Most Similar Movies to My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
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Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969), The Landlord (1970), On the Other Side of the Tracks (2012), Somers Town (2008), Paris (2008), Breaking and Entering (2006), Burning an Illusion (1981) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
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The Landlord (1970)
A wealthy young man causes a stir within his family when he decides to purchase a tenement house in the ghetto.
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On the Other Side of the Tracks (2012)
Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.
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Somers Town (2008)
A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.
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Paris (2008)
A ex-dancer has a heart problem and even with a transplant, he may still only have a few months to live. Time's spent looking at people/life in Paris from his balcony. His single mom sister moves in with her 3 kids to look after him.
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Breaking and Entering (2006)
A landscape architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.
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Burning an Illusion (1981)
A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.
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Room to Rent (2000)
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatma...Read all
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God's Own Country (2017)
Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
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Irina Palm (2007)
Maggie, a 60-year-old widow, desperately needs some money to pay for a medical treatment for her ill grandson, Olly. After one attempt at trying to find a job, she finds herself roaming the streets of London Soho. Her eye is caught by a small poster in the window of a shop called "Sexy World" which reads: "Hostess wanted". Too desperate and lost to realize what she do...Read all
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Someone Else's America (1995)
This tale take place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
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Kinky Boots (2005)
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.
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Up the Junction (1968)
Addresses some of the major 60s social issues - a bored rich London-girl from Chelsea decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea, getting a flat and starts factory-work and makes friends... of which one has to get an illegal abortion.
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Georgy Girl (1966)
A traditional girl (Lynn Redgrave) resists the advances of a swinger (James Mason) who wants her as his mistress in 1960s London.
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Samba (2014)
Senegalese Samba has worked 10 years in France. He's arrested and befriends the woman helping him with legal matters as volunteer after a burnout at work. He's released after being told to leave France. Chemistry?
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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
Absent-minded photographer Polly (Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at an art gallery in Toronto operated by a woman named Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon). Gabrielle tells Polly she regrets she never became a great painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle's paintings, however, and after she smuggles one into a gallery show, a critic praises it as a masterpiece. But when it turns out to be the work of Gabrielle's lover (Ann-Marie MacDonald), Polly begins to understand how the art world works.
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Overseas (1990)
In French Algeria, after WWII, three daughters of wealthy settlers begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor. Malene's husband, Gildas, refuses to work in the farm, so she has to take care of everything. Gritte, the youngest, does not want to marry and is a nurse for the natives. We will follow their three different destinies.
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