Movies like Butter

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Butter (2011)
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Butter (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.
Style: funny, humorous, sweet, melancholic, dark comedy, light, satirical, not serious, black comedy, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: adoption, small town, contests and competitions, mentor, family relations, ambition, infidelity, social relations, championship, blind ambition, dysfunctional family, food, satire, creativity, twists and turns, strong female lead, stripper, glbt, lap dance, light comedy, thigh high boots, prostitute, adultery, cuckold, contest ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: iowa, usa, california
Keyword: butter, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and funny films with plots about family relations, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, family problems, adultery, friendship and parents and children mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Butter: Our Idiot Brother (2011), Beautiful (2000), She's Funny That Way (2014), Bad Words (2013), Juno (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Our Idiot Brother (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Everybody has the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother Ned, an erstwhile organic farmer whose ...
Style: humorous, independent film, sweet, light, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: lesbian, hippie, dog, marijuana, golden retriever, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, relationships, loneliness, family relations, goofy hero, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
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Beautiful (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own daughter! She manages to persuade her best bud to raise the kid as her own (Miss AM can't be a ...
Style: humorous, light, melancholic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: beauty pageant, friendship, pregnancy, family problems, blind ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, family relations, single parent, ambition, parents and children, child illness ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
She's Funny That Way (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
Style: light, funny, humorous, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: adultery, multiple storylines, aspiring actor, artists and showbiz, actor's life, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, writers, hotel, actor, obsession ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 55K
Bad Words (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A misanthropic man sets out to exact revenge on his estranged father, by finding a loophole and attempting to win the National Spelling Bee as an adult. Figuring it would destroy his father, and everything he's worked so hard for as head of the ...
Style: funny, humorous, not serious, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: competition, children, obsession, dark humor, blind ambition, fish out of water, loser, social misfits, rivalry, revenge, opponent, dialogue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 7.4
 547K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 3.4
 574
Bad Parents (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: soccer, family relations, eccentric family, obsession, parents and children, rivalry, sport team, youth, satire, athlete and trainer, ambition, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
26%
 5.7
 1K
The New Age (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style: satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative, cynical ...
Plot: dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, society, self discovery, crumbling marriage, filmmaking, lifestyle, starting over, rise and fall, couple relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ...
Style: touching, humorous, independent film, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, infidelity, family gatherings, homecoming, childhood home, death of father, children, family relations, loneliness, life & death, last wish ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Vicious Kind (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.
Style: independent film, black comedy, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: love triangle, thanksgiving, dysfunctional family, small town, adultery, infidelity, cheating, family relations, self destructing, betrayal, mistrust, couple relations ...
Time: 2000s
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.3
 57K
The Dilemma (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really launch their company. Then Ronny spots Nick's wife out with another man, and in the process of ...
Style: light, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, dilemma, friendship, marital problem, adultery, marriage, proposal, relationships, love, moral dilemma, secret, truth ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.3
 32K
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Big Wedding (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, funny, not serious, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, family gatherings, couples, marriage, family relations, parents and children, family reunited, family feud, in-laws, eccentric family, couple relations, adoption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows ...
Style: road movie, cult classic, entertaining, sweet, light ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: gay, transvestism, gender bending, drag queen, small town, friendship, cross dressing, road trip, on the road, lgbt, transgender, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Geraldine's Fortune (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Geraldine Elmhurst Liddle - Deen to her friends - is up against five other contestants for the $2 million jackpot on the game show "Bring Home the Bacon!". News of her upcoming appearance on the show takes her small New Brunswick hometown ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, witty ...
Plot: small town, ambition, family relations, couples, rivalry, contests and competitions, parents and children, social relations, elderly, rags to riches, family secret, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Employee of the Month (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: "Employee of the Month" is about a guy whose day spirals from bad to worse when he gets fired from his dream job at the bank and is dumped by his fiancée Sara. David's best friend Jack tries to convince him it's for the best, ...
Style: dark comedy, suspense, melancholic, black comedy, entertaining ...
Plot: twists and turns, bad luck, comedy of errors, greed, bank robbery, heist, manipulation, crime gone awry, dark humor, workplace, partner, friendship ...
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, ...
Style: feel good, touching, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: small town, ice hockey, underdog, hockey, snow, transformation, happy ending, winter, contests and competitions, ambition, heartwarming, ice skater ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: alaska, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.1
 4K
The End (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
Style: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: terminal illness, dark humor, suicide attempt, buddy, euthanasia, mental patient, suicidal thoughts, silly humor, society, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Movie in collections
 6.3
 39K
Cedar Rapids (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Style: funny, light, humorous, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: insurance, friendship, justice, adultery, adaptation, dysfunctional family, greed, happy ending, life philosophy, road trip, friends, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa, minnesota, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.1
 10K
The Details (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, lifestyle, life turned upside down, family problems, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, under the surface, disorder, couples, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of ...
Style: dark comedy, funny, humorous, talky, cult classic ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, eccentricity, eccentric family, writers, forbidden love, parents and children, deadpan, incest, uptight character, reconciliation, love, satire ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.1
 272K
The Intern (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Style: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot: workplace, mentor, friendship, elderly, office, life philosophy, unlikely friendships, prejudice, fashion, workplace situations, intern, internet ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, san francisco, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Dealin' with Idiots (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next ...
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, not serious, funny ...
Plot: family relations, baseball, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions, social relations, ambition, writer's life, parents and children, baseball team, satire, father son relationship, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.4
 2K
Whiteboyz (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and Trevor. He talks Black slang, he dresses Black. He's also ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, slang, hood ...
Plot: hip hop, small town, friendship, follow your dream, fish out of water, urban, culture clash, teenage life, gangster, youth, misfit, high school life ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: iowa, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.4
 5K
Landline (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, feel good, art house
Audience: chick flick
Plot: teenager, infidelity, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, women, family problems, escapades, family relations, parents and children, life turned upside down, deception ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.1
 5K
Mental (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
Style: humorous, black comedy, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eccentric family, dysfunctional family, mental illness, hitchhiker, nanny, satire, suburbs, family life, youth, siblings relations, strong female presence, dark humor ...
Time: y2k, year 2012, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
Why Stop Now? (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Style: humorous, captivating, emotional, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rehabilitation, family relations, lifestyle, drug dealing, dealer, partner, disorder, nothing goes right, student life, eccentric family, piano, prodigy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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