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An Optical Illusion (2020)
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An Optical Illusion (2020)
Original name: Un efecto óptico
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intend to “switch off” and do all of the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land, they start to notice signs, some subtle and others rather less so, that in fact they’re not in the city sold to them by the travel agency. So where are they?
Style: tense, humorous, captivating
Plot: surrealism, time loop, alternate reality, time travel, puzzle, family relations, time traveler, fictional reality, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, marital problem, holiday
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, humorous, entertaining and semi serious films with plots about family relations, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, relationships, couple relations, family problems and marital problem mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like An Optical Illusion: The Exchange (2017), A Bolt from the Blue (2014), Under Therapy (2023), The Young Wife (2023), Empty Rooms (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Exchange (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: They are on their way and Eva is still insecure. Her deep love and devotion for Jaime has led her to accept a special offer: swinging in order to arouse their marriage after fifteen years. Jaime seems doubly confident: a curvy 19-year-old Brazilian ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: mate swapping, husband wife relationship, family relations, couple relations, relationships, male female relationship, family problems, marriage crisis, troubled marriage, relationship problems, marital problem, free love ...
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A Bolt from the Blue (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn't have parents. He then goes back 40 years in time to Asakusa, Tokyo. There, he meets his parents when they were young and he learns ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, humorous
Plot: time travel, magician, time warp, time paradox, parents and children, father child relationship, father and son, secret, family problems, time machine, stage magician, father son relationship ...
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88%
Elvira I Will Give You My Life But I'm Using It (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Elvira had a fight with her husband, he went to purchase some cigarettes but he never came back, now Elvira is searching for him.
Style: captivating, hispanic
Plot: family problems, marital problem, male female relationship, couple relations, life is a bitch, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret, family secret, family relations, uncover truth, husband wife relationship, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Under Therapy (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three married couples undergoing therapy are summoned by their female psychologist to a meeting. The psychologist won’t be attending the reunion herself, but she will give to them instructions about what they must do. Thus, to the sound of a horn ...
Style: psychological, captivating, semi serious
Plot: group therapy, couples therapy, family relations, love affair, relationship problems, social satire, therapy, life is a bitch, family problems, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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The Young Wife (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman grapples with the meaning of love and commitment over the course of her “non-wedding” day.
Style: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining
Plot: wedding, parents, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, family relations, couple relations, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love affair, relationships, chubby ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: At 40, Zosia (Ilona Ostrowska) has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher in the year 2000, she wishes some things in her youth had happened differently, ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, light
Plot: time jump, family problems, time loop, male female relationship, new love, dysfunctional marriage, marriage, sent to the past, love story, husband wife relationship, marital problem, relationship problems ...
Time: year 2008
Place: poland
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81%
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Empty Rooms (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story: "Empty Room is a dark, highly erotic tale of a married couple whose relationship is slowly sliding into oblivion. Bored and sexually frustrated, the wife begins taking lovers while her unemployed husband spends his days wandering aimless around ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: cheating wife, husband wife relationship, bored housewife, family problems, male female relationship, family relations, adultery, relationship problems, infidelity, marital problem, cuckolded husband, wife leaves husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Sunny Side (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this movie adaptation of the TV-Show by the same name, we join the three couples in a comedy about divorces, love, child longing, weird parents and unwritten bathing rules in Torekov.
Style: entertaining, captivating, thought provoking, humorous, psychotronic
Plot: couples, family relations, couple relations, parenthood, relationship problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family life, divorce, absurd humor, love and romance, male female relationship, parents and children ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to Be Dead. (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When salary man Jun gets home, he finds his wife bleeding from her mouth and lying on the floor. He is shocked by the scene, but it turns out the blood is just ketchup and she is pretending to be dead. Without telling him why, she pretends to be ...
Style: satirical, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, sweet
Plot: husband wife relationship, japanese wife, male female relationship, eccentric family, wife, married couple, satire, family relations, family problems, lifestyle, family life, marital problem ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Diana's Wedding (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It's July 29, 1981. In the majestic St Paul's Cathedral in London, Lady Diana Spencer marries Prince Charles. The same day, another celebration takes place in the canteen of a Norwegian small-town factory. It’s the newly-weds LIV and ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, thrilling, satirical, captivating
Plot: husband wife relationship, relationships, family relations, marital problem, family problems, love affair, relationship problems, married couple, marital crisis, love and romance, family life, love story ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ali & the Queens (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After his father's passing, a teenager sets out for New York in search of his estranged mother and soon finds love and connection in unexpected places.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, indonesian
Plot: teenager, teenage life, looking for love, estranged mother, mother son estrangement, lifestyle, friendship, estrangement, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, estranged family member, family relations ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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We Broke Up (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Lori and Doug break up right before Lori's sister's wedding and decide to pretend they're still together for the weekend as to not disrupt the fun.
Style: captivating, semi serious, disturbing, psychological, romantic comedy ...
Plot: crumbling marriage, breakup, wedding, family problems, relationships, posing as husband and wife, marital separation, family relations, deception, male female relationship, relationship problems, marital problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 756
The Open Door (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Rosa, is a prostitute who inherited the profession from Antonia, her mother, who thinks she is Sara Montiel and turns her daily life in a hell. Rosa does not know how to be happy. She just can not. But the unexpected arrival of a new member to her ...
Style: unusual plot structure, entertaining, feel good, light, humorous ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, family drama, mother daughter relationship, friendship, husband wife relationship, escapades, family relations, love and romance, orphan, sea, new year's eve ...
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Magnificent Times (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs are showing up in front of his house the next day...
Style: satirical, semi serious, captivating, thrilling
Plot: couples, staff, relationships, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, butler, satire, couple relations, problem, family relations, workplace, female nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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The Quitter (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
Style: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, single parent, homecoming, unfulfillment, love, basketball player, career, baseball
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Before/During/After (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: captivating, thrilling, satirical, psychological
Plot: marriage, relationships, male female relationship, dysfunctional marriage, couple relations, middle aged, husband wife relationship, family relations, stage actress, marital problem, marital infidelity, satire ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: entertaining, captivating, exciting, sincere, humorous
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, satirical
Plot: unhappy marriage, pregnant woman, marital problem, pregnancy, relationship problems, family problems, female protagonist, fired from the job, changing lives, family relations, money problems, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Merry Liddle Christmas Baby (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
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Style: funny, entertaining, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After marriage, a woman struggles to be the submissive wife that her husband and his family expect her to be.
Style: humorous, captivating, sincere
Plot: cooking, character change, couples, family life, marriage, family relations, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, problem solving, relationships, lifestyle ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
A Flat for Three (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three divorced fathers are forced to live together.
Style: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
Plot: father, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, male female relationship, love and romance, living together, kids and family, divorced parents, father daughter relationship, wedding, divorce ...
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75%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family relations, couples, city life, siblings relations, friendship, society, wedding, dysfunctional family, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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75%
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Co-Husbands (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Emilio and Tono both receive phone calls that their wives are in comas after a ski-resort avalanche. At the hospital desk, they make a shocking discovery: their wives are, in fact, the same person … Laura. Forced to wait together until Laura ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, light, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: family relations, love affair, married man, couple relations, relationships, husband, couples, male female relationship, wife, husband and wife, husband wife relationship, marriage ...
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74%
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Mothers of the Bride (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jenna is getting married, her mother is delighted until Jenna announces she wants to find her birth mother.
Style: light, entertaining, captivating
Plot: mother, wedding, relationships, family relations, foster home, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, parents and children, uncover truth, couple relations, search for mother, mother daughter relationship ...
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74%
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Downhill (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.
Style: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: avalanche, husband wife relationship, marital problem, family relations, vacation, lie, winter, skater, love, husband wife conflict, marital crisis, father son relationship ...
Time: 2020s
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.7
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Mark Antony (2023)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Set in 1995, Mark, a skilled mechanic and the son of a former gangster, stumbles upon a phone that has the ability to connect with the past, tries to save his estranged mother from a grim fate. While facing his own family's legacy, Mark must ...
Style: rough, humorous, exciting, captivating, tense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: taxi, family relations, couple relations, couples, taxi driver, little girl, personal growth, love and romance, friends, migration, re-education, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, turkey
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73%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The residents of an isolated town look to revive their home's identity when a group of foreigners unexpectedly arrive, bringing culture shock with them.
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, satirical ...
Plot: male female relationship, screwball, love triangle, mayor, rivalry, african, humour, social problems, infidelity, satire, society, small town life ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Friendsgiving (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Newly-divorced actress Molly, her recently-dumped lesbian best friend Abby and Molly’s mother Helen host a dysfunctional, comical and chaotic Thanksgiving dinner for their motley crew of close friends and strange acquaintances.
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous, light, funny ...
Plot: thanksgiving, friend, mother daughter relationship, relationships, large family, family relations, holiday, celebration, humour, male female relationship, women, gay ...
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.3
 160
Marine Life (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, couples, family problems, single parent, love and romance, youth, child as adult, midlife crisis, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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