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The Toy (1976)
7K
Original name: Le Jouet
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.
Style:
humorous, exciting, realistic, light, satirical, funny, semi serious, biting, suspense, neo screwball comedy
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
social differences, mischievous children, screwball, escapades, youth, society, friendship, parents and children, disorder, child, family relations, misfit, toys, rich and poor, child hero, spoiled brat, millionaire, satire, slavery, police, party, journalist, billionaire, restaurant, job ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
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Most similar movies to The Toy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about friendship, parents and children, disorder, family relations, friends, society and youth mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Toy: Mickybo and Me (2004), The Closet (2001), Dutch (1991), The Fugitives (1986), Wonderful Times (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
15K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers ...
Style:
funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, youth, mentor, fish out of water, family problems, rich and poor, social differences, millionaire, toys, spoiled brat, life philosophy, twists and turns ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, friendship, mischievous children, boy, coming of age, political unrest, society, obsession, boyhood, friends, little boy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, closeted homosexual, homosexual, gay pride, workplace, pretending to be gay, satire, lgbtq, friendship, workplace intrigue, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, seattle
Similarity:
100%
15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style:
road movie, funny, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
road trip, mischievous children, prank, holiday, culture clash, nothing goes right, foe turned friend, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, thanksgiving ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, georgia, usa, australia, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Style:
feel good, exciting, witty, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
chase, comedy of errors, reluctant partners, fugitives, bank robbery, goofy hero, odd couple, chases and races, nothing goes right, disorder, unlikely criminals, nobody believes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, hilarious, light ...
Plot:
farce, misfit, food, class differences, stupidity, telephone call, husband wife relationship, social satire, mistaken identity, screwball, dinner, mistress ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Style:
clever, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
reluctant partners, disappearance, odd couple, dishonesty, family conflict, nothing goes right, buddies, disorder, cons and scams, teenage life, crime investigation, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
france, nice france
Similarity:
100%
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3K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital ...
Style:
dark comedy, biting, realistic, humorous, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, female nudity, showbiz, nude girl, bare breasts, choreographer, social relations, disorder, couples, family relations, youth, introspection ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, first love, teenage life, idealism, society, snitch, teachers and students, high school, parents and children, clergy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated with. He follows Perrin to his flat and although ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, tense, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
shaman, jungle, campaign, culture clash, supernatural power, stoned, destiny, fight scenes, jaguar, twists and turns, panther, black panthers ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, africa, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets ...
Style:
witty, light, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
construction worker, warehouse, nothing goes right, workplace, community service, goofy hero, misfit partners, disorder, burglary, rivalry, love and romance, student life ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kok Pin, Boon Hock and Terry are classmates in "EM3" stream. In Singapore, that means that at the age of 12, the government has decided that they are not as academically inclined as their peers. Kok Pin is creative and a born artist but ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, biting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, friendship, childhood friend, resentment, teachers and students, youth, office politics, elementary school, bullying, social differences, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
singapore, asia
Similarity:
50%
593
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all ...
Style:
humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
dark humor, friendship, moral dilemma, friends, life turned upside down, disorder, murder, police, cover up, escapades, buddies, photograph ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, sincere, intercultural ...
Plot:
immigrant, language barrier, travel, family life, society, social differences, culture clash, parents and children, migration, family gatherings, family reunited, black ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
germany, indiana, europe, turkey
Similarity:
50%
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:
34%
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:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family problems, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
33%
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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:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, society, nothing goes right, misfit, youth, hopes ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Cleveland. 1973. Marv, the owner of an old neighborhood Jewish deli, must stay open 24 hours to cater to a new generation of clientèle, but straight-laced neighborhood do-gooders want to close him down. Meanwhile inside, hippies, bikers and crusty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
working class, love and romance, workplace, couples, boss and employee, power relations, culture clash, save the day, fish out of water, family relations, immigrant, nothing goes right ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Do we really know our parents? Fourteen-year-old Anouk suddenly discovers another side to her mother during an observation workshop that she carries out in the insurance company where her mother works.
An immersion week in the company's adult ...
Style:
sincere, contemplative, unusual plot structure, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, insurance, insurance company, friendship, youth, society, friends, workplace situations, parents and children, fraud, elevator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crazy father old before his time, a tyrannical, sick mother, a sister who disappeared four years ago and me, Erell, who films everything, all the time... A fine family portrait. I live in the same town I've always lived in. You're born ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, parents and children, teenage life, family life, coming of age, bittersweet, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, illness, friendship, sister sister relationship, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California.
Style:
humorous, intelligent, independent film, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
illegitimate son, interracial love relationship, corporate executive, interracial, interracial relations, parent child relationship, society, youth, opposites attract, family relations, disorder, injustice ...
Time:
future, 80s, 70s, year 1981
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but ...
Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, social ...
Plot:
hospital, nothing goes right, doctor patient relationship, fear of death, doctors and patients, workplace, workplace situations, doctor, father son relationship, job, medical, grownups ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
32%
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:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, islamic ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, rich and poor, friendship, culture clash, couples, disorder, family relations, society, parents and children, farce, satellite, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
Similarity:
32%
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, crumbling marriage, human nature, couple relations, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment, couples, friends, cellist, paranoia, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Leo is 10 and wise beyond his years. A solitary dreamer who seeks refuge in books. When the carefree 20-year-old Theo steps into his life, it forces Leo out of his shell. Despite their age difference, the two becomes best friends, helping each other ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot:
adult child friendship, youth, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, father son relationship, teenager, mental illness, babysitter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Benji and his friends try to save his mother from a puppy mill.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching, feel good
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dog, youth, friendship, against the odds, young heroes, odd couple, fish out of water, adoption, parents and children, disorder, rescue, mischievous children ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
32%
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