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Around a Small Mountain (2009)
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Around a Small Mountain (2009)
Original name: 36 Vues du pic Saint-Loup
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Biopic based on the life of author Raymond Roussel.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, humorous, sincere, clever, feel good, serious
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted by the past, circus, homecoming, fall in love, family business, workplace, performer's life, nostalgia, dark past, circus performer, love and romance, workplace romance, death in the family, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, biopic, tomb, cemetery, acrobat, trailer, porsche, whip, spectator, stage performance, romance
Time: 2000s
Place: france, europe, south of france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about love and romance, family relations, workplace, couples, fall in love, parents and children and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Around a Small Mountain: Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001), Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013), Work Hard, Play Hard (2003), Maestro (2014), Bob Funk (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Style: disturbing, lyrical, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: female nudity, lovers reunited, infidelity, dysfunctional family, love triangle, love affair, midlife crisis, couple relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, actor's life ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy
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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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94%
Work Hard, Play Hard (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a factory, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees. ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: moral dilemma, couples, workplace, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, boss and employee, workplace situations, factory, unemployment, power relations, friendship between men ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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76%
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Maestro (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Henry, a young actor, finds himself involved in a film by cinema superstar, Cédric Rovere. Charmed by his benevolence, feelings hitherto unknown are aroused, while Rovere, intrigued by Henry's dream, lives this shoot as an unexpected gift.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: filmmaking, artists and showbiz, self discovery, actor, love, jealousy, rivalry, friendship, actor's life, rural setting, anton chekhov, movie actor ...
Time: 5th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Bob Funk (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: couples, boss and employee, addiction, layoff, boss, therapist, family relations, workplace, parents and children, fall in love, starting over, mother ...
Time: 21st century
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66%
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Cet amour-là (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Plot: destiny, wartime life, soldier, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, family relations, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Life Coach (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: workplace, workplace romance, workplace situations, save the day, escapades, gambler, gambling, gambling debt, money problems, financial problem, rivalry, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Cocked (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: The Paxsons are a broken family working together - and against each other - in the most quintessentially American business, the business of guns.
Style: humorous, clever, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, workplace, family business, siblings relations, homecoming, law, female nudity, bare breasts
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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59%
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Learners (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Bev is a downtrodden housewife who's failed her driving test eight times, having only been instructed by her impatient husband Ian. After registering with a driving school, she develops a crush on her instructor, Chris.
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: driving school, learning to drive, workplace romance, family relations, fall in love, teachers and students, couples, workplace, money raising, driving instructor, coming of age, taxi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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54%
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Slogan (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Commercial director Serge Faberge (Serge Gainsbourg) is having an affair with Evelyne (Jane Birkin), the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh (James Mitchell). His own pregnant wife Francoise (Andréa Parisy) usually does not mind his dalliances, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous
Plot: swing, looking for love, infidelity, love triangle, pregnancy, midlife crisis, love affair, sexual relations, media satire, singleness, friends, couples ...
Time: 60s
Place: venice, europe, italy, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Triumph in the Skies (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young pilot Branson (Louis Koo) recently takes over Skylette, his father's aviation empire, only to realise his old flames Cassie (Charmaine Sheh) is a flight attendant there. Several years ago, he was forced to break up with her and move to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unfulfilled love, fall in love, lovers reunited, workplace romance, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, unfulfillment, bittersweet, pilot, adaptation, opposites attract
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Papadopoulos & Sons (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their youth.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: restaurant, starting over, workplace, family business, family life, hopes, down on your luck, life turned upside down, food, coming of age, greek, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Don't Think About It (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, feel good, humorous, light, realistic ...
Plot: bankruptcy, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, homecoming, family life, family business, unfulfillment, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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Radiostars (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ben, who dreamed of himself as a comic in New York, is back in Paris, his professional and emotional life in complete disarray. He encounters Alex, the star host of the Breakfast Club, a popular morning radio show. With Cyril, a forty-something ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
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Place: france
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48%
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Material (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Cassim Kaif is a young Muslim man who works in his father's fabric shop in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. In the family tradition, Cassim, as the only son, is expected to take over the family business from his father.
Style: touching, humorous, captivating, inspirational, light ...
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The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story: The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
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Optical Illusions (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile, France, Portugal
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Story: A blind man who recovers his sight after an operation finds his life in chaos when he is rejected by the community to which he once belonged. (Chile)
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, clever ...
Plot: innocence lost, love and romance, love affair, friends, introspection, workplace, human nature, dark humor, teaching the ways of the world, workplace romance, secretary, workplace situations ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
This Is My Body (2001)
Genre: Drama
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Delicacy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The First Beautiful Thing (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 122 min.
Story: The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: mother, femme fatale, mother son relationship, parents and children, homecoming, family life, small town, terminal illness, passion, parent child relationship, youth, siblings relations ...
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45%
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Gaby Baby Doll (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, couples, fall in love, countryside, isolation, lone wolves, love and romance, confined, female nudity
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44%
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with ...
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Place: france
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Bye Bye Blackbird (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Memories (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Romain is 23 years old. He would like to be a writer, but for now, it is night porter in a hotel. His father is 62 years old. He retires and pretends to fuck. His roommate is 24 years old. He thinks only one thing: to seduce a girl, any and all ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, talky ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
House in Brittany (2012)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.
Style: atmospheric, emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: haunted by the past, homecoming, childhood memory, heiress, house, landscape, love, father
Time: 21st century
Place: france, brittany, europe, cornwall, atlantic ocean
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41%
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Price Check (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Carmina or Blow Up (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Carmina, 58, runs a shop selling Iberian products in Seville. After several robberies and no help from her insurance company, she comes up with a way to recover the money she needs to keep her family. While she waits in her kitchen for her plan to ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, humorous, captivating, bleak ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Les Jours venus (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style: clever, realistic, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: midlife crisis, artists and showbiz, aging, dealing with death, unfulfillment, filmmaking, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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