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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
 6.6
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
Style: touching, humorous, independent film, emotional, melancholic, funny, realistic, hilarious, teen, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, infidelity, family gatherings, homecoming, childhood home, death of father, children, family relations, loneliness, life & death, last wish, eccentric family, brother sister relationship, extramarital affair, brother brother relationship, family home, breakup, death, adaptation, brain injury, funeral, grieving, bittersweet, childhood memory ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new england
Keyword: jewish

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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, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, profanity and husband wife relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like This Is Where I Leave You: August: Osage County (2013), People Like Us (2012), Death at a Funeral (2010), The Descendants (2011), Eulogy (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style: touching, melancholic, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, suicide, cancer, family secret, mother daughter relationship, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.0
 44K
People Like Us (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 114 min.
Story: It tells the story of a struggling man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew ...
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: family secret, salesman, family bonds, relationships, father son relationship, family relations, funeral, single mother, introspection, family problems, siblings relations, family life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Death at a Funeral (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New ...
Style: funny, black comedy, dark comedy, talky, melancholic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: eccentric family, death, dysfunctional family, family relations, black, family gatherings, death in the family, male nudity, silly humor, dishonesty, gay father, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.3
 251K
The Descendants (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, sad, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: infidelity, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, teenage daughter, dying mother, bittersweet, family relations, cheating wife, greed, parenthood, family drama, estate ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 9K
Eulogy (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family secret, funeral, eccentric family, death in the family, lesbian, family life, family feud, parents and children, fall in love, generation gap, loss of grandfather ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style: tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, single mother, husband wife relationship, grief, adultery, terminal illness, death of daughter, relationships, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s ...
Place: texas, houston texas, new york, nebraska, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 54K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 568
Soft Fruit (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style: humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, working class, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, family problems, couples, estrangement, death in the family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style: depressing, talky, sincere, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: divorce, coming of age, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, infidelity, teenager, adultery, marriage, boy, crumbling marriage, childhood, adolescence ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2005, near future, 2000s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard ...
Style: feel good, dark comedy, humorous, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: cleaning lady, dysfunctional family, suicide, dark humor, family business, sisters, police investigation, family relations, workplace, family problems, single parent, ambition ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wish I Was Here (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic ...
Style: independent film, touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: self discovery, direction and purpose, father son relationship, justice, tragedy, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, happy ending, redemption, cancer, actor's life, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 69K
Sisters (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
Style: buddy comedy, funny, humorous, light, cynical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: sisters, sister sister relationship, party, sister, women, storytelling, mother daughter relationship, family relations, depression, relationships, irreverent, stereotypes ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa, orlando florida, florida, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Another Happy Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Style: semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: wedding, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, ex husband ex wife relationship, wedding ceremony, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are ...
Style: feel good, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, children, vacation, family drama, breakup, family problems, parents and children, coming of age, death, dysfunctional marriage, nothing goes right, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 123K
Nebraska (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style: road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: aging, road trip, small town, dysfunctional family, elderly, on the road, old age, obsessive quest, honest, relationships, tragedy, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Upside of Anger (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, witty, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, friendship, suburban life, neighbor, parenthood, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, starting over, couples, lifestyle, fall in love ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, michigan, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Four Christmases (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is ...
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: christmas, holiday, dysfunctional family, family relations, couple relations, in-laws, family bonds, brothers, marriage, family drama, love, christmas season ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.1
 41K
The Big Chill (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles are put on hold while they host an unhappy reunion of former college pals gathered for the funeral of one of their own, a suicide victim named Alex. As the ...
Style: realistic, weeping, cult classic, talky, clever ...
Plot: friendship, funeral, midlife crisis, regret, group of friends, suicide, grief, yuppie, reunited friends, mourning, husband wife relationship, death of friend ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s
Place: south carolina, middle east, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 9K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 108K
That's My Boy (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's ...
Style: humorous, sex comedy, parody, hilarious, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: female pedophile, brother sister sex, family relations, parents and children, incest, dumb, teacher student relationship, deadbeat dad, cheating fiancee, male nudity, pedophile, meet the parents ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 1984, 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.
Style: touching, mumblecore, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Plot: slacker, brother brother relationship, midlife crisis, brothers, twists and turns, everyday life, parents and children, loser, naivete, character change, immature, existentialism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.5
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.1
 39K
The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, redemption, character study, family relations, childhood, parents and children, nursing, siblings relations, cheerleader ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Staying Together (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot-tempered Brian (Quill), lovelorn Kit (Mulroney) and jokester Duncan (Astin) - find themselves at odds with ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: restaurant, runner, coming of age, siblings, age-gap relationship, food, teenager, infidelity, small town, family business, family relations, punched in the face ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.4
 2K
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 ⇓
24%
Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An Irish funeral has a wake. A Jewish funeral has sitting shiva. A traditional Chinese funeral is something else entirely. Thats what the estranged siblings of the Chinese-American Xiao family must undergo upon news of their mothers death. The one ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot: estrangement, lesbian, self discovery, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, family gatherings, parents and children, family relations, haunted by the past, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Birds of America (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, family problems, couples, youth, vengeance, family gatherings, parents and children, couple relations, introspection, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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