Movies like Arthur & Claire

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Arthur & Claire (2017)
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Arthur & Claire (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The chance meeting of two people at the darkest moments of their lives leads to a bright new beginning : Arthur (around 50) and Claire (around 30) pull each other from the abyss – by trying to save the other they see the worth of their own life.
Plot: euthanasia, suicide attempt, dying and death, restaurant, terminal illness, hotel room, suicidal thoughts, change of heart, estranged son, dead daughter, bus station, rental car
Place: amsterdam

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and touching films with plots about terminal illness, suicide attempt, friendship, restaurant, hospital, death and female nudity mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Arthur & Claire: The End (1978), Hawks (1988), Tapas Bar (2005), Coconut Hero (2015), About a Girl (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The End (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
Style: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: terminal illness, dark humor, suicide attempt, buddy, euthanasia, mental patient, suicidal thoughts, silly humor, society, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
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Hawks (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
Style: black comedy, sad, crying, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: terminal illness, englishman abroad, road trip, compassion, cynicism, male bonding, friendship between men, affection, american football, depression, american abroad, optimism ...
Time: 80s
Place: netherlands, amsterdam
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Tapas Bar (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, emotional
Plot: food, couples, working class, looking for love, boss and employee, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, restaurant, age difference, death, european ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe, barcelona
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70%
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Coconut Hero (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite ...
Style: humorous, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, twisted
Plot: first love, suicide attempt, loneliness, high school, therapy, depression, dancing, boy, love and romance, family relations, friendship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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About a Girl (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the picture, and her mom has hooked up with her biology teacher. Even though she has an apprenticeship ...
Style: captivating, psychological, satirical, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot: suicidal thoughts, teen suicide, teenage love, teen romance, grownups, fall in love, suicide attempt, in love, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle change, social problems ...
Place: germany
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Dakota (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Brian and Jack were inseparable; now they barely speak. Their formerly close-knit group has all but disbanded in the wake of encroaching adulthood. But when Jack tries to hang himself from a plant hook while house-sitting, he inadvertently triggers ...
Plot: friendship, cigarette smoking, suicide attempt
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Tour de Force (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: friends, vacation, on the road, terminal illness, friendship, bittersweet, road trip, self discovery, thirty something, monkey, tragedy, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, germany
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India (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that ...
Style: tragicomedy, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, cancer, friendship between men, bribery, civil servant, friend, business trip, drunkenness, on the road, guesthouse, province, tumor ...
Time: 90s
Place: austria, europe
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53%
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Truman (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When Julián receives an unexpected visit in Madrid from his lifelong friend Tomás, who now lives in Canada, the encounter is bittersweet. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Julián is focused on putting his affairs in order, while Tomás is still ...
Style: humorous, light, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: cancer, father son relationship, terminal illness, friendship, death, friend, doctor, fired from the job, old friend, one night stand, cancer patient, father son estrangement ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: canada, amsterdam, iberian peninsula, spain, madrid
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52%
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Donkeys (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what ...
Style: humorous, psychological, sincere, light, dark comedy ...
Plot: friendship, death of father, father daughter relationship, single mother, terminal illness, british, father daughter estrangement, working class, mother daughter relationship, friendship between men, mother son relationship, girl man relationship ...
Place: scotland
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52%
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Il minestrone (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Rome,1960.Four different people meet each other on Olympic games.They follow games and become friends talking about their sad lifes.
Style: ambiguous ending, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: friend, sadness, rural setting, suicide attempt, dream, prophet, thief, poverty, hunger, wandering, villa, hospital ...
Place: italy, tuscany, rome italy
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Life Must Go On (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When cancer-stricken alcoholic actor discovers he's only got 3 months to live, he decides to change his life and reconcile with his estranged daughter.
Style: captivating, sincere
Plot: cancer, parent child relationship, reconciliation, father daughter reunion, father daughter conflict, alcoholic, terminal illness, father daughter relationship, father and daughter, relationship problems, relationships, family problems ...
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49%
Dunya & Desie (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel ...
Style: multicultural
Plot: cultural difference, teenage pregnancy, arranged marriage, interracial friendship, parent child relationship, road trip, family relations, ethnic, pregnancy, puberty
Place: amsterdam, morocco
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48%
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Step by Step (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as ...
Style: touching, psychological, humorous, unusual plot structure, thought provoking
Plot: friendship, paraplegic, disabled person, autobiography, rehabilitation center, suicide attempt, doctor, re-education, disability, parents, brain injury, hospital ...
Time: 90s, year 2016
Place: france
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The Honeymoon Suite (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: City of Toledo, Toledo (Castilla-La Mancha; center to Spain). Fidel is a man who travels from Madrid to the city to spend a weekend in the honeymoon suite of Hotel Cigarral El Bosque with the young and beauty Marisa, a job partner and too aspiring ...
Plot: unfaithfulness, latex, couples, anxiety, twins, faithfulness, cell phone, aspiring actress, fight, partner, discussion, womanizer ...
Place: paris france
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Three and Out (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.
Style: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever ...
Plot: friendship, terminal illness, teenage life, cons and scams, writer's life, friends, dark humor, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, kinky sex, unfulfillment, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london, liverpool
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Story: Happy Go Lucky is a Hong Kong Comedy-Drama starring Kent Cheng.
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Simon (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Camiel, a gay dentist, and Simon, a carefree café owner, collide in a traffic accident their lives become intrinsically entangled. When they bump into each other 14 years later, Simon is severely ill. Camiel experiences at close range how ...
Style: touching, emotional, compassionate, melancholic, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, gay, existentialism, drug addiction, loneliness, life is a bitch, introspection, drug dealing, unfulfillment, lgbt, cancer, bittersweet ...
Place: thailand, europe, netherlands, amsterdam
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Novel for Men (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tragicomic story of three siblings whose lives changed dramatically after losing their parents during the Communist regime. The oldest, Cyril (Miroslav Donutil), grew up to be a corrupt judge who lives for luxury and takes whatever he wants ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, politician, brother brother relationship, male female relationship, family problems, siblings relations, relationships, political unrest, eccentric family, ski resort, mountain resort, stripper ...
Place: central europe
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Dream with the Fishes (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A suicidal man who can't kill himself agrees to finance his terminally ill neighbor's bucket list of fantasies if, at the end, the neighbor will kill him.
Style: independent film, grim, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: drug, suicide, drug addiction, hospital, death, drinking, fish, bowling, male nudity, mental health, personal growth, dealing with death ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: san francisco, california, usa
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Paddleton (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Style: sad, sentimental, touching, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: terminal illness, best friend, friendship, dying, medication, destiny, life philosophy, buddies, tragedy, death, bromance, cancer ...
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Bye Bye Morons (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in ...
Style: humorous, visually appealing, feel good, captivating, entertaining
Plot: car accident, pregnant teenager, blind man, in love, travel, terminal illness, friendship, love, friends, youth, humour, blind character ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france
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The Last Word (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: female writer, obituary, advertising executive, radio dj, friendship, mother daughter relationship, restaurant, advertising agency, senior citizen, self discovery, writers, life & death ...
Time: year 2017
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Two Thousand and None (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A paleontologist is diagnosed with a fatal brain disease and, rather than falling into a depression, explodes into life.
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, psychological, sad ...
Plot: terminal illness, self discovery, tragic hero, couples, couple relations, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, best friend, singleness, unfulfillment, disease, paleontologist ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: canada
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Like Crazy (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They are both patients of a mental institution and ...
Style: humorous, road movie, social, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: mother son reunion, hospital, female friendship, escape, tattoo, medicine, friendship, woman, on the run, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mental health ...
Time: year 2016, year 2014, 2010s
Place: tuscany, italy
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Two Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Paul Miller (Paul Rudd - Friends, The Cider House Rules) has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, cerebral ...
Plot: suicide, filmmaking, actor's life, introspection, change of heart, lifestyle, life is a bitch, breaking point, showbiz, direction and purpose, death wish, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
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Surviving the 70's (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After devoting his life to publish philosophy, history and psychoanalysis, the editor Mario Zavadikner, discontented with the social and intellectual reality, decides to shoot himself at the office of his publishing house. An unexpected presence ...
Plot: writers, suicide threat, female writer, suicidal thoughts, threat, suicidal, novel
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El peor comediante del mundo (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Story: Sometimes the comedy of life turns into a tormenting drama. Aurelio is a comedian who's paying in full the price of fame. His indiscipline and the way he managed his career have encouraged his exclusion from the stage. Now, locked in his house ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: stand up comedy, alcoholism, poverty, suicide attempt, price of fame, comedy club, audition, breaking through a door, bad joke
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35%
Bread of Happiness (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
Style: atmospheric, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: restaurant, food, hobby, marriage, love, family relations, cooking, revelation, bittersweet, family problems, hospitality, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Having You (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jack has finally managed to propose to his infertile girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
Style: light, suspenseful, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot: fatherhood, coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, estranged couple, father son relationship, death of mother, accident, alcoholic, terminal illness, best friend, mother son relationship ...
Place: england
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