Movies like The Italian

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The Italian (2010)
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The Italian (2010)
Original name: L'italien
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to contemplate marriage. To crown it all he is nearly certain to land a senior position at the dealership. But there is a tiny wee problem. The funny Italian is not Italian at all! His real name is Mourad and he is actually of Algerian origin. So, when to please his father (who does not know his son pretends to be Italian), he promises him to celebrate Ramadan he is bound to get into serious trouble...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: hidden identity, disorder, family relations, parents and children, meet the parents, society, dealer, culture clash, workplace, dishonesty, couple relations, power relations, religions or cults, consciousness, humanity, human, ethnicity, immigrant, couples, urban, family tradition, boss and employee, car salesman, dual identity, singing in a car ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe

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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 couples, family relations, disorder, couple relations, parents and children, society and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Italian: A Happy Event (2011), If You Don't, I Will (2014), On Air (2012), Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013), Walkaway (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Happy Event (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk ...
Style: realistic, sincere, semi serious, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, family outing
Plot: husband wife relationship, babies and infants, family relations, pregnancy, couples, couple relations, family life, childbirth, disorder, life turned upside down, parents and children, breast feeding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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If You Don't, I Will (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A couple goes on a hike in the woods, and the woman refuses to return.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: woman, couples, couple relations, woods, forest ranger, sleeping, tumor, ant, rabbit, art gallery, picnic, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: lyon, france
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100%
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On Air (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: parents and children, midlife crisis, self discovery, media, disorder, introspection, strong female presence, hopes, love and romance, family relations, opposites attract, hidden identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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31%
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Walkaway (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, society, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, unsupportive parent, family tradition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Looking for Hortense (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sincere, touching ...
Plot: gay, immigrant, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, family life, family relations, couples, disorder, couple relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Role of Her Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: actor's life, love triangle, lifestyle, looking for love, society, showbiz, couples, love and romance, celebrity culture, social differences, boss and employee, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Easy Way Out (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching
Plot: self discovery, gay interest, life turned upside down, couples, infidelity, couple relations, disorder, lgbt, gender, gays and lesbians, siblings relations, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Homeland (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, road movie
Plot: self discovery, fish out of water, immigrant, win over, society, disorder, travel, ethnicity, misfit, lawyer
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: africa, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Cookie (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Adeline's Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn't speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, uplifting
Audience: family outing
Plot: immigrant, society, deportation, getting home, siblings relations, youth, family relations, hopes, redemption, escapades, coming of age, kids in trouble ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Borders of Love (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Yabancı Damat, is a popular Turkish TV series distributed by Erler Film with 106 episodes in total. It deals with the relationship between a young Greek man Niko and a Turkish girl Nazlı, and the problems encountered in an intercultural marriage. ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: culture clash, unlikely couple, love affair, disorder, fall in love, couple relations, couples, parents and children, meet the parents, family relations, urban, love and romance
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Total Chaos (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Total Siyapaa is an upcoming Hindi romantic comedy film directed by Eshvar Niwas and written by Neeraj Pandey.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: meet the parents, family relations, culture clash, eccentric family, parents and children, disorder, society, couple relations, couples, nothing goes right, love and romance, interfaith relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Faith, Fraud, & Minimum Wage (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A rebellious teenage girl wrestles with the true nature of miracles when her father begins to believe in a religious hoax which she has secretly created.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot: hoax, life turned upside down, teenage life, self discovery, social relations, religions or cults, family relations, cons and scams, overnight success, miraculous event, parents and children, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Granny's Funeral (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, witty, independent film ...
Plot: couples, disorder, couple relations, dishonesty, male female relationship, love, death, magic, infidelity, pharmacist, retirement home, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Work Hard, Play Hard (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a factory, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees. ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: moral dilemma, couples, workplace, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, boss and employee, workplace situations, factory, unemployment, power relations, friendship between men ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her ...
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot: self discovery, elderly, introspection, disorder, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, siblings relations, pregnancy, couples, humour, heart disease ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Wedding Fever in Campobello (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: meet the parents, fish out of water, culture clash, couple relations, disorder, society, parents and children, misfit, couples, silly humor, migration, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Viper's Nest (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, sexy, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dishonesty, friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, couples, family relations, social relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family problems, happiness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic
Plot: hidden identity, life turned upside down, fish out of water, society, culture clash, misfit, family life, couple relations, family relations, dishonesty, couples, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: fish out of water, disorder, self discovery, buddies, grownups, parents and children, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, life turned upside down, babysitting, friends, singleness ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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A Spot of Bother (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: disorder, elderly, nothing goes right, dysfunctional family, parents and children, gay, estrangement, family problems, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, parents and children, friendship, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, friends, couples, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Crossing Borders (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Spain 1960, the dawn of the country's economic development. Industrial "reorganization" means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin, his wife Pilar and their son Pablito live ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: emigration, culture clash, family problems, society, social relations, workplace, politics, family relations, working class, unemployment, job seeking, immigrant ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: spain, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Excuse my French (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
Style: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, sad
Plot: youth, social differences, society, teachers and students, dishonesty, family problems, hidden identity, religions or cults, discrimination, disorder, death in the family, coming of age ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Great Wall Is a Great Wall (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his relatives, the Chao's for a vacation. The clash of cultures, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: interracial romance, family relations, culture clash, disorder, society, misfit, family life, road not taken, fish out of water, immigrant, asian man white woman relationship, chinese american
Time: 80s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Dandelions (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot: friendship, best friend, parents and children, family life, friends, couples, couple relations, children, culture, female friendship, school teacher, school ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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