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The Matchmaker (2010)
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Original name: פעם הייתי
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
Style:
sentimental, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, gloomy
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
matchmaking, looking for love, love and romance, best friend, teenage life, apprentice, male female relationship, adaptation, holocaust, summer, judaism, traumatic childhood, israeli, israeli culture, youth, friends, singleness, card playing, coming of age, bittersweet, teaching the ways of the world, power relations, matchmaker, holocaust survivor, teenage boy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1968, 1960s
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sentimental, touching and semi serious films with plots about youth, coming of age, teenage life, love and romance, parents and children, family relations and friends mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Matchmaker: Hide and Seek (1980), Lost Islands (2008), The Little Traitor (2007), Booky's Crush (2009), Whatever (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
friendship, racial discrimination, desert, ethnic, female pubic hair, immigrant, settler, social differences, culture clash, teenage life, teenage love, society ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twelve year-old Uri reports his teacher Balaban as a suspected spy when he observes him meeting with a young arab man. Only later does he discover that Balaban's interest in the young arab is romantic rather than political.
Plot:
israeli, lgbt, gay subtext, teacher student relationship, secret relationship, homosexuality, young boy, gay teacher, following someone, gay interest, teacher, gay ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1946
Place:
israel, jerusalem
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, parents and children, family in crisis, teenage love, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, rebellion, british military, military, friends, state affairs, soldier, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, man boy relationship, boy ...
Time:
20th century, year 1947, 1940s, year 1977
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, jerusalem, london
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, society, love and romance, family life, parents and children, working class, coming of age, first love, child ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style:
realistic, independent film, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, art teacher, age difference, performer's life, bittersweet, society, lifestyle, single parent ...
Time:
year 1998, 80s, future, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Style:
emotional, touching, lyrical, depressing, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, hopes, children, midlife crisis, family life, human nature, couple relations, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, love and romance, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tokyo
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, writer's life, family problems, working class, dysfunctional family, creative block, small town, small town life, unemployment, social decay, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, tel aviv israel
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
culture clash, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, family relations, love and romance, immigrant, political unrest, teenage love, youth, family problems, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s
Place:
iraq, israel
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, interracial relations, culture clash, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, best friend, on the road, small town, society, social misfits, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Writer Joris (the author's alter-ego) has packed in his job and left his routine. He wanders through Brussels, pretending to be in other places and as far as we can verify lying to everyone. He stays in a dead-beat motel and meets other absurd ...
Style:
stylized, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
fall in love, lifestyle, starting over, love and romance, writer's life, hopes, dull life, breakup, estrangement, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, twentysomething life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
belgium, brussels
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Naomi, a seventeen year-old city brat from Nagoya, finds her world turned upside down after the breakup of her parents' marriage. Packed off to the country, she reluctantly works at her aunt's inn until being asked to care for Mrs. Koide, ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, elderly, teenage life, self discovery, friendship, human nature, youth, aging, bittersweet, hotel, dementia, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
One New Year's Eve with a bottle of champagne, Emilie, 35, signs up for Meet Me, a popular internet dating site, with a great New Year's resolution: to find love. There are a lot of men on Meet Me: cynics, comedians, a few goofs and even ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental
Audience:
date night
Plot:
single woman, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, thirtysomething life, computers and web, male female relationship, relationships, celibacy, fishing, ice cream, seduction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, marseille, provence
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, interracial relations, rebelliousness, family life, friends, danger, terrorism, politics, society, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, palestinian authority
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 35 min.
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Story:
Srugim is an Israeli television drama which originally aired on Yes TV between 2008 and 2012. It was directed by Eliezer "Laizy" Shapiro, who co-created it with Hava Divon. The series depicted the lives of five national religious single ...
Style:
contemplative, sentimental, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
social relations, friendship, best friend, couples, introspection, couple relations, friends, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, society, singleness ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, asia, jerusalem
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 13, Yoni is growing up. Fast. But not fast enough for this diminutive young man who is obsessed with getting bigger, taller and stronger. On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, Yoni has no choice but to “become a man” when he’s faced ...
Style:
sincere, touching, atmospheric, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, family life, physical appearance, teenage life, dysfunctional family, misfit, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, mental illness, mentally challenged, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot:
teenage life, impossible love, friendship, teenage love, hopes, introspection, social misfits, misfit, friends, disorder, culture clash, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1991, year 1982 ...
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
politics, soldier, military life, friendship, terrorism, women, danger, israeli, third world, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt ...
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, palestine
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Benjamin is a 16 year old half-side spastic with lousy grades in math, who switches to a boarding school to reach grammar school. Acclimatization to the new environment is difficult in the first place and he has to struggle with the various problems ...
Style:
sexy, homoerotic, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, homoerotic friendship, friendship, puberty, first sex, teenage sex, fall in love, teenage love, social relations, love and romance, youth, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, europe, bavaria
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, aunt nephew relationship, female nudity, bar mitzvah, israeli, israeli culture, nude girl, aunt, black market, family relations, young heroes, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
looking for love, family gatherings, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, family relations, midlife crisis, youth, unfulfillment, singleness, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
698
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot:
impossible love, friendship, teenage love, teenage life, self discovery, starting over, couples, family life, false accusation, fall in love, society, politics ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When four best friends try and move forward in their work and personal life, they realize that trying to live their life's dream is more difficult than they imagine -- especially in the high fashion world of Shanghai.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, fashion, relationship vs career, coming of age, ambition, couples, youth, looking for love, best friend, female friendship, fashion magazine, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
shanghai, china
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Normandy, Louise lives happily in the horse world. Suddenly, fate strikes. Louise left alone with his father and a family friend to Ferronnière the stud where she has always lived. Business is bad, they are on the verge of bankruptcy ... ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, teenage girl, stallion, teenage life, rivalry, parents and children, love and romance, training, strong female character, horse trainer, woman riding a horse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, normandy
Similarity:
20%
966
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, fall in love, couple relations, self discovery, teenage life, small town life, teenage love, best friend, human nature, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, south carolina
Similarity:
20%
441
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, friendship, teenage life, social relations, social differences, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, interracial relations, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Året är 1969. Artonårige Martin mönstrar på som andrekock på lastfartyget "Snow Drift", med destination Kapstaden. Det är Martins tredje resa. I fartygets kök härskar förstekocken Peter Stein, här är allting underkastat hans ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot:
nothing goes right, youth, ship, follow your dream, hopes, friendship, food, revenge, murder, cooking, restaurant, friends ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style:
semi serious, stylized, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage love, dysfunctional family, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dreams come true for young girl (Kayla Amariah) when her idol, heartthrob Chris Trousdale from the boy band Dream Street, must hide out and live in her house.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
dream come true, fan, teenage love, boy band, ambition, artists and showbiz, musician's life, youth, love and romance, rising to stardom, teenage life, celebrity culture ...
Similarity:
20%
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