Movies like Summer Storm

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   What to Do in Case of Fire?

   Strong story similarity

   2001 · 101 min · Action · Comedy · Drama · Romance · Thriller

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   The humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former East Germany. At the end of the 80s, they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to terms with the reason they separated 12 years ago.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared genre DNA
   • a closely matched era

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   SommerHundeSöhne

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   2005 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Summer is the time to travel, enjoy life, and do or leave what you want. A motor home with two occupants makes its way south. But the two travelers do not travel voluntarily, and certainly not together.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: friendship and summer

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   The Edukators

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 127 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

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

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   Agnes and His Brothers

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 115 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a night club. The three brothers just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.

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

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   Summer in Berlin

   Strong story similarity

   2005 · 105 min · Comedy · Drama

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   An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: friendship and lovesickness

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   Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt

   Strong story similarity

   2003 · 94 min · Comedy · Drama

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   The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

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

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   Dog Days

   Strong story similarity

   2001 · 122 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

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

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   Netto

   Strong story similarity

   2005 · 87 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.

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   • a closely matched era

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   Quiet as a Mouse

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 85 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A pseudo documentary study of an archetypal German who tries to model his world according to his ideas of law and (sexual) order.

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   • a closely matched era

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    Runaway Horse

    Strong story similarity

    2007 · 92 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful girlfriend Helene, Helmut is quite ready to dismiss this dimly familiar acquaintance. But Klaus is overjoyed to recognize his old schoolmate Helmut, eager to recall every incident of their shared time, and to display every detail of this successful lifestyle as a fit sportsman and author. The precious days of privacy give way to an unwanted and awkward intimacy, as the Buchs and the Halms hike, dine and sail together. Their joint activities aggravate myriad psychological tensions among the four characters, which are all the more intensely ironic for their peaceful veneer and which must eventually erupt.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: friendship and holiday

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