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A Bolt from the Blue (2014)
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Original name: 青天の霹靂
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 the secret of his birth.
Style:
humorous, captivating, disturbing, sentimental, emotional, heartfelt, retro, feel good, period piece, comedy drama ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
magician, father son relationship, family secret, time travel, travel, parents and children, time paradox, time warp, time loop, time machine, stage magician, magic trick, family relations, time traveler, time jump, father and son, escapades, family problems, secret, father child relationship, back in time, illusion, bartender, nostalgia, mother son reunion ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, emotional, melancholic and humorous films with plots about bittersweet, family relations, slice of life, nostalgia, family drama, personal growth and coming of age mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like A Bolt from the Blue: Duckweed (2017), Hi, Mom (2021), The Relatives (2021), The Prize (2017), Day of Destiny (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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sincere, satirical, disturbing, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After her mother Li Huanying is fatally injured in a car accident in 2001, grief-stricken Jia Xiaoling finds herself transported back in time to the year 1981, where she becomes her mother's close friend. Jia Xiaoling feels that she has not ...
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to go with his family to the Grushinsky festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms with the desire of a tyrant father and go on a road trip ...
Style:
captivating, light, funny, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot:
road trip, father daughter relationship, family drama, travel, family relations, humour, escapades, eccentric family, travelogue, kids and family, parents and children, father son relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, comedy drama
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, journey, family relations, father and son, parents and children, escapades, nobel prize, driving, bittersweet, mature, brothers ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The thrilling adventure of Chidi and Rotimi, teenagers who get a magical chance to travel back in time and change their broke parents' past.
Style:
semi serious, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
time travel, brothers, second chance, travel, family relations, sent to the past, escapades, time jump, changing the past or future, teenage life, back in time, time loop ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, captivating, feel good, satirical, sentimental ...
Plot:
time travel, car, travel, satire, back in time, time machine, time warp, time traveler, time jump, time loop, father son conflict, fish out of water ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ian discovers that André, a former soap opera star and current alcoholic is his real father. Ian decides to go work at his ruined mascot business where he finds a place populated by extravagant people and discovers the meaning of fatherhood.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, sincere, heartfelt, comedy drama ...
Plot:
father son relationship, fatherhood, parenthood, family drama, relationship problems, father, search for father, family relations, absent father, humour, lifestyle, paternity revealed ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, semi serious, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, self discovery, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, bittersweet, parent child relationship, family drama, love, reconciliation, midlife crisis ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.
Style:
disturbing, humorous, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family secret, brother sister relationship, family problems, parents and children, family drama, grief, sibling rivalry, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, kids and family, family life, father daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and win back her husband, who left family for another woman, after return from the war.
Style:
emotional, comedy drama, melancholic, realistic, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
sadness, family drama, broken family, empathy, bittersweet, father son relationship, reconciliation, nostalgia, intimate, personal growth, social realism, slice of life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
caucasus, eastern europe, armenia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
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501
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
food, restaurant, father son relationship, family drama, relationships, parents and children, family relations, satire, comedian, family conflict, family problems, small town life ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
So begins an entertaining road story where we witness two brothers with different cultural backgrounds, who don't even know each other, have similarities, differences and even their fights.
Style:
road movie, entertaining, captivating, humorous, comedy drama ...
Plot:
brothers, travel, family reunited, journey, road accident, brother brother relationship, family relations, road trip, culture clash, cultural difference, sibling rivalry, character study ...
Place:
turkey, germany
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alessandro, a forty-year-old widower pediatrician, lives with his teenage son, leading a monotonous and insipid existence. After a call from an old friend in Brazil, the man has his tired stability tested.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, entertaining, light, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
family values, fatherhood, family drama, responsibility, parent child relationship, parents and children, father and daughter, family relations, father daughter relationship, relationship problems, humour, relationships ...
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Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, humorous, light, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Taiwan
Duration: 73 min.
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Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
family secret, time travel, travel, fatherhood, sent to the past, time paradox, changing the past or future, family relations, relationships, father son relationship, parents and children, secret ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 80s
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
38%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
37%
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s, 80s
Place:
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Similarity:
37%
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Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, captivating, thrilling, psychological, road movie ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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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 ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, parents and children, culture clash, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, culture shock, identity, immigration, nostalgia ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, psychological, captivating, semi serious, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, emotional, sincere
Plot:
relationships, road trip, photograph, sibling rivalry, family drama, sisterhood, sister sister relationship, photographer, family problems, travel, photography, family relations ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
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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:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
father son relationship, teenager, friendship, family relations, parents and children, friends, teenage life, youth, unlikely friendships, misfit, disorder, family problems ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.
Style:
anthology, thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family relations, family drama, relationship problems, kids and family, family life, multiple storylines, social problems ...
Place:
japan
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