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A Coffee in Berlin (2012)
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Original name: Oh Boy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fateful day pushes an aimless college dropout (Tom Schilling) to stop wasting his time and finally engage with life.
Style:
melancholic, black and white, realistic, humorous, black comedy, depressing, talky, independent film, stylized, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, loner, society, slacker, character study, loneliness, depression, unlikely friendships, introspection, lifestyle, hopes, unfulfillment, misfit, social misfits, unsupportive parent, dialogue, adolescence, existentialism, food, mental disorder, coffee, teenage boy, bittersweet, father son relationship, college dropout ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany, berlin germany, california
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Most similar movies to A Coffee in Berlin
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and weird films with plots about friendship, loneliness, depression, storytelling, dialogue, misfit and society mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Coffee in Berlin: Lost in Translation (2003), Sidewalls (2011), The Man Who Sleeps (1974), Mistress America (2015), Soul Kitchen (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, intellectual, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, friendship, character study, alienation, fish out of water, melancholy, unlikely couple, actor, hotel room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, yale university, america ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy full a refreshing global perspective, SIDEWALLS is director Gustavo Taretto's clever and moving ode to the modern people and urban landscape of Buenos Aires. Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, sincere, realistic, cute ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
architecture, hopes, internet, lifestyle, introspection, human nature, amor, love story, mannequin, first date, depression, human relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina, latin america
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around ...
Style:
experimental, art house, artsy, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
nihilism, existentialism, depression, loneliness, minimalism, introspection, existential loneliness, boredom, loser, time travel, lsd, trauma ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. MISTRESS AMERICA is a comedy about dream-chasing, ...
Style:
independent film, humorous, depressing, heartbreaking, witty ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, coming of age, hopes, writers, female protagonist, eccentric family, follow your dream, prank, disorder, family relations, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
SOUL KITCHEN film centers on a likable but hopelessly disorganized restauranteur, Zinos, whose cafe is second home to a motley crew of lovable eccentrics. When his girlfriend Nadine up and moves to Shanghai, a love-sick Zinos decides to fly after ...
Style:
talky, feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
restaurant, brother brother relationship, chef, cooking, food, workplace, lifestyle, family relations, gourmet, workplace problem, family business, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe, hamburg germany
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, visually appealing, melancholic, funny ...
Plot:
on the road, road trip, food, sarcasm, countryside, eccentricity, existentialism, friendship, restaurant, midlife crisis, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, northern england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On a dark, rainy night, an historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sincere, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
longing, tourist, introspection, human nature, dull life, solitude, theater, loneliness, minimalism, underground, asian, life & death ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
taipei, taiwan, japan, east asia, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among ...
Style:
cynical, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
depression, lone hero, imagination, irreverent, existentialism, life philosophy, culture clash, adaptation, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 2003, year 1989
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, east germany
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
musician, coming of age, self discovery, introspection, unfulfillment, hopes, youth, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, psychology, musician's life, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
24%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
Style:
melancholic, compassionate, mumblecore, clever, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, friendship, bullying, small town, loneliness, existentialism, teenage life, character study, eccentricity, misfit, physical appearance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
132K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style:
black comedy, thought provoking, teen, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, age difference, graduation, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, teen angst, blues, best friend, high school student ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Mo attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke, an unmotivated-yet-charismatic college dropout. Although Zeke genuinely cares about Mo, things start to go awry ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, bleak, disturbing, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, debauchery, nihilism, teenage boy, drug, friendship, drug dealing, sarcasm, friend, slacker, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A veteran actor is at the end of his glory days. He was a great film, TV and theater performer, but he hardly work anymore. Then he meets a young director who wants to carry out a science fiction project, and a friendship emerges.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
bittersweet, introspection, redemption, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, actor's life, aging, filmmaking, hopes, elderly, friendship, legacy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style:
cult classic, teen, talky, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teenage girl, detention, teen angst, high school student ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1985
Place:
chicago, illinois, seattle
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous ...
Style:
independent film, road movie, black and white, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
minimalism, immigrant, road trip, on the road, hipster, immigration, slacker, dialogue, existentialism, coming of age, melancholy, culture clash ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
florida, new york, ohio, manhattan new york city, cleveland ohio ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and ...
Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, friendship, teenage life, social differences, parents and children, family relations, social misfits, love and romance, lifestyle, single parent, society ...
Time:
90s, year 2008
Place:
london, europe, england, paris france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A teen coming-of-age romantic dramedy about a media-obsessed geek and the most beautiful and twisted girl in school.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suicide, found footage, hopes, coming of age, teenage love, obsession, media, misfit, love and romance, introspection, high school life, filmmaking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style:
dark comedy, depressing, cynical, clever, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, mental illness, dark humor, addiction, fall in love, depression, existentialism, youth, teenage life, eccentric family, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, new jersey, washington d.c., manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style:
depressing, sincere, talky, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, coming of age, father son relationship, infidelity, boy, adultery, marriage, drinking, cat, underage drinking, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 2005, 80s, 2000s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
What happens when you graduate from college, only to find that jobs are practically nonexistent and your best friends aren't what they seem? Four old friends reunite after college graduation. The conversation quickly turns sour, and a series of ...
Style:
contemplative, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, college, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, unfulfillment, estrangement, society, best friend, dull life, friends, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style:
depressing, touching, gloomy, sad, melancholic ...
Plot:
suicide, drug addict, suicide attempt, depression, addiction, emptiness, hopes, drug addiction, character study, complex characters, old friend, job interview ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
oslo norway, scandinavia, europe, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Style:
mumblecore, psychological, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
alienation, misfit, introspection, mentally unstable, unfulfillment, social misfits, society, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, urban, looking for love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, bittersweet, depression, small town, grief, melancholy, loner, train, new in town, loss, solitude ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, canada ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
love and romance, couples, friendship, couple relations, youth, society, introspection, looking for love, unfulfillment, writer's life, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
Style:
feel good, serious, realistic, controversial, humorous ...
Plot:
power of media, society, starting over, media, misfit, unemployment, assassination, media satire, hacker, irresponsible, social misfits, redemption ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, society, nothing goes right, misfit, youth, hopes ...
Similarity:
18%
213K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Style:
philosophical, satirical, cerebral, clever, absurd ...
Plot:
depression, satire, twins, filmmaking, siblings relations, writer's block, mentally unstable, imagination, loser, existentialism, loner, writers ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, new york, california, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on ...
Style:
realistic, serious, gloomy, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
refugee, homeless, lovers, hobo, tramp, migration, village life, illegal prostitution, immigrant, religions or cults, misfit, clergy ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his ...
Style:
surreal, black comedy, philosophical, art house, satirical ...
Plot:
surrealism, dark humor, multiple storylines, existentialism, insanity, poetry, religions or cults, human nature, worldwide chaos, swedish, nordic, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
russia, scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
melancholic, witty, humorous, funny, existential ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
relationships, voodoo, couples, loneliness, interracial romance, existentialism, looking for love, prophecy, singleness, death, lgbt, women ...
Time:
year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, japan, africa ...
Similarity:
17%
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