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The Very Private Life of Mister Sim (2015)
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The Very Private Life of Mister Sim (2015)
Original name: La Vie très privée de monsieur Sim
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: François Sim considers himself worthless and he may have good reasons for that. Hasn't he lost his job as well as his wife Caroline? Isn't he unable to relate to Lucy, his teenage daughter? Didn't he, when he was eighteen miss out on passion whereas the sexy, gorgeous Luigia opened her arms to him?
Style: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, contemplative, road movie
Plot: divorced man, dentist, ex wife, father daughter relationship, depression, salesman, family relations, parents and children, new job, love, friendship, meaning of life, job, love and romance, life is a bitch, escapades, society, road trip, husband wife relationship, lgbtq, gay, mountain, island, snow, beach ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, light, unusual plot structure and feel good films with plots about family relations, friendship, love and romance, love, society, couples and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like The Very Private Life of Mister Sim: No Filter (2019), Musical Chairs (2015), Real Love (2018), Chicken Girls: The Movie (2018), Looking: The Movie (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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No Filter (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But this book, hymn-to-life, will ...
Style: light, sincere, humorous, captivating
Plot: husband wife relationship, friendship, blind man, hopes, couple relations, destiny, love, couples, adaptation, life is a bitch, life philosophy, disorder ...
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95%
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Musical Chairs (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Perrine, a single, slightly awkward musician, loves birthday parties. One day she accidentally causes a man to fall into a skip at the waste disposal centre. When she learns that he´s in a coma, the young woman tries everything to awaken himand ...
Style: touching, contemplative, psychological, light, suspenseful ...
Plot: coma, hospital, violinist, musician, teenager, fall in love, couples, love and romance, family relations, love, friends, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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94%
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Real Love (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except where love is concerned, is back to square one after his wife left home. He now must raise his two adolescent daughters by himself, while going through some sort of a teenage ...
Style: unusual plot structure, feel good, light, psychological, humorous ...
Plot: teenage girl, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, teenager, school, family relations, youth, friendship, friends, society, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Chicken Girls: The Movie (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: With a new principal in town and the Spring Fling in jeopardy, Rhyme and the Chicken Girls must band together to save the dance.
Style: light, entertaining, contemplative, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, escapades, youth, friends, dishonesty, dancing, society, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Looking: The Movie (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s important to ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, feel good, unusual plot structure, light ...
Plot: gay, group of friends, ex lover, gay wedding, love, lgbtq, gay interest, nightlife, friendship between men, one night stand, friendship, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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85%
Mr. Know-It-All (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A football coach afraid of commitment has to take care of his nephew with Asperger's Syndrome.
Style: captivating, light, sincere, humorous, feel good
Plot: asperger's syndrome, autism, uncle nephew relationship, coach, doctor, friendship, family relations, football, child care, football team, supermarket, chess ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Crash Test Aglaé (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated abroad, she accepts, to everyone's surprise, to go to India in order to hold on to her job. ...
Style: road movie, humorous, tense, feel good, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, coworker, female protagonist, coworker relationship, worker, co worker co worker relationship, strong female presence, society, job, work abroad, family relations, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2017
Place: india, switzerland, kazakhstan, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Family Resemblances (1996)
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
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84%
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Looking for Hortense (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sincere, touching ...
Plot: gay, immigrant, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, family life, family relations, couples, disorder, couple relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
You'll Never Walk Alone (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Samantha, who works in a chicken factory in Saint-Étienne, loses her job. She lives with her best-friend Céline. She is also her little sister Kim's guardian and must find another job quickly or run the risk of losing her sister. She meets ...
Style: psychological, feel good, light, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, orphan, social worker, dead mother, foster home, foster child, family relations, friends, society, parents and children, culture clash, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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84%
We Love You, You Bastard (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile ...
Style: contemplative, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: redemption, introspection, estrangement, family relations, love triangle, family gatherings, parents and children, friendship, human nature, fake illness, photographer, love ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, alps
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80%
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Ventoux (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of friends reunite after 30 years to climb the Mont Ventoux again. Memories to a happy youth but also new discoveries from the past. One person is not present at the reunion. Why is that? What happened?
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, humorous, light ...
Plot: cycling, friendship, loss of friend, mountain, friends, escapades, flashback, swimming pool, bicycle, poetry, wine, reunion ...
Time: 80s
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80%
Marie and the Misfits (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Marie is dangerous", Antoine warns. It hasn't stopped Siméon from dropping everything, or, more precisely, letting go the little that he had, to secretly follow her. Oscar, his roommate, a musician with sleepwalking tendencies, and ...
Style: entertaining, satirical, funny, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: following someone, sleepwalker, island, male female relationship, escapades, satire, love affair, in love, couple relations, relationships, humour, love and romance ...
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79%
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Maman a tort (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Do we really know our parents? Fourteen-year-old Anouk suddenly discovers another side to her mother during an observation workshop that she carries out in the insurance company where her mother works. An immersion week in the company's adult ...
Style: sincere, contemplative, humorous, feel good, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, insurance company, insurance, friends, workplace situations, youth, friendship, parents and children, society, fraud, subway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
A Skeleton in the Closet (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Manuel goes back to his hometown for his parents’ wedding anniversary, but he actually wants to ask money to move to Denmark with his boyfriend. Last time he saw his family, he came out of the closet. Since then, their relationship became tense. ...
Style: touching, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, closeted homosexual, homosexual, gay couple, youth, society, couple relations, gay love, gay relationship, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Lady Luck (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Through their individual trials and turbulence, three strangers are drawn together under one roof.
Style: psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, light, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, redemption, love, relationship problems, love and romance, couples, family relations, strong female presence, man in underwear, oral sex, male objectification, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Dad in Training (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the breakdown of his marriage, a self-involved man begins to embrace fatherhood.
Style: feel good, light, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, divorce, father daughter relationship, humour, fatherhood, kids and family, family relations, parents and children, relationships, parenthood, single parent, family life ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
My Dog Stupid (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he ...
Style: humorous, feel good, sincere, psychological, crying
Audience: date night
Plot: dog, society, friendship, love, adaptation, life is a bitch, destiny, husband wife relationship, parents and children, life philosophy, mentor, hopes ...
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78%
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Mario on Tour (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Argentina
Story: Mario has all it takes to succeed in the music business but he didn't make it. Now he earns a living out of singing cover songs by the popular Argentine singer "Sandro" in bachelorhood parties, weddings or birthdays celebrations, ...
Style: road movie, unusual plot structure, light, contemplative, feel good ...
Plot: singer, father son relationship, male protagonist, father and son, teenage son, parenting, divorced father, ex husband ex wife relationship, teenager, friendship, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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78%
Just to Be Sure (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, humorous
Plot: widower, search for father, lie, father daughter relationship, baby, doctor, hospital, photograph, biological father, disorder, family relations, suicide threat ...
Time: year 2017
Place: brittany, france
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78%
Unexpected Journey (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 16-year old boy who's fed up in his life in Finland, and dreams of moving to Nairobi to live with his father. Only problem ...
Style: road movie, humorous, contemplative, psychological, light ...
Plot: road trip, racism, senior citizen, parent child relationship, father son relationship, teenager, old age, gay wedding, 17 year old, wedding, loneliness, wedding party ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Rendez-Vous of D?j?-Vu (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot: obsessive quest, on the road, society, love and romance, escapades, friends, female nudity, bare breasts, lifeguard, love, guillotine, politics ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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77%
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Hunky Dory (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A glam rock dilettante's life takes a dramatic turn when his ex unexpectedly drops their 11-year-old son off for the week.
Style: lgbt cinema, tense, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: father son relationship, abandoned by mother, family relations, gay, drug use, gay lead character, gay father, gay interest, baby, single father, parents and children, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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77%
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According to her (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Love, motherhood and a musical career strike dissonant chords in this dark tale of a young Russian woman who tries to keep her balance among wealthy French expats in New York.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, touching, tense ...
Plot: mother, love, immigration, mother love, career, love and romance, couples, mother son relationship, family relations, friendship, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
A Month of Sundays (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – ...
Style: humorous, unusual plot structure, light, psychological, feel good ...
Plot: real estate agent, midlife crisis, friendship, family relations, father son relationship, mother son relationship, society, misfit, death of mother, escapades, reincarnation, grief ...
Place: australia
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76%
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My Best Part (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.
Style: psychological, touching, tense, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, therapy, actor, mental health, family relations, gay lead character, male nudity, fall in love, society, gay couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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75%
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Summertime (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
Style: sincere, psychological, light, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, summer vacation, gay interest, love, friendship, summer, couples, friends, love and romance, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, italy, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Open Door (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Rosa, is a prostitute who inherited the profession from Antonia, her mother, who thinks she is Sara Montiel and turns her daily life in a hell. Rosa does not know how to be happy. She just can not. But the unexpected arrival of a new member to her ...
Style: unusual plot structure, entertaining, feel good, light, humorous ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, family drama, mother daughter relationship, friendship, husband wife relationship, escapades, family relations, love and romance, orphan, sea, new year's eve ...
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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The Tunnel (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The thirteen survivors of a catastrophe by a tunnel's collapse tries to balance their experience trapped along 15 days inside it with their day-by-day outside it.
Style: suspense, humorous, contemplative, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot: survival, tunnel, friendship, parents, husband wife relationship, love, teenager, society, friends, danger, youth, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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74%
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: family in crisis, black lesbian, lesbian, blended family, father daughter relationship, parents and children, husband wife relationship, family relations, cross cultural relations, escapades, multiculturalism, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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