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My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
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My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
Original name: La Tête en friche
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sincere, social
Plot: friendship, teacher, elderly, intergenerational friendship, social relations, low self esteem, misfit, self discovery, unsupportive parent, illiteracy, single mother, partner, unknown father, bad father, old couple, village, friends, bird, village life, older man younger woman relationship, lawyer, cat, pregnancy, plague, kidnapping ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe, belgium
Keyword: french, dictionary, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about friends, friendship, family relations, elderly, parents and children, self discovery and bittersweet mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like My Afternoons with Margueritte: Conversations with My Gardener (2007), The Intouchables (2011), The Children of the Marshland (1999), In the Courtyard (2014), Le Havre (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a ...
Style: talky, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: nice france, europe, paris france, france, south of france
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The Intouchables (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
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Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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The Children of the Marshland (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot: french countryside, football, interwar period, swamp, best friend, small town life, countryside, small town, lifestyle, fall in love, friendship, love and romance ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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In the Courtyard (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Antoine is a musician. The forties, he suddenly decides to end his career. After a few days of wandering, he gets a job as a janitor. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where he takes office. This is a young retiree, generous ...
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Plot: friendship, aging, elderly, midlife crisis, career change, depression, anxiety, musician, illegal alien, retiring, friends, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
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Time: 2010s, year 2011, 90s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, africa, europe, normandy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 92 min.
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