Movies like My Mom Is a Character 2

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   Tô de Graça: O Filme

   Same director

   2024 · 96 min · Comedy

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   Graça receives an unexpected financial settlement and decides to take part of her large family on a trip to Araruama. The journey quickly descends into chaos as the group faces a series of misadventures: travel mishaps, unexpected encounters, and escalating comedic situations. Along the way, Graça confronts past relationships and family conflicts, leading to humorous and unpredictable outcomes. The story follows the family’s attempts to navigate these challenges, blending farce, misunderstandings, and coincidences, ultimately highlighting the chaos and unpredictability of a large family vacation.

   Why it connects

   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared production studio: Globo Filmes

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   Na Rédea Curta

   Same studio

   2022 · 95 min · Comedy · Family

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   Júlio was raised only by his mother. Now, at the age of twenty, he discovers that it will be his turn to be a father, and that's why he decides to go after the father he's never seen.

   Why it connects

   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared production studio: Agência Nacional do Cinema - ANCINE

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   The Second Mother

   Same studio

   2015 · 112 min · Drama

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   After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

   Why it connects

   • strong recommendation signals
   • shared production studio: Globo Filmes

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   Casa Grande

   Same studio

   2014 · 117 min · Drama

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   As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his 'casa grande' - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.

   Why it connects

   • strong recommendation signals
   • shared production studio: Migdal Filmes

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   Our Mighty Yaya

   Similar atmosphere

   2017 · 98 min · Comedy

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   Virgie who is a hideous-looking but sympathetic woman from the province is hired as a nanny for an affluent family in Manila.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Dona Lurdes: O Filme

   Genre overlap

   2024 · 87 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Dona Lurdes is a mother and housewife who is suffering from empty nest syndrome when her last child leaves home. To escape her loneliness, she goes in search of new ways to fill her days and her life. Due to her thirst for new things, Dona Lurdes will live new experiences, build friendships and new love.

   Why it connects

   • substantial genre overlap

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   Another Story of the World

   Similar atmosphere

   2017 · 105 min · Comedy

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   A small town, two families joined together over time. A man who does not forget the values ​​of honor and fraternal friendship. From the director of The Journey to the Sea, history proposes the coalition of two worlds or, perhaps, the same but with different ways of understanding it.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   How the Gringo Stole Christmas

   Similar atmosphere

   2023 · 81 min · Comedy

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   Bennie's daughter is on her way home for the holidays. However she surprises him by arriving with her brand new boyfriend - an uninvited gringo.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Double Dad

   Strong movie match

   2021 · 103 min · Comedy · Drama · Family

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   While her mom is away, a teen sneaks out of the hippie commune where she lives and embarks on a life-changing adventure to discover who her father is.

   Why it connects

   • strong recommendation signals

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    Young and Wild

    Genre overlap

    2012 · 92 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era

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