Movies like Family Hero

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Family Hero (2006)
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Family Hero (2006)
Original name: Le Héros de la famille
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his business to his godchildren : Nino and Marianne, whom father had been taken under Gabriel's wing when he was fifteen years old. After the reading of the will, the fate of "The Blue Parrot" is in their hands.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Plot: sexual content, family relations, love and romance, introspection, lifestyle, workplace, jazz, nightclub, nightlife, family business, wooing, hopes, cabaret, nude, nudity, magic, male nudity, last will and testament, gay relationship, empire, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: french riviera, france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, introspection, sexual content, hopes and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Family Hero: A Week's Holiday (1980), Bending All the Rules (2002), The Three-Way Wedding (2010), Living on Love Alone (2010), Hell (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Week's Holiday (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: love and romance, contests and competitions, youth, couples, family relations, family gatherings, high school, sex talk, teacher student relationship, fear of commitment, school teacher, commitment ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: france, lyon
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Bending All the Rules (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When single photographer Kenna finally gets her own exhibition, she turns her attention to her love life. Yet two different men, sensitive Jeff and strong-willed Martin, are determined to win her heart, pulling her free spirit in opposite directions.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexy, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, ambition, wooing, radio dj, bartender, art exhibition, carnival, artists and showbiz, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Three-Way Wedding (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: love triangle, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, playwright, society, rivalry, friendship, nude women, nudity, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Living on Love Alone (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, youth, love and romance, college graduate, adolescence vs adulthood, love affair, couples, rebelliousness, clubbing, twentysomething life, nudity, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Hell (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy
Plot: slut, lifestyle, introspection, materialism, troubled youth, youth, love and romance, fall in love, nightlife, shopping, abortion, slutty attitude ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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49%
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The Adopted (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere, indie film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family problems, love and romance, single parent, parents and children, family relations, haunted by the past, sister sister relationship, bookstore, woman, psychology, relationships, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Beastie Boys (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two friends are involved in the male escort business. One starts an honest relationship with one of his clients. The other cheats on his girlfriend and has his many scams catch up to him.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, sexual ...
Plot: nightlife, lifestyle, love and romance, gigolo, wooing, unfulfilled love, buddies, destructive relationship, cons and scams, prostitute, infidelity, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Irene (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, dealing with death, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, filmmaking, unfulfilled love, loss of loved one ...
Time: year 2009, year 1972
Place: lyon, europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Truckers (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Funny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride. In an age when technology would make us seem ever more ...
Style: sincere, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: workplace situations, family relations, workplace, introspection, society, hopes, parents and children, redemption, working class, bittersweet, journey
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Louis (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A silent film about Louis Armstrong as a young boy and how he acquired his first cornet.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: prodigy, follow your dream, musician's life, self discovery, artists and showbiz, social relations, music, hopes, jazz, small town, rivalry, society ...
Time: 1900s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Chercher le garçon (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: One New Year's Eve with a bottle of champagne, Emilie, 35, signs up for Meet Me, a popular internet dating site, with a great New Year's resolution: to find love. There are a lot of men on Meet Me: cynics, comedians, a few goofs and even ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, thirtysomething life, hopes, love and romance, computers and web, single woman, male female relationship, internet, celibacy, fishing, seduction, fisherman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, marseille, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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On Air (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: parents and children, midlife crisis, self discovery, media, disorder, introspection, strong female presence, hopes, love and romance, family relations, opposites attract, hidden identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Mariages! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ils ont 25 ans et se marient aujourd'hui.Ils ont 35 ans, se sont unis il y a dix ans et se déchirent aujourd'hui.Ils ont 45 ans, se sont déchirés il y a dix ans et tentent aujourd'hui de se réconcilier...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: family gatherings, midlife crisis, obsession, parents and children, love and romance, wooing, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, couples, lovers reunited, impossible love, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
More Sex & the Single Mom (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family gatherings, parents and children, looking for love, family relations, love and romance, midlife crisis, lifestyle, youth, couples, teenage life, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Nine Chronicles for a Screaming Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: introspection, couple relations, couples, hopes, starting over, solitude, life changing, male female relationship, relationships, self discovery, romantic relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
This Is My Body (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: love affair, couple relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, family relations, family business, gay, suicide, lgbt, sociology, dancer, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sincere, feel good, touching ...
Plot: dogme 95, life turned upside down, unlikely couple, introspection, family relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, disorder, dogma, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
I Am from Titov Veles (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: adult virgin, social decay, introspection, family problems, dysfunctional family, society, family relations, daydreamer, life is a bitch, small town, economist, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Maneater (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jezebel is a nihilistic artist who hides her fragility by living a fast-paced, promiscuous lifestyle. After attending her father's funeral, the sultry temptress finds herself attracted to David, a handsome, earnest young priest. While David ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: opposites attract, redemption, hopes, introspection, clergy, faith, seduction, priest, death of father, sexual content, nudity, motorcycle accident ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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Season's Beatings (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, family relations, midlife crisis, new year, christmas spirit, holiday, restaurant, pregnancy, estrangement, couples, family problems, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
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Two (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Isabelle Huppert stars as a pair of twin sisters in Werner Schroeter's gorgeously composed and utterly berserk opus stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, doppelgängers, fickle foxes and operatic arias.
Style: non-linear, psychological, realistic, serious, controversial ...
Plot: family relations, strong female presence, opera, human nature, hopes, twins, destiny, cabaret, male nudity, town, mother, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, portugal, marseille, provence
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45%
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Material (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Cassim Kaif is a young Muslim man who works in his father's fabric shop in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. In the family tradition, Cassim, as the only son, is expected to take over the family business from his father.
Style: touching, humorous, captivating, inspirational, light ...
Plot: follow your dream, parents and children, lifestyle, unsupportive parent, family tradition, family business, family relations, hopes, workplace, stand up comedian, against the odds, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The New World (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed.
Style: touching, gloomy, atmospheric, emotional, serious ...
Plot: age difference, jazz, world war two, older man young girl relationship, rock, village, teenage life, experimenting, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, friends, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Party Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare. But Michel, her regular client, is still in love ...
Style: sincere, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: party girl, aging, elderly, nightlife, mother son relationship, introspection, realism, cabaret, mother daughter relationship, old woman, woman, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Chance (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 'Chance' is a black comedy about how hard it is to find "the one". Mostly told from the point-of-view of a young, sexually aggressive woman, named Chance, whom according to her: "we're all out there looking for true ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couples, wooing, mother daughter relationship, women, relationships, gays and lesbians, love and romance, twentysomething life, singleness, family relations ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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45%
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Sofie (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, religions or cults, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, fall in love, society, love and romance, introspection ...
Time: year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two sisters, their families, and sometimes complicated lives.
Style: realistic, compassionate, sincere, cynical, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: family relations, direction and purpose, rising to stardom, disorder, aspiring writer, life turned upside down, sister sister relationship, parent child relationship, price of fame, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, working mom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: friendship, age difference, senior citizen, couples, friends, human nature, introspection, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, unfulfillment, writer's life ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Almost Heaven (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story: A Canadian television director is hired to salvage an international fishing show in Scotland. The only hitch: his ex-wife is the host. What he finds in Scotland is love in the form of a local fishing guide (called a ghillie) and the chance to repair ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: relationship vs career, ambition, redemption, couples, one more chance, artists and showbiz, hopes, couple relations, rescue, actor's life, love and romance, opposites attract ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
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45%
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