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Chinese Take-Away (2011)
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Chinese Take-Away (2011)
Original name: Un cuento chino
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, social, existential, feel good
Plot: collector, friendship, odd couple, communication problem, society, immigrant, language barrier, cow, falklands war, dark humor, exile, fast food, refugee, migration, melancholy, friends, sexual content, bittersweet, accidental death, male bonding, waking up, loner, friendship between men, nail, male friendship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: argentina, latin america
Keyword: chinese, argentine, latin

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A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises.
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The Sale of Paradise (2012)
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Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
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Time: 21st century
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Two Shots Fired (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story: One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a sixteen-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power ...
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Plot: friendship, family relations, teenage life, youth, parents and children, dark humor, boy, siblings relations, friends, urban, house, gun
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
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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 ...
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Time: 20th century, 60s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Flowers from Another World (1999)
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Style: intercultural, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
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Duration: 97 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
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Time: year 2012, 21st century
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Duration: 92 min.
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Duration: 123 min.
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