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Days Like This (2001)
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Days Like This (2001)
Original name: Leva livet
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Vaccuum salesman Evert makes the rounds in a suburban Stockholm apartment building, getting brief glimpses of the various tenants' lives. During the course of the day, he meets an arguing married couple, a lonely older woman and a younger couple preparing an anxious dinner.
Plot: dog, cancer, helicopter, bowling, squirrel, multiple storylines, door to door salesman, ice cream truck
Place: eastern europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, realistic and sincere films with plots about dog, cancer, death, friend, male nudity, coming of age and friendship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Days Like This: Shattered Glass (2002), Dusty (1983), She Lives! (1973), Nelio's Story (1998), The Christmas Tree (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shattered Glass (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Un hombre enfermo de leucemia busca desesperadamente un donador de médula.
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Dusty (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Plot The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out ...
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She Lives! (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
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The Christmas Tree (1969)
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Duration: 110 min.
Story: A French-American millionaire (William Holden), his girlfriend (Virna Lisi) and his war buddy (Andre Bourvil) try to grant his dying son's every wish.
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Duration: 86 min.
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