Movies like The Clown 2011
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The Clown (2011)
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Original name: O Palhaço
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, road movie, existential, emotional, reflective, sentimental, art house ...
Plot:
circus, self discovery, clown, introspection, follow your dream, identity crisis, on the road, family relations, parents and children, escapades, countryside, father son relationship, hopes, identity, melancholy, traveling circus, family drama, loneliness, bittersweet, performance art, small town life, intimate, poverty, humanism, realism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
brazil, latin america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, bittersweet, self discovery, on the road, hopes and family problems mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Clown: The Thing About My Folks (2005), Cinemanovels (2013), Scabbard Samurai (2010), Memories (2014), Cleopatra (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for ...
Style:
talky, touching, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The estranged daughter (Lauren Lee Smith) of a recently deceased filmmaker gains a new understanding of her father when she offers to create a retrospective of his work.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Nomi Kanjuro (Takaaki Nomi) is a master less samurai on the run after throwing away his sword for good. He has with him his headstrong 9-year-old daughter Tae (Sea Kumada). A bounty is soon placed on Nomi Kanjuro and 3 assassins go after the score. ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, jidai geki ...
Plot:
samurai, hopes, obsessive quest, captivity, one last chance, human spirit, escapades, goofy hero, heroes, youth, redemption, parents and children ...
Place:
japan, asia
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Romain is 23 years old. He would like to be a writer, but for now, it is night porter in a hotel. His father is 62 years old. He retires and pretends to fuck. His roommate is 24 years old. He thinks only one thing: to seduce a girl, any and all ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, introspection, aging, past, night watchman, love, homecoming, death of grandmother, hopes, elderly, retirement ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, fall in love, human nature, on the road, looking for love, introspection, best friend, hopes, parents and children, family business, strong female presence ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, family problems, hopes, estrangement, christmas, intimate, soul searching, identity crisis, male protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Style:
road movie, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the road, road trip, self discovery, friends, friendship, redemption, hopes, rise to the top, human nature, family relations, small town life, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
argentina, latin america, south america, patagonia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, self discovery, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, bittersweet, parent child relationship, family drama, love, reconciliation, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
İskender (Cem Yılmaz) hokkabazdır. Yani aslında sihirbazdır. Ama onun ve çocukluk arkadaşı Maradona'nın (Tuna Orhan) dışında herkes onun hokkabaz olduğunu düşünmektedir. İstanbul'dan hızla kaçmak zorunda kalan ikili, ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, road movie
Plot:
performer's life, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, buddies, life is a bitch, introspection, down on your luck, on the road, stage magician, turk, wizard, found footage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
istanbul turkey, gallipoli, turkey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, reflective, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
search for father, teacher, father son relationship, coming of age, lifestyle, relationships, life is a bitch, family relations, school teacher, personal growth, family drama, identity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
24%
637
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Grandson of a legendary rugby player, son of a legendary rugby player, and he himself a legendary rugby player, Jo Canavero raises his only son, Tom, in a small village in the Tarn region. To the great displeasure of Jo, thirteen-year-old Tom is as ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rugby, youth, small town, father son relationship, hopes, family relations, follow your dream, parent child relationship, parents and children, single parent, coming of age, legacy ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Joy Levine lives in an old apartment that, in complete contrast to her, is shabby and worn-out on the outside while well-kept and filled with joy on the inside. Her life changes when she auditions for a TV show called "Gotta Be Happy". To ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
optimism, parents and children, family relations, family life, misfit, family problems, dysfunctional family, physical appearance, fictional reality show, family drama, forgiveness, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Cathy who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she ...
Style:
road movie, touching, humorous, semi serious, contemplative ...
Plot:
strong female lead, strong female character, elderly, on the road, parents and children, mother daughter conflict, countryside, aging, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, older woman younger man relationship, senior citizen ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
23%
242
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for his friend from the childhood, who saved him from the Holocaust. In meantime he formed a special ...
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
parent child relationship, parents and children, family problems, family relations, holocaust survivor, bittersweet, estrangement, elderly, religions or cults, quibbling, escapades, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, greece, palestine
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, clergy, family life, dull life, family problems, society, aging, human nature, juvenile delinquency, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A veteran actor is at the end of his glory days. He was a great film, TV and theater performer, but he hardly work anymore. Then he meets a young director who wants to carry out a science fiction project, and a friendship emerges.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
bittersweet, introspection, redemption, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, actor's life, aging, filmmaking, hopes, elderly, friendship, legacy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and ...
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, reflective ...
Plot:
self discovery, fish out of water, immigrant, win over, society, disorder, personal growth, homeland, identity, culture clash, diaspora, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
france, africa, algeria
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Style:
road movie, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
amusement park, friends, partner, best friend, family relations, couples, introspection, couple relations, moral dilemma, youth, buddies, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
father son relationship, heart attack, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, flashback, surgeon, death of father, father son estrangement, doctor, hollywood, parent child relationship, bittersweet, estrangement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A family visits an idyllic five-star resort in the Mayan Riviera in order to spend some quality time together for the first time in many years. A series of events will affect each member of the family that will change them forever.
Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, resort, parents and children, family problems, family life, family vacation, family relations, family in crisis, hurricane, family drama, vacation, terminal illness ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Philippines, Brazil, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, funny ...
Plot:
love, infidelity, self discovery, obsessive quest, love and romance, couples, on the road, countryside, relationships, romantic rivalry, romantic triangle, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style:
road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, family problems, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, on the road, couples, love and romance, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, youth ...
Place:
argentina, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Philippines
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for Filipino guest workers Manuel and Dado.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, surreal ...
Plot:
friendship, destiny, self discovery, against the odds, obsessive quest, on the road, working class, ambition, escapades, hopes, foreigner, factory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, taipei
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of central Asia, so that he can begin his own life as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa ...
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, bittersweet, love and romance, family disapproval, family life, unfulfilled love, wedding planning, hopes, desert, looking for love, self discovery, tourism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
kazakhstan, mongolia, soviet union, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A failed Brooklyn writer, Nathan Fisher, visits his ailing parents in Florida. His mother has Alzheimer's and his father has recently had a stroke and his girlfriend has recently broken up with him.
Style:
emotional, realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
aging, bittersweet, family relations, siblings relations, mental illness, dark humor, introspection, parents and children, unfulfillment, unsuccessful, elderly, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an 'anything-but-normal' 22-year-old girl.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, road movie, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, on the run, introspection, on the road, life is a bitch, orphan, road trip, self discovery, aspiring writer, odd couple, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, winnipeg, vancouver
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
Style:
humorous, emotional, road movie, captivating, light ...
Plot:
family relations, aging, on the road, parents and children, family problems, musician's life, father son relationship, musician, teenager, father son reunion, husband wife relationship, road trip ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people waiting to dash his dreams. Through it all, Tracy remains irrepressibly upbeat, convinced he's ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, whimsical
Plot:
rise to the top, follow your dream, optimism, society, love and romance, humble, hopes, teenage love, social misfits, artists and showbiz, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
self discovery, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, terminal illness, family life, bittersweet, one night stand, husband wife relationship, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
20%
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