Movies like That Trip We Took with Dad

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That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
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That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
Original name: Die Reise mit Vater
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining, road movie, freeze frame
Plot: road trip, cold war, fight, family relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, arrested, politics, doctor, death of father, life, changing lives, father and son, lifestyle change, iron curtain, atmosphere, dog, teenager, tank, school, investigation, violence, student, female nudity, death ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 1960s
Place: central europe

Most similar movies to That Trip We Took with Dad

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, humorous and touching films with plots about father son relationship, family relations, cigarette smoking, boy, bare chested male, flashback and teenage boy mostly in Comedy, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like That Trip We Took with Dad: Cosy Dens (1999), Quality Time (2013), Barefoot (2017), Denmark (2019), 100 Things (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cosy Dens (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by ...
Style: cult classic, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, coming of age, communism, communist, boy, comedian, dictatorship, dictator, renaissance, lovers, totalitarian regime, mission ...
Time: year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, prague, europe ...
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Quality Time (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: You can’t choose your family – which is why Conrad limits his visits with his parents to an absolute minimum. When venomous, irritable Carl injures himself seriously in a fall, his reluctant son Conrad and the butt-of-all-jokes Jonas has no ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: parents and children, family life, family problems, elderly, aging, disorder, three generations, monkey, family relations, sexual frustration, caught masturbating, parents separation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, central europe, berlin germany
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90%
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Barefoot (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city ...
Style: suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, touching, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, boy, social outcast, family relations, husband wife relationship, end of war, child protagonist, death, countryside, wartime life, abusive father, stuttering ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1945, year 1943
Place: central europe, prague
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Denmark (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Herb’s life is a mess. He’s lost his welfare, can’t hold a job, can’t talk to his son, has a neighbour who won’t shut up and a diet that consists mainly of cheap beer and mushy peas. It’s no way to live and he knows it. Then he learns ...
Style: sentimental, touching, melancholic, sincere, light ...
Plot: criminal, arrest, little girl, lonely man, father son relationship, heist, bank robbery, teenage boy, bare chested male, overweight man, old woman, girl ...
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100 Things (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that the only thing they cannot be without is their friendship. A ...
Style: inspirational, thought provoking, captivating, semi serious, sincere ...
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Plot: naked in public, social satire, friendship, consumerism, best friend, friendship between men, escapades, dispute, addiction, love story, life philosophy, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany, central europe
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Rising High (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, humorous, intellectual ...
Plot: adultery, rise and fall, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, real estate agent, con men, money, fraud, oral sex, lifestyle change, husband wife relationship, friendship ...
Time: 2020s
Place: berlin germany, central europe
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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him ...
Style: retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: kidnapping, older woman younger man relationship, motorcycle, older woman younger man, age-gap relationship, mine, family relations, missing person, dysfunctional family, kidnapper, friends, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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58%
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The Teacher (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
Style: touching, melancholic, captivating, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot: teacher, communism, psychological manipulation, blackmailer, female protagonist, boy, blackmail, communist, nepotism, class differences, abuse of power, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, year 1984, year 1991
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe
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56%
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Lousy Bastards (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two brothers got separated after their first love for the same girl. Richard Rohan is an ex-soldier taking care of his two daughters living in a small town. His brother Mikulas Rohan is a neurosurgery expert living in the capital. Both of them have ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: brother brother relationship, soldier, infidelity, adultery, doctor, surgeon, womanizer, death of mother, war in afghanistan, bare chested male, alcoholism, public nudity ...
Place: afghanistan, prague
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The Cake General (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, captivating, crying
Plot: party, husband wife relationship, wedding, rivalry, father son relationship, bare chested male, nudity, photography, male pubic hair, voice over narration, young boy, female pubic hair ...
Time: 80s, year 2009, year 1985
Place: eastern europe
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Time Stands Still (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, rough, serious
Plot: family problems, family relations, rebellion, teenage life, high school, youth, coming of age, family life, high school life, teenager, socialism, boy ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: hungary
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Road North (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A sly riff on the Prodigal Son story, Mika Kaurismaki's latest — about a joyless workaholic concert pianist who ends up on a wild ride with his long-lost rapscallion father — is a funny and cogent analysis of machismo, abandonment issues ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, road movie, captivating ...
Plot: on the road, father son relationship, family relations, absent father, estrangement, parents and children, road trip, dysfunctional family, getting home, legacy, nature, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, europe
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51%
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The Good Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, chess, age difference, family relations, prostitute, friendship, loss of virginity, friends, couples, self discovery, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: madrid, paris france
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Mug (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He converts the country lanes outside his door into a racing track and bombs down them in his little car. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his ...
Style: tragicomedy, ironic, uplifting, compassionate, social ...
Plot: identity crisis, disfigured face, family relations, social misfits, adaptation, heavy metal, life is a bitch, broken heart, christianity, hopes, religion, existentialism ...
Place: poland, central europe
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What a Man Wants (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two couples' windy comedy movie that is more dangerous than typhoons in Jeju Islands.
Style: disturbing, captivating, satirical, psychological, crying ...
Plot: marital crisis, family relations, learning the truth, depressed man, relationships, satire, asian, photography, striptease, car crash, bare chested male, trauma ...
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Winter Flies (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára’s turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in ...
Style: touching, captivating, serious, humorous, crying ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, friendship between boys, on the run, false accusation, delusion, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lie, manipulation, hitchhiking, arrest, chase ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 108 min.
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Style: road movie, serious, sincere, touching, spiritual ...
Plot: on the road, hitchhiker, english teacher, on the run, introspection, escapades, teenage life, coming of age, road trip, youth, friendship, father son relationship ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1966
Place: spain, europe, madrid
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Father and Sons (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, light
Plot: father son relationship, brother brother relationship, brothers, family relations, parents and children, eccentric family, family problems, relationship problems, kids and family, life, brother, love ...
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Roommates (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: hospital, roommate, orphan, funeral, grandfather grandson relationship, father son relationship, widower, father daughter relationship, single father, boy, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 60s
Place: columbus ohio, pittsburgh, usa
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Senior Trip (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock ...
Style: freeze frame, teen comedy
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Place: new york
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Fathers & Sons (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, death in the family, siblings relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, father and son, relationship problems, father son reunion ...
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A Man Called Otto (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A cranky retired man strikes up an unlikely friendship with his boisterous new neighbors. A remake of the 2015 Swedish film.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, friendship, neighbor, friend, family relations, new neighbor, male protagonist, life philosophy, relationships, friends, old man, death of wife ...
Time: year 1964, year 1973, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh
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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In June, 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole joins his mother, step-father, and sister for dinner. Hank, Sebastian's step-father, drops a bomb: he announces he's changing sexes. Sebastian's sister splits immediately for ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, lgbt, high school, gay, transgender, small town, lgbtq, hospital, teenager, drinking, teenage protagonist, gender bending ...
Time: 80s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1983
Place: england, new york state, chicago, new york, europe ...
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Fly Me Away (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thomas, a blasé young man, spends his nights in clubs and his days in bed. Until his father, Dr. Reinhard, fed up with his son’s escapades, cuts him off completely and forces him to take care of one of his young patients. Mar- cus, 12, was born ...
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The Overbrook Brothers (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, emotional, entertaining ...
Plot: family relations, adoption, family problems, siblings relations, on the road, brother brother conflict, road trip, family secret, father son relationship, secret, sibling rivalry, conflict ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 120 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: family life, political unrest, survival, life is a bitch, down on your luck, communism, performer's life, bare chested male, teenage girl, little boy, teenager, secretly observing ...
Time: 80s
Place: balkan, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic
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S.F.W. (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
Style: cult classic, clever, independent film, philosophical, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hostage, survival, friendship, media, coming of age, slacker, reporter, satire, stoner, social commentary, greed, violence ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: seattle
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Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
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Kamikaze (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Slastan, a Karadjistan man, is willing to blow himself up aboard a Moscow plane bound for Madrid, but his plan is complicated when, due to a snowstorm, the flight is delayed. Staying in a hotel, the terrorist will have to live with the 332 people ...
Style: captivating, psychological, exciting, humorous, serious ...
Plot: moral dilemma, hotel, airport, danger, suicide bomber, bomb, passenger, dancing, stewardess, terrorism, newlyweds, terrorist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe, russia, moscow russia
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The Scopone Game (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
Style: crying, tragicomedy, dark comedy
Plot: millionaire, failed expectations, class differences, gambling, old woman, poverty, doctor, dead body, cooking, sick woman, rivals, passive aggressive girl ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: italy, rome italy
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