Movies like The Magic Box

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The Magic Box (2002)
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The Magic Box (2002)
Original name: La boƮte magique
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: no overview yet
Plot: arab, sex, writers, singer, brothel, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, male female relationship, drunkenness, screenwriter, flash forward, circumcision, van, autobiography, flashback, marriage, uncle nephew relationship, marital problem, projectionist, drinking, mother son relationship, drinking alcohol, song, kiss, drink ...
Place: tunisia
Keyword: arabic, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and crying films with plots about father son relationship, sex, drinking, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, family relations and drunkenness mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Magic Box: A Winter Tan (1987), Nie mehr wie es war (2016), Sunday Lunch (1982), Goodbye Trainmen (1992), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Winter Tan (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jackie Burroughs stars as Maryse Holder, the ill-fated feminist author who met an untimely death in Acapulco. Her attitude of cultural and racial condescension toward Mexican men was to regard them as nothing more than beasts of burden for her own ...
Style: independent film
Plot: erotica, age-gap relationship, hedonism, nymphomania, american abroad, nightclub, alcoholic, older woman younger man relationship, aging, feminist, bulimia, matador ...
Place: new york, mexico city, mexico
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's ...
Style: captivating
Plot: fatherhood, adultery, family relations, father son relationship, family problems, search for father, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, relationships, dysfunctional family, female nudity ...
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86%
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Sunday Lunch (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
Plot: mistress, surgeon, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, drunkenness, family relations, divorce, rain, jealousy, father, singing ...
Place: former yugoslavia
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82%
Goodbye Trainmen (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Veturimiehet heiluttaa on 4. syyskuuta 1992 ensi-iltansa saanut suomalainen elokuva. Elokuva on kuvattu suurimmaksi osaksi Porissa. Veturimiehet heiluttaa sai ensi-iltansa Ruotsissa 26. maaliskuuta 1993.
Plot: train, male female relationship, self destructing, childhood friend, teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rain, friendship, drinking, friend, death, flashback ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.
Style: southern gothic
Plot: gay, homosexual, american south, closeted gay, alcoholism, gay subtext, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, inheritance, dark secret, homosexuality, father in law daughter in law relationship ...
Place: southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Nel giardino delle rose (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A successful businessman is haunted by the memories of his mother.
Style: suspense, soap opera
Plot: mother, loneliness, mother son reunion, husband wife relationship, friend, boy, yuppie, letter, father son relationship, dog, tragic event, teacher ...
Place: milan italy, naples italy
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71%
The Inheritance (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management of the family industry which is in danger of bankruptcy. He is torn ...
Style: enigmatic, meditative, serious, sincere, stylized ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, secrets, suicide, family business, family life, adultery, family problems, family values, inheritance, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, denmark, south of france, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Paradise (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his wife, a Cape Canaveral groupie at the time Bobby was with NASA. Now they have built up ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, serious, realistic ...
Plot: televangelist, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, faith, infidelity, marriage, businessman, reverend, hypocrisy, father son relationship, money, wealth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Faces (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style: art house, intense, black and white, independent film, talky ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, feminism, feminist, sex, male nudity, drinking, thoughtful, minimalism, cheating, social outcast, time travel ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
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62%
Secrets of the Heart (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: dog sex, coming of age, youth, boy, friends, village life, boyhood, trippy, friendship, village, aunt nephew relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place: spain, europe
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60%
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All You Need (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, touching, talky
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, human nature, couple relations, society ...
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60%
Fighting for My Daughter (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
Plot: drug, bare chested male, physical abuse, drinking, mother daughter relationship, jail, sex, prison, male female relationship, nightclub, fight, prostitution ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Wife (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style: thought provoking, sincere, lyrical, serious, sad ...
Plot: writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, father son relationship, family relations, novelist, professor, twists and turns, adulterous husband, love affair, award ...
Time: 1950s, 90s, 60s, 2010s, year 1992 ...
Place: stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Sleeping in Honey (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. he knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame. A ...
Plot: arab, silence, health, clinic, brothel, shame, parliament, epidemic, groom, protest, discussion, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Safety of Objects (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, depressing, compassionate, confusing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, loneliness, guilt, family relations, coma, family life, family problems, couple relations, society, crumbling marriage, single parent, parents and children ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Blessing (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set on a Wisconsin dairy farm, Randi, the daughter, is trying to find a way to escape the farm, but her devotion to her family especially Clovis her younger brother is preventing her from doing that; until, that is, she met the local milk truck ...
Style: independent film
Plot: youth, family relations, milkman, lottery, drifter, brother sister relationship, farm, dysfunctional family, cow, abusive father, religion, dairy farm ...
Time: 90s
Place: wisconsin
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54%
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Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Night Games (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Californian housewife is terrified of having sex because of a past assault. When this phobia threatens to destroy her marriage, she takes refuge in a series of erotic fantasies about a masked man. But is it really all just a fantasy?
Style: erotic, sexy, independent film
Plot: sex, skinny dipping, past, nudity, erotica, flashback, marriage, husband wife relationship, broken mirror, attempted rape, female nudity, rape victim ...
Time: year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Cold Lands (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.
Style: gay cinema
Plot: lgbt, male nudity, male pubic hair, wealth, death, brother brother relationship, revenge, father son relationship, masturbation, seduction, sex, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Life of Josutty (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Life of Josutty narrates the story of the struggles and life lessons learned by Josutty(Dileep), a simple farmer living in a village in Kerala who migrates to New Zeland after marriage.
Style: captivating
Plot: parent child relationship, infidelity, marriage, tragic love, relationships, family problems, relationship problems, male female relationship, lifestyle, marital problem, husband wife relationship, forced marriage ...
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Left Out (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Giulio, a young man from Sicily, arrives in Rome to trace back Aurora, his ex-girlfriend whom he cannot forget. He stays with a couple of family friends, Rosalia and Eugenio, who have lost their only son, Nello, of the same age as Giulio. The ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, father son relationship, friend, drug use, suicide, loss of son, death of son, depression, ex girlfriend, surrogate son, mental illness, drinking ...
Place: sicily, rome italy
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48%
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Crossing Paths (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jeremy Booner is a college kid struggling with his grades, with the ladies and with life in general. Brian Miano is a smooth-talking salesman on the fast track to success. A chance encounter at an intersection leaves Jeremy and Brian secretly ...
Style: erotic, independent film
Plot: sex scene, making love, college, student, voice over narration, fiance fiancee relationship, pregnancy, passport, fiancee, salesman, graduation, womanizer ...
Place: los angeles, bali
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Style: independent film, cult classic, realistic, talky, political ...
Plot: vietnam war, friendship, college, male nudity, skinny dipping, drinking, protest, anti war, male pubic hair, group of friends, memories, buddies ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place: new hampshire, washington d.c., usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Around the Bend (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, death, road trip, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, aging, van ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
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46%
Alexandria... Why? (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, Algeria
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set against the panoramic backdrop of war-torn Egypt, director Youssef Chahine tells a highly personal tale of love and determination. Amid the poverty, death and suffering caused by World War II, 18 year-old Yehia, retreats into a private world of ...
Style: semi autobiographical, captivating, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, homosexual, gay, arab, teenage boy, african, lesbian, lgbt, homosexuality, youth, friendship, black market ...
Time: 1940s
Place: africa, middle east, alexandria egypt, south africa, palestine ...
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45%
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Along the Way (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, gloomy, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: best friend, college, friendship, friends, youth, hopes, redemption, buddies, coming of age, showbiz, partner, doctor ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Hierarchy (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A group of Californians experience loss, despair and desperation over the course of seven days before Christmas. A boxing underdog must face the truth about his uncertain future, a blocked novelist struggles to create a new work admist a suspicious ...
Style: independent film, surprise ending
Plot: suicide attempt, gay slur, cruise, economics, hollywood, joke, family relations, multiple storylines, death threat, bible, movie business, screenwriter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Bonjour Amour (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Adolescent French suburban lower-middle-class nerd Marc Morel was happy being the teacher's pet and school representative in a Latin competition. Until he meets and instantly falls in love with fatherless semi-illiterate shop clerk and ...
Plot: car crash, bare chested male, teenage boy, fire, brother brother relationship, photographer, father son relationship, sex, girlfriend, first love, car race, rebellion ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Beware of My Love (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursues her, dropping in, asserting himself. She's willing to connect. He's ...
Plot: sodomy, assault, erection, male female relationship, independent woman, physical abuse, bare breasts, police, train, musician, male nudity, obsession ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Intruder (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years before in Tahiti. Told elliptically, with few words, we see ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, estrangement, family problems, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, going straight, redemption, angel of death, transplant, black market ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: tahiti, europe, france, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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