Movies like The Handyman
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The Handyman (1980)
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Original name: L'homme à tout faire
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles into Montreal after his wife has left him and before long, he continues the momentum when an ill-considered liaison with a nubile woman ends on her insistence. Next, Armand gives his heart to a frustrated housewife, though this decision is hardly well thought out. In the meantime, a gay man who rents out a room in his apartment has unfulfilled longings directed at the unsuspecting handyman. L'Homme a Tout Faire won a Silver Medal for "Best Picture" at the 1980 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Plot:
love, gay, travel, thief, money, firefighter, love triangle, blonde, desire, boy, adultery, tragedy, theft, table tennis, cinema, journey, moving, bachelor, fall in love, mother daughter relationship, city, friendship between men, beer, insomnia, cuckold ...
Place:
montreal, montreal quebec, montreal quebec canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sexy films with plots about apology, opening a door, night, visit, telephone call, cigarette smoking and lying on bed mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Handyman: Split Image (1982), Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964), Hitting Home (1988), Goin' Down the Road (1970), Lianna (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to ...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
hit and run, obsession, revenge, vengeance, crimes, rivalry, life is a bitch, train station, urban setting, elevator, visit, defense attorney ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, new york, usa, montreal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Story of desolation as two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. Drifting from job to job: bottling plant, car wash, bowling alley, newspaper delivery, and in between enjoying the night life of the big city. ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
friendship, on the road, friends, female nudity, snow, train, waitress, bowling, pregnancy, hopes, misfit, underdog ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
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82%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sincere, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian couple, lgbtq, lgbt, coming out, sexual relations, friendship, female nudity, gay, girl ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone ...
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Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
Plot:
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Place:
australia
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65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 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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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Plot:
jewish, boy, judaism, youth, father in law son in law relationship, sexual euphemism, ends with death, redheaded woman, unhappy ending, two brothers, fishing, tragic event ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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60%
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Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
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Audience:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 122 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
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Story:
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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