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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwing the family dynamic far off orbit.
Style: captivating, light, humorous, cynical
Plot: friendship, family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, nothing goes right, eccentric family, christmas, misfit, family life, holiday, happy ending, suburbs, threat, romance
Time: 90s, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, humorous and psychological films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family life, family problems, couples, society and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Happy New Year, Colin Burstead: Lapland (2011), Mother's Milk (2011), A Dad for Christmas (2006), It Was the Son (2012), 2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lapland (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Recently widowed Eileen Lewis,son Pete and his wife Mandy and daughter Paula with her spouse Ray,plus the grandchildren, leave Birkenhead to spend Christmas in Lapland.
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, parents and children, family relations, family life, hopes, lapland, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, europe
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95%
Mother's Milk (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence.
Style: light, captivating
Plot: family relations, family conflict, inheritance, family problems, parents and children, culture clash, life, marital discord, money problems, eccentric family, marital argument, disagreement ...
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A Dad for Christmas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: christmas, against the odds, adoption, custody, couples, family life, family relations, parents and children, hospital, single parent, holiday, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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It Was the Son (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, humorous, light, realistic ...
Plot: working class, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, tragedy, murder, friendship, mafia, family life
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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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
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The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, family problems, couples, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
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Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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On Any Saturday (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
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Story: "Parashat HaShavua" follows four families through a dramatic year of their lives. Love, hate, friendships and secrets mixes up when the families connect.
Style: cynical, stylized, realistic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: parents and children, couples, family life, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, estrangement, couple relations, friendship, unfulfillment
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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53%
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Wedding Dress (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Overly obsessive compulsive and too premature, Sora is easily distanced by her friends. Growing up without a father is something she would like to be fussy about with her mom, but Sora is still the one and only daughter of and the biggest support to ...
Style: semi serious, sad, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, wedding, family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, single mother, friendship, society, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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51%
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Couch Potatoes (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: father son relationship, teenager, parents and children, friends, teenage life, family relations, friendship, youth, unlikely friendships, society, disorder, happy ending ...
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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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50%
Christmas Spirit (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cynical youth whose mother is about to lose her job right before the holidays is visited by a magical Christmas spirit.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, family life, youth, family relations, unemployment, parents and children, supernatural, friendship, miraculous event, dog, stupid kid, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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47%
A Madea Christmas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
Style: christmas special, sincere, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, family relations, madea, parents and children, family life, black, xmas, christmas season, friendship, society, nothing goes right ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Magnificent 7 (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson. Helena Bonham Carter stars as Maggi, a mother with seven children - three 'normal' daughters and four sons who are each, in one form or another, autistic.
Style: realistic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: autism, motherhood, family life, human spirit, single parent, mentally challenged, siblings relations, hopes, parents and children, child illness, family problems, small town ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Christmas Sail (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When Liz returns home to take care of her estranged father, she is determined to give her daughter a perfect Christmas and reconnects with her best friend.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: christmas, boat, parents and children, kids and family, father daughter relationship, relationships, friends, getting home, social problems, family relations, christmas season, eccentric family ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Follows the dark and twisted history of Dawn Longchamp and her family, along with Cutler and Booth families.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: teen drama
Plot: domestic drama, family relations, female protagonist, family life, relatives, sibling relationship, family drama, parents and children, relationships, family problems
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Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
Style: humorous, satirical, talky, not serious, realistic ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, ...
Style: surreal, psychological, captivating
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Other Woman (1995)
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Style: realistic
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Framed (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of priceless paintings should be removed from London and stored in an abandoned slate mine inside a Welsh ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
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Juanita (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: captivating, humorous, touching, feel good, light ...
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My Country, My Parents (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Actress Zhang Ziyi, actor-and-director Wu Jing, comedian Shen Teng, and actor-and-director Xu Zheng come together to direct four short films as part of a new anthology drama paying tribute to China’s families.
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: parents and children, family life, family relations, lifestyle, kids and family, three generations, relationships, multiple storylines, memories, culture, eccentric family, social problems
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Papa (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young man, Ben Freidman (Scott Wilson) raised by wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in Beverly Hills, decides that he is ready to finally meet his biological parents. He faces disappointment upon learning of the death of his biological mother. His ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: father son relationship, family life, family problems, relationships, family relations, mother son relationship, search for father, foster home, life is a bitch, foster child, parents and children, kids and family ...
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And So The Baton Is Passed (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Yuko Morimiya is a high school student and she lives with her stepfather Morimiya. Morimiya is her third father. Her mother, Rika, is a free spirited person and has remarried several times. She disappeared from Yuko's life at a certain point. ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: stepfather, family relations, parents and children, family problems, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, secret, relationships, family life, kids and family, lifestyle, daughter, family drama ...
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Come Rain Come Shine (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: David Jason stars as cockney ex-docker Don Mitchell in this emotional drama. Don is incredibly proud of his son David’s affluent lifestyle. The cars, the detached house and private schooling for the children were things Don could only dream about ...
Style: realistic, psychological, contemplative, captivating, serious
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Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Down Terrace (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of ...
Style: realistic, dark comedy, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: contemplative, realistic, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, family life, parents and children, greed, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, family problems, family in crisis, lovers reunited, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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Two for Joy (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Coming of age drama following a daughter, her mother and her wayward younger brother as their relationship reaches critical mass.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: depression, rebel, dysfunctional family, family relations, family life, male female relationship, relationships, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family problems, eccentric family, seaside ...
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Paper Angels (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An abused wife leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her children to another town. There their lives become entwined with another family in trouble.
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, psychological, inspirational
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, bullying, single mother, christian, family problems, relationship problems, family relations, family life, social problems, mother son relationship, parents and children, inspiration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
June in January (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A newly engaged bride dreamed of her wedding day with her late mother for her entire life, and is looking forward to planning every perfect detail to honor her mom's memory. But her special day is nearly ruined by her intimidating future ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, sexual ...
Plot: wedding, couples, parents and children, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance, youth, wedding planning, nothing goes right, holiday, unlikely couple, family gatherings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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