Movies like The Door Slams

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   Themroc

   Strong story similarity

   1973 · 104 min · Comedy

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   Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.

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   • strong story and style similarity
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   Sabrina

   Strong movie match

   1954 · 114 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.

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   Hearth Fires

   Strong story similarity

   1972 · 110 min · Drama

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   Alexandre Boursault, a provincial notary, would have been the happiest man alive if his wife did not openly display her political views and participate in all kinds of demonstrations.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: sibling relationship

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   Not Dumb, the Bird

   Strong story similarity

   1972 · 96 min · Comedy · Crime

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   An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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   The Strange Ones

   Strong story similarity

   1950 · 107 min · Drama

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   Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: sibling relationship

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   Two English Girls

   Strong story similarity

   1971 · 130 min · Drama · Romance

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   In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.

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   • strong story and style similarity

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   A Good Marriage

   Strong story similarity

   1982 · 97 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.

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   • strong story and style similarity

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   Une glace avec deux boules...

   Strong story similarity

   1982 · 94 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared theme: sibling relationship

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   Trinity Is Still My Name

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   1971 · 118 min · Comedy · Western

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   The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared theme: sibling relationship

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    Family Resemblances

    Strong story similarity

    1996 · 110 min · Comedy

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    An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

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