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Raining Stones (1993)
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Raining Stones (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
Style: independent film, bleak, sentimental, sincere, touching, offbeat, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, social ...
Plot: working class, social commentary, parents and children, unemployment, poverty, priest, landscape, catholic, labor, family relations, life is a bitch, profanity, rain, society, family problems, down on your luck, loan, urban, family in crisis, realism, nothing goes right, disorder, human nature, bittersweet, obsessive quest ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: manchester, london, europe, england, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, society, parents and children, working class, family problems, dysfunctional family and friendship mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Raining Stones: Secrets & Lies (1996), Naked (1993), Life Is Sweet (1990), The Navigators (2001), Riff-Raff (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Secrets & Lies (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A middle-aged London factory worker is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone's secrets are exposed.
Style: emotional, independent film, realistic, touching, dark comedy ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adoption, birth mother, great ending, bittersweet, working class, loneliness, family secret, women, black, mother, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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Naked (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very ...
Style: disturbing, talky, compassionate, realistic, philosophical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: existentialism, sexual abuse, drifter, humiliation, nihilism, rape, alienation, voyeurism, sexual humiliation, rough sex, rapist, secrets ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom, manchester
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67%
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Life Is Sweet (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on ...
Style: sentimental, independent film, compassionate, sweet, funny ...
Plot: working class, food, secret lover, dysfunctional family, rebellious daughter, class differences, depression, family drama, restaurant, compassion, family relations, eating disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Navigators (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, social, gloomy ...
Plot: working class, unemployment, friendship, workplace, society, life is a bitch, fighting the system, human spirit, workplace intrigue, corporate crime, small town, realism ...
Time: year 2001
Place: europe, england
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31%
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Riff-Raff (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer, serves to show the living conditions of the British poor class.
Style: political, social, independent film, humorous, gloomy ...
Plot: working class, worker, unhappiness, resistance, social realism, refugee, chaos, kitchen sink realism, labor, immigrant, poverty, pop singer ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 80s
Place: scotland, london, england, europe
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28%
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Meantime (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a ...
Style: surreal, mysterious, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: working class, skinhead, dysfunctional family, unemployment, social realism, nazi, neo nazi, subculture, nationalism, hooligan, exodus, angry ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, britain, london, east end london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Piano in a Factory (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Steelworker Chen has a passion for music and plays the accordion in a local band with a close group of friends. When his estranged wife returns one day after years of absence, she demands a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Chen is at a ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, art film ...
Plot: hopes, factory worker, working class, prodigy, family relations, disagreement, society, family problems, bittersweet, piano, musician, communism ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, 90s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Perfect Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: lesbian, dysfunctional family, church, family problems, couples, religions or cults, physical appearance, parents and children, society, couple relations, gays and lesbians, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Mondays in the Sun (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style: touching, sincere, realistic, political, serious ...
Plot: working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, human nature, breaking point ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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High Hopes (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering ...
Style: independent film, black comedy, retro, cult classic, semi serious ...
Plot: working class, realism, mission, philosophy, family relations, couples, yuppie, liberal, culture clash, class differences, aging, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
 643
Alila (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. The character's lives overlap and collide. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: couple relations, family relations, family problems, immigrant, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, social relations, culture clash, social differences, infidelity, working class, strong female lead ...
Place: palestine, middle east, israel
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23%
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All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style: emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family business, family relations, save the day, family problems, restaurant, working class, estrangement, parents and children, bank, siblings relations, family in crisis, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
My Year Without Sex (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A tender story from Australia highlights the realistic ups and downs of an Australian family in the year following a parent's emergency medical procedure.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot: family relations, couples, introspection, couple relations, lifestyle, youth, parents and children, family life, eccentric family, family in crisis, adolescence vs adulthood, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: australia
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21%
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Night Bus (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The passengers on the Night Bus have many different stories -- some are lovers, some have dark secrets, some are looking for a fight, others are just trying to get through the night.
Style: semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: travel, on the road, social differences, society, working class, bus, locked in a room, urban, night, human nature, double decker bus, one location ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Here and There (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, clever, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, life is a bitch, lifestyle, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
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21%
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West Is West (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, love and romance, looking for love, family problems, society, siblings relations, teenage life, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: england, pakistan, europe, middle east, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Hardboiled Egg (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of Piero, from when he was a kid to fatherhood, over the background of the town of Livorno, Tuscany, where the director Virzì was born.
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, gloomy, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bittersweet, working class, youth culture, dysfunctional family, factory worker, teenage love, blue collar, oil refinery, proletarian, puberty, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tuscany, europe, italy
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21%
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All Against All (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Style: realistic, sincere, semi serious, humorous, biting
Plot: life turned upside down, satire, eviction, hopes, working class, society, family relations, righting the wronged, forced into action, family problems, family life, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
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20%
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The Van (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in "Barrytown", a fictitious working-class quarter of Dublin. "Bimbo" Reeves gets laid off from his job. With his redundancy, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising ...
Style: realistic, humorous, independent film, social, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, food, unemployment, working class, restaurant, cooking, erotica, soccer, family relations, friendship between men, partner, friends ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Someone Else's America (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: immigration, american dream, family relations, friendship, immigrant, friends, family problems, estrangement, family life, urban, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: former yugoslavia, new york, montenegro, serbia, europe ...
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20%
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Anita & Me (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious
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Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Liam (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, sincere, depressing ...
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style: humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, working class, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, family problems, couples, estrangement, death in the family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Four Shades of Brown (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 192 min.
Story: Four stories, all related to fatherhood, are presented: A father tries to stimulate his son by bringing him to his workplace with disastrous consequences. Richard Brunn and his wife, who run a design hotel, suffer a strained relationship as his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, clever, humorous ...
Plot: group therapy, suicide attempt, family relations, family problems, human nature, parents and children, disability, dark humor, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, bittersweet, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Human Resources (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in Limoges, the movie tells the story of "good son" Franck (Jalil Lespert), who returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, taciturn father has ...
Style: melancholic, sincere, thought provoking, emotional, political ...
Plot: working class, factory, betrayal, intern, father son relationship, politics, unemployment, social differences, workplace situations, life is a bitch, family drama, worker ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, normandy, europe, paris france, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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East Is East (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and ...
Style: hilarious, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: muslim, tradition, family relations, gay son, domineering father, homosexual, gay interest, indians, dysfunctional family, family problems, racism, working class ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Empties (2007)
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, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, dishonesty, hopes, starting over, couple relations, friends, family relations, couples, friendship, parents and children, teacher, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, balkan, prague, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.2
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Manhood (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, life turned upside down, manhood, youth, family problems, disorder, dysfunctional family, parents and children, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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