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Holy Lola (2004)
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Holy Lola (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: adoption, family relations, interracial adoption, orphan, bribery, adoptive father, society, babies and infants, couple relations, politics, friendship, male female relationship, bureaucracy, adoptive mother, orphanage, child abandonment, children, culture, infertility, khmer rouge, hotel, corruption, love, travel, money ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century, contemporary
Place: cambodia

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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, society, adoption, friendship, hopes, babies and infants and couples mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Holy Lola: A Brand New Life (2009), The Secret of the Ant-Child (2011), The Foster Boy (2011), Casa de los Babys (2003), Little Girl (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Brand New Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: children, orphan, youth, adoption, dysfunctional family, family relations, hopes, parents and children, girl, child abandonment, abandoned by father, family problems ...
Time: year 2009, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: korea, south korea, seoul, asia
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100%
The Secret of the Ant-Child (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Traveling in North Benin, Cécile crosses the path of a young African mother deposited him, distraught, a baby in arms ... Cecile will adopt this child will grow African and Lancelot in France. The year of its seven years, she left with him to the ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: adoption, parents and children, uncover truth, family relations, homecoming, babies and infants, orphan, male female relationship, ritual, african tribe, school teacher, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Foster Boy (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Plot: adoption, orphan, friendship, survival, farm, child abuse, brother brother relationship, punishment, intergenerational friendship, dedicated educator, boyhood, con artists ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Casa de los Babys (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of easily adopting children. Unfortunately, their plans are complicated by local laws that require the ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, children, politics, women, parenthood, loneliness, follow your dream, social differences, orphan, society, hopes, culture clash ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Little Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Audience: toddlers
Plot: family relations, couples, couple relations, disorder, youth, misfit, social misfits, society, child abandonment, poverty, adolescence, friendship ...
Place: europe, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, adoption, orphan, youth, family relations, foster parent, foster child, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, foster home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Adoption (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Single factory worker Kata, 43, wants to have a child with her long-time secret lover, a married man called Joska. He doesn't like the idea. Kata befriends teenage schoolgirl Anna, abandoned by her parents at the age of six. Anna runs away from ...
Style: social, realistic, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot: adoption, woman, feminist, children, family relations, midlife crisis, reform school, child abandonment, love triangle, intergenerational friendship, women in society, orphan ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Dad for Christmas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: christmas, against the odds, adoption, custody, couples, family life, family relations, parents and children, hospital, single parent, holiday, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Hideaway (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: pregnancy, drug overdose, starting over, child abandonment, hopes, life is a bitch, gay, recluse, self discovery, friendship, strong female character, grief ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, basque country, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Cross to Bear (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mother of a 15-month old daughter and would-be dancer, fighting alcoholism and the hardships of living on the streets gets help from a home for women and tries to find the will to live and get her life back on track
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, humorous
Plot: starting over, friendship, adoption, life is a bitch, pregnancy, couples, family relations, addiction, optimism, hopes, alcohol abuse, babies and infants ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Northeast (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot: adoption, human trafficking, injustice, unwanted pregnancy, moral dilemma, family relations, life is a bitch, self discovery, society, obsessive quest, social differences, babies and infants ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, france, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.5
 191
Week-ends (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: friendship, introspection, couple relations, self discovery, breakup, disorder, family problems, countryside, couples, family crisis, old woman, rural setting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 2K
Sacred Heart (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Irene discovers that she must eat hearts in order to survive the alien invasion in Sicily.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, touching, serious ...
Plot: family relations, society, businesswoman, love, introspection, gay, couple relations, workaholic, loss of friend, suicide, changing lives, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
 353
Baby for Sale (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A couple discover that the baby girl they're trying to adopt is being auctioned off to the highest bidder. The couple become part of a sting operation to bust the baby-selling ring.
Style: disturbing, sincere, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: babies and infants, adoption, black market, trial, sting operation, fighting the system, kids in trouble, social decay, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Immediate Family (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy ...
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, pregnancy, marriage, homeless, poverty, slice of life, parents, dilemma, birth control, love, social differences, teenage life ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: seattle, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 461
Baby Sellers (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, the Lifetime Original Movie, Baby Sellers, exposes the shocking international criminal enterprise of infant trafficking. Stars Emmy winner Jennifer Finnigan and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: babies and infants, adoption, immigrant, legal action, society, life is a bitch, kidnapping, orphanage, spy, undercover agent, abduction, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
 3K
The Rocket (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Thailand, Laos
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, down on your luck, contests and competitions, parents and children, friendship, society, human spirit, post war, change of luck, family relations, boy, children ...
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Little Jerusalem (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, society, lifestyle, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, infidelity, social differences, youth, male female relationship ...
Place: middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Declaration of War (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: hospital, child illness, chemotherapy, cancer, couples, family problems, optimism, life is a bitch, babies and infants, hopes, parents and children, overcoming ...
Time: year 2011, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Italian (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, breathtaking, inspirational ...
Plot: orphan, children, orphanage, youth, boy, adoption, coming of age, friendship, adolescence, family relations, self discovery, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Freeway (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alex, 25 years old, lives a life divided between his custom car that he pampers to the point of insanity, his friends, his girlfriend, whose baby girl he had under duress, and his job as a forklift operator. An exclusive passion, with its rituals ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy
Plot: life turned upside down, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, male female relationship, friendship, family crisis, family problems, disorder, family in crisis, police officer, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Father for Brittany (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, legal action, adoption, terminal illness, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, redemption, unfulfillment, babies and infants, hopes, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s
Place: milwaukee wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Mouth Agape (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional, touching ...
Plot: terminal illness, love letter, family relations, death of mother, death, mother son relationship, family problems, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Private Matter (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, sparked a firestorm of controversy with her determination to obtain an abortion.
Style: controversial, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: abortion, courtroom drama, abortion rights, family relations, pregnancy, scandal, husband wife relationship, injustice, society, couple relations, human spirit, doctors and patients ...
Time: 60s, year 1962
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Home Beyond the Sun (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Home Beyond the Sun is the story of persecution, faith, and freedom escaping a world of fear. A bible college student, Jenna goes to teach in an area of China where her faith is forbidden. She discovers an orphanage and befriends a Chinese orphan, ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: orphan, family relations, rebellion, life is a bitch, society, hopes, rich and poor, adoption, religions or cults, christian, teacher, pursuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Live and Become (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Style: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: adoption, racism, boy, family relations, rescue, refugee, rabbi, hidden identity, love of one's life, fall in love, orphan, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 80s
Place: africa, israel, middle east, palestine, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Fratricide (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak, disturbing
Plot: kurd, politics, racism, immigrant, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, orphan, friendship, social decay, injustice, vengeance, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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