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Cookie (2013)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Adeline's Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn't speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, uplifting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
society, deportation, immigrant, youth, family relations, escapades, getting home, redemption, siblings relations, hopes, coming of age, dealing with death, kids in trouble, stewardess, ethnicity, strong female presence, culture clash, immigrants, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, touching and humorous films with plots about family relations, youth, coming of age, hopes, parents and children, society and friends mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Cookie: Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014), Noodle (2007), Turning Green (2005), Homeland (2013), Tricks (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family problems, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
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968
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Plot:
getting home, deportation, communication problem, hopes, family relations, stewardess, interracial relations, society, journey, israeli, love, judaism ...
Place:
israel
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100%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, teenage life, getting home, society, hopes, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, youth, overnight success, family relations, fall in love, bittersweet ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
741
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:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, brother sister relationship, family relations, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, siblings relations, small town, single parent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, aids, little boy ...
Place:
poland, europe, eastern europe
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
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
hidden identity, disorder, society, workplace, dishonesty, couple relations, dealer, meet the parents, culture clash, parents and children, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, introspection, fish out of water, culture clash, teenage life, society, youth, hopes, immigrant, social relations, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place:
usa, vietnam, israel
Similarity:
33%
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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:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
immigrant, deportation, youth, society, family relations, illegal alien, slacker, rock musician, little girl, hopes, young heroes, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
youth, culture clash, family relations, best friend, friendship, racism, family problems, hopes, teenage life, coming of age, interracial friendship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, society, nothing goes right, misfit, youth, hopes ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, concierge, family problems, homecoming, family life, disorder, couples, couple relations, society, getting home, friendship, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
portugal, paris france, france
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Leo is 10 and wise beyond his years. A solitary dreamer who seeks refuge in books. When the carefree 20-year-old Theo steps into his life, it forces Leo out of his shell. Despite their age difference, the two becomes best friends, helping each other ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot:
adult child friendship, youth, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, father son relationship, teenager, mental illness, babysitter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mitraillette is 12 years old and lives in Rose City, a housing estate he would not leave for anything. His whole world comprises his family, especially his 16 year-old cousin Isma, who has taken a fancy to Narcisse, the local crime boss. His older ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, light, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, teenage life, coming of age, kids in trouble, family relations, hip hop, gang, danger, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
young lovers, coming of age, youth, friendship, social relations, self discovery, fall in love, love and romance, siblings relations, fish out of water, estate, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Young Claudia works in a supermarket where she promotes various types of products. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with severe appendicitis and meets Martha, a patient, laying in the bed next to hers.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, aids, single parent, supportive parent, life is a bitch, family relations, adoption, parents and children, supermarket, feminism, teenager, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, friendship, mischievous children, boy, coming of age, political unrest, society, obsession, boyhood, friends, little boy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
immigration, american dream, family relations, friendship, friends, family problems, estrangement, unemployment, parents and children, death in the family, rich and poor, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
former yugoslavia, montenegro, new york, serbia, europe ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelican and decides to leave the bird at home. Pelican helps the boy find his father again and ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
human animal relationship, father son relationship, love and romance, island, teenage life, parents and children, human spirit, hopes, social relations, greek island, pelican, sea ...
Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, multicultural ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, ambition, hopes, teenage life, follow your dream, society, hip hop, family relations, music, urban, female friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, marseille, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style:
sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, self discovery, friendship, eccentricity, depression, flood, female protagonist, aunt niece relationship, grief ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 70s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Manena is the headstrong adolescent daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacation to one thing : the invasion of his artificial lagoon by carps. While he employs increasingly radical methods, Manena has her first romantic ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, family relations, teenage life, countryside, siblings relations, youth, fish, landowner, animal abuse, coming of age, bourgeoisie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
friendship, aging, couples, family relations, couple relations, elderly, parents and children, old age, truth, old people, friends, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
youth, adoption, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, family problems, obsessive quest, on the road, family in crisis, hopes, self discovery, escape ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two girls of different background, one a immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl that needs to get out of her fathers shadow both apply to the police academy were they become close friends.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
starting over, lifestyle, friendship, social differences, society, fish out of water, culture clash, officers and cadets, academy, family life, hopes, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Comedy - This entry in director Jean-Claude La Marre's Pastor Jones series sees the beleaguered clergyman coping with a gap in the church budget. When he can't make a payment on one of the church's loans, the pastor fears he may have ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot:
friendship, ambition, music band, rescue, clergy, society, family relations, hopes, family problems, contests and competitions, collision, church ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot:
elderly, introspection, self discovery, disorder, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, pregnancy, siblings relations, heart disease, humour, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, middle east
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two, very different, brothers are reunited for their father's funeral. But, when they arrive at the crematorium nobody is there, not even the corpse, except for Chloe who introduces herself as their sister.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot:
hopes, missing person, obsessive quest, family relations, siblings relations, bittersweet, missing father, secret, brother brother relationship, youth, rain, train station ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, sincere, captivating, light ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, youth, family relations, family life, teenage love, buddies, social relations, introspection, kids and family, nursing, life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
28%
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