Movies like Domestic

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Domestic (2012)
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Domestic (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Romania, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying to have a better life, but sometimes death comes unexpectedly. The lives of three characters surrounded by a bunch of extraordinary, funny, absurd but quite realistic events. It is all about us, people who eat the animals that they love and the animals that love people unconditionally.
Plot: coming of age, unsettling, love, christmas, dog, children, cat, death, bird, pigeon, rabbit, funeral, blood, chicken, killing an animal, death of daughter, human animal relationship, loss of daughter, animal, turkey the bird, bird cage, animals

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, feel good, semi serious and humorous films with plots about dog, family relations, pets, animal, youth, friendship and friends mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Domestic: A Belle for Christmas (2014), Turn Right by the Yellow Dog (2003), Babe (1995), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016), Digger (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Belle for Christmas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Family film about a pair of children whose father's girlfriend has kidnapped their dog. Dean Cain stars as Glenn Barrows, a recent widower doing his best to raise his young kids Elliot and Phoebe, who really miss their mother. Things start to ...
Style: touching, feel good, emotional, sweet, light
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas, dog, single father, kids and family, animal, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, family life, best friend, pet owner relationship, family relations, new year's eve ...
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95%
Turn Right by the Yellow Dog (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A fair point, considering the father happens to be dead! Philip is a successful architect with little or no time for his 16-year-old son. When his own father dies, Philip suddenly realises the pain of having been abandoned years ago. Enter Karl, a ...
Plot: family relations, theater, garden, retirement home, flying, father son relationship, dog, funeral, death, broken arm, cigar smoking
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Babe (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mom, Babe realizes that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, motivational, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, piglet, pig, farm, friendship, farmer, animal, talking animal, christmas, horse, adoption, childhood ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: australia, england, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: cat, homeless, human animal relationship, street musician, pet cat, guitarist, addiction, drug addict, friendship, animal actor, singer, moral transformation ...
Time: year 2016
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Digger (1993)
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, dog, family relations, heart disease, father son relationship, boy, friendship, parents, psychic, young
Time: year 1993
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My Dog Skip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, sad, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, coming of age, childhood, small town, child's point of view, friendship, animal, youth, children, world war two, human animal relationship, baseball ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa, oxford university
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Chestnut: Hero of Central Park (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: dog, youth, human animal relationship, pets, mischievous children, family life, disorder, parents and children, reincarnation, animal, animal lover, adoption ...
Place: usa, new york
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Nine Lives (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, China, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A stuffy businessman finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat.
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: cat, transformation, switching bodies, kids and family, happy ending, magic, children, father daughter relationship, love, animal, pets, redemption ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, exciting, epic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, cat, wilderness, pets, beautiful scenery, animal, friendship, unlikely friendships, childhood, fish out of water, talking animal, journey ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, nevada, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Angels Sing (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, friendship, coming of age, holiday, mysterious character, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet should be put down. But when Mary and her father try to bury the cat, Lori MacGregor (Susan ...
Style: talky, atmospheric, touching, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: cat, afterlife, pets, dealing with death, animal, happy ending, storytelling, family life, terminal illness, witch, youth, friendship ...
Time: year 1963, 1910s, year 1912
Place: scotland, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Tjorven, Batsman, and Moses (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Vesterman has found a young seal in his fishing nets in the outskirts of the archipelago. When he comes back to the SaltkrĂĄkan island he gives the seal to Tjorven, who names it Moses. Peter Malm, a visitor who works at the Zoological Institute in ...
Plot: seal the animal, dog, children, fox
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
A Dog of Flanders (1999)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large ...
Style: sentimental, entertaining, inspirational, tear jerker, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dog, justice, life philosophy, destiny, friendship, coming of age, countryside, boy dog relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, drawing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boy and dog ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1999
Place: antwerp, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Beethoven (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their home and their lives. Beethoven, as he is named, grows into a giant of a dog... a St ...
Style: feel good, sweet, funny, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, puppy, children, pets, animal actor, animal, childhood, bullying, family relations, human animal relationship, saint bernard dog, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
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My Dog's Christmas Miracle (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: University professor Madeline Walters isn’t doing too well in the dating game. Good men are hard to find, so she’s happy spending time with her Maltese puppy Cinnamon, and her precocious teenage daughter Chloe.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, pets, save the day, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, single parent, nothing goes right, friendship, rivalry, talking dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Bach and Broccoli (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl is orphaned when her nurturing grandmother enters a nursing. She is sent to live with her Bach-obsessed uncle, an organist preparing for an important recital.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: orphan, adoption, uncle niece relationship, organist, car accident, family relations, young heroes, pets, youth, self discovery, nursing, estrangement ...
Time: 80s
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Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small ...
Style: touching, sentimental, light, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: small town, dog, father daughter relationship, animal, childhood, children, pets, loneliness, single father, beautiful scenery, mischievous children, friendship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Lost Christmas (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Urban fairytale set in Manchester. A series of tragic events that blight a young boy's life are reversed one Christmas Eve, giving him and those around him the happy ending that they were destined to have.
Style: touching, emotional, uplifting, sentimental, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, supernatural, boy, supernatural ability, orphan, changing lives, redemption, haunted by the past, firefighter, a vision, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A funny story about the adventures of a two hairy friends familiar from the "Six Degrees of Celebration" series.
Style: tense, entertaining, humorous, feel good, captivating
Audience: family friendly
Plot: dog, home alone, christmas, human animal relationship, house, love, winter, animal, talking animal, heroes, vengeance, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Rent-a-Kid (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Harry Habert, owner of a rent office has an original idea: To rent babies from a nearby orphanage to the local families. He rents the Ward brothers to his first customers...
Style: humorous, funny, light, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, children, dog, orphan, siblings relations, mischievous children, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, parenthood, new year, child hero ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Dog Named Christmas (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, adoption, boy dog relationship, animal, pets, holiday, family relations, friendship, social relations, society, social issues ...
Time: 50s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat, Bob, at Christmas.
Style: sweet, feel good, sincere, touching
Plot: christmas, human animal relationship, cat, street musician, father son estrangement, homelessness, lone hero, friendship, pets, moral transformation, creativity, self discovery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
All About My Dog (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A series of short stories all about dogs.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, anthology, semi serious ...
Plot: dog, canine, pet dog, puppy, animal life, animal, human animal relationship, multiple storylines, pets, animal protagonist, loyalty, noble ...
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46%
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A Dog's Purpose (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family outing, kids, adult
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, life & death, happy ending, reincarnation, animal, police dog, transformation, talking animal, death, love, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 60s, 70s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Dog Who Stopped the War (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During Christmas' holidays, the children of a village split in two gang to play a snowball war. But that half-tone war scattered some bitterness and make more difficult the mutual attirance between Luc, the chief of the assailant and Sophie one ...
Style: feel good, exciting, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: christmas, winter, village life, snow, countryside, village, animal life, disorder, battles, friends, family relations, escapades ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Three Gifts (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jack Green inherited a southern Californian horse ranch and an all-natural toy factory in the barn. With his wife Cherie, he accepts taking in the three 'holy terrors' from his bossy aunt Rita's orphanage during renovations, until the ...
Style: sincere, light, feel good, sentimental, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, missing child, orphanage, adoption, horse ranch, orphan, father figure, lifestyle change, kids and family, bittersweet, family relations, responsibility ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Finding Rin Tin Tin (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The true story of the legendary German Shepherd who was found by American pilot Lee Duncun in France during World War I, and later became the most famous animal star in Hollywood history.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, touching, exciting
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, world war one, german shepherd, family relations, escapades, rising to stardom, animal life, danger, daring rescue, save the day, battle zone, filmmaking ...
Time: 1910s
Place: france, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Chilly Christmas (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Bobby Cole and his dog Chilly are best friends, living happily in their Southern California beach house. But when Bobby's father Patrick (C. Thomas Howell), a single parent and police detective, accepts a job in New York City, ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, youth, pets, family relations, disorder, parents and children, father son relationship, holiday, save the day, best friend, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.9
 11K
Wiener-Dog (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted ...
Style: disturbing, semi serious, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: dog, dachshund, veterinarian, satire, human animal relationship, lifestyle, animal human communication, pet dog, sarcasm, multiple storylines, animal, society ...
Time: year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.9
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Goodbye Berlin (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two outsiders travel around the countryside during school holidays.
Style: road movie, light, entertaining, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: classmate, coming of age, friendship between boys, teenage boy, birthday party, alcoholic mother, junkyard, youth, fall in love, teenage love, mother son relationship, gay ...
Time: year 2016
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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