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Common Ground (2002)
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Common Ground (2002)
Original name: Lugares comunes
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.
Style: sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
Plot: couples, family relations, destiny, family life, love and romance, college, parents and children, student life, society, unemployment, family problems, social worker, starting over, family in crisis, human nature, hopes, old age, elderly, elderly couple, bittersweet, couple relations
Time: contemporary
Place: latin america, argentina
Keyword: argentine

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, love and romance, family in crisis and hopes mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Common Ground: A Place in the World (1992), World Traveler (2001), Martin (1997), No One Writes to the Colonel (1999), Face (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Place in the World (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 120 min.
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Time: year 1992, 70s, 90s
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World Traveler (2001)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 123 min.
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No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
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Duration: 122 min.
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
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Duration: 91 min.
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Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
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Duration: 109 min.
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Country: UK
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