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Night Bus (2014)
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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:
sincere, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative, talky
Plot:
travel, on the road, social differences, society, working class, locked in a room, urban, bus, night, human nature, double decker bus, public transport, bottle, one location
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, london, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about society, working class, social differences, friendship, couples, family relations and human nature mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Night Bus: Homeland (2013), Tickets (2005), Cheese and Jam (2003), Career Girls (1997), Pinoy Sunday (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, reflective ...
Plot:
self discovery, fish out of water, immigrant, win over, society, disorder, personal growth, homeland, identity, culture clash, diaspora, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
france, africa, algeria
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
train, self discovery, couple relations, society, couples, social differences, on the road, railway, multiple storylines, soccer, football, migration ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
italy, scotland, europe
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34%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A story about a couple from the bottom of the social ladder, about smuggling refugees across borders and other 'suspect' things- it is, first and foremost, an attempt to tell a story about the worst in people, wherever they may be coming ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, clever
Plot:
unemployment, couples, rivalry, human nature, society, social misfits, social differences, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, illegal immigration, down on your luck, female nudity, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
slovenia, europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Style:
cult classic, realistic, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
college, life & death, female friendship, graduation, friendship, bittersweet, women, loser, female bonding, angry, meaning of life, railway ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997, 80s
Place:
london, europe, england, new jersey, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Philippines
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for Filipino guest workers Manuel and Dado.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, surreal ...
Plot:
friendship, destiny, self discovery, against the odds, obsessive quest, on the road, working class, ambition, escapades, hopes, foreigner, factory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, taipei
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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, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, realism, mission, philosophy, family relations, liberal, couples, yuppie, culture clash, class differences, couple relations, babies and infants ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people waiting to dash his dreams. Through it all, Tracy remains irrepressibly upbeat, convinced he's ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, whimsical
Plot:
rise to the top, follow your dream, optimism, society, love and romance, humble, hopes, teenage love, social misfits, artists and showbiz, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
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, sexy, sweet, independent film, compassionate ...
Plot:
working class, food, secret lover, nothing goes right, restaurant, compassion, dysfunctional family, eating disorder, midlife crisis, depression, family drama, rebellious daughter ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
musician, coming of age, self discovery, introspection, unfulfillment, hopes, youth, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, psychology, musician's life, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Rita, a 26 year old Scouse hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to her childhood sweetheart, the feckless Denny. He wants a baby, she doesn't. She wants to discover herself, so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant Is a ...
Style:
talky, touching, witty, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
working class, troubled marriage, teacher student relationship, teacher, literature, teaching, mentor, professor, self discovery, university, infidelity, social differences ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, ireland, europe, dublin ireland ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Nigeria
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
GONE TOO FAR follows two estranged teenage brothers over the course of a single day as they meet for the first time, and struggle to accept each other for who they are. Yemi can't wait for his big brother to join him on the estate in Peckham - ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
immigrant, racism, society, youth, family relations, social differences, teenage love, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, urban, working class, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, indiana, london, africa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, non-linear ...
Plot:
looking for love, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, fall in love, disorder, lifestyle, misfit, society, buddies, social differences, nightlife ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice stored in his glove compartment, listens to motivation tapes of his own voice shouting 'Sell, sell, fucking sell' and his punters are up to ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky, fast ...
Plot:
odd couple, self discovery, introspection, fish out of water, working class, job seeking, partner, dark humor, ambition, contests and competitions, workplace, reluctant partners ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
22%
442
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jack, Steve and Goat are East-End Spivs. They spend their time wheeling and dealing wherever and whenever they can. It's not until Jack and the others get involved with a guy called Villa, and they are landed with a big payday they have been ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
friends, buddies, criminal heroes, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, crime gone awry, con artists, streetwise, moral dilemma, working class, urban ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The movie tells the story of a disillusioned television personality whose career has stalled and who is looking for answers but doesn't know the questions. When his best friend taunts him for losing his sense of adventure Tony accepts a drunken ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, on the road, best friend, social relations, goofy hero, hitchhiking, travel, inspiration, screenwriter, silly humor, radio dj ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, sincere, intercultural ...
Plot:
immigrant, language barrier, travel, family life, society, social differences, culture clash, parents and children, migration, family gatherings, family reunited, black ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
germany, indiana, europe, turkey
Similarity:
21%
358
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film, black comedy ...
Plot:
showbiz, friends, disorder, buddies, artists and showbiz, partner, fish out of water, on the road, odd couple, ambition, rivalry, feud ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, humorous, dark comedy
Plot:
domineering mother, social differences, love affair, family relations, couples, culture clash, fish out of water, homecoming, parents and children, misfit, society, feminism ...
Time:
50s
Place:
iceland, europe
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei ...
Style:
comedy drama, retro, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
cold war, one night stand, unemployment, iron curtain, love, letter, impossible love, sailor, working class, cold war era, hopes, state affairs ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
russia, england, liverpool, soviet union, europe ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
feminism, sumo, ambition, interracial relations, infidelity, workplace, social differences, couples, love and romance, family life, secret movement, physical appearance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
yorkshire, europe, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A wealthy Columbian politician blinded by his own privilege is forced to walk a mile in the shoes of the people he despises most after falling victim to a violent attack and subsequently losing his memory. Miguel was a man of fine stock, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, life turned upside down, starting over, social relations, friendship, social differences, memory loss, redemption, society, hopes, life is a bitch, rich and poor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
719
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:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
couple relations, family relations, family problems, immigrant, social relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, social differences, working class, culture clash, strong female lead ...
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, semi serious, talky, witty ...
Plot:
food, satire, character study, restaurant, on the road, friendship, odd couple, buddies, verbal byplay, art, wine, dialogue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, tuscany, europe, pompeii, rome italy ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an ambient extremely divided politically.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
youth, social differences, fish out of water, friendship, teenage life, politics, lifestyle, human nature, society, hopes, school, city life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
Style:
talky, multicultural, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrant, taxi, drinking, muslim, call girl, street walker, driver, asian, black, indians, prostitution ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Style:
road movie, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the road, road trip, self discovery, friends, friendship, redemption, hopes, rise to the top, human nature, family relations, small town life, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
argentina, latin america, south america, patagonia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete ...
Style:
intercultural, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience:
date night
Plot:
migration, young lovers, immigration, feminist, exile, immigrant, couple relations, society, love and romance, human nature, gender, hopes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
19%
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:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
emigration, culture clash, working class, family problems, family relations, social relations, society, politics, workplace, immigrant, unemployment, job seeking ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
spain, switzerland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Plot:
friendship, fall in love, looking for love, life turned upside down, buddies, interracial relations, love and romance, disorder, society, urban, coming of age, brotherhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
19%
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