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Men Don't Leave (1990)
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Men Don't Leave (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to do but sell what material possessions she has, such as the family pick-up truck and the house, and move into an apartment in the city, namely Baltimore. Beth just wants to survive by finding a job she doesn't dislike, and keep her family together while trying to maintain her sanity and sense of self-worth
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, sincere, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film, light, road movie ...
Plot: depression, bittersweet, widow, family relations, crumbling marriage, career, feminist, middle school, age-gap relationship, lottery, starting over, single mother, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, self discovery, family problems, urban, single parent, strong female presence, family in crisis, coming of age, city life, human nature ...
Time: 80s
Place: baltimore, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, bittersweet and love and romance mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Men Don't Leave: A Home of Our Own (1993), Dad (1989), Lost in Yonkers (1993), Mind the Gap (2004), A Simple Twist of Fate (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Home of Our Own (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: single parent, christmas, heartwarming, bittersweet, youth, family relations, widow, corporal punishment, coming of age, biopic, family problems, children ...
Time: 1900s, year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, idaho, usa
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Dad (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot: father son relationship, aging, family drama, hospital, family bonds, doctor, hopes, parents and children, family life, terminal illness, redemption, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
30%
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A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, family comedy, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: adoption, single father, redemption, hopes, teacher, child hero, manipulation, in love, fall in love, coin, unrequited love, adopted daughter ...
Time: 80s, year 1994, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: virginia, usa, washington d.c.
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100%
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Country Remedy (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In order to secure the position of Head of Pediatrics at a top Chicago hospital, a young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina mountains. Clashing against the ways of ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: clinic, starting over, family relations, doctors and patients, friendship, lifestyle, family life, small town, widower, father son relationship, youth, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Murphy's Romance (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, rom com, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: small town, older man younger woman relationship, friendship, love, first love, divorce, horse ranch, age-gap relationship, single mother, single parent, starting over, bachelor ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: arizona, usa
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100%
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 ⇓
25%
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Mother Ghost (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Keith Bennets mother passed away a year ago, and he feels like he has moved on with his life, until one morning his mothers jewelry shows up on Keiths bathroom sink. The same jewelry she was buried in. Keith tells his wife Karen, about the jewelry ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Plot: self discovery, crumbling marriage, family relations, family problems, bittersweet, death in the family, humour, mother son relationship, psychiatrist, dealing with death, unfulfillment, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style: emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family business, family relations, save the day, family problems, restaurant, working class, estrangement, parents and children, bank, siblings relations, family in crisis, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Bonneville (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three women take a road trip to Santa Barbara in order to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter. Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, road movie ...
Plot: friendship, on the road, family relations, parents and children, elderly, death in the family, mother daughter relationship, promise, road trip, female leader, female bonding, hitchhiker ...
Time: year 2006
Place: idaho, utah, nevada, california, usa ...
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23%
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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 ⇓
23%
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
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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
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Isn't It Delicious (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, terminal illness, bittersweet, husband wife relationship, one night stand, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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That's Life! (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Style: sentimental, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: aging, midlife crisis, bittersweet, family gatherings, hospital, depression, cancer, birthday, priest, fortune teller, architect, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: malibu california, los angeles
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22%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Memories of Me (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: heart attack, father son relationship, hollywood, death of father, flashback, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son estrangement, surgeon, doctor, parent child relationship, bittersweet, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Garbo Talks (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da ...
Style: sad, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: brain tumor, grief, tumor, hollywood, aging, last wish, terminal illness, couple relations, obsession, human nature, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
21%
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them
Style: touching, sentimental, happy, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, bittersweet, death of husband, widow, grief, sisterhood, rock, female friendship, female protagonist, house painter, sister sister relationship, bereavement ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: starting over, parents and children, gambling, love affair, teenage life, opposites attract, small town, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, small town life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, massachusetts
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21%
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Two Weeks (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, spiritual ...
Plot: introspection, eccentric family, family life, estrangement, family problems, single parent, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, dying, terminal illness ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Hello Lonesome (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, estrangement, friends, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
Darling Companion (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dog, pets, family problems, couple relations, family life, disorder, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, lifestyle, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Quitter (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
Style: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, single parent, homecoming, unfulfillment, love, basketball player, career, baseball
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Only When I Laugh (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, clever, talky ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, drug, alcoholic, slice of life, women, best friend, socialite, drunkenness, parent child relationship, alcoholism, bittersweet, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Mother's Love (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her daughter, Monica. It's going to take a mother's unconditional love to pray Regina ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot: parents and children, family life, family problems, couples, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family relations, marriage, black romance, woman, relationships, strong female lead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family problems, family relations, homecoming, looking for love, family life, estrangement, couples, college, starting over, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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