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Most People Live in China (2002)
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Most People Live in China (2002)
Original name: Folk flest bor i Kina
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery tickets, a boy falls in love, a man picks up a hitchhiker, three girls get help from a man in pajamas, and nine old men find a young girl stuck in a swamp.
Style: touching, humorous, suspense, contemplative, anthology
Plot: multiple storylines, lesbian, family relations, fall in love, politics, teenage girl, brother sister relationship, teenage boy, gay parent, swamp, love, airplane, male nudity, old man, adoption, election, cow, blindness, hitchhiker, filling station, lesbian mother, gas station, skinny dipping, mobile phone, lottery ticket ...
Keyword: norway, norwegian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, touching, semi serious and realistic films with plots about family relations, love and romance, fall in love, love, parents and children, couple relations and youth mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Most People Live in China: Upperdog (2009), My Best Part (2020), So Long Suburbia (2016), Funny Story (2018), Manual of Love (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Upperdog (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, he to material wealth on Oslo's west side, she to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers ...
Style: semi serious, emotional, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot: family relations, adoption, human nature, siblings relations, society, friends, social differences, disorder, refugee, immigrant, war trauma, siblings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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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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So Long Suburbia (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 64 min.
Story: So Long Suburbia is a campy queer coming of age teen film. Can be watched here: https://vimeo.com/195164161 (Offical)
Style: sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative, captivating, queer cinema
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, lgbt, youth, bisexual, gay, teenager, lesbian, love and romance, love, fall in love, society, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Funny Story (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A tragic comedy about a well-intentioned father who inadvertently wreaks havoc on the life of his estranged daughter.
Style: psychological, contemplative, touching, sexy, humorous ...
Plot: lesbian daughter, bisexual woman, lgbt, wedding, lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, love triangle, moral dilemma, father daughter relationship, love and romance, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Manual of Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, marital crisis, love affair, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, family life, infidelity, love, husband wife relationship, amor, multiple storylines ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Guermantes (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Paris, sum­mer 2020. Actors from “la Comédie-Française”, France’s most pres­ti­gious the­ater, rehearse Christophe Hon­oré’s new play, an adap­ta­tion of Mar­cel Proust’s “The Guer­mantes Way”. When the show is sud­den­ly ...
Style: psychological, humorous, romantic, touching, sexy
Plot: gay interest, male nudity, relationships, love affair, frenchman, couples, gay, fall in love, gay lead character, love, love and romance, gay subtext ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her ...
Style: multicultural, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, woman, sapphic, family relations, lesbian mother, male homosexuality, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, asia, india
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Age of Panic (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy ...
Style: realistic, humorous, emotional, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: politics, family relations, parents and children, state affairs, journalist, election, ex husband ex wife relationship, child custody, love, rivalry, society, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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True Adolescents (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At 34, struggling Seattle musician Sam finds himself broke, jobless and losing touch with the person he wants to become. When his girlfriend kicks him out, he's forced to crash with his Aunt Sharon and is reluctantly enlisted to take her teen ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, mumblecore ...
Plot: youth, lifestyle, buddies, family relations, friends, on the road, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, male nudity, gay interest, wilderness, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
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, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story: A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.
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Plot: parents and children, family relations, friends, disorder, friendship, discussion, lottery, life turned upside down, advocate, helicopter, actress, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Natasha (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman ...
Style: erotic, touching, unusual plot structure, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, teenage sexuality, teenage boy, first love, teenager, teenage protagonist, fall in love, youth, family relations, love, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, touching
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Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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Seeking Temporary Wife (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, touching, realistic ...
Audience: date night
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: parody, humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: fall in love, coming of age, cold war, summer, traumatic childhood, family relations, revolution, domineering father, grandfather grandson relationship, teenage life, political unrest, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 1984, 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, balkan, europe, serbia, prague ...
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Duration: 127 min.
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That's Not Us (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three twenty-something couples, one gay, one lesbian, and one straight, travel to a beach house to enjoy the last days of summer, but what should be a fun and carefree weekend becomes an exploration of what it takes to sustain a healthy relationship.
Style: psychological, sexy, humorous, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lesbian, lgbtq, couples, couple relations, lgbtqi, love, love and romance, friendship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
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Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, contemplative
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Audience: teens, date night
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Mooirivier (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Style: psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, sexy, touching ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, anthology ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 80 min.
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Style: anthology, surreal, humorous, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: male nudity, dark humor, family relations, unsupportive spouse, obsession, couple relations, social decay, society, guru, couples, parents and children, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
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Fullt alvor (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A father and son reunites for a summer vacation after the tragic loss of their cancer ill mother and ex-wife.
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The Redemption of a Dog (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Time: 21st century
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Sassy Pants (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Desperate to get out from under her overprotective mother, a home-schooled teen runs off to live with her dad, and forms a bond with his much-younger boyfriend.
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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