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Cold Lunch (2008)
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Original name: Lønsj
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, sentimental, suspense
Plot:
anal rape, female nudity, nothing goes right, family relations, parents and children, dealing with death, father daughter relationship, loss of father, money problems, rape, lgbt, sexual content, human relationship, dangerous animal, restaurant, bare breasts, car accident, sandwich, seagull, gay son, gay, homosexual, lunch, anal sex, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sentimental films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, father daughter relationship, couples, hopes and dealing with death mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Cold Lunch: A Loving Father (2002), Anything You Want (2010), Bob's New Suit (2011), Of Boys and Men (2008), Dance with the One (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Duration: 101 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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adult
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Germany
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Story:
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serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, tense
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Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
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Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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80%
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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