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Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
 7.7
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Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Original name: Good Bye, Lenin!
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An affectionate and refreshing East/West-Germany comedy about a boy who’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell and when she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happen (since she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Style: humorous, sentimental, witty, touching, feel good, comedy drama, clever, offbeat, realistic, breathtaking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: berlin wall, coma, politics, capitalism, idealism, communism, society, cold war, culture clash, amnesia, childhood, communist, doctor, german reunification, revolution, family relations, parents and children, social differences, protecting from truth, international relations, family secret, young man, secret, political unrest, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, year 2004, 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s ...
Place: east germany, germany, german democratic republic, berlin germany, east berlin, soviet union, europe ...
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What to Do in Case of Fire? (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At ...
Style: political, compassionate, melancholic, talky, realistic ...
Plot: politics, friendship, fighting the system, investigation, punk, anarchism, terrorism, bomb, unlikely friendships, anarchist, radical, revolution ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 90s, 2000s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
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The Edukators (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Style: political, philosophical, psychological, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rebelliousness, rebellion, debt, rebel, politics, boyfriend, friends, kidnapping, revolution, vandalism, fighting the system, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 1968, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, barcelona
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The Promise (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: politics, berlin wall, spy, iron curtain, stasi, cold war, crisis, anti communism, couples, love affair, impossible love, political unrest ...
Time: 80s, 60s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, prague ...
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Life is All You Get (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, clever, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police, existential crisis, escape, new love, street riots, couples, friends, buddies, society, politics, fall in love, dealing with death ...
Time: 90s
Place: berlin germany, europe, germany
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The Names of Love (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, sincere, talky, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: politics, public nudity, sex, bare breasts, culture clash, revolution, love story, fascism, storytelling, political activist, social activist, society ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, algeria
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The Lives of Others (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style: political thriller, gloomy, political, sincere, suspense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surveillance, cold war, berlin wall, spy, stasi, communism, iron curtain, secrets, loneliness, voyeurism, politics, suicide ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, year 1984 ...
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
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2 Days in Paris (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a ...
Style: humorous, romantic, artsy, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: male nudity, love, parenthood, fish out of water, lifestyle, society, relationship problems, profanity, relationships, hipster, couples, fall in love ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, venice, new york ...
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47%
 7.4
 24K
Together (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hippie, commune, lesbian, lgbt, friendship, utopia, idealism, gay, loneliness, ideology, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Beginners (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Style: touching, sad, sentimental, sincere, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, grief, homosexuality, gay father, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, self discovery, lgbt, dog, bittersweet, lgbtq ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 1950s, year 1978, 2000s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
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The Man Without a Past (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job ...
Style: bleak, satirical, black comedy, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: poverty, memory loss, amnesia, generosity, friendship, robbery, eccentricity, starting over, couple relations, haunted by the past, financial problem, family relations ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: estonia, europe, helsinki finland, north korea, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.4
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Garden State (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sweet, independent film, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: depression, self discovery, coming of age, funeral, melancholy, friendship, psychiatrist, cat, family relations, drug, dysfunctional family, small town ...
Time: year 2004, near future, medieval times, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, los angeles, new york, usa
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The Best of Youth (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 374 min.
Story: Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
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Time: 60s, 80s, year 2003, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: italy, lebanon, europe, turin italy, denmark ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
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Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, peru, america ...
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Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: sad, hispanic, art house, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
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Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, argentina ...
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 7.1
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About a Boy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, romantic, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, girls' night, family outing ...
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Time: year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe
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Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, rom com, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, love story, storytelling, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, true love, daughter, divorce, best friends in love, love, male female friendship, father ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, year 1992, 20th century ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Beloved Berlin Wall (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching, captivating ...
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Time: 80s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, east berlin ...
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The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style: depressing, talky, sincere, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
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Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2005, near future, 2000s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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The Legend of Rita (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens ...
Style: melancholic, captivating, tense, suspenseful, political ...
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Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: germany, east germany, angola, berlin germany, german democratic republic ...
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38%
My Words, My Lies - My Love (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: novelist, fall in love, rising to stardom, wooing, love and romance, dishonesty, writer's life, overnight success, cons and scams, manuscript, plagiarism, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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 7.0
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Away We Go (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Veronica expecting their first child, Burt’s parents decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, road movie, talky ...
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Time: year 2009, 21st century
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Paris, I Love You (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: anthology, stylized, talky, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, montmartre paris, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Red Cockatoo (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: stasi, love triangle, youth, rebellion, infidelity, against the rules, berlin wall, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, self discovery, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: german democratic republic, germany, europe, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.8
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Lymelife (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his ...
Style: sexy, romantic, talky, touching, serious ...
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Time: year 2008, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
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38%
Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1999, y2k, 90s
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting ...
Style: touching, independent film, sexy, witty, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian relationship, gender, lgbt, lesbian love, gay, biological father, infidelity, father son relationship, adultery, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, southern california, buenos aires argentina
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37%
 6.1
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Smart People (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, father daughter relationship, self discovery, eccentricity, happy ending, family relations, parents and children, teacher, couples, family life, couple relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.5
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Born in 68 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Paris, 1968. Catherine, Yves and Hervé are twenty years old. They're students and they love each other. The May student uprisings radically change their lives. Overtaken by communal utopia, they leave the city with a few friends to set up ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
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Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Family Stone (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An uptight, conservative, businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Style: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, cancer, holiday, family drama, terminal illness, secret, brother sister relationship, dysfunctional family, love, family values, christmas season, snow ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
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