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Little Jerusalem (2005)
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Little Jerusalem (2005)
Original name: La Petite Jérusalem
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, love and romance, couples, social differences, society, infidelity, family problems, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, youth, male female relationship, judaism, hidden treasure, european, family relations, parents and children, interracial relations, suburbs, suburban life, siblings relations, unfulfillment, couple relations, nightshift, immigrant ...
Time: contemporary
Place: middle east, paris france, france, israel, europe
Keyword: jewish, french, algerian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about couples, family relations, society, love and romance, family problems, parents and children and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Biography and War genres. Some movies like Little Jerusalem: 7 Years (2006), Days and Clouds (2007), Blame It on Mum (2009), The Grocer's Son (2007), At First Sight (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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7 Years (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a ...
Style: sincere, tense, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: sex scene, moral dilemma, confined, cheating wife, prison life, love triangle, couples, sexual content, love and romance, crumbling marriage, infidelity, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Days and Clouds (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: unemployment, couples, ambition, downfall, lifestyle, self discovery, relationship vs career, infidelity, life turned upside down, society, crumbling marriage, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Grocer's Son (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, thought provoking, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: village, countryside, family relations, hospital, heart attack, self discovery, homecoming, culture clash, parents and children, conflict, lifestyle, on the road ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe, alps, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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At First Sight (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, world war two, lgbt, female nudity, world war, biopic, feminist, lesbianism, partisan, girl power, women, woman ...
Time: year 1983, 1950s, year 1942, year 1952
Place: paris france, france, lyon, europe, alps ...
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100%
The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, family problems, couples, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, society, couples, introspection, suburbs, suburban life, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Alila (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. The character's lives overlap and collide. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: couple relations, family relations, family problems, immigrant, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, social relations, culture clash, social differences, infidelity, working class, strong female lead ...
Place: palestine, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Hold Back (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Paris, today. Dorcy, a young black Christian, wants to marry Sabrina, a young North African. It what would be a simple matter if it weren't for the fact that Sabrina has 40 brothers and that this easygoing wedding has crystallized a taboo ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot: interracial relations, family relations, forbidden love, family problems, impossible love, family in crisis, society, love and romance, immigrant, religions or cults, unfulfillment, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Foreign Student (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, USA, France, Italy, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A French football playing exchange student falls in love.
Style: independent film, contemplative, touching, sexual, emotional ...
Plot: interracial couple, white male black female relationship, age difference, interracial, college, interracial relations, interracial romance, couples, coming of age, opposites attract, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1994, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place: virginia, paris france, france, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Alexander the Last (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style: mumblecore, serious, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, couple relations, actor's life, family relations, couples, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Adrift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator who marries Hai, a taxi driver who is two years her junior. Duyen thinks the marriage will make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, sexual relations, infidelity, forbidden love, self discovery, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, tour guide, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Town Is Quiet (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style: contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: family relations, drug abuse, assassination, life is a bitch, couple relations, unemployment, working class, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance, factory ...
Time: 90s
Place: marseille, provence, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Baroness and the Pig (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: fish out of water, fall in love, couples, social differences, culture clash, love and romance, society, couple relations, class system, maid, inventions and discoveries, contests and competitions ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: paris france, philadelphia, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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27%
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The Nanny (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, single parent, adoption, power relations, master and servant, society, family life, family in crisis, youth, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Sofie (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, religions or cults, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, fall in love, society, love and romance, introspection ...
Time: year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 227
Istanbul (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: self discovery, love affair, life turned upside down, family problems, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, boss and employee, love and romance, pregnant woman, family crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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26%
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Game of Life (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: social differences, couples, rivalry, society, family life, youth, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, interracial relations, lifestyle, football ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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26%
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Red Doors (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Wongs struggle to cope with life, love, and family dysfunction in the suburbs of New York.
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, family life, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, culture clash, single parent, human nature, youth, suburbs, family in crisis, lgbtq ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
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25%
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Bad Girl (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: parents and children, family problems, couples, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female nudity, bullfighting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
All Is Forgiven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, redemption, teenager, parents and children, addiction, crumbling marriage, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Raja (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Plot: opposites attract, fall in love, unlikely couple, social differences, love and romance, society, obsession, youth, orphan, destructive relationship, couples, rich and poor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Daybreak (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style: realistic, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, family problems, vengeance, crumbling marriage, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, redemption, introspection ...
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Wild Iris (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: parents and children, dysfunctional family, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, introspection, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Seventh Heaven (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A bored, sexually frustrated woman's life improves when she begins hypnotherapy and tries feng shui, but her husband's life unravels.
Style: sexual, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, hypnosis, marital problem, couples, family problems, power relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, mental illness, psychoanalysis ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Single Girl (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style: sexual, erotic, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, hotel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, minimalism, lgbt, lust, making love, sex scene, single parent, strong female character, single mother ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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