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Carnival (1982)
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Carnival (1982)
Original name: Карнавал
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
Style: sincere, humorous, captivating, touching
Plot: youth, betrayal, love and romance, society, ambition, desire for fame, friendship, family relations, life is a bitch, father daughter relationship, fall in love, couples, adaptation, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, aspiring actress, town, soviet, pantyhose, female stockinged legs, roller skating, female director
Place: russia, ussr, soviet union, moscow russia
Keyword: russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, captivating, sincere and touching films with plots about friendship, love and romance, society, family relations, couples, youth and fall in love mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Carnival: Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964), Pig Hag (2019), The Clapper (2017), To Find a Man (1972), Posthumous (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 150 min.
Story: This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
Style: touching, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot: life, friendship, midlife crisis, love and romance, women, women in society, relationships, career, love story, working class, happy ending, single mother ...
Time: year 1980, 1950s, 70s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, ussr, russia, siberia
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Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: "I Am Walking Along Moscow" aka "Ya Shagayu Po Moskve" (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in 1963 that was nominated for Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival. Daneliya proved that it is possible to ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, sincere
Plot: military enlistment, wedding, army, love and romance, family relations, society, friendship, boyhood, ridicule, subway, love, writers ...
Place: moscow russia, russia, soviet union, ussr
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Pig Hag (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jodie, a woman in her mid-thirties, struggles with the pressure to find a partner and have children. When she attends a Guns N’ Roses concert, she thinks she may have met a potential match — until he immediately ghosts on her.
Style: rough, captivating, psychological, touching, sincere
Plot: society, love and romance, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, fall in love, brutality, hopes, escapades, ambition, cultural icon, obesity ...
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56%
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The Clapper (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 15 minutes of fame destroys the life of a man who works as a clapper in television.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: friendship, love and romance, youth, rivalry, adaptation, society, destiny, ambition, unfulfillment, disorder, couples, redemption ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 192 min.
Story: A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: new year, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, disorder, comedy of errors, farce, unfulfillment, new year's eve, drunken man, social satire, romantic rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, siberia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, ussr ...
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52%
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To Find a Man (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage pregnancy, friendship, family relations, family problems, boarding school, battles, couples, friends, youth, society, betrayal, love and romance ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
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52%
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Posthumous (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.
Style: sincere, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot: couples, fake death, journalism, love and romance, society, family relations, friendship, breakup, fall in love, artist, impersonating, story continued during end credits
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, berlin germany
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51%
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Newlyweds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family relations, couples, city life, siblings relations, friendship, society, wedding, dysfunctional family, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Face 2 Face (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere, tense, touching ...
Plot: bullying, coming of age, childhood friend, found footage, friendship, youth, couple relations, love and romance, teenage life, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Seoul Searching (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea, China, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean. The three boys, from the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, then meet three girls who rock their world.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, fall in love, teenage love, love and romance, youth, camp, society, immigrant, teenager, friendship, rivalry, kickass ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: seoul, korea, east asia, south korea
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48%
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Coconut Hero (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite ...
Style: humorous, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, twisted
Plot: first love, suicide attempt, loneliness, high school, therapy, depression, dancing, boy, love and romance, family relations, friendship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Byelorussia Station (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.
Style: sincere, touching, disturbing, thought provoking, smart
Audience: family outing
Plot: world war two, justice, friendship, society, life is a bitch, life & death, hopes, destiny, past, train station, train, soviet ...
Time: 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Couch Potatoes (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: father son relationship, teenager, parents and children, friends, teenage life, family relations, friendship, youth, unlikely friendships, society, disorder, happy ending ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, hopes, youth, parents and children, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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47%
God Send Me a Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A stage play about a young lady in her 20's who keeps dating the wrong men, her friends and family try to make her see what she's doing wrong but she learns on her own that that the man she really needed was right in front of her the whole ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, couples, young lovers, society, womanizer, youth, suburbs, midlife crisis, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, christian, looking for love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Hezarpa (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 197 min.
Story: The thief accidentally notices the secret of a girl and tries to exploit this position ....
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, humorous
Plot: escapades, friendship, dishonesty, disorder, danger, chase, family relations, society, ambition, rivalry, redemption, love and romance ...
Place: iran, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Loudspeaker (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Gathered together in a country house, seven friends play an entertaining game, in which participants have to read aloud all of their incoming text messages, and can only answer their calls using loudspeaker mode. They can’t even imagine what ...
Style: captivating, humorous, feel good, touching
Plot: adultery, human nature, friendship, family relations, telephone call, adaptation, couples, love and romance, secrets, dishonesty, husband wife relationship, party ...
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45%
Scandal Makers (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Former teen idol Nam Hyeon-soo is now in his thirties and working as a radio DJ. One day a young woman named Jeong-nam shows up and claims to be his own daughter. She also has a son whom she claims to be Hyeon-soo's grandson. Their relation is ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, unfulfillment, haunted by the past, media, radio dj, asian, father daughter relationship, life turned upside down, society, friendship, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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In the Heart (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, tragic love, love and romance, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, relationships, fighting illness, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Love and Pigeons (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Shown a life in the remote siberian village. Vasia, who never leave his family, village, comes to pass summer holiday on the Black Sea. New world, new people - so, hi's temted by a half-crazy woman (Raisa Zaharovna). And after short time Vasia ...
Style: light, humorous, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: village life, love triangle, love and romance, adulterous husband, resort, everyday life, social relations, husband wife relationship, life philosophy, parent child relationship, adultery, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
You'll Never Walk Alone (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Samantha, who works in a chicken factory in Saint-Étienne, loses her job. She lives with her best-friend Céline. She is also her little sister Kim's guardian and must find another job quickly or run the risk of losing her sister. She meets ...
Style: psychological, feel good, light, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, orphan, social worker, dead mother, foster home, foster child, family relations, friends, society, parents and children, culture clash, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Shining Moon (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A jobless gay actor is offered the dream role of a lifetime in a feature film, but he must play an elderly drag. He will be forced to overcome his fears and prejudices to understand better himself and the others.
Style: sexy, psychological, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, couples, couple relations, love and romance, love, actor's life, gay lead character, filmmaking, society, filmmaker, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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SoulBoy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and ...
Style: humorous, contemplative, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, nightlife, youth, society, buddies, unfulfillment, lifestyle, music, friendship, youth culture, subculture, soul ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Sweetheart (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother..
Style: sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love, high school student, mother daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance, hopes, sex, youth, rivalry, couples ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Kiss through the Wall (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kesha, a young magician assistant, is desperately in love with a young journalist Alisa. He is ready to do everything possible to conquer her.
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, captivating, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: love and romance, couples, life turned upside down, fall in love, couple relations, youth, creativity, happy ending, lifestyle, transformation, life philosophy, adaptation
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Chicken Girls: The Movie (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: With a new principal in town and the Spring Fling in jeopardy, Rhyme and the Chicken Girls must band together to save the dance.
Style: light, entertaining, contemplative, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, escapades, youth, friends, dishonesty, dancing, society, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Swimsuit Issue (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wild bachelor party and an agonizing defeat in floorball awakens Fredrik's passion for male synchronized swimming.
Style: feel good, uplifting, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: friendship, self fulfillment, buddies, ambition, society, life is a bitch, family relations, sport team, youth, physical appearance, athlete and trainer, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.0
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Bob Funk (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: couples, boss and employee, addiction, layoff, boss, therapist, family relations, workplace, parents and children, fall in love, starting over, mother ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Love and Lies (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vam i ne snilos... A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because ...
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating, psychological
Plot: school, parents and children, classmate, injustice, truth, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, jealousy, lie, destiny, fall in love ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Maan Karate (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Five friends meet a mystic in a forest who grants their wish — a newspaper from the future. They decide to get rich by using their knowledge of the future. They focus their efforts on Peter, a carefree youth from Royapuram, who is predicted by the ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, semi serious
Plot: boxing, rivalry, contests and competitions, fall in love, cons and scams, ambition, prediction, training, couples, friendship, love and romance, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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