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The Good Life (2013)
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Original name: La Belle Vie
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sylvain and Pierre have been running from the law ever since a custody battle with their mother pushed their father Yves into hiding ten years ago. But now that they’re older, the two brothers are road-weary and eager to take advantage of the perks of young adulthood. When the authorities discover their whereabouts, they are forced to move yet again and Pierre, the elder, disappears. Alone with his father on an island in the Loire River, Sylvain meets Gilda: his first girl, his first crush, and the first stop on his way to “the good life” – his own.
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, captivating, romantic, humorous, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot:
family relations, kidnapping, coming of age, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, romantic relationship, parents and children, family problems, custody, siblings relations, teenage boy, kidnapped child, youth, dysfunctional family, isolation, teenage life, friendship, family life, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic friendship, teenager, relationships, child abduction, love affair ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe
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Most similar movies to The Good Life
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, captivating and serious films with plots about family relations, coming of age, youth, love and romance, parents and children, teenage life and family problems mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Good Life: Wild Life (2014), Summer Games (2011), The Giants (2011), Raising Victor Vargas (2002), The Goob (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children. The children Okyesa and Tsali must grow up in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, father son relationship, on the run, parents and children, custody, family relations, feral man, parents separation, hidden identity, teenage life, wildlife, nature ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, love and romance, family problems, family relations, resort, parents and children, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, first love, teenage boy, fight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, tuscany
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Brothers Danny and Zak, 15 and 13 & 3/4 are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent out the ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, teenage life, teenager, friendship, drug dealer, brother brother relationship, on the road, self discovery, friends, rebellion, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
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88%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, ...
Style:
touching, cynical, stylized, harsh, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
couples, coming of age, sexual relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, relationships, teenage love, love story, loneliness, family relations, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, dominican republic, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
We’re in the middle of a heat-wave in Fenland England. Goob Taylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping Mum run the transport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When Mum shacks up with swarthy stock-car supremo and ladies’ ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage boy, family relations, teenage love, youth, small town, parents and children, teenager, boy, hot guys, friendship, summer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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61%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Julian, 25, and Louis, 12, are two brothers who work and live on a barge in the centre of Paris. They transport gravel and resort to petty crime to make ends meet. They have grown up alone and now they are inseparable, wedded to a life on the river. ...
Style:
sensual, captivating
Plot:
skinny dipping, female nudity, forbidden love, brother brother relationship, heist gone wrong, love interest, love triangle, theft, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems, robbery ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, love and romance, youth, parents and children, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, secret, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Florence and Vincent Leroy are a model couple. They have great jobs, a perfect marriage and delightful children. And now they want their divorce to be an equal success. But when they are both simultaneously promoted to their dream jobs, their ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, entertaining, tense ...
Plot:
parents and children, family problems, rivalry, family feud, family in crisis, family relations, unfulfillment, husband wife relationship, family life, marital argument, male female relationship, relationship vs career ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2000, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
impossible love, father son relationship, teenage boy, interracial relations, mountain, desert, conflict, prostitute, defiant, parents and children, self discovery, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Diane is a mysterious and lonely teenager. Sharing special bonds with her father Christian, she takes care of the education of her brother Marc. The arrival of Julia in the neighborhood, a charismatic and liberated young British woman, is going to ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, sincere, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, female pubic hair, female nudity, teenage love, teenage sex, underage sex, seduction, sex scene, porn, watching sex, party, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, ...
Style:
road movie, captivating, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
striptease, ocean, skinny dipping, sex, gay, gays and lesbians, gay lead character, friends, obsessive quest, love affair, friendship, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Josh is about to turn 30; he's mentally retarded, and likes to play at being a vampire. His sister Nicole is 15, and dealing with her impending womanhood; middle brother Mike is the "normal" one, but in some ways the most childish - ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, love and romance, obsession, dysfunctional family, teenage life, youth, lifestyle, misfit, siblings relations, sexual relations, couples, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
De ouders van Isa en haar oudere broer Kars gooien het roer om en beginnen een camping in Frankrijk. Isa en Kars hebben het gevoel naar Timboektoe te verhuizen en alles te verliezen. Lang klagen ze gelukkig niet, want al snel maken ze nieuwe ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
love and romance, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, siblings relations, teenage love, fish out of water, father son relationship, rivalry, coming of age, life turned upside down, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, holland
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage love, love affair, family problems, love and romance, society, lifestyle, family life, life turned upside down, teenage life, farm ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, freeze frame
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, teenage love, eccentric family, love and romance, countryside, teenage life, fall in love, parents and children, estate, bittersweet, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.
Style:
teen, sentimental, avant garde, grindhouse, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
first love, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, childhood love, coming of age, child, aging, relationships, teen angst, fall in love, youth, bittersweet, young lovers ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
paris france, venice, france, italy, europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
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, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, love and romance, couples, family problems, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bonjour tristesse: Teenager Luc lives with his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul in Paris, has to cope with the fact that his mother is a prostitute and practically raise his brother alone. Luc is disillusioned. One day, little Paul wants ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, teenager, teenage boy, romantic friendship, teenage love, family relations, relationships, teenage life, love story, love affair, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Raquel's longtime crush on her next-door neighbor turns into something more when he starts developing feelings for her, despite his family's objections.
Style:
romantic, sexy, sincere, entertaining, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teen romance, love, teenage love, love affair, teenager, first love, love and romance, neighbor, teenage boy, romantic relationship, teenage girl, love interest ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
barcelona, spain
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, lifestyle, siblings relations, love triangle, wooing, couples, unsupportive spouse, twins, love and romance, infidelity ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, adoption, friendship, family relations, foster parent, foster child, mother son relationship, foster home, father son relationship, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, coming of age, pregnancy, small town, friendship, single parent, youth, family problems, teenage life, human nature, employer employee relationship, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the loss of his mother has sucked the joie de vivre out of him; his best friend Alice knows it ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, starting over, love and romance, hopes, teenage life, couples, human nature, family problems, gays and lesbians, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a ...
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, pre-teens
Plot:
mother son reunion, youth, foster child, disorder, adoption, parents and children, haunted by the past, mother son relationship, family problems, family relations, mischievous children, siblings relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
37%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, teenage love, family problems, love and romance, relationships, love story, first love, teenage life, friends, youth ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, normandy, tokyo, germany
Similarity:
35%
3K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Elisabeth and John-John live in the same city, but they inhabit different worlds.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating, teen
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, love, long distance relationship, first love, school, love story, love affair, nordic, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, romantic relationship, in love ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thomas has been estranged from his brother Luc for several years, due in part to his difficulties in dealing with Luc's homosexuality. But when Thomas is diagnosed with a rare blood disease, which is difficult to treat and impossible to cure, ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, male pubic hair, brother brother relationship, male nudity, naked man, gay love, homosexual, gay brother, human nature, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Follows the life of a young woman (Min-ah) who has become reserved and indifferent to the world as a result of her chronic illness/deformed hand and quietly portrays the unconventional, yet endearing relationship between mother and daughter as well ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy, masterpiece
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school student, mother daughter relationship, family relations, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love, love story, fall in love, romantic relationship, love interest ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive stepfather. The three soon become friends and hope to get Alice an education and help her escape from ...
Style:
romantic, touching, realistic, serious, inspirational
Plot:
deaf, child abuse, dysfunctional family, friendship, mentally challenged, rescue, youth, deafness, skinny dipping, sexual attraction, tomboy, belief in ghosts ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story of a destiny. Suzanne's and her family's. The ties that bind them, keep them together, and the love she pursues... to the point of leaving everything behind.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, bleak
Plot:
passionate love, love affair, family life, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, fall in love, coming of age, single parent, siblings relations, youth, working class ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
33%
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