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Little Jerusalem (2005)
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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, sexual, contemplative, gloomy, sexy
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, love and romance, couples, social differences, society, infidelity, family problems, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, youth, male female relationship, interfaith relationship, skinny dipping, judaism, hidden treasure, european, family relations, parents and children, interracial relations, suburbs, suburban life, siblings relations, unfulfillment, couple relations ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, israel, europe
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Most similar movies to Little Jerusalem
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about family relations, couples, family problems, society, parents and children, couple relations and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Little Jerusalem: Alexander the Last (2009), All Is Forgiven (2007), Belleville-Tokyo (2010), The Mouth Agape (1974), Declaration of War (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, actor's life, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, family relations, love affair ...
Time:
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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, teenager, redemption, parents and children, addiction, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
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100%
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 ...
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realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couple relations, friendship, breakup, workplace, couples, theater, boss and employee, love and romance, family problems, male female relationship, pregnant woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, death of mother, love letter, family relations, mother son relationship, death, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, hopes, cancer, chemotherapy, child illness, life is a bitch, babies and infants, optimism, couples, family problems, overcoming, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, marseille
Similarity:
100%
804
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In England, the Pakistanis Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community, she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the traditional behavior of a Muslin woman. Further, she has a non-consumed marriage with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, culture clash, social differences, false accusation, life is a bitch, society, terrorism, parents and children, injustice, religions or cults, family in crisis ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
britain, pakistan, england
Similarity:
100%
319
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:
tense, sincere, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
sexual content, cuckolded husband, moral dilemma, female masturbation, confined, sex scene, love triangle, love and romance, couples, prison life, crumbling marriage, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
169
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tblissi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, couple relations, family relations, prison life, crumbling marriage, parents and children, couples, life is a bitch, family problems, motherhood, female protagonist, social realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, tbilisi, caucasus, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, 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:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian, world war two, lgbt, female nudity, world war, biopic, feminist, marriage of convenience, lesbianism, heartache, nazi occupation, swimming pool ...
Time:
year 1983, year 1942, 1950s, year 1952, 50s
Place:
paris france, lyon, france, europe, normandy ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
culture clash, fish out of water, society, nothing goes right, immigrant, disorder, kurd, muslim, dark humor, misfit, life is a bitch, communication problem ...
Time:
90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
iraq, paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
100%
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, culture clash, homecoming, parents and children, conflict, lifestyle, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, lyon, europe, alps, provence
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
couples, infidelity, crumbling marriage, marriage, adultery, family relations, pregnancy, family life, sister sister relationship, love and romance, siblings relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
vietnam, east asia, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents ...
Style:
art house, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, on the road, women, feminist, female nudity, existential loneliness, nude girl, filmmaking, modernism, lgbtq, woman, woman peeing ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
france, brussels, germany, belgium, europe ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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26%
719
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:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
couple relations, family relations, family problems, immigrant, social relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, social differences, working class, culture clash, strong female lead ...
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A French football playing exchange student falls in love.
Style:
sexual, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
white male black female relationship, interracial couple, interracial romance, age difference, interracial, interracial relations, college, couples, love and romance, fall in love, self discovery, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1994, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place:
virginia, paris france, france, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
25%
246
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, love and romance, society, family in crisis, impossible love, family problems, immigrant, unfulfillment, misfit, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
Similarity:
25%
603
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, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adoption, politics, power relations, babies and infants, society, master and servant, single parent, love and romance, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, rome italy
Similarity:
23%
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712
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, breakup, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, sister, death in the family, sister sister relationship, female nudity, alienation, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
260
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 146 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:
contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
arranged marriage, girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, nudity, religions or cults, family problems, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
22%
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:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, tense ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, couples, family life, family in crisis, midlife crisis, family problems, parents and children, society, crumbling marriage, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
152
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, emotional, spooky ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, teenage life, introspection, culture clash, hopes, society, homecoming, immigrant, love and romance, youth, family life, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, france, africa
Similarity:
22%
193
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:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
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355
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, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
fall in love, fish out of water, couples, social differences, culture clash, couple relations, society, love and romance, class system, maid, wedding, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
paris france, france, philadelphia
Similarity:
21%
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:
skinny dipping, unemployment, working class, family relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, assassination, couple relations, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, siblings relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
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:
sentimental, sincere, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
social differences, rivalry, youth, couples, family life, society, interracial relations, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, football team, football ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and befriends a Czech mechanic, bringing the man into their dysfunctional home.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
downfall, dysfunctional family, family problems, working class, life is a bitch, society, destructive relationship, couple relations, custody, crumbling marriage, couples, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
high society, alcoholism, girl, alcohol abuse, performer's life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, society, betrayal, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, versailles
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