Movies like Crooklyn

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Crooklyn (1994)
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Crooklyn (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, light, melancholic, talky, stylized, hood, semi serious, sad ...
Plot: coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, black, african american, school, family relations, child's point of view, parents and children, black people, teenage life, family problems, single parent, couple relations, teacher, black history, summer, youth, african, blaxploitation, jazz musician, death, cancer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, africa, tokyo
Keyword: gangsters, visit, americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, coming of age, youth, friendship, friends, black and african american mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Crooklyn: Kingdom Come (2001), School Daze (1988), Roll Bounce (2005), The Wood (1999), The Players Club (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kingdom Come (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a comedic boil as the wildly dysfunctional Slocumbs squabble and fight their way to the funeral.
Style: touching, humorous, light, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, death, family drama, eccentric family, family problems, introspection, family in crisis, parents and children, self discovery, hip hop, african american, urban ...
Time: year 2001
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School Daze (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the oponent.
Style: hood, cult classic, black comedy, social, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, black, blaxploitation, hip hop, male nudity, fraternity, coming of age, college life, school, urban, black history, african ...
Time: 80s
Place: africa, atlanta georgia
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Roll Bounce (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roll Bounce is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Norman Vance Jr. and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film stars hip hop artist Bow Wow as the leader of a roller skating crew in 1970s Chicago. The ...
Style: sweet, light, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, dancing, father son relationship, dance, rivalry, unlikely friendships, kids and family, black, friendship, contests and competitions, teenage love, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2005
Place: chicago, usa
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The Wood (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, hood, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, wedding, high school, african american, black, hip hop, storytelling, homecoming, writers, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 80s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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100%
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The Players Club (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Young single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. She ends up working at a shoe store, but meets two strippers from a nearby gentlemen's club who convince her there's fast money to be made ...
Style: hood, intense, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: stripper, hip hop, gangster, urban, blaxploitation, black, crime gone awry, police investigation, organized crime, rape, fish out of water, nightlife ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
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100%
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Housekeeping (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style: sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
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100%
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Style: melancholic, emotional, sentimental, touching, sad ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, drug addiction, single mother, small town, women, writers, grownups, teenage girl, pregnant teenager, parenthood ...
Time: year 2001, 60s, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, connecticut, usa
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100%
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Big Daddy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Style: funny, sentimental, feel good, light, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: adoption, child's point of view, parenthood, immaturity, single father, responsibility, childhood, orphan, adolescence, slacker, children, mentor ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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100%
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Friday (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Style: funny, feel good, hood, light, semi serious ...
Plot: african american, weed, hip hop, ghetto, marijuana, drug, friendship, rap, friends, rapper, stoner, hip hop culture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
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Toto the Hero (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he ...
Style: touching, epic, sad, cult classic, inspirational ...
Plot: coming of age, hide and seek, neighbor neighbor relationship, death of sister, child, youth, children, jazz, train, time travel, adolescence, inspiration ...
Time: year 1991, future, 90s
Place: france, germany, europe, dover england, spain ...
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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather ...
Style: touching, road movie, tragicomedy, clever, scenic ...
Plot: holocaust, on the road, journey, culture clash, nazi, collector, self discovery, road trip, prejudice, judaism, dog, friendship ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: ukraine, eastern europe, europe, berlin germany, odessa ukraine ...
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Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, youth, lifestyle, friends, parents and children, black, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, blaxploitation ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: new york, usa, pennsylvania, russia, toronto ontario canada
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100%
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Soul Food (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy ...
Style: tear jerker, sentimental, touching, hood, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: black, food, hip hop, thanksgiving, black romance, women, sisters, black history, african american, family relations, black cast, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, africa, usa, illinois
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The Inkwell (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
Style: humorous, touching, sex comedy, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, black, blaxploitation, african american, imaginary friend, friendship, urban, teenager, dysfunctional family, love, gangster, black lives matter ...
Time: 70s, year 1994, year 1976
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The Brothers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style: romantic, light, melancholic, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, african american, relationships, black, marriage, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, hip hop, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
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Cooley High (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and ...
Style: hood, black comedy, entertaining, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, blaxploitation, african american, high school, black, teenager, urban, black history, exploitation, black cast, basketball, horny teenager ...
Time: year 1975, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, usa
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23%
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Barbershop (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, ...
Style: hood, black comedy, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: workplace, urban, hairdresser, black, family business, hip hop, blaxploitation, catastrophe, beauty salon, african american, society, buddies ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, usa, illinois
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ATL (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.
Style: hood, stylized, talky, feel good, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, coming of age, friendship, urban, black, drug dealing, ambition, family relations, self discovery, social differences, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
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21%
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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 ...
Plot: siblings relations, dysfunctional family, teenage love, teenage life, family life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, eccentric family, love and romance, family problems, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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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21%
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West Is West (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, love and romance, looking for love, family problems, society, siblings relations, teenage life, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: england, pakistan, europe, middle east, manchester
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21%
The Best Man Holiday (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Style: realistic, sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, best man, black, friendship, friends, wedding preparations and rituals, couple relations, love and romance, buddies, christmas season, marriage, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
Unstrung Heroes (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, youth, mental illness, terminal illness, eccentricity, family drama, insanity, cancer, child hero, social justice, children ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place: los angeles
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21%
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Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, couple relations, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, seattle
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20%
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
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20%
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Parenthood (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, funny, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, pregnancy, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, single mother, teenage girl, little girl, husband wife relationship, birthday party ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
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20%
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, disturbing, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenager, adolescence, family relations, teenage life, eccentric family, social differences, parents and children, self discovery, single parent, sex aid ...
Time: 70s, year 1998, year 1976, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills
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20%
Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, christian film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, family problems, couple relations, friendship, black, dishonesty, breakup, lifestyle, unfulfillment, infidelity, remarry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bahamas, usa
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20%
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The Best Man (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Harper, a writer who's about to explode into the mainstream leaves behind his girlfriend Robin and heads to New York City to serve as best man for his friend Lance's wedding. Once there, he reunites with the rest of his college circle.
Style: romantic, clever, romantic comedy, rom com, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: black romance, wedding, black, african american, corruption, friendship, black history, urban, black cast, infidelity, hip hop, black american ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: africa, new york, usa
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20%
Jack the Bear (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, scary, epic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, children, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, redemption, chess, single father, death, hospital, youth, middle school, skinhead ...
Time: 70s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: bay area, california, usa, oakland california
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20%
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