Movies like The Blue Umbrella

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The Blue Umbrella (2005)
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The Blue Umbrella (2005)
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, cult classic, sincere, crying, freeze frame
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: generosity, obsession, village, family relations, parents and children, family life, dishonesty, wrestling, friendship, husband wife relationship, compassion, trust, youth, child, mountain, tourist, toys, village life, social relations, siblings relations, dog, dancing, thief, children, money ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india, asia, himalaya
Keyword: candy

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Most similar movies to The Blue Umbrella

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, touching and realistic films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, friendship, family life, friends and disorder mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like The Blue Umbrella: M.K.B.K.M. (2013), Stanley Ka Dabba (2011), Chillar Party (2011), Rat (2000), Bhoothnath (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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M.K.B.K.M. (2013)
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.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot: couples, supportive parent, parents and children, on the road, family relations, social relations, politician, landowner, feminist, alcoholism, femininity, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, seattle, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Stanley Ka Dabba (2011)
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 ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: social relations, power relations, teachers and students, food, student, teacher, elementary school, professor, teenager, youth, cooking, hunger ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Chillar Party (2011)
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, gang, fighting the system, mischievous children, rebellion, hopes, society, dog, parent child relationship, politician, satire ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Rat (2000)
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, black comedy, independent film ...
Plot: rat, friendship, fish out of water, self discovery, adventurer, disorder, family life, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, society, husband wife relationship, secret ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Bhoothnath (2008)
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, family friendly
Plot: ghost, family relations, friendship, supernatural, family life, haunted house, young heroes, mischievous children, disorder, father son relationship, hindu, buddies ...
Place: india, asia, goa india
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Jasmine Vine in Seethamma's Courtyard (2013)
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, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: family relations, sibling relationship, fall in love, love and romance, family drama, parents and children, village life, siblings relations, wedding, brother, village, telugu
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Darling Child (1971)
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, humorous, touching
Plot: middle class, indians, love and romance, youth, obsession, actor's life, fall in love, artists and showbiz, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American Girl" theatrical movie. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, inspirational, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, journalism, children, coming of age, youth, school, teacher, family relations, life philosophy, follow your dream, family life, american girl ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1934
Place: ohio, cincinnati ohio, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Mr. Stink (2012)
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: friendship, parents and children, intergenerational friendship, youth, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, conservative, christmas, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Toto the Hero (1991)
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, epic, sad, cult classic, inspirational ...
Plot: coming of age, hide and seek, neighbor neighbor relationship, death of sister, child, youth, children, jazz, train, time travel, adolescence, inspiration ...
Time: year 1991, future, 90s
Place: france, germany, europe, dover england, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
We Are Family (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India, Australia, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Maya is the perfect mother. Her life revolves around her three childerens, Aleya ( Aachal Munjal ), Ankush ( Nominath Ginsberg ), and Anjali ( Diya Sonecha ). Who thinks nothing much then the world of her. Despite being divorced from her husband, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, uplifting, humorous, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family problems, couples, family relations, family life, parents and children, rivalry, couple relations, family drama, dysfunctional family, cancer, household, photographer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Little Love, a Little Magic (2008)
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 ...
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: kids
Plot: adoption, nanny, orphan, disorder, vengeance, hopes, family relations, mischievous children, orphanage, youth, death of mother, custody ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Ramona and Beezus (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 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, family friendly ...
Plot: mischievous children, youth, two sisters, teenager, aunt niece relationship, family relations, child's point of view, family life, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, disorder, teenage girl ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Yoko (2012)
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 ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: yeti, family relations, friends, friendship, youth, escapades, young heroes, parents and children, bigfoot, woman, mountain, zoo ...
Time: 21st century
Place: himalaya, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Angels Sing (2013)
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: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, friendship, coming of age, holiday, mysterious character, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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King Uncle (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Ashok Bansal has a traumatic childhood which teaches him that money matters most to people, even more than their kids. Ashok starts hating poor people & starts working hard to get out of poverty, at the expense of his own family. However, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: orphan, family problems, family relations, alcohol abuse, rich and poor, adoption, womanizer, mischievous children, society, love and romance, domestic disturbance, obnoxious boss ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
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, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: boy, adoption, wish come true, miraculous event, child, mother son relationship, parents and children, couple relations, family values, desire, family relations, hopes ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Jack Frost (1998)
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: christmas special, sad, christmas classics, tear jerker, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, snowman, holiday, winter, magic, snow, boy, childhood, christmas season, xmas, reincarnation, loss of father ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, antarctic, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 162 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, inspirational, captivating, educational ...
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, learning disability ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2010s, 21st century
Place: india, middle east, asia, mumbai india
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40%
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Opal Dream (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 85 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, best friend, single parent, mischievous children, introspection ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Do Dooni Chaar (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A middle-class father in India struggles through a series of unexpected events for upholding respect and smiles.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick
Plot: family relations, working class, society, social differences, ambition, parents and children, family life, friendship, road trip, middle class, hardcore, respect ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, new delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Martian Child (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, orphan, father son relationship, imagination, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, single father, mars, writers, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Quints (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jamie Grover (Kimberly J. Brown) is an only child who has always wanted out from the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish is finally granted when she finds out her mother is pregnant, but when she turns out to have quints, Jamie's ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: baby, family relations, family life, life turned upside down, child as adult, youth, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Village of Dreams (1996)
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: sentimental, touching, stylized, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, boy, fantasy world, family relations, prank, village, biopic, social relations, disorder, friends, young heroes ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Rent-a-Kid (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Harry Habert, owner of a rent office has an original idea: To rent babies from a nearby orphanage to the local families. He rents the Ward brothers to his first customers...
Style: humorous, funny, light, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, children, dog, orphan, siblings relations, mischievous children, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, parenthood, new year, child hero ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
English Vinglish (2012)
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: 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Mr. Troop Mom (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Public Defender Eddie is a widower with a 13 year-old daughter, Naomi. A classic workaholic, Eddie has been M.I.A. for most of Naomi's big moments. But when an unfortunately timed accident gives Eddie the opportunity to become the "Team ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, parents and children, treasure hunt, family life, camp, siblings relations, friends, family relations, woods, obstacle course, climbing, embarrassment ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)
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: light, feel good, semi serious, humorous, sad ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: friendship, camp, nanny, coming of age, children, childhood, teenager, bullying, teenage life, parents and children, nothing goes right, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Bhoothnath Returns (2014)
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, humorous, touching, sitcom, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: ghost, mischievous children, good versus evil, friendship, political satire, family relations, friends, youth, young heroes, supernatural, rivalry, haunted house ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Chestnut: Hero of Central Park (2004)
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: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: dog, youth, human animal relationship, pets, mischievous children, family life, disorder, parents and children, reincarnation, animal, animal lover, adoption ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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