Movies like Valentin

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Valentin (2002)
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Valentin (2002)
Original name: Valentín
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive father.
Style: sentimental, touching, sweet, uplifting, realistic, lyrical, sincere, hispanic, serious, crying ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, dysfunctional family, children, loneliness, astronaut, misfit, parents and children, family problems, elementary school, unfulfillment, little boy, youth, bittersweet, secret life, absent mother, family drama, transformation, love, school, hospital, prejudice, storytelling, genie, boy ...
Time: year 2002, 60s, 20th century, 80s, 70s, 1960s
Place: latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
Keyword: argentine, jewish, russian, movie theatre, watching a movie, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and crying films with plots about family relations, friendship, kiss, father son relationship, drink, love and drinking mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Valentin: About a Boy (2002), Agnes Browne (1999), Dear Frankie (2004), Look at Me (2004), Tiptoes (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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About a Boy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, romantic, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, childhood, dating, bullying, friendship, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, christmas, boy, mentor, motherhood, couples ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe
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Agnes Browne (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself.
Style: emotional, sentimental, humorous, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot: poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, happy ending, single father, best friend, childhood ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 60s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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43%
 7.7
 22K
Dear Frankie (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, ...
Style: heartbreaking, sweet, realistic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: single parent, coming of age, disability, family drama, friendship, father son relationship, boy, stranger, passion, letter, youth, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.8
 5K
Look at Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.
Style: stylized, lyrical, semi serious, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family relations, music, parents and children, writer's life, couples, family problems, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 4.2
 6K
Tiptoes (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family life, sex, couple relations, introspection, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Cape of Good Hope (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: interracial relations, pregnancy, love affair, love triangle, couples, family problems, hopes, single parent, society, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.1
 46
Vernie (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, friendship, best friend, pregnancy, terminal illness, tragic hero, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Driving Lessons (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Style: sentimental, witty, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, eccentricity, obsession, family problems, friendship, parenthood, honest, redemption, parents and children, intergenerational friendship, family relations ...
Time: year 2006
Place: england, scotland, united kingdom, edinburgh scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Kings and Queen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: terminal illness, adoption, family relations, parents and children, destiny, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, musician's life, life is a bitch, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Music from Another Room (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Plot: single father, family relations, parents and children, american football, love and romance, destiny, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family drama, life philosophy, marriage, blindness ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, melancholic, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, estrangement, eccentric family, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, dealing with death, bookstore, snow ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 70K
Jersey Girl (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his ...
Style: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, love and romance, single parent, death, relationships, love story, family drama, honest, death of wife, family relations, starting over ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.0
 2K
Bruno (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family life, parents and children, family problems, prodigy, society, hopes, eccentric family, friends ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
These Foolish Things (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, lifestyle, actor's life, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.2
 6K
Tadpole (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from ...
Style: humorous, witty, sweet, talky, funny ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, coming of age, older woman teenage boy relationship, love and romance, female pedophile, adolescence, love, thanksgiving, friendship, obsession, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.7
 36K
Mermaids (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old ...
Style: touching, sweet, teen, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, kids, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, single mother, teenager, love story, mother daughter relationship, young adult, father daughter relationship, loneliness, single parent, mother, fall in love ...
Time: 60s, 90s, year 1963, year 1964, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts, texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, high school life, father son relationship, family relations, prank, honest, high school, parents and children, american football, teenage life, student ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1999, y2k, 90s
Place: usa, rhode island, connecticut, arizona, new england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Nanny Diaries (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, emotional, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, family relations, adult child friendship, mischievous children, obnoxious boss, parents and children, love and romance, little boy, fish out of water, fall in love, babysitting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.3
 3K
Zappa (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is Mulle, a cheerful and more childish working-class boy. ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, teenage boy, female nudity, nordic, rape, family relations, friendship, bare butt, vacation, teenager, male nudity ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
Place: denmark, scandinavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.9
 100K
Sing Street (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Style: sweet, touching, realistic, teen, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, teen drama
Plot: youth, music band, musician's life, friendship, rock and roll, coming of age, bullying, dream girl, singing, adolescence, teenager, school ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 2010s, future, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, nebraska, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Dan in Real Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: single father, parenthood, love triangle, fall in love, love story, relationships, love and romance, love, widower, father daughter relationship, wedding, single parent ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, muslim, adoption, religion, friendship, self discovery, youth, man boy relationship, childhood, koran, generation gap, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, middle east, switzerland, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 72K
Elizabethtown (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his ...
Style: emotional, sweet, melancholic, road movie, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: small town, love story, suicide attempt, stewardess, road trip, love, bittersweet, life philosophy, self discovery, on the road, redemption, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa, oklahoma city, louisville kentucky, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 13K
Paris (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, fall in love, city life, friendship, artist, self discovery, age difference, dancing, love, dancer, siblings, lsd ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The film centres on a retired, widowed professor living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: elderly, loneliness, estrangement, free spirited, character study, suicide attempt, friendship, odd couple, death of wife, respect, dancer, optimism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, brussels, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 7K
Somers Town (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, friendship, social differences, teenage life, parents and children, family relations, lifestyle, social misfits, single parent, love and romance, society ...
Time: year 2008, 90s
Place: london, england, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Monday Morning (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A story told quietly of Vincent a welder at a large and seemingly toxic plant along the Rhône, living in a village with his sons, wife, and mother, saying little to each other.
Style: humorous, psychological, sincere, captivating, road movie ...
Plot: midlife crisis, factory, friendship, working class, human nature, lifestyle, couple relations, social differences, crumbling marriage, parents and children, painting, alienation ...
Time: year 2002
Place: venice, europe, italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Summer Tale (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The summer of '58, the year Sweden almost won the world championship in soccer over Brazil, Yngve Johansson accepts two children to live with him during the summer, as told through the eyes of a young boy. His name is Mårten, and the other ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
Plot: coming of age, countryside, friendship, foster child, swedish, social relations, youth, village life, summer, loneliness, mortician, orphan ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1958
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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