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My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
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My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
Original name: Mio fratello è figlio unico
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Accio (Elio Germano) and Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio) are working class brothers who live in Italy in the 1960s. While his brother becomes drawn into left-wing politics, Accio, the hotheaded younger brother, is taken under the wing of a market trader and while under his influence, joins the Fascist party. Accio ("Bully") is a nickname he is proud of because it makes him seem tough. Manrico and their sister Violetta are alarmed to hear their brother listening to Benito Mussolini's speeches in his room. Manrico often physically torments his brother, including stuffing his head in the barrel under the drain pipe of their house.
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, captivating, social, family saga, saga, semi serious, controversial, crying
Plot: politics, working class, romantic rivalry, coming of age, family relations, love and romance, rebelliousness, parents and children, social relations, brother brother relationship, fascism, communism, sex, male female relationship, brothers, relationships, life, brother, revolution, teenager, european, years of lead, age-gap relationship, masturbation, confession ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2007, 20th century, 1960s
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
Keyword: french, latin, reading, keys

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and semi serious films with plots about family relations, father son relationship, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, kiss, friendship and love mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like My Brother Is an Only Child: Baaria (2009), Introducing the Dwights (2007), The Best of Youth (2003), 1900 (1976), Intermission (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Baaria (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual ...
Style: atmospheric, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: fascism, politics, communism, world war two, social differences, family life, small town, election, mafia, injustice, state affairs, hopes ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place: sicily, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Introducing the Dwights (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: single parent, disability, family relations, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, divorced parents, sexual relations, siblings relations, mentally challenged, misfit ...
Time: year 2007
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Best of Youth (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 374 min.
Story: Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: idealism, society, couples, cafe, sister in law sister in law relationship, friendship, mental illness, storytelling, musician, protest, politics, police brutality ...
Time: 60s, 80s, year 2003, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: italy, lebanon, europe, turin italy, denmark ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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1900 (1976)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story: Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style: epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fascism, world war two, revolution, italian history, politics, communism, class struggle, friendship, peasant, socialist, worker, resistance ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Intermission (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, touching, witty, melancholic ...
Plot: infidelity, justice, unlikely friendships, multiple storylines, eccentricity, couple relations, heist, love and romance, caper, existentialism, gangster, profanity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Crazy in Alabama (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
Style: humorous, intense, stylized, captivating, gothic ...
Plot: racism, coming of age, murder, hopes, civil rights, society, life is a bitch, small town, segregation, journey, youth, bittersweet ...
Time: year 1999, 60s, 20th century, year 1965
Place: alabama, america, usa, california, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style: humorous, light, talky, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: politics, coming of age, friendship, infidelity, self discovery, single parent, teenage love, cheerleader, teenage boy, male nudity, fall in love, misfit ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, year 1977, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, milwaukee wisconsin, massachusetts, europe ...
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78%
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Our Life (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, working class, lifestyle, society, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Vicious Kind (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.
Style: independent film, black comedy, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: love triangle, thanksgiving, dysfunctional family, small town, adultery, infidelity, cheating, family relations, self destructing, betrayal, mistrust, couple relations ...
Time: 2000s
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Hardboiled Egg (1997)
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: captivating, realistic, semi serious, gloomy, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bittersweet, working class, youth culture, dysfunctional family, factory worker, teenage love, blue collar, oil refinery, proletarian, puberty, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tuscany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Twist and Shout (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, female nudity, traumatic childhood, age difference, adolescence, older woman younger man, family relations, pregnancy, friendship, dating, hide and seek, friends ...
Time: 80s, 60s, year 1963
Place: antwerp, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
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74%
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The Thief (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a rooming house where ...
Style: bleak, realistic, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: coming of age, orphanage, betrayal, death, soldier, family relations, cons and scams, parents and children, hospital, drinking, communism, revolution ...
Time: 50s, post world war two, year 1997, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: russia, soviet union, siberia, black sea
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72%
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Metroland (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris ...
Style: cult classic, sexual, comedy drama, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: male nudity, friendship, male pubic hair, marriage, adultery, sex, bittersweet, coming of age, midlife crisis, drinking, railway, liar ...
Time: year 1997, 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1977
Place: england, paris france, london, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, muslim, adoption, religion, friendship, self discovery, youth, man boy relationship, childhood, koran, generation gap, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, middle east, switzerland, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
But Forever in My Mind (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Silvio (Silvio Muccino, the director's younger brother) has no interest in the student rebellion taking place at his high school. His fascination lies with Valentina (Giulia Carmignani), the prettiest girl in the school. However, Valentina ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, crying
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, high school, politics, family relations, family life, siblings relations, high school life, teenage life, buddies, love and romance, hate ...
Time: 90s
Place: rome italy
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71%
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C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Morocco, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from all his brothers, ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay, homosexual, childhood, father son relationship, drug addict, gender, lgbtq, gay teenager, glbt, gay interest, teenage boy ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 2000s, year 2005, y2k ...
Place: canada, quebec, holy land, israel, jerusalem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Tiptoes (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family life, sex, couple relations, introspection, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Oyster Farmer (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot: fall in love, food, love affair, fish out of water, love triangle, couple relations, lovers on the run, society, love and romance, unlikely criminals, human nature, working class ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.
Style: sexy, disturbing, touching, sentimental, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
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Time: 1950s, year 1971, year 1954, 20th century, 50s
Place: france, israel, europe, indochina, paris france
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69%
Lawless Heart (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner
Style: melancholic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: adultery, gay, infidelity, eccentricity, relationships, love and romance, love affair, sex, multiple storylines, couple relations, sex in car, female nudity ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: europe, england, prague, france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious ...
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69%
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Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
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68%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexual, crying ...
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Time: 90s
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, milan italy
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68%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style: surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transvestism, transgender, gay slur, gay, transsexual, gender, adoption, coming of age, gender bending, lgbt, priest, ira ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place: ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style: disturbing, compassionate, emotional, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot: fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, anti semitism, assassination, tennis, family relations, brother sister relationship, family life, nazi germany, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970
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67%
Made in Dagenham (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
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Style: inspirational, touching, factual, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: working class, gender, revolution, politics, discrimination, women, fighting the system, workplace, idealism, injustice, protest, underdog ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1966, year 1968, year 1970
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Staying Together (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot-tempered Brian (Quill), lovelorn Kit (Mulroney) and jokester Duncan (Astin) - find themselves at odds with ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
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Place: south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Monday Morning (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A story told quietly of Vincent a welder at a large and seemingly toxic plant along the Rhône, living in a village with his sons, wife, and mother, saying little to each other.
Style: humorous, psychological, sincere, captivating, road movie ...
Plot: midlife crisis, factory, friendship, working class, human nature, lifestyle, couple relations, social differences, crumbling marriage, parents and children, painting, alienation ...
Time: year 2002
Place: venice, europe, italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Good Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, chess, age difference, family relations, prostitute, friendship, loss of virginity, friends, couples, self discovery, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: madrid, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, entertaining, sweet, intense ...
Plot: family drama, honest, dysfunctional family, love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, starting over, parents and children, family life, couples, human nature, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2002
Place: england, europe, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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