Movies like Kings for a Day

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Kings for a Day (2017)
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Kings for a Day (2017)
Original name: Comme des rois
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: not available
Plot: prison, thief, con artists, police, pregnancy, criminal, wine, theft, theater, security guard, poverty, salesman, debt collector, shakespeare, debt, telephone call, blood, pregnant woman, father son relationship, supermarket, improv, arrest, extortion, burglary, stealing money ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: paris france, france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, realistic, captivating and serious films with plots about family relations, telephone call, female nudity, police, female full frontal nudity, pregnancy and pregnant woman mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Kings for a Day: The Dazzled (2019), Happening (2021), Belleville-Tokyo (2010), Bodybuilder (2014), The Brigade (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Dazzled (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
Style: semi autobiographical
Plot: skinny dipping, female nudity, shoplifting, religious community, stealing, brother sister relationship, brotherhood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, police, arrest, meal, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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Happening (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
Style: sad, independent film, crying
Plot: abortion, unwanted pregnancy, illegal abortion, pregnancy, post war, feminism, women, abortion rights, chaos, sexual repression, woman, summer ...
Time: 60s, year 1963
Place: france
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Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, boss and employee, love and romance, pregnant woman, family crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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64%
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Bodybuilder (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men ...
Style: captivating, realistic, tense, psychological
Plot: bodybuilding, gym, father son relationship, hiding place, sport competition, weightlifting, training, theft, estranged father, rivalry, fitness, female bodybuilder ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014
Place: france, lyon
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Brigade (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, the wise captain of the brigade. Soon after being introduced to the men, the young woman jumps ...
Plot: pyromaniac, pregnancy, rain, fireman, rainstorm, birth, newborn, language barrier, police, twins, village, childbirth ...
Time: year 2017
Place: south of france
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Mobile Homes (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: community, mother son relationship, con artists, cons and scams, society, dysfunctional family, parents and children, social problems, criminal, lifestyle, money problems, financial problem ...
Time: year 2017
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Superstar (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.
Style: satirical, cynical, tragicomedy, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: love hate relationship, life turned upside down, media, media satire, disorder, price of fame, celebrity, fame, fish out of water, internet, television, media circus ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Heat Wave (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: One hot afternoon in the south of France, several paths are converging towards a tragic conclusion. Those involved are: Stéphane and Luigi, two cousins who have just emerged from adolescence; Georges, a retired old man; Amélie, Luigi’s ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, introspection, unplanned pregnancy, family relations, human nature, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, elderly, coming of age, hot guys, nude women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, marseille, europe
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51%
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A Better Life (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating, sincere, realistic
Plot: restaurant, starting over, family relations, life turned upside down, disorder, family problems, couple relations, single parent, down on your luck, family in crisis, hopes, food ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, montreal, ontario canada
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Through The Fire (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Centres around a Paris fire-fighter, an everyday hero, who, after being involved in a serious accident during a major fire, must rebuild his life with the love of his wife — and accept that, sometimes, even saviours need saving.
Plot: fireman, fire, firefight, nudity, pregnancy, killed in a car crash, homelessness, suicidal thoughts, arson, balloon, accident, hospital ...
Place: france, paris france
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44%
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The Rapture (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup. At the same time, her best friend, Salomé, announces to her that she is pregnant and asks her to follow her pregnancy. The day Lydia meets Milos, a one-night stand, while ...
Plot: kidnapping, dancing, motherhood, narration, telephone call, maternity ward, midwife, train, birthday, caught in a lie, socially awkward, voice over narration ...
Place: normandy, paris france
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3000 Nights (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
Plot: motherhood, arab, woman, letter, childbirth, teacher, baby, blood, lawyer, photograph, women's prison, prison ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: palestine, lebanon
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44%
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Insecure (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: couples, society, fall in love, working class, immigrant, life is a bitch, misfit, security guard, gang, pursuit, youth, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
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42%
Farewell to the Night (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Muriel breeds horses in France and runs an almond plantation with her business partner from the Maghreb. A confident woman who spent her childhood and youth in Algeria, Muriel seems to enjoy a life that is both harmonious and fulfilled. She receives ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: grandmother grandson relationship, pony, orphan, propaganda, horse trainer, old woman, nurse, police arrest, stolen money, islam, retirement home, solar eclipse ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: south of france, france
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Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: poverty, honor, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, thief, accountant, missing child
Time: 2010s, 19th century
Place: france, portugal
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Gloria Mundi (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, his spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, talky, melancholic, suspense ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young Asian immigrant worker in Moscow tried to track down her baby, whom she abandoned at the hospital.
Style: rough, melancholic, sad, neurotic
Plot: female protagonist, baby, pregnant woman, life is a bitch, big city, extortion, money problems, exile, migration, feminist, radical, girl ...
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, russia
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Heaven Will Wait (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, thought provoking
Plot: islam, propaganda, jihad, teenage girl, religion, conspiracy theory, nudity, indoctrination, terrorist, parents daughter relationship, teenager, little sister ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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38%
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Aliyah (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paris 2011. Alex is 27. He's lives off dealing and pays the debts of his brother, Isaac, who after being his support has now become dead weight. When his cousin announces he's going to open a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex imagines he can ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
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Too Close to Our Son (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child. Instead of recusing herself, the magistrate pursues the case further.
Style: captivating, no music
Plot: birth mother, lawyer, incest, adoptive mother, older woman younger man, older woman younger man relationship, mother son incest, family problems, foster parent, adultery, foster home, relationships ...
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Paris Prestige (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nasser, a 30-something Parisian with a troubled past, returns to Paris after some jail time. Margot, his probation officer, urges him to work at LE PRESTIGE, his brother's bar located right next to the Moulin Rouge, in the heart of Pigalle - ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Time: 2010s
Place: paris france
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In Your Wake (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towards him.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, disturbing, bleak
Plot: parents and children, criminal heroes, vengeance, heist, father son relationship, heist gone wrong, family relations, money problems, subway, cigarette smoking, boxing, human nature ...
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Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A story exploring the issue of hardship in modern-day Britain through a young couple scraping to get by in a casual jobs market. A hard-up delivery driver and his carer wife are pushed to breaking point as they struggle to keep their family afloat ...
Style: social, political, psychological, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: poverty, working class, father daughter relationship, social realism, father son relationship, teenage boy, job interview, couples, life is a bitch, adaptation, dishonesty, intrigue ...
Time: 2010s, year 1984, year 1996, year 2008
Place: united kingdom
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A Man of Integrity (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Reza (35), having distanced himself from urban life to work on a goldfish farm, leads a simple life along with his wife and only son in a remote village in northern Iran. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local ...
Style: independent film
Plot: chaos, father son relationship, intimidation, rural setting, corporation, crooked businessman, loan, goldfish, police, fish, school principal, money ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
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36%
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, jew persecution, family relations, pregnant woman, letter, police arrest, husband wife relationship, body swapping, doll, newspaper, arrest ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s
Place: germany, paris france
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35%
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Villa Caprice (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.
Plot: funeral, businessman, suicide, hospital, prison, death of father, father son relationship, boss, boat, judge, sailboat, loss of father ...
Place: south of france, french riviera
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Maryline (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris.
Plot: women, girl, theatre play, stage actress, dancing, bus, telephone call, beach, dog, female nudity, wine, bird ...
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34%
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Louise Wimmer (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: life is a bitch, starting over, human spirit, hopes, optimism, working class, cleaning lady, female protagonist, homelessness, poverty, single woman, self discovery ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Vagabond (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style: road movie, art house, disturbing, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: homeless, loneliness, freeze to death, homelessness, feminist, death, wine, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, freedom ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
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34%
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Land Legs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his ...
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