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Kryptonite! (2011)
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Original name: La kryptonite nella borsa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, poignant, melancholic, surreal, period piece, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, bittersweet, youth, family relations, family problems, coming of age, imaginary friend, older sister, escape from reality, superhero, childhood, imagination, family drama, little boy, loss of innocence, grief, loss, nostalgia, magic realism, depression, working class, social change, infidelity, street life, symbolism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, naples italy, southern italy, sicily
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, coming of age, bittersweet, family problems and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Kryptonite!: The Secret Life of Girls (1999), Capturing Dad (2012), King Uncle (1993), Mr. Cinema (2007), Hardboiled Egg (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
15-year-old Natalie, confused to begin with, finds out about her father's affair with one of his students. Refusing to simply stand by and watch her family disintegrate, Natalie takes it upon herself to expose the problem, and in doing so calls ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
teenage girl, secret life, coming of age, high school life, high school, bittersweet, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, family relations, teenage life, family in crisis ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estranged father is on his deathbed, so Sawa asks Hazuki and Koharu to visit him and take one last photo ...
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Ashok Bansal has a traumatic childhood which teaches him that money matters most to people, even more than their kids. Ashok starts hating poor people & starts working hard to get out of poverty, at the expense of his own family. However, ...
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family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he screens movies over the course of decades, while also witnessing turbulent events of the times, ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working class, family relations, couples, hopes, longing, bittersweet, society, idealism, family life, life, social change, nostalgia ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 90s, 60s ...
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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, semi serious, realistic, humorous, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth culture, coming of age, bittersweet, working class, teacher student relationship, dysfunctional family, factory worker, teenage love, oil refinery, blue collar, puberty, proletarian ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
tuscany, europe, italy
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27%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, life turned upside down, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family problems, disorder, parents and children, manhood, youth, dysfunctional family, dark humor, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, self discovery, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, bittersweet, parent child relationship, family drama, love, reconciliation, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, parents and children, ego clash, family life, rivalry, family problems, strong female presence, family gatherings, estate, estrangement, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, youth, gangster, unfulfilled love, coincidence, love and romance, innocence lost, mob boss, italian mafia, italian gangster, cosa nostra, boss ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, palermo italy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1970s, six-and-a-half-year-old Sébastien is a sensitive, highly imaginative child. Despite the affection he feels for his father, a dreamy inventor, he notices his mother's loneliness and how there is a lack of love in her life. When they move ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, love and romance, youth, inventions and discoveries, young heroes, estrangement, childhood, coming of age, innocence, family drama, imagination ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
22%
74
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Joy Levine lives in an old apartment that, in complete contrast to her, is shabby and worn-out on the outside while well-kept and filled with joy on the inside. Her life changes when she auditions for a TV show called "Gotta Be Happy". To ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, lgbt, gay, boy, gay interest, father son relationship, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, parents and children, culture clash, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, culture shock, identity, immigration, nostalgia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, madrid
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style:
touching, sentimental, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dysfunctional family, aunt, youth, candy store, grandmother, mental health, bike, family relations, coming of age, brother, family problems, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
italy, sicily
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love and romance, youth, looking for love, family problems, society, siblings relations, teenage life, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place:
england, pakistan, europe, middle east, manchester
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, emotional, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
guilt, family relations, father son relationship, miscarriage, children, family drama, guilty conscience, life, relationships, mourning, coming of age, grief ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
youth, culture clash, family relations, best friend, friendship, racism, family problems, hopes, teenage life, coming of age, interracial friendship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, light ...
Plot:
bittersweet, family relations, fall in love, parents and children, society, love and romance, workplace situations, workplace, father son relationship, optimism, humanism, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems, convent school, nun, overweight, angel, prodigy ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
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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:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, youth, parents and children, teenage angst, suburbs, teen romance, female protagonist, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, youth, parents and children, midlife crisis, child as adult ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style:
road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, family problems, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, on the road, couples, love and romance, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, youth ...
Place:
argentina, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bruno Beltrame makes a living of sorts. He wanted to be a great writer but he is content to write the books of others. He also gives private lessons to students who are not serious. Among his pupils is fifteen-year-old Luca, more quick-witted and ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, life turned upside down, rebellion, disorder, troublemaker, family relations, parents and children, youth, rebelliousness, professor, coming of age, son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, first love, teenage life, idealism, society, snitch, teachers and students, high school, parents and children, clergy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing the dream of staging their production of Cyrano de Bergerac, but love for the same lady will tear their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, humorous, stylized, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, friends, male friendship, friendship, theater, bittersweet, love triangle, romantic rivalry, working class, flashback, betrayal, nostalgia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
naples italy, europe, sicily
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-yearold Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, sexual, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
19%
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