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Summer Hours (2008)
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Original name: L'Heure d'été
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession.
Style:
atmospheric, lyrical, stylized, sentimental, sincere, enigmatic, touching, serious, realistic, crying ...
Plot:
art, summer, irreverent, life philosophy, family problems, family gatherings, parents and children, uncover truth, artist, family drama, family relations, loneliness, treasure hunt, death, wine, memory, marijuana, grief, death of mother, childhood memory, siblings, slow burn, family reunited, sibling relationship, youth ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe, china, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, death, children, family and family problems mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Summer Hours: Bee Season (2005), Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), Youth (2012), Mommo (2009), I've Loved You So Long (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
11-year-old Eliza is the invisible element of her family unit: her parents are both consumed with work and her brother is wrapped up in his own adolescent life. Eliza ignites not only a spark that makes her visible but one that sets into motion a ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, depressing, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
redemption, dysfunctional family, religion, family drama, life philosophy, depression, family relations, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, human nature, society ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
usa, oakland california, bay area, washington d.c., sacramento california ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on ...
Style:
art house, melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
nanny, imaginary friend, boy, existentialism, loneliness, parents and children, neglect, youth, babysitter, telephone call, family relations, museum ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, brussels, tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Juliette, twenty, falls in love. At the same time her father is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, fall in love, family relations, youth, parents and children, family in crisis, life is a bitch, love and romance, family problems, twentysomething life, countryside, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kids in trouble, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, youth, family problems, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, estrangement, family relations, death in the family, brother sister relationship, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
family drama, redemption, prison, character study, physician, job seeking, honest, parenthood, complex characters, loss of son, sibling relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, rebelliousness, parents and children, unfulfillment, unrequited love, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time:
70s, year 1994, year 1972
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, touching, sincere, aesthetic ...
Plot:
family reunited, family gatherings, family life, generation gap, bereavement, dealing with death, reconciliation, parents and children, old age, father son relationship, food, generation ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, free and true to life, ...
Style:
captivating, touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
family in crisis, filmmaking, family relations, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, showbiz, family life, mental disorder, husband wife relationship, children, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
paris france, europe, france, italy
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, parents and children, family life, hopes, bittersweet, friendship, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Kiek is worried as her father works in a war zone. To lengthen the odds of her father getting hurt, she comes up with a strange and unique idea: she needs a dead dog and a dead mouse, because Kiek doesn't know one person who has a dead mouse, a ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, youth, obsession, death, family life, family problems, stop motion, coming of age, family
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, family relations, parents and children, village life, coming of age, father son relationship, father and son, sport team, friends, village, youth, self confidence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, friendship, boy, friends, family life, youth, mischievous children, father son relationship, book, school, tree ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, political, sexual, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
anarchist, coming of age, politics, counterculture, teenage life, riot, self discovery, fighting the system, rebellion, youth, society, working class ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1968, 60s, year 1971
Place:
france, europe, paris france, florence, italy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Style:
melancholic, psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Plot:
actress, skinny dipping, lesbian, movie actress, divorce, midlife crisis, women, mountain, relationships, sexual attraction, character study, suicide attempt ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, swiss alps, alps, london, zurich switzerland ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
Style:
semi autobiographical, sincere, serious, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, toddlers
Plot:
childhood trauma, death of mother, orphan, loss, loss of mother, little girl, summer, childhood, mother daughter relationship, farmhouse, uncle, countryside ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
spain, mediterranean sea, barcelona, catalonia, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
12-year-old boy and his older brother have just lost their dad. At their summer cottage, the younger boy befriends a black doctor who has to deal with local prejudice and racism.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
racism, youth, racial discrimination, social justice, friendship, small town, interracial relations, society, hopes, family relations, social relations, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style:
touching, sad, sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, family drama, sisters, parenthood, lawyer, relationships, mother daughter relationship, sick child, life is a bitch, hospital, leukemia ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, los angeles, montana
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France, Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and her little daughter Marussia are two such people. They have been thrown out by the Russian ...
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
childhood, society, immigration, family relations, family problems, poverty, single parent, family in crisis, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, exile, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; ...
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, talky, depressing ...
Plot:
children, little girl, child, bereavement, grief, adolescence, girl, death, friendship, school, child's point of view, loss ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
france, provence, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite a supernatural horror movie, Taliesin Jones's identity crisis nonetheless reveals a sweet examination of one child and his thoughts on God.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sentimental, independent film
Plot:
teenage boy, miraculous event, coming of age, self discovery, family problems, family life, parents and children, dysfunctional family, redemption, hopes, secret society, christianity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
wales
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Jason returns home to get away while he studies for the upcoming bar exam. After visiting his oldest friend, a "coulda-been-girlfriend" who is now engaged, and a pushy preacher, his easygoing summer becomes filled with unwanted drama. Over ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
christian, small town, couples, family relations, society, introspection, youth, self discovery, religions or cults, small town life, homecoming, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arkansas
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Friends of painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The dozen travelers include art historian François and his lover Louis, who develops an interest in ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, psychological, talky, anthology ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
making love, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, art, painter, painting, gays and lesbians, transvestism, drinking, storytelling, marriage ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, egypt, cambodia ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
countryside, art, painter, artist, father daughter relationship, aging, telephone call, country estate, dance, elderly man, painting, family relations ...
Time:
1910s, year 1984
Place:
france, europe, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Argentina, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, youth, countryside, family relations, friendship, sibling relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, animal life, farm, friends, coming of age, hopes ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to Finnish-speaking Finns frowned upon by a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
discrimination, school, escapades, siblings relations, missing person, family relations, solace, apprentice, haunted by the past, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, strong female character ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
244
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, obsessive quest, single parent, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, lyon, europe, france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large ...
Style:
sentimental, tear jerker, inspirational, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
dog, boy and dog, justice, life philosophy, destiny, friendship, coming of age, countryside, boy dog relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drawing, artist ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 1999, 1930s, 70s
Place:
antwerp, flanders, california, san francisco
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
Style:
atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
murder, aging, family relations, homecoming, parents and children, clinic, family life, estrangement, resentment, family problems, siblings relations, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
africa, europe, czechoslovakia, versailles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
childhood, kids in trouble, youth, boy, realism, adoption, social problems, life is a bitch, street kid, society, parents and children, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, belgium
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Violette, an expectant wife, who opens a nasty barrel of worms by filming a documentary about her dysfunctional family, to be shown to her (as yet) unborn son.Through her ever-present lens, Violette begins to unearth one nasty family secret after ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, pregnancy, couples, family problems, parents and children, infidelity, uncover truth, disturbed childhood, adolescence, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
21%
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