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A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)
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Original name: Il Sol Dell'Avvenire
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A film director unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising faces divorce from his producer wife.
Style:
psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious, thrilling, f word
Plot:
filmmaking, communist, director, filmmaker, film producer, relationship problems, ambition, family problems, satire, lifestyle, melancholy, graffiti, circus, graphic violence, singing, communism, film set, marital separation, older man younger woman relationship, older man younger woman romance, archive footage, film within a film, film making
Time:
2020s, year 1956, 1950s
Place:
rome italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, semi serious and psychological films with plots about satire, lifestyle, relationships, family problems, family relations, relationship problems and filmmaking mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like A Brighter Tomorrow: People Who Are Well (2014), Suze (2023), The Caiman (2006), The Passion (2010), 100% Organic (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, entertaining, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
lawyer, satire, wealth, materialism, high society, changing lives, money problems, social misfits, financial problem, betrayal, lifestyle change, relationship problems ...
Place:
milan italy
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When her only daughter goes off to university, an empty nest mother gets stuck taking care of her daughter's heart-broken ex-boyfriend, who she can't stand.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot:
relationships, male female relationship, lifestyle, social problems, satire, family life, family relations, family problems, relationship problems, mother daughter relationship, menopause, intimate ...
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29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, meta ...
Plot:
filmmaking, politics, bribery, relationship vs career, ambition, crumbling marriage, state affairs, head of state, artists and showbiz, showbiz, bankruptcy, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2006, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Austria, Italy, Sweden, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful ...
Style:
satirical, disturbing, psychological, humorous, captivating
Plot:
filmmaking, filmmaker, film industry, film producer, ambition, satire, relationship problems, social problems, movie business, ambitious, exhibitionist, bare breasts ...
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
celebration, society, disorder, nothing goes right, religions or cults, lifestyle, celebrity culture, faith, satire, social commentary, provincial life, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The daughter of a Basque butcher brings her new boyfriend — a Parisian vegan — home to meet her family.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical
Plot:
vegan, butcher, family relations, vegetarian, father in law son in law relationship, couple relations, farming, conflict, relationships, male female relationship, eccentric family, countryside ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ambitious overachiever Hanna just needs one more kid before her life is perfect. Instead, her baby daddy unexpectedly dumps her. Suddenly, she finds herself without a place to live, job or family. With every fiber of her being set for victory, Hanna ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, thrilling, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, midlife crisis, male female relationship, lifestyle change, relationships, family relations, changing lives, love interest, introspection, love affair, lifestyle, satire ...
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
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Story:
A successful producer and a woke writer and director are brought closer by a creeping attraction and a feeling that they are just pawns in the studio's agenda for a Saudi Arabian buyout.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
satire, problem, social problems, filmmaker, lifestyle, movie business, filmmaking, screenwriter, film producer, film industry, social commentary, media satire ...
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jean and Marina go to Athens for their summer vacation. There they are reunited with Marina's family, while preparing to spend a romantic getaway, Marina's family decides to accompany them. But nothing will go according to the plan.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
family relations, male female relationship, relationships, love story, family reunited, family problems, satire, love affair, couple relations, relationship problems, summer vacation, love and romance ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Michele is the leader of the Italian communist party and a professional water polo player. On this day he's just lost his memory following a (very stupid) car accident. So he has to discover the intricacies of his life again, and he does so ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
memory loss, swimming, surrealism, swimmer, circus, television, satire, politics, character study, identity crisis, political satire, metaphor ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away ...
Style:
psychological, meta, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, bipolar disorder, creative process, creative block, character study, paranoia, mental illness, filmmaking, family relations, social problems, family problems, relationships ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Little Black Dress depicts the friendships, jealousies, hopes and failures of four 24-year-old girls. The girls first met as first year students in college. They seem to be enjoying their 20's, but inside they all have worries.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical
Plot:
friendship, urban setting, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, social problems, relationships, friends, girlfriend, group of friends, lifestyle, satire, female protagonist, best friend ...
Place:
east asia
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young couple buys a rotten house with the intention of turning it into their dream home. But the more the renovations progress, the more their life turns into a nightmare. Bungalow is a comedy-drama about the financial, social and sexual anxieties ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, thrilling, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
renovation, satire, money problems, young couple, love affair, male female relationship, relationship problems, family relations, lifestyle, marital problem, married couple, relationships ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Story:
Njaan Salperu Raman Kutty (2004) Ramankutty (Jayaram), a teacher in the village school is known as "salperu" (i.e. good reputation). Ramankutty's uncles- Narayanan (Janardhanan), Madhavan (Jagathy Sreekumar), Velayudhan (Laloo Aalex) ...
Style:
satirical, thrilling, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
teacher, family drama, village life, reputation, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, love affair, forced marriage, satire, family problems, relationship problems ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two recent college graduates, Anne, an ambitious law student and Amir, an aimless escalator attendant and aspiring sculptor move into a 300 square foot apartment and try to start a life together. But the combination of their small apartment, their ...
Style:
romantic, romantic comedy, thrilling, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
neighbor, satire, social satire, relationship problems, lifestyle, family problems, living together, couple relations, relationships, young couple, intimate, intimacy ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Michele Apicella is a young film and theater director, who lives his troubles as an artist. In Italy reach the Eighties, and Michele, who was contestant in the Sixties, now finds himself in a new era full of crisis of values and ignorance. So ...
Style:
psychotronic, semi autobiographical
Plot:
filmmaking, chess, housewife, television, shepherd, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, psychoanalysis, psychology, critic, screenwriter, dance ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Raouf escapes of the control his grandmother Rawyah Hanim after she traveed to Germany and he movd with his grandfather Romman. After his grandfather's death, he decided to marry Manar, who he is attached to, but as his grandmother returned ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, satirical, psychological, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
grandmother, family drama, grandmother grandson relationship, relationship problems, political unrest, satire, family relations, relationships, eccentric family, family problems, house, female antagonist ...
Similarity:
22%
793
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dany, the king of petty thefts, did not wait until the end of his prison sentence to reunite with his 13-year-old son Sullivan. The only thing he now needs is a job and an apartment to regain custody of his son.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, psychological, satirical, disturbing
Plot:
father son relationship, prison, family relations, parents and children, parent child relationship, prisoner, parenthood, father and son, kids and family, father, satire, jail ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Satyapratapan and Kuruvila are chronic bachelors. SP's sister Sandhya lives as a paying guest in their neighbourhood. Problems begin when Mukesh and Harishree Ashokan join Mammootty and Rambha joins Sandhya.
Style:
thrilling, semi serious, captivating, psychological, light hearted ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
male protagonist, neighbor neighbor relationship, family problems, bachelor, satire, family life, lifestyle, life, neighbor, relationship problems, roommate, friendship ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
filmmaking, lumberjack, small town life, film producer, countryside, satire, director, filmmaker, small village, village people, villager, loneliness ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
the film is about how a barber's life is turned upside down when a film unit comes to the village for a shoot, and the news spreads that superstar Ashok Raj (Mammootty) is the barber's childhood friend. The script also by Srinivasan is so ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
friendship, barber, movie star, old friend, family relations, childhood friend, superstar, relationships, friends, social problems, satire, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The wife of a prominent psychiatrist can't find her marriage certificate one day. This "jiehunzheng" is all important. Without it, the family officially has never existed, including the daughter. The couple go on a wild goose chase ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, semi serious, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, bureaucracy, family relations, relationships, problem, father daughter relationship, family problems, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, marital problem, social commentary ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Dave Peterson is a successful and handsome career-driven attorney who barely spends time with his teenage daughter, Karen. Their routine regularly consists of Dave choosing work over spending time with her, and Karen retreating into her journal or ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
party, family relations, father and daughter, father daughter relationship, family life, relationships, family problems, parents and children, lifestyle, musician, kids and family, father ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Beck is back im Business – als frischgebackener Pflichtverteidiger! Gerade war Hannes Beck noch glücklich als Hausmann und vierfacher Vater, da betrügt ihn seine Frau. Er verlässt sie, muss wieder arbeiten und wird kurzentschlossen Anwalt, denn ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, psychological, thrilling
Plot:
attorney, family problems, relationships, family relations, lifestyle change, changing lives, couple relations, male female relationship, lifestyle, adultery, satire, relationship problems ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, satirical, thrilling, feel good ...
Plot:
teenager, child cancer, mischievous children, teenage boy, teenage life, satire, teenage protagonist, teamwork, children, interview, filmmaking, bullying ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Story:
An aspiring director works hard to fulfill his dream of making a movie. However, in the purely commercial process of turning a script into the final product, he faces so many challenges and is forced to make so many changes that his original story ...
Style:
satirical, ironic, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, dream, director, farce, problem solving, filmmaker, irony, filmmaking, behind the scenes, ambition, urban, bittersweet
Place:
india
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Single mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are attracted to men who are their opposites.
Style:
satirical, psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
single mother, opposites attract, sibling relationship, sisters, satire, sister sister relationship, relationships, family relations, single parent, lifestyle, family drama, slice of life ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Music critic Bob is out of a job, addicted to Zoloft, and trying to wrangle the menagerie of animals that his wife Linda has accumulated. Will adopting a baby cure their existential angst? Or should they just rescue another duck?
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, thrilling, independent film ...
Plot:
satire, relationship problems, married couple, family problems, couples, family life, relationships, lifestyle, family relations, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, midlife crisis ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical, interesting
Plot:
sculptor, art exhibition, art, domestic drama, female protagonist, relationships, satire, slice of life, sculpture, lifestyle, ambition, male pubic hair ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an ...
Style:
clever, psychological, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
cardinal the priest, religion, vatican, pope, identity crisis, catholic church, catholic, self discovery, introspection, self involved, self fulfillment, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy
Similarity:
20%
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