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The Children of the Marshland (1999)
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The Children of the Marshland (1999)
Original name: Les enfants du marais
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
Plot: french countryside, football, interwar period, swamp, world war one, friendship, friends, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, best friend, lifestyle, small town, countryside, social relations, small town life, prison, revenge, boxer, steam train, forgiveness, frog, pride, snail, tantrum ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about friends, friendship, couples, family relations, love and romance, couple relations and social relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Children of the Marshland: True Enough (2007), My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010), A Crime in Paradise (2001), Viper's Nest (2011), Very Happy Alexander (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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True Enough (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
Plot: infidelity, couples, writer's life, gender, lifestyle, jazz, jazz singer, television, extramarital affair, ex husband ex wife relationship, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, lyon, france
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My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: friendship, teacher, elderly, intergenerational friendship, social relations, low self esteem, unsupportive parent, misfit, self discovery, illiteracy, unknown father, single mother ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, belgium
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A Crime in Paradise (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: unhappy marriage, couple relations, husband wife relationship, notoriety, lawyer, farmer, divorce, french countryside, village, small town, village life, countryside ...
Time: year 2001, 80s
Place: los angeles, france, usa, europe
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Viper's Nest (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, sexy, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dishonesty, friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, couples, family relations, social relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family problems, happiness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Very Happy Alexander (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to ...
Style: anthology, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: farm, countryside, death of wife, husband wife relationship, dog, farce, widower, farmer, happiness, laziness, car crash, rural setting ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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The Dandelions (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot: friendship, best friend, parents and children, family life, friends, couples, couple relations, children, culture, female friendship, school teacher, school ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france
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Face the Music (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: breakup, friendship, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, love and romance, friends, family relations, couples, peace, married, love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, couples, friends, unfulfillment, cellist, suicide, car accident ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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30%
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The Girl from Paris (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious
Plot: isolation, starting over, friendship, fish out of water, odd couple, couple relations, elderly, hopes, love and romance, disorder, lifestyle change, cultural difference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a ...
Style: talky, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: painter, french countryside, friendship, love, breakup, friends, gardener, friendship between men, village life, crumbling relationship, art, artist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nice france, europe, paris france, france, south of france
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My Name Is Juani (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual
Plot: lifestyle, follow your dream, friendship, hopes, city life, on the road, friends, tough heroes, couples, society, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, non-linear ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, looking for love, lifestyle, society, misfit, social differences, fall in love, disorder, buddies, love and romance, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
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A Good Marriage (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, realistic, captivating, talky ...
Plot: art history, female friendship, crazy love, amor, marriage, birthday party, couples, friends, screwball, love and romance, friendship, couple relations ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe, maine
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29%
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Actresses (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, talky ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man who tries to forget a lost love in alcohol will turn drunk again during an exciting night.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: couples, alcohol abuse, drinking, buddies, friendship, partner, small town life, alcoholic, post war, world war two, drinking alcohol, drug addiction ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: france, europe, english channel, normandy
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The Merry Widow (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Anne-Marie vient de perdre son mari dans un accident de voiture. Elle est enfin libre d'aimer celui qu'elle voit en cachette depuis deux ans. Mais elle n'a pas prévu que sa famille, pétrie de bons sentiments, a décidé de rester à ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, couples, love triangle, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, dealing with death, family gatherings, eccentric family, infidelity, mother son relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
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Turning Green (2005)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
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All Together (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Plot: friendship, aging, couples, family relations, elderly, couple relations, parents and children, old age, truth, friends, bittersweet, heart attack ...
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Expecting (2013)
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, indie film ...
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Place: usa
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The Dream Kids (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, serious ...
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Cheeky Girls (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, sexual
Audience: teens
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With Friends Like These (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himself a girlfriend and plans to move. Kurt and Blonde Kelly live together with their one-year-old ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels, europe
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Cleopatra (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
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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, feel good ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: sentimental, humorous, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
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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
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Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, south of france, europe
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Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, date night
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Place: france, paris france, europe
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26%
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The Outlander (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story: It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: friendship, friends, love affair, social relations, village life, village, fall in love, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, alcoholism ...
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The Gilded Cage (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot: concierge, family problems, nothing goes right, homecoming, family life, couples, disorder, getting home, couple relations, society, friendship, immigrant ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
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Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, hopes, youth, parents and children, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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