Movies like Not Such An Easy Life

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   Don't Air Your Dirty Laundry In Public

   Strong story similarity

   2020 · 82 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Lupita and Toña work as housemaids at the Ruíz Palacio’s house, an aristocratic Mexican family. For a long time they have been mistreated and poorly paid. They’re now fed up with the abuse and lack of respect they get from their employers.

   Why it connects

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

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   Warehoused

   Strong story similarity

   2015 · 93 min · Comedy · Drama

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   An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where apparently nothing ever happens.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: working class

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   Patricia, A Hidden Passion

   Strong story similarity

   2020 · 76 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Patricia is a successful couples therapist. Your marriage is going through a bad time. But when she meets a student, Pablo will transform her own beliefs about sex.

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

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   Flies

   Strong story similarity

   2026 · 101 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.

   Why it connects

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

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   You Keep the Kids

   Shared cast

   2021 · 103 min · Comedy · Family

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   Flora and Victor are fun, modern, caring parents. That is, until they decide to get a divorce, and the perfect job opportunity turns up for them. They now have one problem: custody.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • a principal cast member
   • a closely matched era

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   The Astronaut Lovers

   Strong story similarity

   2024 · 116 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Pedro arrives at the coast and reunites with Maxi, whom he hasn't seen since childhood. Hoping to make his ex-girlfriend jealous, Maxi asks Pedro to pretend to be his boyfriend. Pedro agrees, amused, but fails to realize that this game could turn into reality.

   Why it connects

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

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   Lullaby

   Shared cast

   2022 · 104 min · Drama

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   Amaia has just become a mother, and the challenge is even more significant than she imagined. So when her partner has to leave for several weeks because of his job, she decides to spend time with her parents in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country and hopefully share the responsibility of looking after her baby. However, she forgot that even when one becomes a parent, one never stops being a daughter.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Roma

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 135 min · Drama

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   In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Waiting for Bojangles

   Strong story similarity

   2021 · 124 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   A boy and his eccentric parents leave their home in Paris for a country house in Spain. As the mother descends deeper into her own mind, it's up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and happy.

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

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    La mitad de Ana

    Strong story similarity

    2025 · 95 min · Drama

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    Son confesses to his mother, Ana, that he does not feel like a girl; he is a boy. Confused and blocked, Ana will decide to stop in order to observe and understand him and, in the same way, to understand herself. Ana and Son are two sides of the same coin: a mother who does not take care of herself, of her own identity, and a boy in search of his identity with all his strength.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era

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