Movies like Those Happy Days

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   Samba

   Same director

   2014 · 118 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • a principal cast member

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   The Specials

   Same director

   2019 · 114 min · Comedy · Drama

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   For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • similar audience response

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   Trouble at Timpetill

   Strong story similarity

   2008 · 133 min · Adventure · Family · Fantasy

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   The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era
   • shared production studio: M6 Films

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   Whatever You Say

   Shared cast

   2002 · 110 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Bastien, an ambitious young production assistant, catches the attention of Jean-Louis, a producer of high regard, and is granted a shot at his own television show.

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

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   The Chorus

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 97 min · Comedy · Drama · Music

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   In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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   School of Life

   Strong story similarity

   2017 · 116 min · Comedy · Drama · Family

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   Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Grocer's Son

   Strong story similarity

   2007 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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   Les Souvenirs

   Shared cast

   2014 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Twenty-three years old Romain would like to be a writer, but, for the moment, he's night watchman in a hotel. His sixty-two years old father is retired and seems to not give a damn about anything. He shares an apartment with a twenty-four-year-old guy whose sole purpose in life is to seduce a woman, no matter who, and no matter the cost. His eighty-five years old grandmother is living in an old people's home, and she wonders what on earth she is doing with stuck with all these old people. One day, Romain's father turns up in a fluster. His grandmother has disappeared. In fact, she kind of escaped. Romain sets out to find her, somewhere in his memories.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • a principal cast member

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   Little Nicholas' Treasure

   Shared cast

   2021 · 103 min · Comedy · Family

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   In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart. How can he imagine life without his best friends?

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a principal cast member
   • shared production studio: M6 Films

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    My Summer in Provence

    Strong story similarity

    2014 · 105 min · Comedy · Drama

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    In the wake of their parent's separation, three siblings spend the summer in the south of France with their estranged Grandfather. In less than 24 hours, a clash of generations has occurred between the teenagers and the old man. During this turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by one another.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity

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