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Cosy Dens (1999)
7K
Original name: Pelíšky
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by Antonín
Style:
cult classic, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, tragicomedy, inspirational, period drama, cult film
Plot:
christmas, coming of age, renaissance, communism, boy, communist, death, neighbor, occupation, domineering father, dictator, totalitarian regime, mission, comedian, dictatorship, little boy, family relations, lovers, youth, politics, parents and children, teenage life, society, innocence lost, political unrest ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, year 1967, 1960s
Place:
czech republic, prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czechoslovakia, central europe ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about family relations, coming of age, youth, boy, parents and children, father son relationship and friendship mostly in Comedy, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Cosy Dens: The Teacher (2016), Pupendo (2003), Up and Down (2004), Identity Card (2010), Black Peter (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
Style:
touching, melancholic, tense, captivating, allegory ...
Plot:
teacher, communism, blackmail, communist, nepotism, class differences, abuse of power, blackmailer, female protagonist, boy, parent child relationship, cruelty ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, year 1984, year 1991
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe, europe, slovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fábera (Jiři Pecha) begins ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, period drama
Plot:
family life, life is a bitch, political unrest, survival, down on your luck, communism, performer's life, bare chested male, talking about masturbation, masturbation, school principal, secretly observing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
balkan, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, prague ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are ...
Style:
contemplative, semi serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
racism, immigrant, family relations, adoption, terminal illness, parents and children, couple relations, love and romance, society, youth, dealing with death, black market ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, slovakia, thailand, romania ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Hořká komedie režiséra Ondřeje Trojana Občanský průkaz na motivy stejnojmenné knihy Petra Šabacha sleduje osudy čtveřice dospívajících mladíků, jejich přátel, lásek a rodičů od okamžiku, kdy v patnácti letech dostanou ...
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humorous, light, sincere, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
coming of age, group of friends, communist, friendship between boys, family relations, communism, teenager, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, friends, youth, friendship ...
Time:
70s
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Style:
thought provoking, avant garde, contemplative, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, boy girl relationship, renaissance, adolescence, parent child relationship, youth, shoplifting, smoking, teenage boy, teenager in love, daydreamer, boys and girls ...
Time:
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Place:
eastern europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe
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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 ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
adoption, communism, coming of age, nudity, friendship, musician, cellist, renaissance, lovers, single father, revolution, boy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1996
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, prague, balkan, europe ...
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21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
road trip, cold war, brother brother relationship, fight, father son relationship, family relations, arrested, doctor, politics, death of father, changing lives, lifestyle change ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
20%
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182
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:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an ambient extremely divided politically.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
youth, social differences, fish out of water, friendship, teenage life, politics, lifestyle, human nature, society, hopes, school, city life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of ...
Style:
realistic, rough, emotional, touching, serious
Plot:
family relations, family problems, rebellion, high school, teenage life, youth, coming of age, high school life, family life, boy, socialism, teenager ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style:
sentimental, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, death, adultery, husband wife relationship, single mother, mother daughter relationship, grief, hospital, death of daughter ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s ...
Place:
nebraska, houston texas, texas, new york, louisiana ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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19%
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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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:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sentimental, teen, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, teenager, friendship, bullying, coming of age, high school, prank, teenage love, public humiliation, teenage life, misfit, love and romance ...
Time:
y2k, 90s, 80s
Place:
minnesota, california
Similarity:
19%
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:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
balkan, eastern europe, prague, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
19%
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, teen angst, teenage girl, high school, women, mother, single mother, family drama, love, woman woman relationship ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, clever ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, controversial, experimental, avant garde, realistic ...
Plot:
communist, renaissance, communism, politics, exile, election, age-gap relationship, totalitarian regime, radical, revenge, adultery, hard labor ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1969, 50s, year 1949 ...
Place:
eastern europe, prague, central europe, czechoslovakia, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, sentimental, touching, sincere, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, boy, family relations, social outcast, child protagonist, end of war, death, husband wife relationship, countryside, wartime life, brother brother relationship, gambler ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944, year 1943
Place:
prague, central europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, philosophical, realistic, touching, existential ...
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot:
child's point of view, coming of age, dysfunctional family, society, small town, young heroes, lifestyle, family life, family problems, understanding, obsession, youth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia, germany
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, stylized, bad ending, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage life, internet, youth, high school, teenage girl, coming of age, sex scene, teenager, infidelity, affair, depression, video game ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife who wants him to make serious decisions about the future, Fanda ignores the nagging and spends his days ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
dark humor, elderly, young at heart, couple relations, aging, couples, family problems, husband wife relationship, prank, prankster, dealing with death, love and romance ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, czech republic, prague, central europe
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18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Place:
poland, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, epic, scary ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, chess, children, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, redemption, single father, death, hospital, skinhead, middle school, youth ...
Time:
70s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
bay area, california, usa, oakland california, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals.
Style:
romantic comedy, cult classic, insightful, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
first sexual experience, older woman younger man, coming of age, pimp, communist, hypnosis, love, gang rape, chess, prostitute, brother brother relationship, communism ...
Time:
60s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, balkan, former yugoslavia, bosnia, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and ...
Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, friendship, teenage life, social differences, parents and children, family relations, social misfits, love and romance, lifestyle, single parent, society ...
Time:
90s, year 2008
Place:
london, europe, england, paris france
Similarity:
18%
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