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Hometown Blue (1999)
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Hometown Blue (1999)
Original name: Le Bleu des villes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Solange is unhappy. She's a meter maid in Tours, working in the rain, subject to verbal abuse from those she cites. Her husband Patrick is consumed by the work of finishing their new house: carpet, tile, faucets. He's also a hothead, subjecting Sonange to tantrums. While she's often quiet and withdrawn, she longs to be a singer. When by chance she meets Mylène, an accomplished, beautiful Parisian writer she admires, Solange gives her a demo tape. Mylène is encouraging, a friendship of sorts develops, and when Solange despairs after a series of personal, emotional setbacks, she heads for Mylène's doorstep in Paris. Does a singing career await, and what about Patrick?
Style: sincere, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
Plot: midlife crisis, couples, weatherman, urban, strong female presence, bittersweet, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse, dull life, friendship, writers, morgue, book, singer, jealousy, singing, classmate, choir, autopsy, high school, husband wife relationship, satire, thirty something, union, recipe ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, friendship, unfulfillment, friends, couple relations, family relations and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Hometown Blue: The Film to Come (2013), Tomorrow's Another Day (2000), Frenchmen 3 (2013), The List of My Desires (2014), Mariages! (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Film to Come (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: At fifty Louis Gravet, a serious actor, would like to become a comedian. His brother Peter, a film director, has the idea of hiring him for the lead role of a comedy. Family circumstances, their wives, their children, niece, lead him to make another ...
Style: sincere, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, siblings relations, couples, artists and showbiz, disorder, actor's life, midlife crisis, couple relations, nothing goes right, actor, brother brother relationship, movie actor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, couples, friends, unfulfillment, cellist, suicide, car accident ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, light ...
Plot: friends, love, couple relations, couples, best friend, unfulfillment, friendship, buddies, midlife crisis
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The List of My Desires (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When the little haberdasher Arras discovers she's won 18 million in the lottery and can now afford anything she wants, she has only one fear: losing the small joys of life made simple it cherishes above all. But fate is obstinate, and this is ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic
Plot: lottery winner, lottery, introspection, life turned upside down, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, new life, female friendship, love, husband wife relationship, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Mariages! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ils ont 25 ans et se marient aujourd'hui.Ils ont 35 ans, se sont unis il y a dix ans et se déchirent aujourd'hui.Ils ont 45 ans, se sont déchirés il y a dix ans et tentent aujourd'hui de se réconcilier...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: family gatherings, midlife crisis, obsession, parents and children, love and romance, wooing, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, couples, lovers reunited, impossible love, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, hopes, youth, parents and children, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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All Together (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Plot: friendship, aging, couples, family relations, elderly, couple relations, parents and children, old age, truth, friends, bittersweet, heart attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Girl from Paris (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious
Plot: isolation, starting over, friendship, fish out of water, odd couple, couple relations, elderly, hopes, love and romance, disorder, lifestyle change, cultural difference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Actresses (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot: unfulfillment, midlife crisis, family relations, actor's life, theatre director, lifestyle, parents and children, theater, rivalry, friendship, love of one's life, theatre play ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Thirty-Five Something (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three women in their late thirties, one with marital problems, one trying to be perfect, and a spinster, discuss their relationship to men.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: thirtysomething life, friendship, love affair, lifestyle, family life, family problems, couples, workplace, couple relations, love and romance, husband wife relationship, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Happily Ever After (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: midlife crisis, love, marriage, friendship, battle of the sexes, pregnancy, infidelity, introspection, lifestyle, love affair, buddies, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2004
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Face the Music (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: breakup, friendship, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, love and romance, friends, family relations, couples, peace, married, love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Heartbreak Hotel (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two very different women, both in their 40s with grown-up children, are ready to go on with their lives and find love again.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, clever
Plot: midlife crisis, friendship, wedding, best friend, parents and children, couples, single parent, lifestyle, couple relations, sexual relations, nightlife, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
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So Happy Together (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, cynical, realistic, witty
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, uninvited guest, eccentric family, family life, siblings relations, family problems, couple relations, family gatherings, interracial relations, couples, father son relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 90s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Intimate Lighting (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Taking his young city girlfriend along for the trip, a man visits old musical friends in a country village for a string quartet rehearsal.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: modernism, renaissance, exodus, villa, classmate, musician, funeral, small town, gay subtext, bittersweet, musician's life, music ...
Time: year 1965, 20th century, 60s
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czech republic
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44%
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Look at Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.
Style: stylized, lyrical, semi serious, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family relations, music, parents and children, writer's life, couples, family problems, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Pieces of Me (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crazy father old before his time, a tyrannical, sick mother, a sister who disappeared four years ago and me, Erell, who films everything, all the time... A fine family portrait. I live in the same town I've always lived in. You're born ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: youth, teenage life, parents and children, coming of age, family life, bittersweet, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, illness, sister sister relationship, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Odette Toulemonde (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fan, new love, optimism, department store, midlife crisis, happiness, hairdresser, widow, fate, parent child relationship, love and romance, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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The Wedding Weekend (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of guys who sang together in a college a cappella group reunite 15 years later to perform at a friend's wedding and discover how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases regressed -- since their college heyday.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, wedding, college, music band, lifestyle, music, reunited friends, weekend, group of friends, marriage, rivalry, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Swim Little Fish Swim (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
Style: sincere, humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: family relations, dream, art, modern art, twenty something, musician's life, female nudity, relationship problems, parent child relationship, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Frenchmen 2 (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Style: witty, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: friendship, group of friends, couples, friends, best friend, couple relations, buddies, adultery, male female relationship, divorced woman, jealousy, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Change of Plans (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, biting ...
Audience: girls' night
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38%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
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Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, surprise ending
Plot: performer's life, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, dull life, lifestyle, obsessive quest, rivalry, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, celebrity culture, lookalikes ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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37%
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Camping 2 (2010)
Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put their relationship on hold, he changes his holiday plans and heads ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious
Plot: summer vacation, nudist, nudist camp, friendship, beach, island, camping, love and romance, holiday, disorder, friends, resort ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Among Friends (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three longtime friends set off on a boat trip with their romantic partners, but inclement weather, jealousy and confessions, will put to test their friendships.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot: friendship, couples, friends, ship, forces of nature, escapades, cruise, conflict, rivalry, jealousy, buddies, ocean ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Les Jours venus (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style: clever, realistic, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: midlife crisis, artists and showbiz, aging, dealing with death, unfulfillment, filmmaking, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Me and My Sister (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A story of two sisters, one from the country with simpler attitudes who comes to stay for a short while with her sophisticated sister who lives in the big city.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: sibling relationship, family relations, breaking point, dull life, parents and children, sibling rivalry, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, family problems, living together, sisters, lifestyle change ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Dandelions (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot: friendship, best friend, parents and children, family life, friends, couples, couple relations, children, culture, female friendship, school teacher, school ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Career Girls (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Style: cult classic, realistic, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot: life & death, college, friendship, graduation, bittersweet, women, meaning of life, angry, female bonding, loser, female friendship, mother ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: london, europe, england
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34%
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