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My Piece of the Pie (2011)
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Original name: Ma part du gâteau
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
speculation, unemployment, social differences, working class, culture clash, power relations, maid, rich and poor, life is a bitch, job seeking, lovers apart, finance, capitalism, stock exchange, wall street, social satire, kidnapping, protest, bankrupt, parents separation, child abduction, model, rich man, single mother, rich woman ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, paris france, london, europe, dunkirk
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Most similar movies to My Piece of the Pie
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and sentimental films with plots about society, family relations, couples, friendship, love and romance, friends and social differences mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like My Piece of the Pie: The Role of Her Life (2004), The Ex-Wife of My Life (2004), Work Hard, Play Hard (2003), In the Courtyard (2014), The Italian (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
Style:
touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lifestyle, love triangle, actor's life, celebrity culture, showbiz, social differences, couples, society, looking for love, love and romance, boss and employee, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, life turned upside down, lovers reunited, obsessive quest, disorder, couples, pregnancy, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, screwball, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a factory, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, couple relations, society, life is a bitch, workplace, boss and employee, couples, workplace situations, factory, unemployment, power relations, friendship between men ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, paris france
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81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Antoine is a musician. The forties, he suddenly decides to end his career. After a few days of wandering, he gets a job as a janitor. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where he takes office. This is a young retiree, generous ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Plot:
friendship, elderly, aging, midlife crisis, career change, anxiety, depression, musician, illegal alien, retiring, friends, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
hidden identity, disorder, society, workplace, dishonesty, couple relations, dealer, meet the parents, culture clash, parents and children, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Spain 1960, the dawn of the country's economic development. Industrial "reorganization" means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin, his wife Pilar and their son Pablito live ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
emigration, culture clash, working class, family problems, family relations, social relations, society, politics, workplace, immigrant, unemployment, job seeking ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
spain, switzerland
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The tough lives of two ordinary individuals: Alex, an accountant and his wife Béatrice, a taxi driver.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, biting, suspense
Plot:
life turned upside down, fighting the system, life is a bitch, injustice, society, wrongfully committed, satire, husband wife relationship, loss of job, taxi driver, disorder, mental institution ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marithé works in a training center for adults. Her mission: to help other people to change direction in their work and to find their vocation. Carole, who lives and works in the shadow cast by her husband, Sam, an energetic and talented ...
Style:
humorous, tragicomedy, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love triangle, teaching the ways of the world, couples, fall in love, food, infidelity, self fulfillment, chef, restaurant, passionate kiss, marital infidelity, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, funny, cynical, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, male female relationship, opposites attract, bossy woman, family relations, life turned upside down, social differences, self discovery, power relations, rich and poor, parents and children, human nature ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, belgium
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
unemployment, working class, ramadan, humanist, dark past, communism, love, professional, social differences, friendship, factory, single parent ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
france, europe, provence, marseille
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, society, hopes, love and romance, workplace romance, workplace situations, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
76%
391
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The passengers on the Night Bus have many different stories -- some are lovers, some have dark secrets, some are looking for a fight, others are just trying to get through the night.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
travel, on the road, social differences, society, working class, locked in a room, urban, bus, night, human nature, double decker bus, public transport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england, london
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
friendship, society, unlikely criminals, disorder, partner, dishonesty, misfit partners, poverty, rescue, loss of job, bum, homeless ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
73%
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, humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
friendship, aging, couples, family relations, couple relations, elderly, parents and children, old age, truth, old people, friends, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.
Style:
sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Plot:
infidelity, couples, lifestyle, writer's life, gender, jazz, ex husband ex wife relationship, jazz singer, extramarital affair, television, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, lyon, france
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, sincere, captivating, light ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, youth, family relations, family life, teenage love, buddies, social relations, introspection, kids and family, nursing, life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil), we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor and music.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, sincere, realistic, absurd ...
Plot:
optimism, urban ghetto life, social differences, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, friendship, racism, partner, taunting, social relations, friends, interracial relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, northeast brazil, brazil
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wild bachelor party and an agonizing defeat in floorball awakens Fredrik's passion for male synchronized swimming.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, self fulfillment, buddies, youth, life is a bitch, ambition, sport team, society, family relations, athlete and trainer, physical appearance, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They ...
Style:
non-linear, realistic, semi serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
deaf, coming of age, parisian, adolescence, hospital, high school, memory, friendship, high school reunion, best friend, friends, overdose ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
70%
352
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Adeline's Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn't speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, realistic, touching, uplifting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
immigrant, deportation, society, family relations, siblings relations, redemption, youth, escapades, getting home, hopes, coming of age, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
69%
332
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sandrine and Alice are two sisters who, in their thirties, decide the time has come to attempt a reconciliation with their mother.
Style:
cynical, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, parents and children, unlikely criminals, estrangement, confined, obsessive quest, dark humor, separation, single mother, selfishness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A story about a couple from the bottom of the social ladder, about smuggling refugees across borders and other 'suspect' things- it is, first and foremost, an attempt to tell a story about the worst in people, wherever they may be coming ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, clever
Plot:
unemployment, couples, rivalry, human nature, society, social misfits, social differences, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, illegal immigration, down on your luck, female nudity, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia, europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
69%
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, witty, humorous, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, siblings relations, friendship, nothing goes right, uninvited guest, couples, disorder, love triangle, infidelity, midlife crisis, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble among the residents of a Paris upscale apartment block.
Style:
satirical, humorous, captivating, sincere, situational comedy ...
Plot:
neighbor, satire, neighbor neighbor relationship, class differences, living together, winter, class conflict, social inequality, flatmate, social problems, new neighbor, social relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, humorous, dark comedy
Plot:
domineering mother, social differences, love affair, family relations, couples, culture clash, fish out of water, homecoming, parents and children, misfit, society, feminism ...
Time:
50s
Place:
iceland, europe
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrations ...
Style:
social, biting, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
homeless, working class, social differences, small town, hobo, tramp, lawyer, success, bourgeoisie, charity, social satire, family relations ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot:
elderly, introspection, self discovery, disorder, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, pregnancy, siblings relations, heart disease, humour, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, middle east
Similarity:
67%
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:
sentimental, feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fan, new love, optimism, department store, midlife crisis, hairdresser, widow, happiness, fate, parent child relationship, unfulfillment, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two girls of different background, one a immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl that needs to get out of her fathers shadow both apply to the police academy were they become close friends.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
starting over, lifestyle, friendship, social differences, society, fish out of water, culture clash, officers and cadets, academy, family life, hopes, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
67%
600
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
To fight against the introduction of automatic checkouts that threaten their jobs, staff members at Hard Discounts secretly create their own "Alternative Discount" outlet by salvaging products that would otherwise have been wasted.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sincere, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working class, against the rules, cons and scams, workplace situations, society, rebellion, partner, dishonesty, store, employee, supermarket, security guard ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
66%
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