Movies like Pocketful of Miracles
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Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Damon Runyon's fairytale, sweet and funny, is told by director Frank Capra. Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, light, humorous, semi serious, witty, sexy, fairy tale, bad ending ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gangsters, prohibition, high society, deception, christmas, couples, social differences, disorder, dishonesty, aging, class differences, gangster boss, poverty, catastrophe, survival, magic, distopia, depression, betrayal, immortality, weapons, hotel, fantasy world, brutality, homeless ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, 60s
Place:
new york, spain, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and melancholic films with plots about adaptation, catastrophe, storytelling, dialogue, culture clash, mentor and runaway mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pocketful of Miracles: Miss Firecracker (1989), Lost in Yonkers (1993), I'm Not Rappaport (1996), Soul Food (1997), I'll Do Anything (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Duration: 115 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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