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The Family Game (1983)
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Original name: 家族ゲーム
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor, played by the prototypical bad-boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
Style:
sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting
Plot:
family relations, school, youth, college, suspense, teachers and students, parents and children, family life, skyscraper, teenage life, society, satire, lifestyle, military life, college life, human nature, bittersweet, dedicated educator, power relations, bully, high school, surrealism, privacy invasion, classroom, dinner table
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, teenage life, love and romance, society and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Family Game: Chalk (2006), I Not Stupid (2002), American Chai (2001), Childstar (2004), Porterhouse Blue (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kok Pin, Boon Hock and Terry are classmates in "EM3" stream. In Singapore, that means that at the age of 12, the government has decided that they are not as academically inclined as their peers. Kok Pin is creative and a born artist but ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, touching, witty, humorous, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, youth, nothing goes right, misfit, society, hopes ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Childstar is about an egotistical 12-year-old named Taylor Brandon Burns who has skyrocketed to fame at that young age. His relationship with his driver, Rick, takes a turn when Taylor confides in him about the problems of celebrity and the fears of ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, biting ...
Plot:
youth, fame, actor's life, coming of age, lifestyle, showbiz, filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, parents and children, celebrity culture, family relations ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
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In late-'80s Britain, Porterhouse College Cambridge is an anachronism, its students uniformly male and (in the vast number of cases) privately educated. When the incumbent Master dies (from a stroke brought on by overeating) the government ...
Style:
thought provoking, cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
satire, college, suspense, power relations, reform, school, college life, student life, teachers and students, hopes, youth, state affairs ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, biting ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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47%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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 ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, witty
Plot:
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Time:
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41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
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semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Iron and Silk is a 1990 movie based on the eponymous book by American writer Mark Salzman. It details his journey to China after college to study Chinese wu shu, better known in the west as kung fu, and to teach English. Though not trained as an ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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40%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere, biting
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, buddies, battle of the sexes, peer pressure, sexual relations, school ...
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Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, psychological
Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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32%
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:
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32%
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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