Movies like Up and Down
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Up and Down (2004)
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Original name: Horem pádem
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are responsible for running an illegal baby adoption center. Lubos and Eman make attempts to sell the baby to Miluska and Frantisek, a barren couple.
Style:
psychological, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, contemplative
Plot:
racism, family relations, adoption, parents and children, terminal illness, youth, love and romance, society, black market, bittersweet, dealing with death, couple relations, cons and scams, thief, refugee, illegal immigrant, prostitute, teacher, divorce, doctor, russian, theft, smuggling, taxi driver, chinese ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
eastern europe, australia, germany, thailand, romania, balkan, czech republic ...
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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 family relations, parents and children, couples, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, love and romance and mother son relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Up and Down: Beauty in Trouble (2006), Diggers (2006), Birds of America (2008), Cosy Dens (1999), Cape of Good Hope (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed, because he is part of a gang steeling cars and they get caught in the act. ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
couples, love triangle, love affair, parents and children, family life, manners, family relations, love and romance, siblings relations, couple relations, infidelity, hot and sexy ...
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, social relations, americana, social differences, love and romance, save the day, youth, working class, father son relationship, family relations ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
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82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, couples, estrangement, youth, vengeance, parents and children, family gatherings, introspection, couple relations, lifestyle ...
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82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by ...
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
christmas, coming of age, boy, mission, totalitarian regime, family relations, neighbor, death, domineering father, occupation, teenage life, communism ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place:
eastern europe, czech republic, prague, europe, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
interracial relations, pregnancy, love triangle, love affair, society, single parent, workplace, dishonesty, hopes, love and romance, couples, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When an uncle is charged with murder, the event reverberates throughout a poor Arkansas family, including a struggling musician and his wife, her mother, her sister, and his father.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, psychological
Plot:
father son relationship, homecoming, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, jealousy, family gatherings, family problems, murder, destiny, parents and children ...
Place:
usa, arkansas, alabama, southern usa, nashville tennessee ...
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55%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
love triangle, interracial relations, family relations, looking for love, love and romance, society, couple relations, human nature, couples, fall in love, parents and children, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montreal, mexico, canada, latin america, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, family life, siblings relations, couple relations, human nature, youth, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, age difference, prostitute, friendship, hopes, dealing with death, prank, self discovery, youth, love and romance, couples, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, emotional, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa, europe, england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 ...
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Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style:
talky, witty, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, husband wife relationship, family history, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time:
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Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, dog, single parent, writers, introspection, couple relations, family life, parents and children, couples, family relations, family problems, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, parents and children, down on your luck, addiction, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, hopes, breakup, husband wife relationship, divorce ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Style:
surreal, compassionate, lyrical, uplifting, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish, survival, idealism, war, human spirit, self discovery, against humanity, wartime life, nazi occupation, couple relations ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, poland, eastern europe, tokyo, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, thought provoking, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
oral sex, food, family relations, feminism, self discovery, betrayal, friendship, pregnancy, suburbs, dysfunctional family, infidelity, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Norway
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever, sexy ...
Plot:
favoritism among siblings, sexual abuse, dysfunctional family, fisherman, life is a bitch, family problems, family life, parents and children, family business, family gatherings, elderly, small town ...
Time:
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Place:
iceland, europe, paris france, reykjavik iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
politics, friendship, infidelity, single parent, self discovery, teenage love, cheerleader, misfit, introspection, best friends, fall in love, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1977
Place:
ireland, new jersey, dublin ireland, europe, milwaukee wisconsin ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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serious, realistic, psychological
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to meet supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Much to his mother's dismay, Dylan, with the help of his best ...
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Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
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