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Nina's Tragedies (2003)
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Original name: האסונות של נינה
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, sweet, witty, semi serious, crying
Plot:
incestuous desire, peeping tom, longing, sexual obsession, aunt nephew relationship, infatuation, unrequited love, coming of age, israeli, first love, voyeur, love, family relations, dysfunctional family, teenage life, youth, family problems, lifestyle, death in the family, male female relationship, boyhood, mistaken identity, father son relationship, sister sister relationship, sex ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
israel, middle east, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and sentimental films with plots about coming of age, family relations, youth, parents and children, dysfunctional family, teenage life and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Nina's Tragedies: Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003), The Fury (2016), Noodle (2007), Wetlands (2013), The Best Things in the World (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
16 years old Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school's principal finds out ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, feel good, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
secret relationship, high school, prodigy, self discovery, teenage life, dysfunctional family, youth, human nature, fall in love, teenage love, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Albert has always looked up to his aunt Tiny: this beautiful woman from Brabant can make any man’s heart skip a beat. Through Albert’s eyes Tiny’s life seems quite exciting. But why is she so furious at everyone and everything? It takes him ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, art house, period piece, tragic
Plot:
aunt nephew relationship, illegal abortion, coming of age, family drama, character study, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, small town, isolation, overprotective mother, incestuous desire, family secret ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 80s, 70s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Plot:
getting home, deportation, communication problem, hopes, family relations, stewardess, interracial relations, society, journey, israeli, love, judaism ...
Place:
israel
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the ...
Style:
sexy, controversial, erotic, touching, intense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, hospital, childhood trauma, divorced parents, sexuality, sexual fantasy, masturbation, dysfunctional family, misfit, dark humor, mother daughter relationship, sex ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, turkey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, lgbt, gay, boy, gay interest, father son relationship, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
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42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, parents and children, family in crisis, teenage love, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
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41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.
Style:
sexy, touching, erotic, sentimental, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, coming of age, sexual initiation, oedipus complex, mother son relationship, mother and son, self discovery, sex, exploring sexuality, sexuality, childhood ...
Time:
1950s, year 1954, 20th century, 50s, year 1971 ...
Place:
france, israel, europe, indochina, paris france ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, aunt nephew relationship, female nudity, bar mitzvah, israeli, israeli culture, nude girl, aunt, black market, family relations, young heroes, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love and romance, youth, looking for love, family problems, society, siblings relations, teenage life, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place:
england, pakistan, europe, middle east, manchester
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
clever, serious, realistic, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
mathematics, coming of age, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage love, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, youth, estrangement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, budapest, cleveland ohio, hungary
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, age difference, family relations, friendship, loss of virginity, couples, friends, self discovery, love and romance, hopes, youth, dealing with death ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, madrid
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style:
depressing, sincere, talky, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, coming of age, father son relationship, infidelity, boy, adultery, marriage, drinking, cat, underage drinking, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 2005, 80s, 2000s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style:
humorous, independent film, black comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, dysfunctional family, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, estrangement, family problems, couples, parents and children, family in crisis, family life ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, tokyo
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style:
touching, sentimental, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dysfunctional family, aunt, youth, candy store, grandmother, mental health, bike, family relations, coming of age, brother, family problems, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Morocco, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from all his brothers, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, gay interest, gender, gay, glbt, homosexual, childhood, father son relationship, closeted homosexual, drug addict, gay teenager, gay bar ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 2000s, year 2005, y2k ...
Place:
canada, quebec, jerusalem, israel, holy land ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himself dividing his time between two women: a young actress named Lisa and a photographer named Jane. ...
Style:
sweet, touching, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, relationships, love story, college, fall in love, imagination, friendship, adolescence, love triangle, road trip, life philosophy, youth ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, disturbing ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, coming of age, boy, exodus, little boy, best friend, working class, dysfunctional family, family relations, rejection, human nature ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style:
cynical, talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, greed, secrets, character study, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, long island, vermont, harvard university
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bentzi, Momo, and Yuda'leh are three teenage boys growing up in 1950's Israel, which is not much different from 1950's America if you believe what you see in the film. Of course they are obsessed with one thing - sex. Bentzi is ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, homoerotic, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
sex, horniness, unrequited love, teenage pregnancy, nymphomaniac, teenager, erotica, israeli, looking for sex, unwanted pregnancy, virginity, party ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
israel, middle east, asia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
Style:
sentimental, philosophical, realistic, touching, existential ...
Plot:
coming of age, children, boy, tomboy, nude model, female nudity, boxing, childhood, terminal illness, small town, young boy, adolescence ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
39%
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Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot:
impossible love, friendship, teenage love, teenage life, self discovery, starting over, couples, family life, false accusation, fall in love, society, politics ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
Similarity:
39%
726
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two 12 year olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings
Style:
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Plot:
young love, first love, coming of age, youth, friends, child, children, love, divorce, middle class, best friend, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, inspirational, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, eccentricity, dysfunctional family, obsession, family problems, friendship, intergenerational friendship, parenthood, redemption, honest, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
scotland, england, united kingdom, edinburgh scotland, europe ...
Similarity:
39%
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Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style:
dark comedy, depressing, cynical, clever, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, mental illness, dark humor, addiction, fall in love, depression, existentialism, youth, teenage life, eccentric family, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, new jersey, washington d.c., manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
39%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, sexual, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, gender, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, closeted homosexual, lgbtq, bullying, youth, lgbt, teachers and students, lgbt teen, gay crush ...
Place:
canada, nova scotia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style:
touching, humorous, emotional, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, infidelity, family drama, family gatherings, childhood home, homecoming, children, family relations, loneliness, family home, brother sister relationship, extramarital affair ...
Time:
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Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
couples, disorder, couple relations, dishonesty, male female relationship, death, love, magic, pharmacist, retirement home, infidelity, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hal, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route he joins the school debating team, which sends ...
Style:
clever, sincere, teen, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, high school, debate, nothing goes right, teenage love, dysfunctional family, friendship, teenage life, misfit, contests and competitions, teacher, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, usa, california
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, erotic, independent film, light ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, love triangle, sex scene, male virgin, coming of age, nude model, female nudity, voyeur, nudity, sexual attraction, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, sweet, humorous, witty, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
38%
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