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Meantime (1983)
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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 timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.
Style:
mysterious, bleak, surreal, independent film, cult classic, touching, humorous, realistic, gloomy, semi serious ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, unemployment, skinhead, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, mental retardation, envy, social differences, smoking, husband wife relationship, aunt, boredom, boy with glasses, man with glasses, proles, nazi, subculture, neo nazi, nationalism, neo nazism, urban, social injustice, pub, angry, social realism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, england, east end london, britain, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about family relations, dysfunctional family, society, parents and children, family problems, coming of age and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Meantime: Secrets & Lies (1996), Life Is Sweet (1990), High Hopes (1988), All or Nothing (2002), Somers Town (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, britain, europe
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Duration: 103 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Place:
london, england, europe
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Duration: 128 min.
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emotional, depressing, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, europe, england, paris france
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44%
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:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993
Place:
london, manchester, europe, england, california
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Style:
cult classic, realistic, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
college, life & death, female friendship, graduation, friendship, bittersweet, women, loser, female bonding, angry, meaning of life, railway ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, scotland, europe, england
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Nigeria
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
42%
736
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 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 ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 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: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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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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Country: USA
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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:
40%
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370
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
40%
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Country: Denmark
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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40%
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Country: UK, Canada
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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:
40%
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Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, couple relations, best friend, lifestyle, love and romance, babies and infants, coming of age, family problems, teenage life, siblings relations, crumbling marriage ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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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:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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39%
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Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, bleak, independent film, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, youth, gang, subculture, violence, artist, boy, angry, little boy, children ...
Time:
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Place:
scotland, europe, new jersey, california
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
argentina, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, epic, scary ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
bay area, california, usa, oakland california, new jersey
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, melancholic, talky ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Time:
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