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Floating Life (1996)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. They stay with a daughter who has already begun a successful career. Meanwhile their eldest daughter lives in Germany and their eldest son remains in Hong Kong. The film explores the different ways the family members cope with isolation and alienation.
Plot:
minimal dialogue, depression, generation, miscarriage, love, loneliness, family relations, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, isolation, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, multiculturalism, australian, female director
Place:
hong kong, australia, sydney australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, friendship and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Floating Life: The Sum of Us (1994), Overseas and Under Your Skin (2009), Autumn Moon (1992), Felicità (2020), A Month of Sundays (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"The Sum of Us" is an Aussie story about a father and a son both searching for love and sharing an unconventional bond. Harry, the father, is the caring and open-minded "mate" that borders on annoyance. His son Jeff ...
Style:
feel good, touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, father son relationship, gay son, lgbt, gays and lesbians, single father, lgbtq, looking for love, loneliness, love and romance, gay lead character, widower ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her ...
Plot:
depression, foster child, emigration, black people, racial prejudice, parent child relationship, culture clash, racism, multiculturalism, family relations, sauna, homosexual ...
Place:
berlin germany, finland
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88%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emmigrates to Canada.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
food, autumn, restaurant, sex, immigration, age-gap relationship, family relations, immigrants, friendship, culture clash, grandparent grandchild relationship, first time ...
Time:
90s, future
Place:
hong kong, canada, asia, tokyo
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86%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Tommy, 11 years old, is on the road again with her eccentric parents. This time, her freshly out-of-jail father has promised her: she won't miss the first school-day of the term! That was before her dad stole a sports car, her mother ...
Style:
entertaining, semi serious, satirical, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
family relations, escapades, satire, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, college student, kids and family
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, humorous, light, psychological, feel good
Plot:
real estate agent, midlife crisis, friendship, australian, family relations, father son relationship, mother son relationship, reincarnation, death of mother, misfit, escapades, society ...
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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This Is Where I Leave You similar movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous, touching
Plot:
family relations, obsession, gender, hopes, social relations, parents and children, couple relations, satire, machismo, genetics, jewish, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, compassionate, talky ...
Plot:
justice, australian, family relations, fighting the system, family life, against the odds, family in crisis, single parent, misfit, parents and children, prejudice, suburbs ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, beirut lebanon, melbourne australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been ...
Plot:
anarchist, erotica, politics, anarchism, student, evil man, mother daughter relationship, children, sex, riot, irony, idealism ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style:
humorous, allegory, gloomy, affectionate, visually appealing ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, working class, nude, male nudity, australian, satire, suspense, car, cathartic, twists and turns, parenthood, assassination ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A rich young Japanese man travels to Australia with the intention of buying a Citroën DS car (the goddess of the film's title - nicknamed the Déesse, after its initials in French, déesse being French for "goddess") that he has ...
Style:
serious, stylized, melancholic, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
on the road, mother daughter relationship, sexual abuse, child abuse, self discovery, obsessive quest, couples, unlikely partners, death, murder, husband wife relationship, children ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1967
Place:
australia, japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
Style:
entertaining, captivating
Plot:
guilt, family relations, father son relationship, miscarriage, children, guilty conscience, mother son relationship, life, relationships, boy, child murder, summer
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image.
Style:
humorous, psychological, captivating, feel good
Plot:
parenthood, mother son relationship, school, parents and children, social network, kids and family, social class, society, father daughter relationship, supportive parent, male female relationship, parenting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the ...
Style:
sexy, feel good, allegory, visually appealing, aesthetic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
american abroad, mother daughter relationship, coca cola, satire, small town, workplace, fish out of water, culture clash, food, australian, nude, seduction ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and ...
Plot:
dancing, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, blonde, nightclub, teenage girl
Time:
60s
Place:
sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
345
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A socially awkward band geek, Steven Turano, is planning on killing himself. However, when Clarence, the new quirky kid in school, befriends him, Steven's plans are sidetracked and he reaches beyond his comfort zone forming stronger ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
teen suicide, loneliness, friendship, depression, father son relationship, bullying, gay, loner, friendship between boys, gay slur, gay teenager, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push ...
Style:
surreal, thought provoking, semi autobiographical, political, epic ...
Plot:
surrealism, male nudity, existentialism, filmmaking, miscarriage, midlife crisis, journalism, hollywood, nude, dancing, coma, street life ...
Place:
mexico, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Violet, a feisty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes he lives in the city with his new wife, but in ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, teenage runaway, gay relationship, crush, teenage girl, gay interest, father daughter relationship, teenage boy, marijuana, gay parent, gay father ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll, with loads of laughter, lavish meals, flowing wine and fantastic ...
Plot:
rock star, beach house, philosophical conversation, nostalgia, food, family relations, suburbs, birthday, yacht, australian, wine, friend ...
Place:
new south wales, sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
New mother Line is living the high life in Hong Kong with husband Bjørn when she discovers that he has been unfaithful to her with their Filipino nanny, so Line takes her baby son and heads back to her old hometown in southern Funen.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
motherhood, infidelity, nanny, divorce, family relations, parents and children, family life, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, mother child relationship, fatherhood ...
Place:
hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, immigrants, suburbs, misfit, youth, society, teenage life, life turned upside down, culture clash, trespassing, moving ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years ago. Yasuo is his youngest son to whom he has entrusted his trade. Every day Nobuo goes for a walk ...
Plot:
father son relationship, old man, death of wife, anniversary, loneliness, snow, mountain, fish, death of mother, loss of wife, family relations, family reunited ...
Place:
hokkaido, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
single parent, family relations, disability, parents and children, eccentric family, family life, youth, divorced parents, siblings relations, sexual relations, mentally challenged, misfit ...
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
eccentric family, mental illness, dysfunctional family, hitchhiker, nanny, satire, suburbs, family life, youth, siblings relations, strong female presence, dark humor ...
Time:
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Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, surreal, humorous
Plot:
bad father, satire, family relations, journalism, obsession, parents and children, midlife crisis, rainstorm, motorcycle, weirdo, eccentricity, reporter ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After losing his wife and three kids, all Kyle wants is to mourn in peace. Unfortunately, his family insists on helping him.
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
homecoming, small town, starting over, prodigy, love and romance, hopes, couples, family problems, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, weakness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite ...
Style:
thought provoking, humorous, captivating, sincere
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A father and son reunites for a summer vacation after the tragic loss of their cancer ill mother and ex-wife.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
father son relationship, friendship, party, violence, love, death, family relations, pregnant teenager, addiction, teenage boy, family tragedy, loss of loved one ...
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41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Muriel’s Wedding is P.J. Hogan’s film debut. A humorous emancipation story of an unemployed woman who evolves from a dreamer into a self sustaining successful woman. An amusing comedy that’s funny, silly, angry and serious.
Style:
funny, light, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "where i see myself in 10 years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.
Plot:
male female relationship, family reunited, family relations, rocket, teenage boy, letter, working class, death of wife, teenage girl, death of mother, debate, patriarch ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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