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The Key Is in the Door (1978)
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Original name: La clé sur la porte
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.
Style:
realistic, period piece
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, school, relationships, female protagonist, high school, teenager, loneliness, infidelity, responsibility, teacher student relationship, family conflict, moral dilemma, character study, coming of age, divorce, power, cheating, mentor, intimacy, ethics, realism, social commentary, feminism, gender roles, family drama ...
Time:
70s
Place:
paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, emotional and psychological films with plots about coming of age, teenager, female protagonist, identity, adolescence, family drama and school mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Key Is in the Door: Les belles manières (1978), Triangle (1970), Ben and Benedict (1977), A Part of You (2024), Zita (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
death, coming of age, grief, adolescence, loss, mourning, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, introspection, bereavement, aunt niece relationship, self discovery ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
compassionate, emotional
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, coming of age, female protagonist, heartwarming, motherhood, empathy, adolescence, family drama, friendship, identity, slice of life, self discovery ...
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
31%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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305
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, grim
Plot:
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712
Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
pregnancy, young mother, teenager, coming of age, female protagonist, divorce, social realism, family drama, gender roles, responsibility, class differences, resilience ...
Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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