Movies like The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
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The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)
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Original name: Le premier jour du reste de ta vie
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
Style:
touching, emotional, semi serious, clever, realistic, sincere, captivating, art house
Plot:
family relations, marriage, parents and children, family life, family feud, couples, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, marital problem, couple relations, diary, teenager, kids and family, lifestyle, car accident, taxi driver, coming of age, youth, virginity, slacker, teenage life, family problems, acceptance, reconciliation, performance ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, year 1998, year 1993, year 1996 ...
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, emotional and serious films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, family problems, coming of age, dysfunctional family and siblings relations mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (2008), In Mom's Head (2007), Pieces of Me (2012), I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009), Sisters (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 97 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Place:
france, europe
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Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, tense, emotional ...
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Plot:
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Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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89%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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89%
176
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, captivating, art house ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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86%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
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realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
drug addiction, redemption, teenager, crumbling marriage, family relations, family problems, addiction, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, estrangement ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
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serious, touching, emotional, realistic, bleak
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teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, youth, family problems, child as adult, family relations, teachers and students, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boy ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
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realistic, semi serious, touching, emotional, talky
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dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, family gatherings, family life, parents and children, human nature, couple relations, society ...
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Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
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Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, coma, husband wife relationship, hospital, family secret ...
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Place:
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82%
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Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles.
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Time:
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Place:
sicily, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his ...
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
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80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Place:
france, europe
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80%
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Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
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realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, touching ...
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79%
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Story:
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79%
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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77%
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Country: France
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Story:
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Time:
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