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Depression and Friends (2012)
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Original name: Dépression et des Potes
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, light, captivating, feel good, melancholic, buddy comedy, independent film, black comedy, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
depression, introspection, nothing goes right, buddies, thirtysomething life, disorder, mental health, friendship, empathy, dark humor, support group, isolation, everyday life, realism, male friendship, alienation, urban, satire, slice of life, social commentary, intimate, midlife crisis, working class, therapy, nightlife ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about friendship, friends, disorder, buddies, satire, slice of life and nothing goes right mostly in Comedy, Music and Drama genres. Some movies like Depression and Friends: The Reunion 2: The Funeral (2014), The Belgian Job (2012), Vive la France (2013), The Parisian Bitch (2015), Change of Address (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, light
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, belgium, europe, paris france
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france
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100%
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Thirty-year-old Camilla, born a bitch, realizes that she doesn't have the life she deserves and decides that the only destiny worthy of her is that of a royal princess.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, not serious ...
Plot:
escapades, disorder, ambition, satire, goofy hero, social climbing, hidden camera, silly humor, obsessive quest, misfit, blind ambition, frenchwoman ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In Paris, the emotional and professional tribulations of a musician and his roommate. Fraîchement installé à Paris, David, un musicien, timide et maladroit, tombe fou amoureux de sa jeune élève, Julia. Il tente tout pour la séduire. Sa ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lodger, teacher, job seeking, disorder, nothing goes right, fall in love, friends, friendship, rivalry, blonde, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Finally, the holidays are here! Vlad and his friends are so excited! Jérôme, Vlad’s father, is in charge. André, the grandfather of Jeanne and Basile, is also here to help. Six kids, two adults, an eight-hour train trip. Nothing could go wrong. ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
road trip, children, train travel, holiday, train, parents and children, comedy of errors, satire, light comedy, chase, escapism, parenting ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
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, lighthearted
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, disorder, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, coming of age, daughter, scientist, bittersweet, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fifty-year-old man suffers from a sore back. All the world's doctors, radiologists, and oesteopaths can do nothing for him : the roots of his illness are pyschological. But what should he change about his work, his wife and his family in ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Similarity:
30%
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, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
family relations, introspection, buddies, couple relations, couples, disorder, nothing goes right, lifestyle, friendship, marriage, friends, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
30%
328
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, comedy drama, feel good ...
Plot:
friends, friendship, disorder, fall in love, best friend, buddies, love and romance, adoption, male bonding, male friendship, relationships, loyalty ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
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30%
547
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, comedy drama ...
Plot:
gambling, friends, ambition, partner, buddies, misfit partners, contests and competitions, disorder, rivalry, horse race, racehorse, chance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, monte carlo, france, french riviera
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A group of friends in their thirties meet for a weekend in a mountain chalet for what will be a sort of review of an era in their lives and their relationships.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
friendship, introspection, friends, best friend, relationships, midlife crisis, memory, intimate, bittersweet, slice of life, nostalgia, maturity ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, france
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24%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, friends, introspection, on the road, escapades, buddies, male friendship, loss, road trip, grief, mourning ...
Time:
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Place:
france, corsica
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23%
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Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
paris france
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...
Style:
humorous, realistic, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, breakup, introspection, strong female presence, singleness, unfulfillment, bittersweet, personal growth, female protagonist, self discovery, women, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When legendary gambler Golden Hands Segal suffers a fatal heart attack at the craps table in Las Vegas, his grandson Freddy Meingold and boyhood pal Spencer Ragusa have less than 24 hours to retrieve the body for burial in New Jersey.
Style:
humorous, cynical, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
race against time, escapades, friends, on the road, friendship, nothing goes right, disorder, buddies, dark humor, gambling, chases and races, profanity
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, los angeles, nevada
Similarity:
22%
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Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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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:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
R2I, a famous news radio station, sends its best reporting duo to Iraq: Frank, journalist, and Poussin, sound engineer. Very quickly, millions of listeners follow their highly documented stories, reflecting the hot intensity of the fighting and the ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
misfit, journalism, farce, partner, media, friends, buddies, danger, dishonesty, cons and scams, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, france, europe, middle east, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
WALTER is lonely. He is 71 and has no friends. He lives in a small apartment in Upper West Side in Manhattan and every morning he goes through the same monotonous routine: pills, fiber, canned food, cleaning, TV and the book with all his expenses. ...
Style:
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Plot:
misfit, lifestyle, life turned upside down, dull life, disorder, social misfits, money, loneliness, isolation, routine, lonely, elderly man ...
Time:
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Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friends, friendship, midlife crisis, love, couple relations, couples, best friend, unfulfillment, buddies, male bonding, male camaraderie, male friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A guy has to move out in a day, completely unprepared, and drive his mum to the airport. Completely stressed out, he calls his friends for help. Short notice however results in all his friends making it with an agenda of their own.
Style:
sexy, light, atmospheric, humorous, situational comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, nothing goes right, eccentricity, language barrier, male female relationship, love and romance, seduction, disorder, male protagonist, chaos, student life, stress ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Each morning, whatever the day, four friends meet at a bar to have some beers and fix the world their own way, by criticizing and ranting against everything and everyone. They have something in common: they are all unemployed. Well, all but one.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, satirical, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
unemployment, friendship, social satire, satire, social issues, friends, conversation, group of friends, social problems, camaraderie, working class, everyday life ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Black comedy about two best friends, one a budding playwright and the other a motorbike freak, who spend their time annoying their girlfriends and getting into various scrapes. Things turn nasty, however, when the pair are caught burgling the ...
Style:
cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, male friendship, nudity, partner, sexual content, bittersweet, friends, dull life, dark humor, buddies, nothing goes right, martial arts ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Pedro hesitates between college and his part-time job as a cannabis dealer and other substances ...Jean-Paul hesitates, for 6 years, out of his home, lest we discover that he lives on the allowances of his deceased grandfather; so his friends took ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
youth, male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle, satire, love affair, couple relations, teenage angst, coming of age, friendship, male protagonist, drug dealing ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Six high school friends who come to the quarantine and have to assume that they are far from their days of glory. With a lot of responsibilities above are all immersed in their various personal crises. But everything changes when a court to void the ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, friendship, high school prom, thirtysomething life, buddies, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, exam, humour, satire, school, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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