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Back Home (2018)
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Original name: Contromano
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Mario Cavallaro is 50 and lives in the same district of always in Milano and fears changes until arrives Oba, a Senegalese seller of socks so he decides to kidnap Oba and take him back to Senegal.
Style:
light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, intercultural, road movie, realistic, comedy drama
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
love, friendship, corruption, society, store, legacy, lifestyle, family man, storekeeper, humanity, immigration, migration, character study, midlife crisis, self discovery, road trip, everyday life, compassion, xenophobia, slice of life, empathy, bittersweet, unlikely friendships, social commentary, loneliness ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
milan italy, senegal
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, feel good, humorous and entertaining films with plots about satire, slice of life, bittersweet, friendship, character study, midlife crisis and intimate mostly in Comedy, Crime and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Back Home: All You Need is Crime (2019), Life Is a Wonderful Thing (2010), Easy (2017), No Country for Young Men (2017), Italians (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the present day, three friends to make ends meet invent a "criminal tour" for the places which were scenes of the Banda della Magliana criminal acts, even with vintage clothes. Suddenly they are catapulted in the 1982, during the Spain ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
friendship, society, chase, stranded, criminal gang, unlikely criminals, escapades, travel, gangster, mafia, criminal underworld, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, funny, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
relationships, betrayal, support, life, humour, lifestyle, stalking, love and romance, police officer, male female relationship, couple relations, society ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
53%
849
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Ukraine
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A 40-year-old loser named Isidoro at the request of his brother drives from Italy to mountainous Carpathian village in Ukraine with a coffin of a diseased Ukrainian worker, who died at a construction site in Italy.
Style:
sincere, road movie, ironic, captivating, compassionate ...
Plot:
cross cultural relations, cultural difference, goofy hero, wisdom of life, changing lives, brother brother relationship, car trip, misfit, naivete, society, mission, kindness ...
Place:
italy, ukraine
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Every year five hundred thousand young people leave Italy and flee overseas. They call it “brain drain” but among the new emigrants there are a lot of ordinary young people seeking their fortune. Sandro and Luciano are two of them.
Style:
humorous, funny, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, ambition, direction and purpose, follow your dream, friends, escapades, teamwork, humour, dreaming, young adult, emigration, dream ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film consists of two episodes, telling two different stories about two different countries.
Style:
feel good, captivating, semi serious, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
travel, satire, car, oasis, coworker, road trip, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, fish out of water, retirement, loneliness, smuggling ...
Place:
dubai, russia, saudi arabia, milan italy, st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
retirement home, community service, elderly, aging, society, social life, old man, old woman, satire, empathy, humanity, personal growth ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he finds himself at a loos as he reaches retirement age.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, aging, midlife crisis, loneliness, retirement, career, life, family relations, relationships, job, humour, lifestyle ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s ...
Style:
touching, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, mentally challenged, disorder, aging, elderly, life turned upside down, parents and children, sibling relationship, family drama, loneliness, turtle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Giacomo befriends a man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
Style:
feel good, captivating, sincere, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, karma, reincarnation, adaptation, youth, love, society, happy ending, rivalry, disorder, escapades, friends ...
Similarity:
44%
376
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.
Style:
humorous, not serious, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot:
righting the wronged, odd couple, legal, comedy of errors, goofy hero, disorder, nothing goes right, legal action, wrongful conviction, friendship, character study, dog ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, ...
Style:
atmospheric, entertaining, captivating, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
santa claus, christmas, saving christmas, heist gone wrong, christmas season, thief, satire, old man, robbery, theft, redemption, self discovery ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.
Style:
satirical, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, retirement, aging, plan, satire, friends, senior citizen, introspection, lifestyle change, changing lives, emigration, character study ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three brothers and a sister sold the house and all the belongings of their father, who is in a coma for 5 years. He wakes up the next day...
Style:
funny, feel good, light, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
family drama, money problems, humour, family problems, family relations, parents and children, escapades, satire, eccentric family, financial problem, family secret, parent child relationship ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Claudio is 50 years old and tired of his job as an real estate agent. He is also separated from his wife who left him for the "King of Zumba".
Style:
satirical, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, male protagonist, slice of life, social problems, lifestyle, divorced man, family problems, satire, separation, self discovery, divorce, everyday life ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Intertwined stories of 50somethings that won't give up on their glory days
Style:
ironic, captivating, feel good, satirical, humorous ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, nostalgia, old man, irony, character change, grownups, lifestyle, multiple storylines, satire, friendship, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, ...
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, adult
Plot:
rivalry, self discovery, teacher, culture clash, internet culture, social media, contests and competitions, life philosophy, stereotypes, dispute, adaptation, youth ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, fish out of water, social satire, culture clash, workplace, workplace situations, couple relations, disorder, couples, postman, misunderstanding, everyday life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, milan italy, southern italy, europe
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Third movie about the character of Cetto La Qualunque (Antonio Albanese)
Style:
satirical, light, captivating, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, satire, politics, crown prince, lifestyle change, restaurant, money, restaurant owner, royal family, changing lives, prince, inheritance ...
Place:
italy, southern italy, germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Kari, a wannabe rocker. After the jackpot, the couple agrees to carry on with their lives as before, without telling anyone about the stroke of luck. ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, light, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
love, lottery, money, happy ending, disorder, society, male female relationship, marriage, everyday life, domestic drama, suburban life, identity ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Dante, a pony express in serious debt, meets Nina, a hostess stuck in Torino for the night.
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
male female relationship, criminal, escapades, absurd humor, silly humor, humour, friends, satire, chance meeting, working class, journey, character study ...
Place:
spain, italy
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A film in four episodes, each one describing a special love story in today’s Italy.
Style:
anthology, captivating, satirical, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot:
love story, relationships, love affair, love, love interest, satire, slice of life, intimate, bittersweet, longing, character study, everyday life ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Four travellers meet in Madrid’s city centre through a rideshare app. Four individuals who could never imagine the journey they are about to embark on, as they gradually exchange secrets, emotions and mistrust, eventually arriving at a very ...
Style:
suspense, road movie, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
road trip, relationships, irony, journey, conversation, travel, on the road, satire, self discovery, secrets, mistrust, character study ...
Place:
madrid, spain
Similarity:
36%
423
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society (especially Rome) in early 2000.
Style:
anthology, semi serious, satirical, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, joke, society, social issues, lifestyle, humour, social problems, everyday life, social commentary, city life, slice of life, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man in his mid 30's reevaluates his life and priorities after he met someone from his past.
Style:
captivating, feel good, semi serious, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, lifestyle change, changing lives, middle aged, introspection, satire, middle aged man, male protagonist, midlife crisis, personal growth, character study ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Frank is diagnosed with depression, his friends try to cheer him up but soon enough they all discover they are as depressed as him.
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
depression, introspection, nothing goes right, buddies, thirtysomething life, disorder, mental health, empathy, friendship, male friendship, realism, dark humor ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A film about the hard fate of a decommissioned pilot, who not lost the ability to fly, as well as about male solidarity, cemented by national drinking traditions, about two truths - for male and for female, and about the love that will reconcile ...
Style:
feel good, light, psychological, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
alcoholism, male friendship, social problems, male female relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, relationship problems, absurd humor, alcohol abuse, marital problem, family problems ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Diego, Fausto and Claudio are three down-on-their luck men. When they meet by chance looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford, the three men decide to combine forces and risk everything to start a Bed and Breakfast. They ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, feel good, funny, light ...
Plot:
camorra, society, social relations, escapades, showdown, ambition, ambitious, social differences, humour, teamwork, social satire, fighting the system ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deep in the Pyrenees, two close friends at rock bottom have the idea of the century: to pull themselves of their misery, they will launch a horse trekking tour, a voyage through the mountains for tourists in search of nature, silence and adventure.
Style:
satirical, funny, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, nature, mountain, friends, tourism, best friend, travel agency, satire, lifestyle, redemption, bittersweet, resilience ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hong Kong is just a ridiculous place full of lies. In this prosperous city, there are a group of people that have to live in the ‘space capsule’, which is a large seminar room subdivided into small living rooms. In such a small living space, ...
Style:
entertaining, dark comedy, humorous, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, city life, misfit, urban setting, social relations, social satire, lifestyle, society, humour, multiple storylines, class struggle, isolation ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
55 year old Bernd is looking forward to a quiet weekend at the lake with his best friend Klaus, 56 and his brother Peter, 53. But when Peter decides to bring along Casanova Murat, 37 hopes for a harmonic get together wane thanks to Bernd's ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, contemplative, feel good, disturbing ...
Plot:
friendship, deception, alzheimer's disease, nature, love, vacation, fishing, dog, missing person, group of friends, escapades, elderly ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
34%
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