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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Charles McCarter and his wife Helen are about to celebrate their 18th-wedding anniversary when Helen comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing Her. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life.
Style: humorous, entertaining, inspirational, intense, sentimental, funny, light, thought provoking, sad, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: women, african american, life turned upside down, storytelling, family problems, hopes, starting over, black, breakup, madea, cheating, happy ending, revenge, divorce, vengeance, female protagonist, house arrest, black history, adultery, lawyer, lgbt, black cast, forgiveness, satire, androgyny ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: georgia, usa, florida
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and sentimental films with plots about family relations, couples, black, infidelity, couple relations, love and romance and family problems mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Diary of a Mad Black Woman: Madea's Family Reunion (2006), Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), Why Did I Get Married? (2007), A Madea Christmas (2013), Madea's Witness Protection (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, ...
Style: humorous, intense, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, drug abuse, madea, family problems, family life, addiction, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, looking for love, siblings relations, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
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100%
Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The Play (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Before it was a movie, it was a theatrical phenomenon! When Helen learns that her husband is leaving her for her best friend, the women in her family are ready with advice. Her devout mother preaches strength and forgiveness, while her parolee ...
Style: semi serious, emotional, humorous, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: starting over, life turned upside down, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, couple relations, hopes, human spirit, family problems, couples, breakup, estate, women ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The film is about the difficulty of maintaining a solid relationship in modern times. Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, friendship, black, crumbling marriage, introspection, couple relations, family problems, couples, battle of the sexes, intrigue, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: colorado, indiana, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Madea Christmas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
Style: christmas special, sincere, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, family relations, madea, parents and children, family life, black, xmas, christmas season, friendship, society, nothing goes right ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Madea's Witness Protection (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Wall Street investment banker who has been set up as the linchpin of his company's mob-backed Ponzi scheme is relocated with his family to Aunt Madea's southern home.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, eccentric family, danger, family relations, hopes, parents and children, farce, madea, family problems, witnessing a crime, hidden identity, embezzlement ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
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100%
I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, sad ...
Plot: black, couples, family life, adolescence vs adulthood, love affair, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, sexual content, madea, nightclub singer, infidelity ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Madea Family Funeral (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral that might unveil unpleasant family secrets.
Style: humorous, light, emotional, captivating
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: family secret, dark humor, black, relationships, secret, meeting, secrets, madea, eccentric family, family relations, gross out humor, escapades ...
Time: 2010s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Meet the Browns (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street.But when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, not serious, black comedy ...
Plot: female protagonist, family relations, single parent, death in the family, family gatherings, family life, eccentric family, siblings relations, black, parents and children, small town life, madea ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 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, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, madea, black, black man, black history, life changing, black cast ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Madea's Family Reunion (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Just as the southern matriarch, Madea buries her older sister, Irene. (There is no mention of Helen and Charles Jr. at all during the play). Her granddaughter Lisa is getting married to a very successful rich man name Ronnie at the house, but ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot: family life, wedding, eccentric family, family gatherings, family problems, disorder, family relations, dysfunctional family, death in the family, funeral, black, madea ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: At long last, Madea returns to the big screen in TYLER PERRY'S MADEA GOES TO JAIL. This time America's favorite irreverent, pistol-packin' grandmomma is raising hell behind bars and lobbying for her freedom...Hallelujer!
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prison, madea, farce, prison life, criminal, disorder, nothing goes right, goofy hero, elderly, fish out of water, friendship, black ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia, a beautiful, Ivy ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, feel good, hood ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, custody, black, lawyer, looking for love, love and romance, society, legal, fall in love, human spirit, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, atlanta georgia
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33%
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The Break-Up (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Cohabitating couple Gary and Brooke find their once-blissful romance on the rocks when petty spats about lemons and dirty dishes mushroom into an all-out battle for custody of their upscale Chicago condo. An escalating argument ensues as Gary and ...
Style: funny, romantic, humorous, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: breakup, crumbling marriage, opposites attract, unsupportive spouse, infidelity, uninhibited rivalry, verbal byplay, relationships, hopes, introspection, rivalry, family problems ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.0
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Hope Floats (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, light, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: small town, starting over, happy ending, couples, infidelity, love story, love, family relations, betrayal, married woman, family problems, divorce ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Good Deeds (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: single parent, forbidden love, opposites attract, brother brother relationship, fiance fiancee relationship, fall in love, social differences, black, couples, family relations, idealism, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Story of Us (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style: realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: happy ending, relationships, divorce, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, long term relationship, family drama, happiness, slice of life, breakup ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Something to Talk About (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style: talky, satirical, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, family relations, family problems, women, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, southern belle ...
Time: 90s
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32%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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32%
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: adultery, black, family problems, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, dysfunctional family, life turned upside down, disorder, unfulfillment, human nature, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: divorce, womanizer, love and romance, infidelity, happy ending, dating, marriage, love, couples, adultery, flirting, midlife crisis ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iran, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Brown Sugar (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sidney is a writer who's just left her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL. Dre is an executive with a hip-hop record company based in New York. They've known each other since they met as children, when both ...
Style: romantic, intense, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: hip hop, wedding, friendship, infidelity, music, fall in love, black, dating, best friend, looking for love, couples, happy ending ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Not Easily Broken (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: relationship vs career, hopes, family problems, love and romance, ambition, couples, infidelity, crumbling marriage, couple relations, black, christian, african american protagonist ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined ...
Style: touching, sexy, melancholic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: divorce, friendship, black romance, women, betrayal, black, female protagonist, adultery, african american woman, love story, infidelity, best friend ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
32%
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling random women on the street to the point he takes lunch late to look at them. When old crush Nikki ...
Style: funny, humorous, talky, realistic, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: marriage, infidelity, love triangle, marital problem, midlife crisis, family relations, black, family life, love affair, sexual relations, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Remember that really cute guy who said he'd call – and didn't? Maybe he lost your number. Maybe he's in the hospital. Maybe he's awed by your beauty, brains or success. Or maybe... he's just not that into you.
Style: romantic, sexy, funny, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: women, love story, love affair, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, singleness, infidelity, single woman, best friends in love, dating, mentor ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Almost Christmas (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died.
Style: light, feel good, sincere, captivating, christmas classics ...
Audience: adult
Plot: christmas, black, dysfunctional family, family relations, xmas, new year, parents and children, escapades, adaptation, hopes, society, friendship ...
Time: year 2016, year 2015
Place: georgia, birmingham alabama, atlanta georgia, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce ...
Style: humorous, clever, witty, anthology, realistic ...
Plot: wedding, hotel, multiple storylines, luxury hotel, adultery, marriage, bittersweet, couples, family problems, family relations, anniversary, looking for love ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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