Movies like The Blue Umbrella
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The Blue Umbrella (2005)
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Original name: थे ब्लू अम्ब्रेला
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young Biniya lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in the mountainous and snowy region of Himachal Pradesh in India along with her widowed mom and wrestler brother. She entertains various tourists, and while doing so with some tourists from Japan, trades in her bear-tooth amulet with a blue umbrella...
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, anime, art film, sincere
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
generosity, obsession, village, family relations, parents and children, family life, dishonesty, friendship, husband wife relationship, compassion, trust, youth, cult, child, mountain, wrestling, tourist, toys, village life, social relations, siblings relations, dog, dancing, thief, children ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
india, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, touching and feel good films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, disorder, friends, friendship and family life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like The Blue Umbrella: M.K.B.K.M. (2013), Stanley Ka Dabba (2011), Rat (2000), Mr. Stink (2012), Darling Child (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola.
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humorous, captivating, feel good, light, realistic ...
Plot:
supportive parent, couples, parents and children, on the road, family relations, social relations, politician, landowner, alcohol abuse, father daughter relationship, class struggle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Stanley studies in the all-boys Holy Family High School in Andheri East, Mumbai. While his class-mates bring their own tiffin-boxes, Stanley does not do so on the pretext that his mother is away. His friends share their food with him, much to the ...
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realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, inspirational ...
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family outing, kids
Plot:
school, social relations, power relations, teachers and students, food, teacher, student, elementary school, teenager, professor, youth, cooking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Brothers Peddodu and Chinnodu are unemployed and do not get along well due to their contrasting natures. They have problems marrying the women they love before an accident changes their lives.
Style:
feel good, realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
sibling relationship, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, siblings relations, village, parents and children, village life, wedding, brother, brother brother relationship, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, biting, offbeat
Plot:
rat, friendship, fish out of water, self discovery, adventurer, disorder, eccentric family, family life, dysfunctional family, society, husband wife relationship, secret ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
This family comedy based on David Walliam's best-selling book tells the story of Chloe, who sees Mr. Stink every day, but has never spoken to him. Before she knows it, Chloe has an unusual friend hiding in her garden shed. As it turns out that ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, offbeat
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
parents and children, friendship, intergenerational friendship, youth, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, christmas, homeless, friends, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A teenage girl will not accept her family's attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor "Dharmendra."
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
indians, family relations, actor's life, obsession, youth, artists and showbiz, love and romance, teenage love, fall in love, teenage life, parents and children, girl ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A gang of innocent but feisty kids who lead carefree lives in Chandan Nagar colony take own the big bad world of politics when one of their friend's life is endangered.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, parody ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, friendship, fighting the system, mischievous children, hopes, society, rebellion, politician, gang, parent child relationship, dog, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ramona is a little girl with a very big imagination and a nose for mischief. Her playful antics keep everyone in her loving family on their toes, including her older sister Beezus, who's just trying to survive her first year of high school. ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
mischievous children, youth, teenager, aunt niece relationship, family relations, child's point of view, family life, two sisters, parent child relationship, sibling relationship, disorder, money problems ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he ...
Style:
touching, sad, epic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
coming of age, hide and seek, neighbor neighbor relationship, death of sister, child, youth, children, train, psychology, lonely, time travel, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
future, 90s, near future
Place:
france, germany, europe, spain, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Banku, his mother, Anjali Sharma and father move in to their new house -- the Nath villa, unaware of the fact that the house is inhabited by a ghost. It is learnt the ghost is not too happy with his new housemates. But what the ghost is not prepared ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, surprise ending
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ghost, family relations, friendship, supernatural, haunted house, family life, disorder, young heroes, mischievous children, father son relationship, friends, buddies ...
Place:
india, asia, goa india
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Movies similar to My Girl
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife ...
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, family life, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, mysterious character, friendship, coming of age, holiday, christmas movie
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Pobby & Dingan are invisible. They live in an opal town in Australia and are friends with Kellyanne, the 9 year-old daughter of an opal miner. The film tells the story of the bizarre and inexplicable disappearance of Pobby & Dingan, ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sad
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
imaginary friend, family relations, friendship, imaginary character, self discovery, hopes, siblings relations, culture clash, single parent, best friends, mischievous children, introspection ...
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
One day they pray to God for help and he does help them. He sends his most mischievous, childlike, lovable angel to the rescue, with a mission to bring Ranbeer and the kids together. Geeta (Rani Mukerji) comes bicycling down a rainbow… and bursts ...
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feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
nanny, orphan, disorder, adoption, hopes, vengeance, family relations, mischievous children, orphanage, youth, death of mother, custody ...
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and ...
Style:
motivational, touching, captivating, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dyslexia, teachers and students, teacher, teaching the ways of the world, childhood, self discovery, dedicated educator, young heroes, coming of age, shyness, school, mathematics ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
india, africa, asia, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
dog, youth, pets, human animal relationship, mischievous children, family life, disorder, reincarnation, parents and children, adoption, friends, family relations ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A father, who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
Style:
sad, fairy tale, humorous, feel good, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, snowman, holiday, magic, winter, childhood, reincarnation, loss of father, father son relationship, boy, husband wife relationship, loss of husband ...
Place:
colorado, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
Style:
touching, funny, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
miraculous event, child, mother son relationship, adoption, disney, parents and children, couple relations, family values, desire, family relations, hopes, childbirth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, boy, fantasy world, prank, family relations, countryside, village, mischievous children, innocence lost, young heroes, disorder ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Austria, Sweden
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pia's life, a girl from a small German town, changes when surprisingly, finds in her garden a huge black monster. She soon discovers that the mysterious creature, which called Yoko, is actually a kind yeti spiritually protecting animals and ...
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exciting, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
yeti, family relations, friends, friendship, young heroes, youth, escapades, parents and children, bigfoot, woman, mountain, dead father ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, humorous, funny, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
magic, good versus evil, fairy godmother, magic wand, rivalry, supernatural ability, down on your luck, supernatural, mischievous children, parents and children, brother sister relationship, villainess ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
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teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
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baby, family relations, life turned upside down, child as adult, family life, disney, parents and children, teenage life, siblings relations, youth, mother daughter relationship, teenager ...
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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feel good, sentimental, touching, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, children, coming of age, youth, teacher, school, teenager, family relations, life philosophy, follow your dream, family life, child ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
ireland, ohio, usa, chicago illinois, cincinnati ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
ENGLISH VINGLISH is the story of a woman who does not know English and is made to feel insecure by her family and society at large. Circumstances make her determined to overcome this insecurity, master the language, and teach the world a lesson on ...
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, parody ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing
Plot:
self fulfillment, self esteem, language learning, unsupportive spouse, housewife, family life, self discovery, teachers and students, fish out of water, language barrier, family relations, humiliation ...
Time:
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Place:
india, manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies ...
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funny, humorous, light, surreal, talky ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
middle school, childhood, teenager, child protagonist, high school, fat boy, high school life, coming of age, bullying, child, peer pressure, redemption ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, guatemala, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the story about seven very different best friends, and one summer that will bring them together like never before.
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
friendship, teenager, camp, coming of age, nanny, children, babysitting, childhood, teenage life, parents and children, nothing goes right, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
connecticut, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Films like Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Genre: Family, Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
museum, investigation, friendship, suburbs, running away from home, runaway, child in peril, mischievous children, young heroes, coming of age, youth, heroes ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, humorous, feel good, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, disney, job interview, child's point of view, siblings relations, father son relationship, brothers, family relations, birthday party, bad luck, coming of age, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, light, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Boothnath vows to redeem himself when spirits tease him, and searches for a child to terrify. He befriends Akhrot, a slum kid, and helps him take on the country's most powerful politician.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, sitcom, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ghost, mischievous children, good versus evil, friendship, political satire, family relations, friends, rivalry, youth, supernatural, young heroes, haunted house ...
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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