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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, contemplative, semi serious, cult classic, crying
Plot:
racism, immigrant, 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, theft, smuggling, mother daughter relationship, robbery ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, australia, germany, thailand, romania, 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, husband wife relationship, parents and children, couples, love and romance, father son relationship and mother daughter relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Up and Down: Cosy Dens (1999), Divided We Fall (2000), Shameless (2008), Beauty in Trouble (2006), Birds of America (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
christmas, coming of age, renaissance, communism, boy, communist, occupation, domineering father, death, neighbor, mission, totalitarian regime ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 117 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:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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sensual, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, psychological, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
couples, love affair, love triangle, parents and children, family life, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, siblings relations, manners, hot and sexy ...
Place:
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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, family saga ...
Plot:
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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, realistic, semi serious, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, love and romance, save the day, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, male nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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23%
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, contemplative ...
Plot:
interracial relations, pregnancy, love triangle, love affair, love and romance, society, couple relations, hopes, single parent, workplace, dishonesty, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
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22%
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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, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
food, age-gap relationship, sex, autumn, restaurant, immigration, immigrant, family relations, friendship, culture clash, grandparent grandchild relationship, first time ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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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:
interracial relations, love triangle, family relations, looking for love, society, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, couples, parents and children, social differences, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, stockholm sweden, former yugoslavia, eastern europe, balkan ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, czech republic, prague, central europe
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Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
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Plot:
sex, love, fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, siblings relations, family life, couple relations, introspection, youth, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, independent film, humorous ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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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, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, touching, emotional, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
adoption, terminal illness, self discovery, uncover truth, mother son relationship, introspection, hopes, family problems, parents and children, working class, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
new york, usa, europe, england, liverpool
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
australia, melbourne, beirut lebanon, new zealand
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
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Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, addiction, parents and children, down on your luck, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
malibu california, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, stylized, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new orleans, indiana, texas, new jersey
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, cynical, romantic drama ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, infidelity, dishonesty, chase, journalism, self discovery, reporter, expose, talent agent, extortion, diary, writers ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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