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Camera Buff (1979)
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Camera Buff (1979)
Original name: Amator
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
Style: biting, existential, art house, poetic, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, meta ...
Plot: filmmaking, breast feeding, art, existentialism, friendship, factory, factory worker, photographer, anti communist, obsession, social commentary, cinema, actor, photograph, dialogue, conflict, renaissance, art history, economist, politics, bus, polish, marital problem, communist party, friends ...
Time: year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland, california, new jersey
Keyword: russian, gangsters, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and clever films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, husband wife relationship, family relations, parents and children and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Camera Buff: Torremolinos 73 (2003), My American Uncle (1980), Day of the Wacko (2002), Blind Chance (1987), No End (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Torremolinos 73 (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.
Style: humorous, erotic, atmospheric, funny, semi serious ...
Plot: adult filmmaking, porn, cuckold, movie business, couple relations, obsessive quest, crumbling marriage, obsession, fondling, rebelliousness, husband wife relationship, hotel ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: spain, europe
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My American Uncle (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by ...
Style: cerebral, philosophical, clever, witty, existential ...
Plot: bittersweet, surrealism, social commentary, reward, summer, time travel, television, graduation, psychiatry, family drama, island, anxiety ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s, year 1977, year 1979
Place: france, europe, brittany, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Day of the Wacko (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school ...
Style: tragicomedy, humorous, cynical, independent film, existential ...
Plot: midlife crisis, alienation, nothing goes right, social satire, loner, teacher, obsession, polish, burnout, self loathing, paranoia, mental illness ...
Time: year 2002, middle ages
Place: poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
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Blind Chance (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Style: cerebral, philosophical, political, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: train, butterfly effect, politics, philosophy, existentialism, art, dialogue, destiny, time travel, female nudity, communism, love ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, near future
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, libya
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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No End (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Taking place in a 1982 Poland a translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Style: retro, depressing, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: hypnotist, grandmother grandson relationship, trial, renaissance, magic realism, law, love, dialogue, totalitarian regime, existentialism, mental health, heart attack ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century, year 1982
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Louder Than Bombs (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Set in a small Polish town, "Louder Than Bombs" tells the coming-of-age story of Marcin, a 21-year-old with a penchant for James Dean and The Smiths. After the death of his father, Marcin must contend with the funeral arrangements while ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: family relations, youth, love and romance, friends, friendship, parents and children, twentysomething life, dealing with death, provincial life, death, sex, rock and roll ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Three Colors: White (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists ...
Style: witty, emotional, touching, art house, visual ...
Plot: divorce, marriage, humiliation, love, obsession, funeral, vengeance, love story, relationships, crumbling marriage, business venture, revenge ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: poland, paris france, france, eastern europe, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.0
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Love Stories (1997)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four females. An attractive student (Dominika Ostalowska) ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, touching
Plot: accountant, couples, clergy, youth, love and romance, drug dealing, criminal heroes, teachers and students, instructor, student life, marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Day for Night (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Style: humorous, sexy, tense, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, adaptation, director, workplace situations, workplace, artists and showbiz, actor's life, nothing goes right, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1973, 70s
Place: france, europe, nice france, riviera, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Dona Herlinda and Her Son (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this sly Mexican sex comedy, a manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. ...
Style: biting, cynical, realistic, semi serious, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, lgbt, sex, doctor, glbt, lgbtq, family relations, mother son relationship, gay subtext, thirtysomething life, couples, parents and children ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: mexico, latin america, new orleans, hawaii, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 7K
Delirious (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: paparazzi, obsession, ambition, rise to the top, desire for fame, photograph, artists and showbiz, showbiz, celebrity culture, lifestyle, opposites attract, vengeance ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new york, england, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw ...
Style: sexy, romantic, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, true love, lake, hotel, love, adultery, lesbian love, summer, age-gap relationship, interwar period, nanny, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, pre world war two
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Autumn Marathon (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous, witty
Plot: midlife crisis, infidelity, affair, translator, love triangle, language learning, family problems, couples, love affair, homecoming, fish out of water, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: soviet union, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Monday Morning (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A story told quietly of Vincent a welder at a large and seemingly toxic plant along the RhĂ´ne, living in a village with his sons, wife, and mother, saying little to each other.
Style: humorous, psychological, sincere, captivating, road movie ...
Plot: midlife crisis, factory, friendship, working class, human nature, lifestyle, couple relations, social differences, crumbling marriage, parents and children, painting, alienation ...
Time: year 2002
Place: venice, europe, italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Entropy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Entropy is the semi-autobiographical film by director which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls apart around him. Along the way, he goes on tour with U2 to help them make a music ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, dating, true love, passion, talking cat, model, wedding, pregnancy, nudity, sex, female nudity, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, las vegas, usa, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: jealous husband, love story, brutality, dishonesty, lifestyle, couples, relationship vs career, couple relations, actor's life, journalism, women, relationships ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Jane White Is Sick & Twisted (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jane White's only ambition is to appear on a popular talk show.
Style: cynical, semi serious, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, obsessive quest, family relations, mentally unstable, parents and children, female protagonist, transvestism, couples, media, love and romance, mentally challenged, serial killer ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 2K
Camouflage (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in ...
Style: thought provoking, talky, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: renaissance, summer, intrigue, summer camp, manipulation, satire, nudity, father son relationship, male nudity, idealism, society, politics ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An uninterrupted rehersal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to ...
Style: melancholic, sincere, cerebral, talky, stylized ...
Plot: theater, loneliness, relationships, character study, artists and showbiz, family problems, human nature, art, existentialism, family gatherings, anton chekhov, drinking ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s, 1890s, turn of the century
Place: new york, russia, usa, manhattan new york city, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't ...
Style: feel good, touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot: family relations, death, family problems, death in the family, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, life is a bitch, love and romance, dealing with death, terminal illness, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.0
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The Reverse (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The ...
Style: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, romantic comedy, offbeat ...
Plot: looking for love, spinster, opposites attract, undercover, fall in love, family relations, dark humor, couples, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, wooing ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 21st century
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.6
 2K
The Scar (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, bleak, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: communist, small town, factory, politics, innocence lost, human nature, state affairs, moral dilemma, introspection, society, social relations, small town life ...
Time: 70s
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.0
 1K
Chapter Two (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: widower, friendship, death of wife, actress, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, death in the family, love affair, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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 ⇓
23%
 4.2
 6K
Tiptoes (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family life, sex, couple relations, introspection, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: oral sex, food, feminism, self discovery, friendship, betrayal, family relations, suburbs, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, infidelity, elderly ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Music from Another Room (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Plot: single father, family relations, parents and children, american football, love and romance, destiny, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family drama, life philosophy, marriage, blindness ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
New York Stories (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Three stories happening in New York. The first, by Scorsese, is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volume music and an attractive assistant; second, by Coppola, is about a rich and bold 12 years old who helps her separated parents ...
Style: anthology, talky, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artist, art, obsession, hotel, luxury hotel, young heroes, jealousy, family relations, gallery, youth, city life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, greece, usa, manhattan new york city, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and ...
Style: art house, cynical, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: working class, factory worker, one night stand, boys and girls, blonde, female protagonist, love, female nudity, small town, satire, youth, male nudity ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: prague, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, balkan, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Friends with Kids (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, toddlers
Plot: friendship, best friends in love, sex, relationships, love and romance, best friend, relationship problems, breast feeding, pregnancy, parenthood, love story, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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