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Life's a Beach (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Darren gets stood up on the day of his wedding and uses his vacation tickets with his best friend, RJ, to spend his "honeymoon" at a Club Med-style resort.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: resort, couples, friends, disorder, fall in love, youth, lifestyle, island, beach, looking for sex, friendship, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Great Outdoors (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, cult classic, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: camp, family vacation, bear, wilderness, holiday, teenage girl, nothing goes right, family relations, youth, disorder, parents and children, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: minnesota, chicago, usa, wisconsin
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 5.7
 5K
Holiday (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
Style: melancholic, captivating, serious, scenic, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: beach, sexual assault, physical abuse, erection, murder, wealth, drug lord, male female relationship, forced sex, gangster, rape, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: year 2019, 21st century
Place: turkey
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Holiday in the Sun (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sisters Alex and Madison are whisked away to the Bahamas for winter break but soon find themselves crossing paths with a man smuggling stolen artifacts.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, teen, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: mischievous children, twin sister, exotic island, teenage life, youth, family relations, friends, school, rivalry, high school, when the parents are away, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bahamas, usa, hawaii, caribbean
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 5.9
 53K
Vegas Vacation (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gambling, dysfunctional family, obsession, family relations, farce, road trip, nothing goes right, teenage life, parents and children, desert, vacation, chase ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, chicago, nevada, usa
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Holiday in Handcuffs (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A ne er-do-well thirty-something (Melissa Joan Hart) attempts to appease her family by kidnapping herself an attractive boyfriend (Mario Lopez) for the family Christmas. Despite unlikely odds and dysfunctional family moments, the two fall in love ...
Style: not serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: unlikely couple, fall in love, christmas, pretend relationship, love and romance, couples, parents and children, grownups, meet the parents, holiday, winter, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.4
 10K
This Christmas (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and they've brought plenty of baggage with them. As the Christmas tree is trimmed and the lights are ...
Style: light, sweet, black comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, family relations, christmas season, family problems, divorce, black, human nature, redemption, estrangement, family life ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, los angeles, san francisco, chicago
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My Father the Hero (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.
Style: teen, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, daughter, nymphet, family holiday, father daughter relationship, bad father, lesbian, love, first love, summer, wrestling, vacation ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: bahamas, north america, west indies, atlantic ocean, new york ...
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Bread and Tulips (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her begin. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: fall in love, self discovery, friendship, marriage, housewife, love and romance, family relations, florist, relationships, food, life philosophy, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, venice
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Menorah in the Middle (2022)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sarah is headed back to her hometown for Hanukkah with news of her engagement. Upon returning she finds out that her father had a heart attack and things have gotten out of hand.
Style: psychological, captivating, psychotronic
Plot: love affair, female protagonist, male female relationship, love interest, relationship problems, family problems, family relations, parents and children, love story, love and romance, homecoming, relationships ...
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 7.3
 6K
Hit the Road (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.
Style: serious, road movie
Plot: travel, road trip, immigration, family holiday, brother, family relations, cigarette smoking, domestic drama, cycling, little boy, car journey, cyclist ...
Place: iran
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 5.5
 1K
Boxing Day (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left ...
Style: romantic comedy
Plot: christmas, holiday, ex husband ex wife relationship, ex girlfriend, divorced parents, love, jamaican, estranged son, brother sister relationship, family holiday, famous singer, secrets ...
Place: london, los angeles
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 5.8
 159K
Old (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Style: suspense, mysterious, tense, psychological, psychedelic ...
Plot: island, vacation, rapid aging, time, aging, medical experiment, island prison, ocean, race against time, family vacation, held captive, trap ...
Time: 2020s
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What We Wanted (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alice and Niklas are a young couple who's biggest wish is to have a child of their own. After several failed attempts they decide to go on a holiday in Sardinia to clear their minds. There they meet a family from Austria that seems to have ...
Style: rough, thought provoking, sincere, psychological, suspenseful
Plot: married couple, family relations, neighbor, dreaming, husband wife relationship, boy, social realism, routine, marriage crisis, resentment, danger, chance meeting ...
Place: sardinia
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The Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About Halloween! (2016)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 58 min.
Story: The Cat in the Hat takes Nick and Sally on the craziest Halloween adventure, where they go to the Oooky-ma-kooky Closet to help find Nick and Sally the best Halloween costumes ever.
Style: satirical, captivating, funny, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: halloween, holiday, anthropomorphism, mischievous children, satire, child protagonist, children, family holiday, pumpkin, halloween costume, trick or treating, closet
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Return to Christmas Creek (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As Christmas approaches, Amelia Hughes, a career-focused Chicago app developer lacking in holiday spirit, returns to her small hometown of Christmas Creek to rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There, she reunites with her childhood best friend ...
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, light, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, childhood friend, programmer, uncle niece relationship, homecoming, happy ending, ambition, character change, love and romance, small town life ...
Place: chicago, wisconsin
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Marrying Father Christmas (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Miranda Chester sets off to find information on her biological father two Christmases ago, she never imagined her investigation would lead her to both the love of her life, Ian McAndrick, and the family she had always longed for, including ...
Style: light, feel good, funny, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, wedding, holiday, wedding ceremony, true love, fiance fiancee relationship, family relations, wedding planning, long lost relative, happy ending, relationships, biological father ...
Place: boston, vermont
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Christmas at Graceland (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Laurel, a Chicago-based business executive, travels to Memphis to secure one of the city's oldest family-owned banks. While in Memphis, Laurel reunites with old flame Clay, a local music promoter with loftier aspirations. Though Laurel tries to ...
Style: romantic, captivating, humorous, light, entertaining
Audience: date night, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, second chance, christmas romance, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship, love and romance, female protagonist, unfulfillment, parents and children, fall in love, adaptation ...
Place: chicago, tennessee, memphis
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Christmas in Love (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ellie Hartman is an aspiring crafter working in her small town’s bakery making famous Christmas Kringles. When the new, big-city CEO Nick Carlingson visits the bakery, he arrives filled with modernization ideas destined to lay off many employees.
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, light, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, happy ending, bakery, holiday, family business, small town, businessman, christmas romance, love interest, transformation, opposites attract, character change ...
Time: 2010s
Place: missouri, san francisco
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Road to Christmas (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Los Angeles television producer Maggie Baker unwittingly falls for Danny Wise, the son and former producer of his mother’s popular annual Christmas special Julia Wise Lifestyle. When Maggie’s secret plan to reunite Danny and his two brothers ...
Style: feel good, funny, light, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas romance, happy ending, love, love affair, snow, rivalry, friendship, fall in love, family values, escapades ...
Place: vermont, rhode island, denver colorado, los angeles
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Man spricht deutsh (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A very middle-class Bavarian family spend the last day of their Mediterranean vacation on the beach, day-dreaming and muttering racist remarks about Italians.
Plot: dream, beach, holiday, family holiday, vacation, meal, prejudice, misunderstanding, seaside, sea, mistrust, tourist ...
Place: italy, mediterranean sea
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How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
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Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead ...
Style: humorous, touching, melancholic, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: bigfoot, sasquatch, wildlife, happy ending, fish out of water, family drama, mentor, police investigation, brothers, kindness, animal, creature ...
Time: 80s
Place: seattle, washington state, usa, north america
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What About Bob? (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin ...
Style: funny, light, witty, not serious, psychological ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: mental illness, psychiatrist, vacation, therapy, obsession, yuppie, mother daughter relationship, phobia, family vacation, psychology, sarcasm, psychiatry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new hampshire, usa
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 6.4
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Summer '04 (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sommer ’04 is a character study of a family on vacation. German director Stefan Krohmer examines the emotional abyss and problems behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love and jealousy.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: grownups, infidelity, gender, battle of the sexes, innocence lost, social decay, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, love affair, youth, destructive relationship, society ...
Place: germany
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 5.6
 63K
RV (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Climbing aboard their mammoth recreational vehicle for a cross-country road trip to the Colorado Rockies, the McNeive family – led by dysfunctional patriarch, Bob – prepares for the adventure of a lifetime. But spending two weeks together in one ...
Style: funny, feel good, road movie, entertaining, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: road trip, camping, family vacation, workaholic, motor home, father daughter relationship, vacation, on the road, happy ending, family values, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa, nevada, utah, pasadena california
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Call of the Wild (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf-dog, Buck, and schemes to save him from a cruel dogsledder.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, contemplative, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: family holiday, human animal relationship, small town, young heroes, friendship, contests and competitions, chases and races, friends, rivalry, grandfather granddaughter relationship, dog, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
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 4.6
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Hostile Forces (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After discovering a fortune in stolen contraband, a military veteran and his family must run from a hit squad in a desperate fight for survival.
Plot: fight scenes, family holiday, father, family relations, soldier, loss of brother, war crime, wounded, afghanistan veteran, shootout, parent child relationship, car journey ...
Place: australia
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 4.5
 17K
The Darkness (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.
Style: bleak, suspense, spooky, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, demon, animal attack, haunting, supernatural horror, self sacrifice, ghost, supernatural, husband wife relationship, portal, son, marital strife ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa, arizona
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Club Las Piranjas (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Karl-Heinz, a filling-station attendant, and his family, Herta, a retiree, Kurt, a drugstore branch manager, and Margot, a divorced man-hunter, have only one thing in common: they have booked a holiday at Club Las Piranjas, where they want to relax ...
Plot: family holiday, satire, hotel manager, bus trip, family relations, hotel room, fictitious country, hotel, social satire, holiday, vacation, german abroad ...
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