Movies like Hole in the Wall

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Hole in the Wall (2015)
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Hole in the Wall (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A struggling Mexican-American taco chef decides to turn his family's American dream into a reality by luring New York's chicest food critic to Spanish Harlem before a scheming culinary counterfeiter unlocks the secret to his secret sauce.
Plot: family relations, american dream, immigration, immigrant, mexican american, taco, immigrants

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, captivating and sincere films with plots about family relations, immigrant, immigration, society, parents and children, life is a bitch and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Hole in the Wall: Lonely in America (1990), My Grandfather's People (2011), Pawn (2020), For Here or to Go? (2015), Balls (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lonely in America (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An East Indian native immigrates to New York City and stumbles his way onto the corporate fast-track.
Style: independent film
Plot: migration, fish out of water, immigrant, family relations, immigration, city, urban setting
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
My Grandfather's People (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A feature film that tells the story of the director's grandfather who was forced to leave Crete in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.
Style: captivating, sincere, humorous, disturbing, educational
Audience: family outing
Plot: grandparent grandchild relationship, kids and family, immigrant, family relations, immigrant family, immigration, lifestyle, turk, town, suicide, coup d'etat, greek ...
Time: 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: crete, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.6
 2K
Pawn (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A loan shark takes a girl hostage as pawn for her parents' debt.
Style: sincere, captivating, entertaining
Plot: illegal immigrant, male female relationship, lifestyle, money problems, mother daughter relationship, family relations, debt, family problems, social problems, financial problem, immigrant, asian ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
For Here or to Go? (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aspiring Indian tech entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley finds himself unexpectedly battling the bizarre American immigration system to keep his dream alive or prepare to return home forever.
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous
Plot: immigration, entrepreneurship, cultural difference, immigrant, social differences, ambitious man, coping, businessman, direction and purpose, lifestyle, blind ambition, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 5.7
 3K
Balls (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, light ...
Plot: parents and children, looking for love, immigrant, couples, society, aging, family relations, couple relations, buddies, wooing, black, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.0
 97
Marussia (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France, Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and her little daughter Marussia are two such people. They have been thrown out by the Russian ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot: childhood, society, immigration, family relations, family problems, poverty, single parent, family in crisis, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, exile, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inheriting a family resort in Hawaii, the Wyatts find it in such a run-down condition that they decide to sell it after trying to fix it up. Amidst confusing goings-on among the triplet teenage girls and the boys they meet, Jeffrey meets an old high ...
Style: rom com
Audience: kids
Plot: twins, sister sister relationship, family relations, clone, live action
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.6
 60
Summerdog (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this heart-tugging kids movie, a vacationing family finds an abandoned mutt and kindly decide to name him Hobo and take him to their home in the big city. When their wicked landlord finds out about the pooch, he threatens to boot them out. ...
Plot: family relations, vacation, landlord, dog, pets
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 6.8
 978
Brighton 4th (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York. His aim is to get his son out of a gambling debt. He meets people who help him and people who ignore him.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: father son relationship, gambling debt, life is a bitch, needing money, family problems, father and son, debt, financial problem, immigrant, gambler, money problems, family relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.3
 1K
Between Us (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious
Plot: poverty, immigrant, family relations, starting over, human spirit, urban setting, family problems, life is a bitch, american dream, single parent, hopes, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, new york, colombia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Here and There (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, clever, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, life is a bitch, lifestyle, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The inspiring true-life drama of 17-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki and her family immigrate to West Virginia and begin living the American Dream. Among their friends is Big John Creed, a wise and helpful handyman. But ...
Plot: migration, american south, immigration, racism, greek, world war one, teenage girl, immigrant, prejudice, influenza, racial prejudice, 16 year old ...
Time: year 1916
Place: west virginia, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Great Wall Is a Great Wall (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his relatives, the Chao's for a vacation. The clash of cultures, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: interracial romance, family relations, culture clash, disorder, society, misfit, family life, road not taken, fish out of water, immigrant, asian man white woman relationship, chinese american
Time: 80s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Little America (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 533 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology series that goes beyond the headlines to look at the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring and surprising stories of immigrants in America at a time when they are more relevant than ever.
Style: anthology, sincere, uplifting, funny, sad ...
Plot: immigrant, american dream, family values, parents and children, stubbornness, hard labor, education, life is a bitch, escape, humour, satire, immigration ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Year I Did Nothing (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Set in 1985, Manila, 3 siblings spend an extended summer waiting to immigrate to the United States, while their country gets ready to evict their homeland's notorious dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, tagalog ...
Audience: kids
Plot: immigration, revolution, politics, martial law, election, protest, coming of age, summer, activism, life is a bitch, youth, television ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.9
 2K
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 ⇓
50%
 6.3
 310
Team Marco (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Marco, 12, is obsessed with his iPad and hardly leaves the house. But when his grandmother dies and his grandfather moves in, Marco's life is turned upside-down and he's forced...to go play outside. "Nonno" (Grandpa) introduces ...
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous
Plot: family relations, grandfather grandson relationship, technology, family conflict, friendship, boy, computers and web, roommate, grandparent grandchild relationship, grandfather, mentor, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Handcuff King (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
Plot: family relations, childhood, leukemia, friendship, death, father son relationship
Time: 70s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 5.2
 310
Blast Beat (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After their family emigrates from Colombia during the summer of ‘99, a metalhead science prodigy and his deviant younger brother do their best to adapt to new lives in America.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: family relations, immigrant, social problems, brother brother relationship, life is a bitch, brothers, father son relationship, new life, mother son relationship, husband wife relationship, family problems, brother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Potato Dreams of America (2021)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the 90s.
Style: disturbing, captivating, entertaining, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: american dream, gay, immigration, lgbt, gay teenager, gay interest, coming of age, mother son relationship, immigrant, relocation, society, dream ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: usa, seattle, russia, soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Foreign Letters (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: coming of age, introspection, friendship, culture clash, teenage life, fish out of water, society, youth, hopes, immigrant, social relations, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: usa, vietnam, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Christmas in the Heartland (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Kara and Jessie are two teenage girls from very different worlds, but with a little Christmas magic, they find they have much more in common than they ever imagined.
Style: disturbing, sincere, entertaining, captivating, psychological
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, female protagonist, grandmother granddaughter relationship, grandfather, grandmother, parents and children, grandfather granddaughter relationship, family relations, holiday, new year, christmas romance, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 507
Chlorine (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the town of Copper Canyon, people are cashing in on an economic housing boom, and the local country club is buzzing about the investment opportunity. Once vivacious couple, Roger (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Georgie (Kyra Sedgwick), have settled ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Plot: midlife crisis, family relations, couples, couple relations, dark humor, family problems, unfulfillment, parents and children, suburbs, coming of age, dysfunctional family, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Someone Else's America (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: immigration, american dream, family relations, friendship, immigrant, friends, family problems, estrangement, family life, urban, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: former yugoslavia, new york, montenegro, serbia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Don Quixote's Children (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The head of maternity clinic is nicknamed Don Quixote by his neighbors. He spends days and nights with newborn children, forgetting about his own growing sons.
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, hospital, don quixote, lonely man, soviet
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Raspberry Magic (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Monica Shah is a brainy schoolgirl whose science fair project about growing raspberries becomes a touching emotional crusade. After her dad leaves and her mother falls into a funk, Monica decides it's her job to rescue the ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, captivating, humorous, sad ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, dysfunctional family, unemployment, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, woods, single parent, society, school, child's point of view, nature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Pushing Hands (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story is about an elderly Chinese tai chi chuan teacher and grandfather who emigrates from Beijing to live with his son, American daughter-in-law, and grandson in a New York City suburb. The grandfather is increasingly distanced from the family ...
Style: touching, humorous, art house, spiritual, realistic ...
Plot: martial arts, culture clash, tai chi, interracial romance, immigrant, fish out of water, father son relationship, immigration, myth, culture, identity, family relations ...
Time: year 1992, year 2016, 90s
Place: china, new york, new york state, asia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
My Daddy is in Heaven (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Becca, Adam and their 5-year-old daughter Acie are a perfect family until a tragic accident during a 4th of July celebration kills their father. Struggling with grief, Becky decides she needs to leave the family farm and all its memories. She leaves ...
Style: sincere, captivating, entertaining, christian film
Plot: family life, family problems, relationship problems, male female relationship, life is a bitch, mother and daughter, family relations, family tragedy, love affair, father daughter relationship, relationships, tragic event ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.5
 846
Uncle Nino (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, indie film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family gatherings, family life, family relations, fish out of water, parents and children, optimism, couples, society, uncle, youth, family reunited, friendship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.7
 696
Mayor Cupcake (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. Uneducated, she relies on her street smarts to clean up the town.
Style: humorous, sincere, captivating, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: rise to the top, campaign, small town life, family life, society, small town, uneducated, ambition, family relations, parents and children, food, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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