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Looking for Hortense (2012)
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Looking for Hortense (2012)
Original name: Cherchez Hortense
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Style: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
Plot: gay, immigrant, family problems, crumbling marriage, family life, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, couples, society, disorder, comedy of errors, dishonesty, unfulfillment, couple relations, family crisis, dysfunctional couple, police, restaurant, father, new life, dysfunctional family, japanese man, professor, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, paris france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about couples, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, family problems, family life and unfulfillment mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Looking for Hortense: Tomorrow's Another Day (2000), Change of Plans (2009), So Happy Together (2009), Family Resemblances (1996), A Spot of Bother (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, couples, friends, unfulfillment, cellist, suicide, car accident ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Change of Plans (2009)
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, humorous, witty, biting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, nothing goes right, friendship, couples, uninvited guest, disorder, love triangle, midlife crisis, infidelity, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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So Happy Together (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, cynical, realistic, witty
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, uninvited guest, eccentric family, family life, siblings relations, family problems, couple relations, family gatherings, interracial relations, couples, father son relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 90s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Family Resemblances (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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A Spot of Bother (2009)
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Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: disorder, elderly, nothing goes right, dysfunctional family, parents and children, gay, estrangement, family problems, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Gilded Cage (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the beautiful area of ​​Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot: concierge, family problems, nothing goes right, homecoming, family life, couples, disorder, getting home, couple relations, society, friendship, immigrant ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: portugal, paris france, france
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22%
The Dandelions (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot: friendship, best friend, parents and children, family life, friends, couples, couple relations, children, culture, female friendship, school teacher, school ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france
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Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style: emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family business, family relations, save the day, family problems, restaurant, working class, estrangement, parents and children, bank, siblings relations, family in crisis, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Italian (2010)
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 ...
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
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Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
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Duration: 104 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
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Empty Nest (2008)
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Duration: 91 min.
Story: Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
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20%
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Actresses (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. ...
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Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, talky, sincere ...
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 2008, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Film to Come (2013)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Duration: 83 min.
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Audience: girls' night
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Place: france, europe
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19%
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, sincere, disturbing, heartbreaking ...
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Duration: 86 min.
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Country: France
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Housekeeper (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of ...
Style: sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
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A House of Your Dreams (2006)
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Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
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