Movies like Love Matters 2009

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Love Matters (2009)
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Love Matters (2009)
Original name: 幸福万岁
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 113 min.
Story: "Love Matters" is a movie revolving around three main protagonists - 52-year-old Tan Bo Seng, his 17-year-old teenage son Benny and 36-year-old Jeremy, Bo Seng's 'adopted' brother - and their accidental journey in seeking and keeping love and happiness. Bo Seng (Henry Thia) who leads a routine life attempts to revive the passion with his wife Jia Li (Yeo Yann Yann). Jeremy (Jack Lim) lives a colourful life; with "Never to commit" as his motto for love. Benny (Alex Leong) has just started school life and his only distraction is his crush, Jennifer (Natalli) who is his classmate's girlfriend.
Plot: school, heist, revenge, teacher, womanizer, hospital, suicide, midlife crisis, casanova, bank, father son relationship, teenage boy, cell phone, husband wife relationship, thirty something, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, urban setting, falling from height, dysfunctional marriage, puberty, karaoke, barbecue, internet chat
Place: singapore, malaysia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, captivating and semi serious films with plots about father son relationship, family relations, husband wife relationship, teacher, school, hospital and teenage boy mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Love Matters: I Not Stupid (2002), After Class (2019), Great Minds (2017), Just Follow Law (2007), 881 (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Not Stupid (2002)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kok Pin, Boon Hock and Terry are classmates in "EM3" stream. In Singapore, that means that at the age of 12, the government has decided that they are not as academically inclined as their peers. Kok Pin is creative and a born artist but ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, biting
Audience: kids
Plot: family relations, parents and children, friendship, childhood friend, resentment, teachers and students, youth, office politics, elementary school, bullying, social differences, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia
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After Class (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dysfunctional family attempts to work together to support their grandmother during her final days of life.
Style: independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: wanting to die, family relations, pregnancy, teacher student relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, father son relationship, birthday party, brother brother relationship, cell phone, nanny, boy, radiation ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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Great Minds (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough ...
Style: sincere, humorous, captivating, touching, social
Plot: teacher, school, literature, teenage boy, teenage love, school principal, teaching the ways of the world, teenager, law, ministry, hidden, school expulsion ...
Time: year 2017
Place: paris france, versailles
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Just Follow Law (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A freak accident causes a blue collar worker (Gurmit Singh) and his supervisor (Fann Wong) to swap souls.
Plot: body swapping, body swap, switching bodies, gender bender, voice over narration, car crash, psychiatric hospital, medium, bank, mental institution, mother daughter relationship, exhibitionist ...
Place: singapore
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68%
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881 (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Singapore
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two Singaporean girls join together to form the Papaya Sisters, a getai group that sings at performances during the seventh lunar month. Big Papaya is estranged from her mother, who disapproves of her performances, whilst Little Papaya is an orphan ...
Plot: asian, voice over narration, drag queen, tradition, love triangle, mother daughter relationship, hospital, death, singer, ghost, vocalist, rivals ...
Place: singapore, southeast asia
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The Invisible (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Three women. One same age. Three ways to face it.
Style: crying
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, stepdaughter, husband wife relationship, unemployment, 50 year old, child, dialogue, student, sexual harassment, marriage, boss, house ...
Place: china
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Day Off (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Day Off (French: Mercredi, folle journée !) is a 2001 French drama film directed by Pascal Thomas.
Style: feel good, touching, light, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy, teenage girl, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, rescue, mother son relationship, bad father, poker, drug overdose, alimony ...
Place: brittany
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Flower in the Pocket (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two boys, Li Ahh and Li Ohm, grow up motherless. Their father, Sui, is a workaholic who shuts himself out of the world. The boys' quest to reach out to their father leads them to adopt a puppy. But when the animal is sent away for being a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, single father, bully, lost child, drawing, children, x ray, mannequin, pet dog, workaholic, muslim, puppy ...
Place: malaysia
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I Not Stupid Too (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Singapore
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A 2006 Singaporean film and the sequel to the 2002 film, I Not Stupid. A satirical comedy, I Not Stupid Too portrays the lives, struggles and adventures of three Singaporean youths - 15-year-old Tom, his 8-year-old brother Jerry and their ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, thrilling, satirical, psychological
Audience: family outing
Plot: father son relationship, teenage protagonist, teenager, family problems, social problems, relationships, satire, teenage life, family relations, family conflict, teen violence
Place: singapore
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Two Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Paul Miller (Paul Rudd - Friends, The Cider House Rules) has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, cerebral ...
Plot: suicide, filmmaking, actor's life, introspection, change of heart, lifestyle, life is a bitch, breaking point, showbiz, direction and purpose, death wish, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
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Scars (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a dysfunctional couple, whose problems will inevitably deteriorate their marriage and their son's life.
Style: disturbing, captivating, humorous, psychological, independent film
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Time: 2000s
Place: liverpool, mexico
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The Teacher (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
Style: touching, melancholic, captivating, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot: teacher, communism, psychological manipulation, blackmailer, female protagonist, boy, blackmail, communist, nepotism, class differences, abuse of power, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, year 1984, year 1991
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe
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The D Train (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: With his 20th reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his ...
Style: humorous, captivating, realistic, light, funny ...
Plot: friendship, high school reunion, gay, lgbt, high school, teenage boy, obsession, party, employer employee relationship, low self esteem, midlife crisis, eavesdropping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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44%
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Ilo Ilo (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore, Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: realistic, sincere, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, migrant worker, financial crisis, boy, family life, parents and children, society, maid, youth, art, boyhood ...
Time: 20th century, year 2013, 90s
Place: singapore, asia, the philippines
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns. Rita, Sue And Bob Too was adapted by Andrea Dunbar from two of her own controversial plays. Rita (Siobhan ...
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Teenosaurus Rex (2017)
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Duration: 94 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
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Tit for Tat (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min.
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Umbrella (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Noi the Albino (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK, Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
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Audience: teens
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Place: iceland, hawaii, singapore, cairo egypt, new york
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35%
The Carriers Are Waiting (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: black comedy, semi serious, realistic, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: bad father, satire, family relations, journalism, obsession, midlife crisis, parents and children, motorcycle, weirdo, rainstorm, eccentricity, son ...
Time: 90s
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34%
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15: The Movie (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fast, frenetic, and furious best describe the story of five teenage boys all but abandoned by the system, estranged from any parents, and discarded by life in general. They build a world of there own in which gangs, drugs, fighting, body piercing, ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, bleak, homoerotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, youth, gang, juvenile delinquency, gangster, teen violence, hardcase students, teenage life, drug dealer, drug dealing, urban ghetto, kids in trouble ...
Place: singapore, china, asia
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Four Suns (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son from the first marriage. He did not get married again but lives with Jana, a post office employee. Together ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, human nature, crumbling marriage, infidelity, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, introspection, rebelliousness, guru, family in crisis, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, surprise ending
Plot: father son relationship, surrealism, school, extramarital affair, prostitute, teacher, humiliation, entrepreneurship, taxes, retiring, nightmare, loss of wife ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Ah Long Pte Ltd (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 158 min.
Story: A change of scenery. Just Follow Law succinctly presented images of sterile Singapore in her most grandest splendor. Ah Long Pte Ltd (ALPL) however, is a conscious effort to honestly portray the grounds on which opposing parties with an ironic ...
Plot: car crash, jail, money, loan shark, violence, police, marriage, gang, arrest, loan, investigation, triad ...
Place: singapore, malaysia
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Seven and a Half (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sedam I Po is a Serbian movie. Seven stories from the hood that connects the leitmotif of the seven deadly sins, in a comic way of treating everyday life if Belgrade people, possessed by it's own small weaknesses. Tthey do not hesitate to go ...
Style: anthology, deep, psychedelic
Plot: sex crime, lust, hospital, revenge, anger, husband wife relationship, envy, pedophile, fake illness, greed, pride, cocktail party ...
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32%
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Jack the Dog (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jack is a successful photographer who has always been a womanizer. But at one point in his life he wants to settle down. He marries Faith and together they have a son, Sam. But things aren't working out that well as the two, due to Jack's ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, marriage, photographer, divorce, father son relationship, obsession, sex, seduction, infidelity, death of mother, womanizer, child custody ...
Place: london, los angeles
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32%
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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.
Style: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: father son relationship, family relations, addiction, teenage boy, death, pregnant teenager, love, violence, friendship, party, loss of loved one, family tragedy ...
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31%
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Judy Berlin (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dramatic comedy where a the relationship of a teacher and married principal goes much worse than that of their children.
Style: realistic, independent film, semi serious, surreal, thought provoking ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, alzheimer's disease, marriage, solar eclipse, suburbs, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, single parent, human nature ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Family Law (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
Style: semi serious, captivating, light, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, parents and children, family problems, hopes, youth, lawyer, father son relationship, teacher, husband wife relationship, teenager, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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