Movies like Cheese and Jam
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Cheese and Jam (2003)
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Original name: Kajmak in marmelada
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 from.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, clever
Plot:
unemployment, couples, rivalry, social differences, society, social misfits, human nature, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, illegal immigration, down on your luck, female nudity, neighbor, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, man in a wheelchair, gangsters, truck, human trafficking, working the system, bare breasts, touching someone's breasts, gangster, romance
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
slovenia, europe, former yugoslavia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and touching films with plots about society, couples, family relations, love and romance, human nature, couple relations and social differences mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Cheese and Jam: Night Bus (2014), Diary of a Tired Black Man (2008), The Flats (2002), Life is All You Get (1997), Caterina in the Big City (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Diary of a Tired Black Man is a simple story about the complex relationships between black men and black women.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Plot:
interracial relations, opposites attract, looking for love, social differences, couples, society, love and romance, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, african american, gangsters, marriage ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, clever, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police, existential crisis, new love, escape, friends, couples, society, human nature, love and romance, buddies, dealing with death, politics ...
Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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, friendship, fish out of water, social differences, teenage life, lifestyle, human nature, society, politics, hopes, city life, parents and children ...
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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:
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Plot:
working class, realism, mission, family relations, couples, yuppie, liberal, class differences, society, human nature, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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642
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Oskar, a self-centred TV weatherman, cheats on his wife Zuzana with their au pair, she kicks him to the curb and enlists her in-laws in the search for a new boyfriend.
Style:
captivating, humorous, entertaining, light, biting ...
Plot:
weatherman, midlife crisis, tv show, love affair, crumbling marriage, human nature, media, infidelity, introspection, life turned upside down, rivalry, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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747
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
Style:
cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
neighbor, feud, prank, professor, terror, dark humor, couples, disorder, family relations, society, human nature, youth ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment, friends, couples, psychiatrist, cellist, suicide ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Story:
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