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Carmina or Blow Up (2012)
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Carmina or Blow Up (2012)
Original name: Carmina o revienta
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Carmina, 58, runs a shop selling Iberian products in Seville. After several robberies and no help from her insurance company, she comes up with a way to recover the money she needs to keep her family. While she waits in her kitchen for her plan to kick in, she thinks back over her life, her work and her miracles.
Style: realistic, contemplative, humorous, captivating, bleak, social, sincere, offbeat, talky, semi serious ...
Plot: family business, parents and children, workplace, family relations, insurance, eccentric family, truth, disorder, woman
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: spain, andalusia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and captivating films with plots about family relations, parents and children, disorder, workplace, family problems, eccentric family and love and romance mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Carmina or Blow Up: Carmina and Amen (2014), A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010), Cocked (2015), Happy 140 (2015), Doors of Glory (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Carmina and Amen (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic
Plot: loss of husband, dishonesty, dark humor, parents and children, cons and scams, mother daughter relationship, death of husband, female protagonist, money, funeral, marijuana, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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95%
A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Simmons are playing the brothers' father and uncle, respectively, while Caan is one of the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, contemplative ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, last wish, family problems, ex athlete, self discovery, introspection, terminal illness, friendship, death, society, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
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Cocked (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: The Paxsons are a broken family working together - and against each other - in the most quintessentially American business, the business of guns.
Style: humorous, clever, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, workplace, family business, siblings relations, homecoming, law, female nudity, bare breasts
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Happy 140 (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, light, touching ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, friends, disorder, friendship, discussion, lottery, life turned upside down, advocate, helicopter, actress, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Doors of Glory (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, talky ...
Plot: fish out of water, workplace, rise to the top, family relations, on the road, misfit, boss and employee, disorder, small town, salesman, artificial intelligence, adoption ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Material (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Cassim Kaif is a young Muslim man who works in his father's fabric shop in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. In the family tradition, Cassim, as the only son, is expected to take over the family business from his father.
Style: touching, humorous, captivating, inspirational, light ...
Plot: follow your dream, parents and children, lifestyle, unsupportive parent, family tradition, family business, family relations, hopes, workplace, stand up comedian, against the odds, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
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66%
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Preggoland (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, dishonesty, best friend, life turned upside down, disorder, lie, society, strong female presence, thirtysomething life, unfulfillment, pregnancy, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, parents and children, friendship, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, friends, couples, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Seventy-Two Days (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, eccentric family, life is a bitch, disorder, unlikely criminals, parents and children, dull life, family problems, pension, social relations, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Last Weekend (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, eccentric family, parents and children, siblings relations, dark humor, family gatherings, gay, friendship, dysfunctional family, lgbtq, lgbt, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Family United (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ('Azuloscurocasinegro', 'Cousins​​'), he embarks on a new comedy that has as a backdrop the World Cup in South Africa and the setting is a wedding that takes precisely the day of the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, captivating
Plot: wedding, couples, childhood sweetheart, family relations, pregnancy, siblings relations, family problems, couple relations, love and romance, sibling relationship, family reunited, infidelity ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Bob Funk (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: couples, boss and employee, addiction, layoff, boss, therapist, family relations, workplace, parents and children, fall in love, starting over, mother ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Quitter (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
Style: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, single parent, homecoming, unfulfillment, love, basketball player, career, baseball
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Car Babes (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A coming of age story about the quirky lives of car salesman.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, college, workplace situations, family business, youth, save the day, family relations, friends, parents and children, workplace, sexual content, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
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Quitters (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Either Way (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Icelandic drama about two remote road-workers.
Style: humorous, contemplative, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
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Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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I Belong (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 134 min.
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Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises.
Style: humorous, cynical, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Story: A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, touching ...
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The Hairdresser (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow problem, Kathi resorts to some creative means of raising capital.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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The Strange Little Cat (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story: It is a Saturday in autumn, and Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and youngest sister Clara. This family gathering provides the occasion for a dinner together, at which other relatives appear over the course of the day. While the family ...
Style: semi serious, touching, clever, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: cat, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, family gatherings, eccentric family, dog, little girl, cigarette smoking, butterfly, indoor, screaming ...
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Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
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The Perfect Stranger (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Paris of the North (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, contemplative
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hippocrates (2014)
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 ...
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Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
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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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Duration: 89 min.
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Style: touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: parents and children, midlife crisis, self discovery, media, disorder, introspection, strong female presence, hopes, love and romance, family relations, opposites attract, hidden identity ...
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Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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People in Places (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story: This kaleidoscopic film weaves together approximately 20 fragmented scenarios that offer a view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships. Starring Raul ...
Style: biting, clever, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
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