Giau, Sang, Phu, Quy. Ba Sang is a meddler, “too” kind and always sacrifice for others despite they want it or not. Quan – Ba Sang’s son is a modern young Youtuber.
Style:
emotional, comedy drama, sentimental, humorous
Plot:
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Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Neymar tells the story of two friends who buy a Dog named Neymar.
Style:
family comedy, feel good, lighthearted, uplifting, emotional
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
dog, friendship, pets, pet owner relationship, heartwarming, unhappiness, children, male friendship, loyalty, slice of life, chaos, small town ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Story of two young siblings compassion for each other and how they overcome obstacles in life.
Style:
heartfelt, touching, emotional, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot:
family drama, siblings, compassion, support, empathy, resilience, bonding, hopes, childhood, social realism, humanism, struggle ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
TV movie directed by Henry Levin.
Style:
uplifting, feel good, sentimental, emotional, lighthearted
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
boy scout, children, orphan, heartwarming, empathy, unlikely friendships, coming of age, foster home, personal growth, teamwork, parenting, community ...
Time:
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Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A husband has to take care of his four children while his wife takes a vacation away from the family
Style:
feel good, family comedy, light, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
parenting, fatherhood, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, family relations, family bonds, house, parents and children, kids and family, lifestyle, parenthood ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Pathrose is a gas agency employee whose family includes his wife and his four children. The central character in the film is his second son Tony, who lives happily without doing any work. The story revolves around Tony's grandmother who comes ...
Style:
comedy drama, emotional, lighthearted
Plot:
family relations, family drama, father son relationship, family conflict, everyday life, heartwarming, family values, slice of life, parenting, unhappiness, social realism, coming of age ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A father left in charge of his three children while mum goes away on a 10-day holiday… What could possibly go wrong?
Style:
feel good, family comedy, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
children, father son relationship, family relations, youth, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, parents, families, fatherhood, parenting, family life, society ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Gokul’s financial reach far exceeds his reality, but juggling unpayable loans and dodging debt collectors, he tries his best to provide for his pampered son, Anbu. With his mother away on business, Anbu persuades his father to go on a motorcycle ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
family drama, road trip, father son relationship, character study, bonding, parenting, everyday life, coming of age, indian family, personal growth, intimate, slice of life ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A young boy's friendship with a barber inspires him to open his own salon.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, inspirational, emotional
Plot:
barbershop, ambition, friendship, personal growth, dream, coming of age, perseverance, life lesson, slice of life, community, small town, family drama ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
Story:
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, funny, satirical, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, holiday, heartwarming, christmas season, satire, kids and family, family life, parents and children, family relations, mother child relationship, large family, family drama ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
'Salt Mango Tree' explores certain systems at work in the current educational and social establishments and how aspirations are high to climb the haloed social ladder of the expected norm.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, comedy drama, emotional, educational
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
relationships, family drama, middle class, husband wife relationship, married couple, couple relations, kids and family, family problems, marital problem, parents and children, social problems, male female relationship ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The generation gap between a 56-year-old father and an 18-year-old son results in misunderstanding, distance, and tension between them. A family entertainer, Pappa Tamne Nahi Samjaay has the right balance of comedy and drama, featuring the emotional ...
Style:
gujarati, psychological, satirical, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
father son relationship, generation gap, urban, family drama, relationships, male female relationship, love affair, family relations, satire, love interest, generation, lifestyle ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, ...
Style:
emotional, comedy drama, sentimental, feel good
Plot:
children, single mother, childhood, siblings, domestic drama, parenting, empathy, social services, family secret, resilience, abandonment, deception ...
Place:
copenhagen, denmark
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Lotta is a five old girl living in Sweden with her mother, father, brother and sister. She is living the very normal life of all children of her age...
Style:
humorous, lighthearted, family comedy, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
nordic, children, innocence, childhood, siblings, sibling rivalry, curiosity, family values, slice of life, everyday life, imagination, empathy ...
Time:
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Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, sentimental, comedy drama
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The Cooper family share a small house, and absolutely no DNA. Mum Tess wanted to save as many kids as she could from the sort of childhood she had. So, along with her husband Toby, she now divides just about enough money and nowhere near enough time ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
32%
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Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
children, bicycle, child protagonist, siblings, family drama, family values, poverty, resilience, everyday life, coming of age, friendship, sacrifice ...
Place:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
bittersweet, small town, coming of age, brotherhood, family drama, siblings, down syndrome, disability, brother brother relationship, sibling relationship, life philosophy, family life ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, family comedy, satirical, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
miami
Similarity:
31%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, disturbing, satirical, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, slice of life, daughter, family relations, disability, bonding, heartwarming, intellectual disability, parents and children, satire, coping, fighting illness ...
Time:
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Place:
south korea, asia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, funny, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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790
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Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, light, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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