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May Fools (1990)
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May Fools (1990)
Original name: Milou en Mai
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
Style: touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, black comedy, period piece, dark comedy
Plot: eccentric family, funeral, infidelity, countryside, family problems, rebelliousness, politics, parents and children, family life, couples, love affair, family in crisis, human nature, death in the family, couple relations, family relations, summer, grave digger, province, female nudity, lgbt, twins, revolution, satire, family gatherings ...
Time: 20th century, year 1990, 60s, year 1968, 1960s
Place: france, paris france, europe
Keyword: matriarch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about couples, love and romance, family relations, couple relations, infidelity, unfulfillment and parents and children mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like May Fools: Hey Good Looking! (2006), Enchanted Interlude (2000), Hard Off (1999), Shall We Kiss? (2007), Cousin cousine (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hey Good Looking! (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, sexual
Plot: friendship, beauty salon, family life, introspection, battle of the sexes, couple relations, lifestyle, road not taken, parents and children, couples, family problems, relationship vs career ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Enchanted Interlude (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series of memorable adventures, couples fall into place but not quite in the right order. Alice blossoms ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sexual
Plot: beach, buddies, couples, revolution, love affair, gender, sexuality, adultery, infidelity, female nudity, friends, pregnancy ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 5.3
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Hard Off (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Claude, an auctioneer in his 50s, forms with Marie a couple united for fifteen years and still in love. However, in the intimacy, and in spite of a desire always alive, Claude has problems of erection. While Marie agrees with a smile of these ...
Style: sex comedy, erotic, sexual, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex scene, making love, nudity, couple relations, dishonesty, gender, couples, family relations, infidelity, sexual relations, parents and children, sexual content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, switzerland, paris france, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Shall We Kiss? (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, sensitive ...
Plot: infidelity, male female relationship, couples, couple relations, seduction, prostitute, unhappiness, longing, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Cousin cousine (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.
Style: sexy, manga, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, family relations, cousin, love and romance, fall in love, passion, gangsta, friendship, wedding, swimming pool, dance teacher, funeral ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Best Day of My Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: family relations, hopes, couple relations, disorder, wedding, couples, introspection, love and romance, nothing goes right, battle of the sexes, romantic relationship, parents and children
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Housekeeper (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of ...
Style: sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: self discovery, infidelity, midlife crisis, housekeeper, father daughter relationship, human nature, love affair, beach volleyball, fall in love, couple relations, starting over, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't ...
Style: feel good, touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot: family relations, death, family problems, death in the family, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, life is a bitch, love and romance, dealing with death, terminal illness, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Merry Widow (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Anne-Marie vient de perdre son mari dans un accident de voiture. Elle est enfin libre d'aimer celui qu'elle voit en cachette depuis deux ans. Mais elle n'a pas prévu que sa famille, pétrie de bons sentiments, a décidé de rester à ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, couples, love triangle, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, dealing with death, family gatherings, eccentric family, infidelity, mother son relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Agata and the Storm (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, UK, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, infidelity, family relations, looking for love, midlife crisis, family life, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, love affair, parents and children ...
Place: italy, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
A Spot of Bother (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: disorder, elderly, nothing goes right, dysfunctional family, parents and children, gay, estrangement, family problems, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: family life, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family problems, couples, wedding, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, photographer, love and romance, unfulfillment, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.3
 781
I'm Staying (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A love triangle between a businessman, his wife, and a writer.
Style: witty, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: battle of the sexes, dysfunctional family, love triangle, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, breakup, family problems, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.7
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I Do (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, touching ...
Plot: family relations, fall in love, looking for love, gem, eccentric family, love and romance, nothing goes right, disorder, couples, blind character, singleness, humour ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Town & Country (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, farce, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, architect, relationship vs career, family problems, couple relations, introspection, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, new york, mississippi, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: introspection, letter, family relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, road not taken, following a dream, rise to the top, life philosophy, child's point of view, lifestyle change, strong female lead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Divorce French Style (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ariane, a young French violinist, accepts the marriage proposal of Christen, an irresistible conductor. Only problem: she's a little bit ... married! Separated for two years with Nino, an Italian teacher with a strong character, she manages to ...
Style: feel good, humorous, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love affair, couple relations, couples, love and romance, love story, romantic relationship, family problems, coworker, humour, male female relationship, love interest, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.6
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Soof (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'?
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Plot: infidelity, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family, family life, couple relations, dishonesty, disorder, cooking and food, parents and children, family relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Sordid Lives (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: "Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed ...
Style: humorous, compassionate, bad ending, talky, realistic ...
Plot: gay, dysfunctional family, adultery, tragedy, lgbt, crime gone awry, family relations, couples, family gatherings, family life, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, southern usa, usa, los angeles, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.4
 11K
Bed & Board (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: infidelity, divorce, pregnancy, culture clash, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, couples, adultery, relationships, dysfunctional couple, music teacher ...
Time: 20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Cousins (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two couples go to a mutual friends wedding, and end up swapping partners.
Style: humorous, sexy, romantic, light, sweet ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, infidelity, love affair, love story, adultery, family drama, happy ending, family relations, fall in love, love, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
I Kissed a Girl (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jérémie, 34, wakes up in an apartment he doesn't know, next to a woman he doesn't know. She is Adna, a stunning Swedish woman who is as funny as she is sweet. Is this the beginning of a fairy tale? Not quite, since Jérémie is about to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, nudity, comedy of errors, love triangle, farce, gay, love affair, disorder, couples, rivalry, unlikely couple, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Many Kisses Later (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters. The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI ...
Style: emotional, humorous, light, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, breakup, bittersweet, friends, friendship, looking for love, unfulfillment, sexual content, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
People in Swimsuits Aren't (Necessarily) Shallow (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A week on St-Martin with vacationing Parisians. Camille surprises her lover Philippe, who's with his wife and children. Lonely Laurette, a secretary, hopes to meet a man. Aziz brings his enthusiastic brother Rafik because his boss had two ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, love affair, pregnancy, comedy of errors, looking for love, opposites attract, couples, infidelity, breakup, love and romance, hotel, beach ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
It Happened in Saint-Tropez (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, cousin cousin relationship, jewish family, funeral, love and romance, disorder, fall in love, rivalry, ego clash, couples, nothing goes right, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, french riviera, new york, saint tropez ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by ...
Style: talky, humorous, funny, melancholic, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family drama, stereotypes, happy ending, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, construction worker, parents and children, gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Undertaking Betty (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
Style: sincere, humorous, dark comedy, romantic, cynical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, fake death, starting over, family relations, friendship, love and romance, parents and children, family business, infidelity, small town life, husband wife relationship, small town ...
Time: year 2002
Place: wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Love Thy Neighbor (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Suburbanites Danny and Linda try to overcome their various differences and try to get along after his wife and her husband run off with each other.
Style: realistic, semi serious, offbeat, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, suburbs, bittersweet, family relations, family problems, couples, suburban life, family life, love affair, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Madly in Love (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film focuses on the tumultuous romance in the lives of four women in The Hague. Teenage daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older sister Anna make it under one roof Hague together a nice game of. They are beautiful, courageous and ...
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, looking for love, battle of the sexes, looking for sex, family life, parents and children, youth, couple relations, fall in love, family relations, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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