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Funny Bones (1995)
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Funny Bones (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian but his Las Vegas debut is a failure. He goes back to Blackpool, UK, where his father, also a comedian started and where he spent the summers of his childhood. He starts to search for a partner, a comic relief, with whom he can be famous.
Style: surreal, humorous, touching, clever, entertaining, black comedy, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, skit ...
Plot: comedian, eccentricity, farce, creativity, self discovery, friendship, parents and children, introspection, actor's life, haunted by the past, father son relationship, clown, coming of age, family relations, heist, dark humor, friends, love and romance, couples, love affair, starting over, eccentric family, couple relations, dog, ship ...
Time: 90s, 18th century
Place: england, las vegas, usa, europe, london
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and touching films with plots about family relations, couples, parents and children, friendship, love and romance, friends and couple relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Funny Bones: 10 Items or Less (2006), In Memory of My Father (2005), Full Grown Men (2006), Cleopatra (2003), Stuart Saves His Family (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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10 Items or Less (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, ...
Style: feel good, road movie, humorous, touching, clever ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, introspection, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, job interview, mentor, friends, stranger, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In Memory of My Father (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The youngest son of a legendary Hollywood producer, a Robert Evans type, accepts a bribe from his father to document his death.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, touching, entertaining ...
Plot: family relations, eccentric family, family problems, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, hollywood, narcissism, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, corpse, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.9
 393
Full Grown Men (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Style: road movie, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: amusement park, friends, family relations, couples, moral dilemma, buddies, introspection, youth, couple relations, on the road, fish out of water, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.6
 626
Cleopatra (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, self discovery, friendship, human nature, on the road, introspection, looking for love, best friend, family business, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
Style: humorous, satirical, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, farce, dark humor, addiction, satire, nothing goes right, self discovery, disorder, family problems, family life, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.2
 429
Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.0
 1K
Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 7.2
 5K
The Clown (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
Plot: circus, self discovery, introspection, follow your dream, identity crisis, on the road, escapades, parents and children, family relations, countryside, clown, unfulfillment ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.4
 692
The Debut (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot: culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, nightlife, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Happy Christmas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
Style: mumblecore, ironic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: christmas, family relations, eccentric family, character study, introspection, siblings relations, writers, couple relations, disorder, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, xmas ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.4
 4K
How to Be (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: introspection, coming of age, self discovery, unfulfillment, lifestyle, hopes, artists and showbiz, youth, musician, psychology, musician's life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.0
 458
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Bunny and the Bull (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
Style: surreal, captivating, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: odd couple, friendship, isolation, friends, partner, wilderness, haunted by the past, on the road, buddies, introspection, escapades, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous
Plot: friends, friendship, partner, lifestyle, love and romance, odd couple, self discovery, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
God Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style: talky, witty, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cancer, dark humor, human nature, artists and showbiz, couple relations, ego clash, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, lifestyle, family problems, family relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Guatemalan Handshake (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mysterious power failure in a small mountain town coincides with the disappearance of one of its most eccentric young residents. Mystery piles upon mystery as his family and friends search for him, fail, and ultimately try to forget about him, an ...
Style: stylized, surreal, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: small town, social relations, friendship, best friend, family life, missing person, disorder, family relations, friends, nothing goes right, pregnancy, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 5.3
 813
Walkaway (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, society, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, unsupportive parent, family tradition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Bastards of Young (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot: couples, pregnancy, infidelity, couple relations, best friend, friends, thirtysomething life, introspection, crumbling marriage, adultery, divorce, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Go-Getter (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
Style: road movie, melancholic, ironic, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: road trip, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, parents and children, introspection, love and romance, human nature, lifestyle, obsessive quest, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2007
Place: oregon, new orleans, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of ...
Style: humorous, intense, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: comedian, showbiz, actor's life, ambition, family life, aging, desire for fame, talent agent, rise and fall, rise to the top, judaism, fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.6
 5K
Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, family life, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time: year 2009
Place: usa, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, couples, wooing, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Accidents Happen (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, haunted by the past, teenage life, parents and children, social relations, dark humor, teenage boy, suburbs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, parents and children, friendship, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, friends, couples, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.8
 726
Echo Park (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dream, stripper, single parent, actor's life, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, family relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, human nature, gender ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.7
 3K
All Together (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Plot: friendship, aging, couples, family relations, elderly, couple relations, parents and children, old age, truth, friends, bittersweet, heart attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 2K
Bruno (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family life, parents and children, family problems, prodigy, society, hopes, eccentric family, friends ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Jump Tomorrow (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When shy, straitlaced George (Tunde Adebimpe) meets vivacious, adorable Alicia (Natalia Verbeke), he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard ...
Style: humorous, sweet, romantic, feel good, touching ...
Plot: unlikely couple, road trip, eccentricity, introspection, opposites attract, love triangle, looking for love, family relations, fall in love, friendship, comedy of errors, love affair ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa, nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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