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Rock the Casbah (2013)
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Rock the Casbah (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, islamic, gloomy
Plot: funeral, family relations, family problems, family gatherings, life turned upside down, family life, death in the family, parents and children, disorder, muslim, arab, housekeeper, actress, husband wife relationship, patriarch, illegitimate child, strong female presence, siblings relations, estate, bittersweet, dealing with death, family reunited, mother son relationship, indoor, female director
Place: morocco, middle east

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, dysfunctional family and family gatherings mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Rock the Casbah: The Syrian Bride (2004), Marock (2005), The Inheritance (2001), Blondie (2012), Manhood (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Syrian Bride (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, sentimental, islamic ...
Plot: wedding, politics, occupation, ethnic, culture clash, human spirit, love and romance, nationalism, arranged marriage, reconciliation, parents and children, leaving home ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: middle east, syria, israel, palestine
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100%
 6.1
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Marock (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Morocco, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Muslim girl and a Jewish boy fall in love.
Style: realistic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: forbidden love, fall in love, coming of age, culture clash, muslim, interracial relations, family relations, society, youth, couples, teenager, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, africa, middle east
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The Inheritance (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than a spacious apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles – from the apartment’s sale to splitting ...
Style: humorous, realistic, serious, emotional
Plot: lesbian couple, family relations, family gatherings, inheritance, family problems, parents and children, estrangement, death in the family, sister sister relationship, strained relationship, death of mother, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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41%
 4.7
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Blondie (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is ...
Style: realistic, emotional, atmospheric, serious, touching ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Manhood (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, life turned upside down, manhood, youth, family problems, disorder, dysfunctional family, parents and children, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family in crisis ...
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Latin Lover (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
Style: touching, tragicomedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, family life, rivalry, ego clash, family problems, strong female presence, village, estate, siblings relations, family gatherings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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No. 2 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, humorous
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Place: new zealand
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Isn't It Delicious (2013)
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, sincere, humorous, touching ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
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Time: 21st century
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Torn (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect.
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Plot: life turned upside down, police investigation, family in crisis, parents and children, family relations, dishonesty, family problems, shopping mall, death in the family, terrorism, dealing with death, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Life's a Breeze (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Life's A Breeze tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, family problems, on the road, comedy of errors, life turned upside down, disorder, family life, lifestyle, society, humour, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story: Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
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Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Other Son (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
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Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
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The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Christmas Tale (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 152 min.
Story: When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in ...
Style: atmospheric, tragicomedy, serious, emotional, touching ...
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Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, flanders, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Madea's Family Reunion (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Just as the southern matriarch, Madea buries her older sister, Irene. (There is no mention of Helen and Charles Jr. at all during the play). Her granddaughter Lisa is getting married to a very successful rich man name Ronnie at the house, but ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dream and Silence (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, aesthetic ...
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Time: 21st century
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Alila (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. The character's lives overlap and collide. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover ...
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Place: palestine, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Two Weeks (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, spiritual ...
Plot: introspection, eccentric family, family life, estrangement, family problems, single parent, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, dying, terminal illness ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An Irish funeral has a wake. A Jewish funeral has sitting shiva. A traditional Chinese funeral is something else entirely. Thats what the estranged siblings of the Chinese-American Xiao family must undergo upon news of their mothers death. The one ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot: estrangement, lesbian, self discovery, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, family gatherings, parents and children, family relations, haunted by the past, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The High Cost of Living (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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They Are All Dead (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Mexico, Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Just by watching Lupe stuck at home in her robe and slippers, no one would will guess that in the 80's she was a rock star. Gone are the times of concerts, fame and success. Agoraphobia does not let her leave home. She depends entirely on ...
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Time: 21st century
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