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Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
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Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
Original name: 3 Hommes et un couffin
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, cult film
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: fish out of water, parents and children, grownups, self discovery, disorder, buddies, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, life turned upside down, babysitting, friends, singleness, delivery, babies and infants, heroin, baby, friend, quartet, urination, diaper change, diaper, female director
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about disorder, couples, family relations, parents and children, couple relations, life turned upside down and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Three Men and a Cradle: The Stroller Strategy (2012), August 15th (2001), Half-Sister (2013), Daddy Cool (2008), Teen Spirit (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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3 Men and a Baby (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: babies and infants, custody, fish out of water, buddies, fatherhood, children, baby, friendship, roommate, life turned upside down, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.
Style: offbeat, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: children, child, interracial, homeless, poverty, black, working class, interracial relations, interracial marriage, insider trading, food industry, household ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: france, lyon, europe
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The Stroller Strategy (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Thomas Platz is suddenly made the guardian of a baby - then pretends to be its real father in order to win back Marie, the girlfriend who dumped him a year before. Stuck between staying a man-child forever, and proving he is ready to take the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: wooing, renewed love, dishonesty, life turned upside down, baby, ex girlfriend, seduction, babies and infants, disorder, love and romance, fish out of water, kindergarten ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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August 15th (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: beach, family relations, self discovery, life turned upside down, fish out of water, parents and children, friends, disorder, introspection, buddies, ocean, nudism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, brittany
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Half-Sister (2013)
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: humorous, touching, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: self discovery, mentally challenged, aging, disorder, family relations, life turned upside down, elderly, parents and children, family secret, misfit, siblings relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, disorder, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, coming of age, scientist, daughter, social relations, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Teen Spirit (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A 30 ans, Bruno, rock-star has been, vit toujours aux crochets de sa petite amie. Les temps sont durs... surtout quand une ex ressurgit de nulle part pour lui apprendre qu'il est le père de Nancy, 13 ans, dont il n'a jamais soupçonné ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
Plot: family relations, best friend, couples, youth, friends, self discovery, lifestyle, life turned upside down, couple relations, introspection, parents and children, rock ...
Time: 21st century
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The Ultimate Accessory (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of Aleksandra and Cyrille, a prominent, trendy, and very well-off Parisian couple, whose life is not quite the same after seven-year-old Alekseï from Russia suddenly pops up in their 100% cashmere, childless home. Aleksandra soon realises ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: family problems, couples, family relations, life turned upside down, couple relations, adoption, family in crisis, disorder, coming of age, celebrity culture, female nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Bachelor Days Are Over (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub ...
Style: humorous, contemplative, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Depression and Friends (2012)
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, captivating, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: introspection, thirtysomething life, nothing goes right, buddies, disorder, depression, partner, friends, lifestyle, friend, reunion
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Place: france, paris france
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Fonzy (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in Paris, a man working in fish delivery becomes involved in a legal battle with his sperm donations.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: parents and children, artificial insemination, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, pregnancy, disorder, fatherhood, sperm donor, snow, winter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, usa
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Camping (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: camp, friendship, camping, beach, nothing goes right, family relations, disorder, buddies, resort, fish out of water, snobbism, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
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The Adulteen (2013)
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Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Arnaud Mustier, lawyer and brilliant philosopher, arouses the annoyance of his younger brother Jules, age sixteen. One day, Arnaud is a victim of a late adolescent crisis. Helped by Jules, he is going to catch up this phase of the life which he did ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Over this long hot summer, Claude and Isabelle get their marriage back on track, while Bibou and Simon, spend a memorable summer discovering the world of grown-ups.
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
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Genre: Comedy
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Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
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Style: humorous, light, funny, feel good, witty ...
Audience: family outing
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Duration: 91 min.
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Style: not serious, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
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Story: No overview found.
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