Movies like Tobi
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Tobi (1978)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.
Plot:
youth, mutation, flying, surrealism, working class, parable, angel, doctor, boy, classmate, father son relationship, bird, male nudity, surgery, amusement park, mother son relationship, wings
Place:
madrid
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and touching films with plots about youth, father son relationship, boy, family relations, coming of age, surrealism and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Tobi: Last Christmas (1999), The Woman with Red Boots (1974), Turtle (1994), Collective Invention (2015), Delivering Milo (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Park Goo mutates into a man-fish due to side effects from an experimental drug. He receives heavy publicity and becomes a star. A conspiracy by a pharmaceutical company leads Park Goo to being possibly expelled from the world.
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Theodore, a young Spanish engineer who works as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, returned to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year. Upon arrival, he discovers that his father killed his mother and, to compensate for the loss, he bought a ...
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Summer 1985. As every year, Rodri travels from Catalonia to Galicia and is reunited with his four friends. As real-world problems begin to undermine their friendship, the five of them embark on a nighttime adventure in search of a mythical object.
Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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