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Looking for Eric (2009)
19K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Country: UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor (the ex football player Eric Cantona) in this comedy-drama from acclaimed British director Ken Loach.
Style:
surreal, touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good, talky, social, romantic drama, clever, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, football, working class, friendship, dysfunctional family, old love, self discovery, self esteem, family in crisis, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, daydreamer, family problems, ex athlete, imaginary, disorder, teaching the ways of the world, social satire, down on your luck, unfulfilled love, nervous breakdown, hospital, imaginary friend ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, england, manchester, texas, canada, california, manchester england
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Most similar movies to Looking for Eric
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, touching, semi serious and realistic films with plots about friendship, family relations, society, soccer, hopes, dysfunctional family and working class mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like Looking for Eric: Groundhog Day (1993), There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000), Raining Stones (1993), On a Clear Day (2005), Tickets (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style:
feel good, romantic, philosophical, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
time loop, existentialism, small town, redemption, time travel, groundhog day, life & death, life philosophy, time warp, fall in love, time, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, future
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, america, persia, pittsburgh
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
soccer, misfit, working class, follow your dream, against the odds, teenage life, bullying, sport team, underdog, rivalry, contests and competitions, society ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
manchester, europe, england
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Carlitos is a heartfelt story about one young boy's fight for his right to play soccer, while keeping his very essence intact.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
football, prodigy, mischievous children, follow your dream, orphan, against the rules, best friend, disorder, rebellion, youth, boarding school life, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him ...
Style:
independent film, bleak, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot:
working class, social commentary, unemployment, parents and children, poverty, labor, landscape, catholic, priest, family relations, disorder, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993
Place:
london, manchester, europe, england, california
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, emotional, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, working class, swimming, self discovery, family relations, life philosophy, character study, hopes, swimmer, couple relations, down on your luck, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
scotland, english channel, glasgow scotland, europe, france ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
train, self discovery, couple relations, society, couples, social differences, on the road, railway, multiple storylines, soccer, football, migration ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
italy, scotland, europe
Similarity:
42%
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 ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, touching, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
buddies, sport team, ambition, working class, contests and competitions, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, down on your luck, social relations, athlete and trainer, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany, europe
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Story:
A group of friends plan an intervention to help their pal address his drinking problem. Things go awry when the shrink they hired fails to show up
Style:
realistic, semi serious, psychological, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
american football, friendship, lifestyle, family problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, dysfunctional family, social decay, alcohol abuse, parents and children, bittersweet, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he ...
Style:
touching, sweet, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
soccer, teacher, fan, soccer fan, sport team, contests and competitions, couple relations, relationship problems, ambition, opposites attract, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1997, 70s
Place:
england, london, europe, new jersey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A boy's barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental, indie film ...
Plot:
soccer, youth, nothing goes right, coming of age, family relations, world cup, football, family life, parents and children, husband wife relationship, child's point of view, bar mitzvah ...
Time:
60s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
london, brighton, england, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the sleepy town of Stensfors, the soccer team used to be something to be proud of , playing in the national league 30 years ago. Now the team will be dissolved if it can't win the rest of the games in the local league. Team member Kent goes ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot:
nothing goes right, alcoholic, couples, disorder, family problems, hopes, ambition, couple relations, crumbling marriage, small town, once promising, soccer ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, humorous, absurd, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult, teen drama
Plot:
imaginary friend, childhood memory, mental illness, emotional manipulation, friendship, vengeance, personal growth, emotional abuse, absent father, self discovery, mother daughter relationship, adult humor ...
Time:
80s
Place:
minnesota, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When ...
Style:
inspirational, witty, stylized, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
coming of age, small town, friendship, relationships, profanity, friends, runaway, old love, love, love and romance, social differences, factory ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a ...
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
multiple sclerosis, football, disability, working class, love, aids, storytelling, friendship, soccer, infidelity, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
england, europe, paris france, new orleans, ireland
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style:
emotional, depressing, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, unwanted pregnancy, loneliness, depression, poverty, injustice, family problems, parents and children, couples, family in crisis ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, florida, algeria ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a ...
Style:
mysterious, bleak, independent film, cult classic, surreal ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, unemployment, skinhead, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, mental retardation, man with glasses, husband wife relationship, boy with glasses, smoking, envy, proles ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, england, east end london, britain, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the father starts giving cricket lessons to David, and becomes close to David's mother. But this is ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
cricket, youth, friendship, teenage life, lifestyle, society, parents and children, family life, school, bittersweet, coming of age, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love and romance, youth, looking for love, family problems, society, siblings relations, teenage life, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place:
england, pakistan, europe, middle east, manchester
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Style:
feel good, black comedy, funny, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
working class, unemployment, gay, gay interest, stripper, woman urinating, striptease, male stripper, friendship, nudity, dance, loser ...
Time:
80s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
england, northern england, britain, united kingdom, yorkshire ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, political, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, working conditions, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, breaking point ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sport
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, ...
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
football, dog, soccer, disorder, sport team, supernatural, contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, hopes, underdog, against the odds ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he ...
Style:
touching, sad, epic, inspirational, cult classic ...
Plot:
coming of age, hide and seek, death of sister, neighbor neighbor relationship, child, youth, children, jazz, train, male nudity, parachutist, police officer ...
Time:
year 1991, future, 90s, near future
Place:
france, europe, germany, dover england, spain ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen comedy
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, society, lifestyle, buddies, youth, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
alcoholic, profanity, working class, drug, drug addiction, impossible love, friendship, debt, football, bowling, social issues, drug addict ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
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:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
Style:
feel good, harsh, sincere, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
community service, working class, moral dilemma, misfit, caper, going straight, fish out of water, food, one last chance, society, buddies, goodhearted ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 70s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, glasgow scotland, england ...
Similarity:
26%
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, 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:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
SHOOTING FOR SOCRATES is a David Vs. Goliath set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup. It tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football history through the eyes of players, fans and the media. The film also ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot:
soccer, hopes, ambition, rivalry, sport team, youth, contests and competitions, family relations, parents and children, soccer fan, football, underdog ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
ireland, belfast, brazil, northern ireland, mexico
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, humorous, dark comedy, captivating ...
Plot:
missing person, supernatural, ghost, odd couple, partner, society, friendship, secret, death, family relations, paranormal, psychic power ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
25%
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