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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, sexy, gloomy, sexual, contemplative
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, love and romance, couples, social differences, society, infidelity, family problems, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, youth, male female relationship, judaism, family relations, parents and children, interracial relations, immigrants, suburbs, suburban life, siblings relations, unfulfillment, couple relations, nightshift, jewish, religion ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, israel, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about couples, family problems, love and romance, family relations, society, crumbling marriage and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Little Jerusalem: Days and Clouds (2007), Foreign Student (1994), The Best Day of My Life (2002), A Butterfly Kiss (2011), Alila (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 118 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
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Time:
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
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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 ...
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32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 110 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 146 min.
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denmark, europe
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31%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.
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paris france, philadelphia, france
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28%
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
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paris france, france, europe
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Duration: 180 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
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france, paris france, europe, austria
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25%
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Duration: 108 min.
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Country: France
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