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A Happy Event (2011)
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Original name: Un heureux événement
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
Style:
sexy, sincere, realistic, humorous, semi serious, crying
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family outing
Plot:
husband wife relationship, childbirth, pregnancy, family relations, babies and infants, family life, couples, couple relations, parents and children, disorder, life turned upside down, female nudity, breast feeding, mother daughter relationship, sexual intercourse, mother, pregnant woman, baby born, young parents, motherhood, diary, yuppie, marijuana, hospital, sleeping ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe
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Most similar movies to A Happy Event
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, couples, couple relations, parents and children, pregnancy, disorder and pregnant woman mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like A Happy Event: The Italian (2010), All Together (2011), Change of Plans (2009), Expecting (2013), The Dandelions (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
hidden identity, disorder, society, workplace, dishonesty, couple relations, dealer, meet the parents, culture clash, parents and children, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
friendship, aging, couples, family relations, couple relations, elderly, parents and children, old age, truth, old people, friends, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, siblings relations, friendship, nothing goes right, uninvited guest, couples, disorder, love triangle, infidelity, midlife crisis, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
pregnancy, friends, best friend, family relations, life turned upside down, friendship, woman, surrogate mother, female friendship, personal growth, infertility, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot:
friendship, best friend, family life, parents and children, friends, couples, couple relations, children, psychologist, doll, death of friend, school ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A couple goes on a hike in the woods, and the woman refuses to return.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
woman, couples, couple relations, woods, picnic, female nudity, bare breasts, bus, death, fire, jealousy, tumor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lyon, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, realistic, romantic
Plot:
pregnant woman, pregnancy, couple relations, sister sister relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle change, fear of commitment, life turned upside down, unwed pregnancy, expectant father, unplanned pregnancy, reckless driving ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Diane doesn't hesitate for a moment when her best friends, Thomas and Jacques, ask her to be their surrogate mother. It is in these hardly ideal circumstances that she becomes infatuated with Fabrizio.
Style:
exciting, sincere, captivating, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
childbirth, surrogate mother, gay, swimming pool, gay couple, pregnant woman, female protagonist, doctor, newborn, pregnancy, newborn baby, baby ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, life turned upside down, lovers reunited, obsessive quest, disorder, couples, pregnancy, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, screwball, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot:
elderly, introspection, self discovery, disorder, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, pregnancy, siblings relations, heart disease, humour, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, middle east
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
best friend, family life, friendship, disorder, family relations, friends, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
pregnancy, working class, blackmail, unwanted pregnancy, couples, workplace, society, disorder, friends, life turned upside down, friendship, sexual relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, emotional, entertaining ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, parents and children, lifestyle, family relations, teenage life, family problems, wooing, youth, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, single parent, pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world into flux, as she finds herself locked into routine. She keeps ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, romantic drama
Plot:
couples, couple relations, family relations, self discovery, dull life, midlife crisis, disorder, husband wife relationship, infidelity, adultery, party, married woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, immigrant, crumbling marriage, family problems, estrangement, family life, unfulfillment, society, dishonesty, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, entertaining, mumblecore, feel good ...
Plot:
pregnancy, siblings relations, fish out of water, life turned upside down, disorder, family relations, estrangement, self discovery, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship, young parents, relationships ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
couples, couple relations, parents and children, midlife crisis, elderly, college, artists and showbiz, family relations, leaving home, love and romance, family problems, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A tender story from Australia highlights the realistic ups and downs of an Australian family in the year following a parent's emergency medical procedure.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
temptation, family relations, couples, lifestyle, introspection, youth, couple relations, family problems, thirtysomething life, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, new zealand
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his ...
Style:
funny, feel good, romantic, light, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, women, pregnant woman, childbirth, adoption, pregnant wife, love story, babies and infants, family relations, parenthood, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
profanity, love and romance, friendship, unlikely partners, introspection, farce, lifestyle, family life, couples, eccentric family, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, cynical, realistic, witty
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, siblings relations, family life, eccentric family, uninvited guest, interracial relations, couple relations, family gatherings, family problems, couples, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 90s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
313
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, family problems, family life, parents and children, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, innocence lost, high school life, girl man relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style:
talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, dishonesty, best friend, life turned upside down, disorder, lie, society, friends, thirtysomething life, parents and children, pregnancy, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
50%
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:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
aging, christmas, old age, teenage pregnancy, senior citizen, old people, orphan, retirement home, family life, parents and children, friendship, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
palm springs california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style:
sexy, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, dishonesty, friendship, family problems, social relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family relations, couples, happiness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
depression, family relations, life turned upside down, couples, parents and children, couple relations, family problems, mother child relationship, stewardess, mental illness, mad love, parents ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ('Azuloscurocasinegro', 'Cousins'), he embarks on a new comedy that has as a backdrop the World Cup in South Africa and the setting is a wedding that takes precisely the day of the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, captivating
Plot:
wedding, couples, couple relations, childhood sweetheart, family relations, pregnancy, siblings relations, family problems, love and romance, sibling relationship, infidelity, family reunited ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
18%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, entertaining, romantic comedy, anamorphic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
pregnancy, self discovery, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, human nature, women, working class, female protagonist, eccentricity, twists and turns, girl ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
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