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Unstrung Heroes (1995)
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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 Weiser
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, youth, mental illness, terminal illness, cancer, insanity, family drama, eccentricity, children, child hero, social justice, family relations, uncle nephew relationship, misfit, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, family problems, single parent, solace, human nature, bittersweet, eccentric family ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1962, 1960s
Place: los angeles
Keyword: jewish, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, couples and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Unstrung Heroes: Everything Is Illuminated (2005), Marine Life (2000), Soft Fruit (1999), Bruno (2000), Two Weeks (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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100%
 5.3
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Marine Life (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, couples, family problems, single parent, love and romance, youth, child as adult, midlife crisis, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 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 ⇓
84%
 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 ⇓
82%
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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 ⇓
82%
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 ⇓
79%
 6.3
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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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 ⇓
72%
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 ⇓
71%
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 11K
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, touching, sentimental, stylized, light ...
Plot: coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, black, african american, family relations, school, child's point of view, parents and children, black people ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 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 ⇓
70%
 5.5
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Imaginary Crimes (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana.
Style: touching, sad, sentimental, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family relations, hopes, hustler, cons and scams, down on your luck, terminal illness, human nature, life is a bitch, single parent ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 1994
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.2
 297
Manhood (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, life turned upside down, manhood, youth, family problems, disorder, dysfunctional family, parents and children, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.4
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Norman (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
Style: emotional, tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, terminal illness, misfit, coping, dishonesty, family problems, teenage life, social relations, teenage love, life is a bitch, introvert, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 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 ⇓
68%
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Miss Firecracker (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi pins all her hopes on winning the local beauty pageant.
Style: humorous, talky, light, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, small town, underdog, contests and competitions, love and romance, human nature, family problems, couples, fall in love, youth, looking for love, family life ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Duane Hopwood (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style: emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, parents and children, down on your luck, addiction, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
El Viaje de la Nonna (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!
Style: emotional, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, homecoming, travel, bittersweet, couples, love and romance, elderly, unfulfillment, memory loss, mental illness, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Rolling Family (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style: road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: gender, family relations, family problems, siblings relations, on the road, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, family in crisis, eccentric family, dysfunctional family ...
Place: argentina, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Twister (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter ...
Style: sad, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, tornado, family relations, couples, family problems, dark humor, eccentric family, family gatherings, family life, mental illness, storm, dinner ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.8
 20K
The Grass Harp (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, unrequited love, sister sister relationship, orphan, world war one, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, chambermaid, deep south, family life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.5
 668
Rich Kids (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two 12 year olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings
Style: grindhouse, stylized, independent film, talky, realistic ...
Plot: young love, coming of age, youth, friends, divorce, child, love, children, first love, middle class, family life, friendship ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.0
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 4.8
 13K
Hanging Up (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, women, thanksgiving, sister sister relationship, family problems, eccentric family, family life, looking for love, parents and children, terminal illness ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 2000s, year 1988, year 2000
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 ⇓
64%
 4.2
 6K
Tiptoes (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family life, sex, couple relations, introspection, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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