Movies like Hardboiled Egg
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Hardboiled Egg (1997)
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Original name: Ovosodo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of Piero, from when he was a kid to fatherhood, over the background of the town of Livorno, Tuscany, where the director Virzì was born.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, captivating, realistic, gloomy, semi serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth culture, coming of age, working class, bittersweet, teacher student relationship, teenage love, dysfunctional family, factory worker, blue collar, puberty, proletarian, oil refinery, youth, teachers and students, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, couples, teenage life, society, family problems, small town, social relations, small town life, couple relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
tuscany, italy, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and touching films with plots about youth, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, teenage life, love and romance and dysfunctional family mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Hardboiled Egg: The Night Before the Exams (2006), Caterina in the Big City (2003), You're My Hero (2003), Turning Green (2005), Couch Potatoes (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Rome, 1989. Luca Molinari meets Claudia in a party, both of them are stressed about the upcoming final exams. Luca falls in love with the girl and now spends his time looking for her. He is assisted by his inseparable friends: Alice, Richard, ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, coming of age, teenage life, buddies, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, teachers and students, high school, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, social differences, fish out of water, friendship, teenage life, politics, lifestyle, human nature, society, hopes, school, city life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, first love, teenage life, idealism, society, snitch, teachers and students, high school, parents and children, clergy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, teenage life, getting home, society, hopes, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, youth, overnight success, family relations, fall in love, bittersweet ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
father son relationship, teenager, friendship, family relations, parents and children, friends, teenage life, youth, unlikely friendships, misfit, disorder, family problems ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Tunisia, France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
bathhouse, turkish bath, circumcision, coming of age, sexual awakening, arab, nudity, female nudity, youth, young boy, boy, erotica ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tunisia, middle east, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, parents and children, family in crisis, teenage love, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
mother, femme fatale, mother son relationship, parents and children, homecoming, family life, small town, passion, terminal illness, parent child relationship, youth, jealous spouse ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Leo falls in love with Beatrice, a slightly older high-school student who has leukemia.
Style:
sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, psychological
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, love and romance, friendship, self discovery, youth, high school, leukemia, teenager in love, love story, mentally unstable, friends, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, couple relations, best friend, lifestyle, love and romance, babies and infants, coming of age, family problems, teenage life, siblings relations, crumbling marriage ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bitter Sweetheart is the naked truth about Lina Berglund, a perfectly normal 15-year-old who tries to start living like her friends, who seem to have so much fun.
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
first time, sex scene, teenage life, teenage love, high school life, love and romance, youth, bittersweet, sexual relations, coming of age, female nudity, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
313
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, family problems, family life, parents and children, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, innocence lost, high school life, girl man relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, art house
Plot:
single parent, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, youth, love and romance, teenage love, parents and children, couples, summer, disorder, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, bittersweet, coming of age, family problems, youth, family relations, older sister, imaginary friend, escape from reality, superhero, family drama, imagination ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, naples italy, southern italy, sicily
Similarity:
19%
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, stylized, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage love, dysfunctional family, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing the dream of staging their production of Cyrano de Bergerac, but love for the same lady will tear their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, humorous, stylized, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, friends, male friendship, friendship, theater, bittersweet, love triangle, romantic rivalry, working class, flashback, betrayal, nostalgia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
naples italy, europe, sicily
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
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:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family problems, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, youth, parents and children, midlife crisis, child as adult ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen comedy
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, society, lifestyle, buddies, youth, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, lgbt, gay, boy, gay interest, father son relationship, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, emotional, entertaining ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, parents and children, lifestyle, family relations, teenage life, family problems, wooing, youth, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, single parent, pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style:
road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, family problems, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, on the road, couples, love and romance, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, youth ...
Place:
argentina, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
Style:
humorous, tragicomedy, semi serious, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coping, love and romance, misfit, terminal illness, family problems, dishonesty, teenage life, teenage love, social relations, life is a bitch, introvert, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
captivating, feel good, humorous, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
bankruptcy, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, homecoming, family business, family life, unfulfillment, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, unrequited love, sister sister relationship, orphan, world war one, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, chambermaid, deep south, family life ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
alabama, southern usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style:
emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
family business, save the day, family relations, working class, family problems, restaurant, society, siblings relations, family in crisis, bank, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
18%
698
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Bev is a downtrodden housewife who's failed her driving test eight times, having only been instructed by her impatient husband Ian. After registering with a driving school, she develops a crush on her instructor, Chris.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
driving school, learning to drive, workplace romance, family relations, fall in love, teachers and students, couples, workplace, money raising, driving instructor, coming of age, taxi ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, light, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, love and romance, couples, siblings relations, city life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, wedding, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program. Making matters worse, a "good girl" collects abstinence pledges from students and blows the whistle on Angela and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance, buddies, lifestyle, youth, battle of the sexes, couples, peer pressure, school, sexual relations ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love and romance, youth, looking for love, family problems, society, siblings relations, teenage life, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place:
england, pakistan, europe, middle east, manchester
Similarity:
18%
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