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Kolya (1996)
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Original name: Kolja
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Czech Republic Director Jan Sverák tells in this Oscar winning film the story of the disillusioned Prague man named Cellisten Louka, who after a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, uplifting, feel good, spiritual, poignant, art house ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
adoption, communism, coming of age, nudity, musician, friendship, lovers, renaissance, cellist, single father, revolution, boy, culture clash, storytelling, single mother, pregnant woman, little boy, female doctor, promiscuity, marriage for money, czech history, music, orphan, communist, old age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1996
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, prague, balkan, europe, moscow russia, central europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
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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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, northern england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females ...
Style:
independent film, cult classic, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also ...
Style:
surreal, semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
renaissance, world war two, self discovery, communist, boy, pregnancy, elementary school, prostitute, unfaithfulness, substitute teacher, teacher, love letter ...
Time:
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Place:
eastern europe, europe, czech republic, prague, czechoslovakia ...
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Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
czech republic, prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Italy, Romania, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once ...
Style:
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Plot:
classical music, music, redemption, twists and turns, hopes, violinist, adaptation, prodigy, music band, concert, haunted by the past, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, russia, europe, israel
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, female nudity, dating, hide and seek, adolescence, age difference, nude girl, traumatic childhood, family relations, friendship, pregnancy, older woman younger man ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
scotland, england, united kingdom, edinburgh scotland, europe ...
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29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
70s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, paris france, france, europe, usa ...
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27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Style:
captivating, humorous, touching, feel good, tense ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, teenage protagonist, father son relationship, friendship, aspiring writer, diary, neighbor, friendship between boys, interracial friendship, pain, college student ...
Time:
year 1987, year 2019, 80s, year 1988
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Israel, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this... It wasn't that important. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, sincere, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
culture clash, musician, israeli, orchestra, small town, ethnic conflict, fish out of water, society, disorder, melancholy, desert, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
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
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 91 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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Story:
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Style:
feel good, semi serious, disturbing, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
cornwall, london
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Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
music, musician, orphan, prodigy, child prodigy, child protagonist, dancing, childhood, boy, youth, chance meeting, cellist ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather ...
Style:
touching, road movie, tragicomedy, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
cult classic
Plot:
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Place:
balkan, prague, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, inspirational, uplifting, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, teacher, childhood, music, teachers and students, abuse, musician, children, boarding school life, friendship, boss, orphan ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2004
Place:
france, new york, switzerland, europe, paris france ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage pregnancy, gay man straight woman relationship, boy, friendship, pregnancy, parents and children, punk, city life, estrangement, rehabilitation, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, vermont
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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:
humorous, light, talky, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
politics, coming of age, cheerleader, male nudity, 17 year old, friendship, infidelity, self discovery, single parent, teenage love, best friend, introspection ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, year 1996, 90s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, milwaukee wisconsin, massachusetts, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
choir, friendship, british army, military base, rivalry, little boy, fame, mother daughter relationship, british soldier, friend, female protagonist, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2010
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
22%
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:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family problems, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
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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 ...
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the ...
Style:
emotional, tragicomedy, period piece, historical drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
communism, grownups, friendship, coming of age, occupation, loss of innocence, innocence lost, children, social commentary, bittersweet, realism, family tragedy ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague, europe, central europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.
Style:
sexy, humorous, sentimental, romantic, art house ...
Plot:
couple relations, female pubic hair, friendship, dialogue, beautiful scenery, self discovery, love and romance, gypsy, obsessive quest, lifestyle, impossible love, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
romania, balkan, france, europe, paris france ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir which is not easily accepted by the town ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, inspirational, lyrical ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
choir, music, bullying, musician, destiny, character study, self discovery, village, musician's life, teachers and students, human nature, nordic ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, austria, milan italy, eastern europe, scandinavia ...
Similarity:
21%
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