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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, hilarious, powerful, clever, realistic, crying
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, aging, mistaken identity, memory, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, writers, old age, senior citizen, life, poetry, hotel, impersonation, widow, grandson, friends, disorder, bittersweet, party, death, castle, hospital, family relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century, contemporary
Place: london, england, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about couple relations, couples, friendship, friends, love and romance, family relations and aging mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont: Enchanted April (1991), 5 Flights Up (2014), The Magic of Belle Isle (2012), Calendar Girls (2003), All Together (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Enchanted April (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.
Style: period piece, talky, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, women, castle, love, summer, self discovery, holiday, marriage, garden, female friendship, chance meeting, vacation ...
Time: 1920s, future, year 1991, 20th century, post world war one
Place: italy, europe, london
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100%
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5 Flights Up (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Audience: date night
Plot: real estate, couples, couple relations, elderly, love and romance, society, aging, interracial relations, husband wife relationship, senior citizen, aged person, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
Style: touching, sincere, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, family outing
Plot: writers, friendship, writer's life, dog, single parent, redemption, family relations, vacation, hopes, alcohol abuse, misfit, disability ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Style: sweet, sentimental, feel good, bad ending, melancholic ...
Plot: hotel, elderly lovers, elderly, aging, wedding, twists and turns, culture clash, honest, mistaken identity, mentor, love story, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Calendar Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot: charity, small town, female nudity, women, leukemia, female empowerment, elderly, life philosophy, model, human spirit, friendship, family drama ...
Time: 90s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, los angeles ...
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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
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29%
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Kotch (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, psychological, humorous ...
Plot: aging, teenage pregnancy, senior citizen, christmas, adoption, orphan, old age, retirement home, bittersweet, hospital, parents and children, bus ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: palm springs california
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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I Really Hate My Job (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the ...
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sexy woman, workplace, waitress, friendship, love and romance, aging, introspection, midlife crisis, workplace romance, public nudity, female nudity, restaurant ...
Place: england, london, usa, europe
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21%
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Empty Nest (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: aging, couples, couple relations, midlife crisis, family relations, family problems, elderly, parents and children, love and romance, leaving home, college, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Meet Me in Montenegro (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Norway, UK, Montenegro
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a failed American writer who enters into an affair after a chance encounter with a European dancer.
Style: romantic, semi serious, humorous, romantic comedy, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love affair, couples, friendship, writers, love story, dancehall girl, self discovery, best friend, couple relations, love and romance, friends, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany, montenegro, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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%
The Thing About My Folks (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for ...
Style: talky, touching, sentimental, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, love and romance, husband wife relationship, escapades, food, aging, senior citizen, profanity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Giles De'Ath is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with film star, Ronnie Bostock. He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. After that he travels to Long Island city where ...
Style: touching, witty, independent film, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This European take on twenty-something woe introduces viewers to Jorge (Alejandro Cano), a self-help author suffering from writer's block who thinks he may be gay. Living with Jorge is Marta (Maria Jurado), a bisexual who wants to have a baby. ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Plot: friendship, couple relations, love and romance, sexual exploration, lgbt, bisexuality, gay subtext, nudity, friends, twentysomething life, unfulfilled love, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, teachers and students, self discovery, elderly, dancer's life, aging, gay, dancing, widow, lgbt, gay interest, power relations ...
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19%
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Style: independent film, black comedy, retro, cult classic, semi serious ...
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19%
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Country: Spain, Argentina
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19%
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Sensitive Skin (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
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Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, sincere, witty ...
Plot: aging, family relations, self discovery, art gallery, parents and children, couples, dark humor, society, rivalry, friendship, model, friends ...
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Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
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19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
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Style: independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
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Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, sexy, witty ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Style: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
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18%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Country: USA
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18%
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