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, journey, thief, money, firefighter, blonde, kitchen, love triangle, break-up, telephone, suicide attempt, singing, theft, song, tragedy, table tennis, city, friendship between men, infidelity, bachelor, boy, photograph, fall in love, cinema ...
Place:
montreal, montreal quebec
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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, telephone call, cigarette smoking, night, opening a door, visit and lying on bed mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Handyman: Split Image (1982), Wedding in White (1972), Hitting Home (1988), Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964), A Summer Story (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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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:
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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:
realistic, serious
Plot:
hit and run, obsession, vengeance, deadly, life is a bitch, rivalry, crimes, man with glasses, father daughter relationship, prosecutor, lie, headphones ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, montreal, new york, usa, montreal quebec
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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:
canada
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71%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
fall in love, past, romance, unfulfillment, love and romance, school, strong sexual content, family relations, legal action, couples, betrayal, parents and children ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
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:
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Time:
1920s
Place:
montreal, canada, montreal quebec canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 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, 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:
serious, realistic, sexy, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1987 Canadian film starring the then relatively unknown Kiefer Sutherland as Brooks, an eccentric rich kid, with a fondness for big band music, bow ties and taking strange photographs who one day whilst stealing a mannequin from a clothes store, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
teen romance, girl in bra and panties, injustice, friends, music band, romance, coming of age, hopes, misfit, youth, love and romance, mute or deaf ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Det. Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his 'straight' life to partner in crime with his co-worker, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, clever, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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