Movies like Brighton Beach Memoirs

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Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
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Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
Style: funny, realistic, semi autobiographical, independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, tense ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: coming of age, jewish family, dysfunctional family, past, boy, great depression, stage play, family relations, breaking the fourth wall, gambling, youth, parents and children, love and romance, siblings relations, eccentric family, biopic, baseball, billiards, poverty, radio, masturbation, adolescence, widow, childhood memory, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937, 30s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
Keyword: jewish, russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, love and romance, youth, parents and children, coming of age, couples and teenage life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Musical genres. Some movies like Brighton Beach Memoirs: Biloxi Blues (1988), Lost in Yonkers (1993), Radio Days (1987), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972), Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Biloxi Blues (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During the Second World War, Eugene enlists in the US Army during the last year of the War and is sent to basic training in Biloxi Mississippi. There he must live with a variety of fellow soldiers while enduring the whims of a mentally unstable ...
Style: humorous, funny, realistic, clever, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, basic training, boot camp, gay, military life, military, friendship, adaptation, virginity, male virgin, youth ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, arkansas
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100%
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style: sentimental, touching, psychological, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, aunt, grandmother, bike, mental health, coming of age, candy store, brother, bittersweet, family problems, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place: new york, usa
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100%
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Radio Days (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, talky, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: radio, working class, dysfunctional family, rescue, lifestyle, love and romance, submarine, family problems, parents and children, nostalgia, world war two, coming of age ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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100%
Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Fresh, unflinching and devastatingly honest, Bill Burr lets loose in this feature length comedy special. Burr shares his essential tips for surviving the zombie apocalypse, exposes how rom-coms ruin great sex and explains how too many childhood hugs ...
Style: unusual plot structure, funny, light, melancholic, suspense ...
Plot: life philosophy, childhood, suprisingly clever, comedian, philosophy, storytelling, stand up comedian, transformation, violence, parenthood, mentor, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and ...
Style: sex comedy, colorful, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: midlife crisis, adultery, sleaze, dating, family relations, couples, family problems, restaurant, thirtysomething life, eccentric family, infidelity, love affair ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
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23%
Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Musical dancer on the way out (at 36) Paula McFadden had it swell with actor Tony DeSanti, but instead of taking her to Hollywood he gets a European movie part. He even sublets their (his) New York apartment to Elliot Garfield, who generously lets ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, unlikely couple, dancer's life, love and romance, starting over, family relations, couples, showbiz, male female relationship, artists and showbiz, workplace, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: family relations, coming of age, dating, dysfunctional family, divorce, family drama, road trip, estrangement, vacation, hitchhiking, camping, swimming ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: usa, hawaii
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21%
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A Beer Tale (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A coming of age romantic comedy centered around the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the pivotal months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery and were left in the ...
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, realistic ...
Plot: beer, coming of age, family business, family relations, twins, youth, love and romance, rivalry, couples, friendship, drinking alcohol, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Odd Couple (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondent, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is ...
Style: funny, atmospheric, hilarious, humorous, clever ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: friendship, buddy, buddies, friendship between men, friends who live together, bromance, poker, suicide attempt, stage play, eternal love, odd couple, old age ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV ...
Style: funny, talky, humorous, witty, laugh out loud ...
Plot: aging, old age, vaudeville, senior citizen, actor, spy, stage play, grudge, comedian, showbiz, couples, friends ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Jesus Henry Christ (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
Style: witty, humorous, semi serious, touching, funny ...
Plot: artificial insemination, youth, feminist, eccentric family, obsessive quest, sperm donor, prodigy, young heroes, family relations, parents and children, escapades, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Madea's Big Happy Family The Play (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: family life, eccentric family, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings, madea, profanity, strong female presence, suburbs, terminal illness, siblings relations, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Style: retro, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: jewish family, siblings, womanizer, buddies, love and romance, fall in love, couples, family relations, mate swapping, eccentric family, twentysomething life, siblings relations ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Queen of Hearts (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cafe, youth, food, family relations, couples, family conflict, immigrant family, love and romance, coming of age, society, family problems, family life ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: One weekend, Aunt Bam's nephew-in-law Stewart is granted a court-ordered visitation with his children. Although his new, much-younger wife Mona is a bundle of nerves, Stewart seizes the opportunity to reconnect with his children, whom he loves ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family life, family problems, parents and children, disorder, strong female presence, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, african american protagonist
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
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Two Bits (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, anamorphic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, rich and poor, world war one, family relations, friends, hopes, self discovery, friendship, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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19%
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, disorder, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, coming of age, scientist, daughter, social relations, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Discoverers (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, love, bittersweet, highway travel, road trip, on the road
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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No Pain, No Gain (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David is a teenager who feels he doesn't belong to a life where his family, friends and the girl he loves seem not to understand him.
Style: sincere, touching, humorous, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage love, couples, family relations, youth, nothing goes right, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, teenage crush, conflict, masturbation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madrid, spain
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19%
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Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, witty, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
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Goats (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father means 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called Goat Man. So when Ellis decides to leave the alternative ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, funny ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, teenage life, fall in love, youth, parents and children, eccentric family, roommate, father son relationship, boy girl relationship, divorced parents, preparatory school ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, tucson arizona
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19%
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Expelled (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Felix (Cameron Dallas) is a legendary prankster who gets expelled from his high school and, with his friend’s help, stops at nothing to hide it from his parents.
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, disgusting, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, teenage life, prankster, coming of age, high school life, youth, friends, school expulsion, college, power relations, teenage girl, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a ...
Style: funny, humorous, touching, satirical, hilarious ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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4 Wedding Planners (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Manna from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
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Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Made for Each Other (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The pair who created "Lovers and Other Strangers" take on marriage and other impossibilities.
Style: semi serious, realistic, biting, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: therapy, bittersweet, fall in love, love and romance, siblings relations, haunted by the past, love affair, family relations, couples, woman, group, masturbation ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Oh, What a Night (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the summer of 1955, seventeen-year-old Eric Hansen embarks on a journey in his new town, a journey which will change his life forever.
Style: semi serious, humorous, emotional, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
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Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he's a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: All hilarity breaks loose in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy when three generations of Fiedlers collide in a crazy family reunion. As they prepare for the biggest Bar Mitzvah on the block, they begin to see that they're much more alike ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, realistic ...
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Time: year 2006, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Best Things in the World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, gay, lgbt, gay interest, father son relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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