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Capturing Dad (2012)
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Original name: チチを撮りに
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estranged father is on his deathbed, so Sawa asks Hazuki and Koharu to visit him and take one last photo to remember him by.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, offbeat
Plot:
dark humor, youth, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, father, absent father, travel, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, relationship problems, family problems, family reunited, teenager, asian, cancer, death, mother daughter relationship, family, divorced divorcee, girl wearing a miniskirt, pretty legs, slender legs
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
japan, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, youth and bittersweet mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Capturing Dad: A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010), Quitters (2015), Daddy Longlegs (2009), Rolling Family (2004), The Talent Given Us (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Time:
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313
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, family problems, family life, parents and children, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, innocence lost, high school life, girl man relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. During these ...
Style:
mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
youth, nothing goes right, dark humor, children, divorce, disorder, parents and children, bittersweet, family relations, thirtysomething life, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style:
road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, family problems, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, on the road, couples, love and romance, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, youth ...
Place:
argentina, brazil, latin america
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, witty ...
Plot:
eccentric family, on the road, family relations, elderly, family in crisis, cross country, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, friend, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, new york, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
310
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, life turned upside down, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family problems, disorder, parents and children, manhood, youth, dysfunctional family, dark humor, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affection de ses trois fils, David, Max et Simon. Il va même jusqu'à invoquer une maladie et une intervention chirurgicale pour les ...
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semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family problems, family life, eccentric family, family gatherings, unemployment, fake illness, father son relationship, father son reunion, father and son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec, canada, paris france, montreal
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, youth, parents and children, midlife crisis, child as adult ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
youth, adoption, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, family problems, obsessive quest, on the road, family in crisis, hopes, self discovery, escape ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style:
emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
family business, save the day, family relations, working class, family problems, restaurant, society, siblings relations, family in crisis, bank, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Nomi Kanjuro (Takaaki Nomi) is a master less samurai on the run after throwing away his sword for good. He has with him his headstrong 9-year-old daughter Tae (Sea Kumada). A bounty is soon placed on Nomi Kanjuro and 3 assassins go after the score. ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, jidai geki ...
Plot:
samurai, hopes, obsessive quest, captivity, one last chance, human spirit, escapades, goofy hero, heroes, youth, redemption, parents and children ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a sixteen-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, disturbing, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
dark humor, friendship, teenage life, family relations, parents and children, youth, family drama, survival, coming of age, relationships, existential crisis, slice of life ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, death in the family, siblings relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, father and son, relationship problems, family reunited ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
self discovery, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, terminal illness, family life, bittersweet, one night stand, husband wife relationship, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The youngest son of a legendary Hollywood producer, a Robert Evans type, accepts a bribe from his father to document his death.
Style:
semi serious, cynical, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, eccentric family, family problems, lifestyle, love and romance, parents and children, hollywood, narcissism, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, corpse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, stylized, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage love, dysfunctional family, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, suicide ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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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
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, family problems, siblings relations, eccentric family, parents and children, dark humor, family gatherings, friendship, dysfunctional family, lake tahoe, gay son, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Manena is the headstrong adolescent daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacation to one thing : the invasion of his artificial lagoon by carps. While he employs increasingly radical methods, Manena has her first romantic ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, family relations, teenage life, countryside, siblings relations, youth, fish, landowner, animal abuse, coming of age, bourgeoisie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, light, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, parents and children, family problems, hopes, youth, lawyer, father son relationship, teacher, husband wife relationship, teenager, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, homecoming, hopes, family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, estrangement, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sandrine and Alice are two sisters who, in their thirties, decide the time has come to attempt a reconciliation with their mother.
Style:
cynical, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, parents and children, unlikely criminals, estrangement, confined, obsessive quest, dark humor, separation, single mother, selfishness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
242
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for his friend from the childhood, who saved him from the Holocaust. In meantime he formed a special ...
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
parent child relationship, parents and children, family problems, family relations, holocaust survivor, bittersweet, estrangement, elderly, religions or cults, quibbling, escapades, aging ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, greece, palestine
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A single woman runs a rent-a-cat service to provide companions for lonely people.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, sincere, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
pets, introspection, cat, loneliness, summer, asian, small business, japanese woman, disorder, life turned upside down, singleness, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, youth, parents and children, teenage angst, suburbs, teen romance, female protagonist, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A family vacation is bogged down by unrelenting rain, as a teenage girl and her divorced father try to find common ground.
Style:
humorous, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, teenager, family relations, parents and children, resort, family problems, confined, siblings relations, hotel, estrangement, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
uruguay, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Maya is the perfect mother. Her life revolves around her three childerens, Aleya ( Aachal Munjal ), Ankush ( Nominath Ginsberg ), and Anjali ( Diya Sonecha ). Who thinks nothing much then the world of her. Despite being divorced from her husband, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couples, family relations, family problems, family life, parents and children, rivalry, couple relations, family drama, dysfunctional family, cancer, stepmother, household ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, disorder, family problems, unlikely criminals, dull life, life is a bitch, eccentric family, pension, social relations, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
croatia, europe
Similarity:
100%
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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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A story of two sisters, one from the country with simpler attitudes who comes to stay for a short while with her sophisticated sister who lives in the big city.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, breaking point, family relations, dull life, parents and children, sibling rivalry, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, frigidity, housewife, family problems, living together ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
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