Movies like Agnes Browne

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Agnes Browne (1999)
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Agnes Browne (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself.
Style: sentimental, emotional, humorous, uplifting, touching, melancholic, sweet, sincere, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, single father, happy ending, childhood, best friend, family relations, human spirit, life is a bitch, family problems, down on your luck, single parent, hopes, injustice, society, family in crisis, death in the family, women, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 60s, 1960s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, boston
Keyword: irish, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and semi serious films with plots about family relations, friendship, love and romance, parents and children, love, mother daughter relationship and sex mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Agnes Browne: Calendar Girls (2003), Roseanna's Grave (1997), A Home of Our Own (1993), Jersey Girl (2004), Vernie (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't ...
Style: feel good, touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot: family relations, death, family problems, death in the family, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, life is a bitch, love and romance, dealing with death, terminal illness, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: italy, europe
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51%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The film that started the classic TV series. Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his ...
Style: touching, sentimental, disturbing, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: single father, friendship, happy ending, parenthood, unlikely friendships, widower, single parent, lone hero, adolescence, mentor, family relations, wooing ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Jersey Girl (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his ...
Style: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, love and romance, single parent, death, relationships, love story, family drama, honest, death of wife, family relations, starting over ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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42%
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Vernie (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, friendship, best friend, pregnancy, terminal illness, tragic hero, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
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Strange Relations (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
Style: semi serious, emotional, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: adoption, terminal illness, self discovery, uncover truth, hopes, introspection, family problems, parents and children, working class, dysfunctional family, family life, mother son relationship ...
Place: new york, europe, england, usa, liverpool
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42%
The Run of the Country (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, teenager, death, father son relationship, strained relationship, police officer, ira, family relations, politics, rural area, family problems, death in the family ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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P.S. I Love You (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, grief, letter, life philosophy, lost love, family relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: ireland, seattle, europe, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Plot: single father, family relations, parents and children, american football, love and romance, destiny, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family drama, life philosophy, marriage, blindness ...
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The Perez Family (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual ...
Style: light, sweet, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: immigration, mistaken identity, political prisoner, prostitute, family relations, society, human nature, politics, indians, immigrant, prison, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s
Place: cuba, miami, usa, florida, latin america
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Valentin (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sweet, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, dysfunctional family, children, loneliness, astronaut, family problems, misfit, parents and children, elementary school, unfulfillment, little boy ...
Time: year 2002, 60s, 20th century
Place: latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Corrina, Corrina (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, gothic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: interracial romance, nanny, friendship, self discovery, interracial relations, starting over, couples, interracial love, single father, interracial couple, white male black female relationship, housekeeper ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, washington d.c.
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For Keeps? (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
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Time: 80s
Place: wisconsin
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The Story of Us (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style: realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: happy ending, relationships, divorce, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, long term relationship, family drama, happiness, slice of life, breakup ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on Daniel Wright's award-winning play "Colored Eggs", is a drama/comedy about life, loss and love among an eccentric group of characters whose lives intersect under less than ideal circumstances.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, love, looking for love, couple relations, terminal illness, dealing with death, best friend, hopes, hospital, cancer, girl, small town ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Circle of Friends (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style: period piece, emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, college, small town, love, pregnancy, class differences, college life, adaptation, love affair, lust, breakup ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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34%
Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1999, y2k, 90s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, ...
Style: feel good, touching, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
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Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century
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How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
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33%
Polish Wedding (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is ...
Style: light, melancholic, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: paris france, detroit
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32%
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost runs him over and gets ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, offbeat, touching ...
Plot: love, bare chested male, premarital sex, exchange student, tea, pub, animal life, family relations, unsuccessful, working class, social differences, love and romance ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, new york, europe, usa ...
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32%
Skipped Parts (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, sex, virginity, friendship, high school, sexual awakening, single parent, youth, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, parents and children ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 90s
Place: wyoming, missouri
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Starter for 10 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching "University Challenge," a ...
Style: feel good, witty, sweet, melancholic, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: university, coming of age, college, politics, social differences, unlikely friendships, happy ending, love triangle, student, buddies, youth, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 2000s, year 1985
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style: humorous, light, talky, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: politics, coming of age, friendship, infidelity, self discovery, single parent, teenage love, cheerleader, teenage boy, male nudity, fall in love, misfit ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, year 1977, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, milwaukee wisconsin, massachusetts, europe ...
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Steel Magnolias (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, friendship, small town, best friend, family relations, southern belle, wedding, strong female character, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, diabetic ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Family Thing (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who ...
Style: feel good, touching, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, manly
Plot: biracial, self discovery, family drama, family relations, justice, betrayal, loneliness, secrets, interracial relations, racism, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: arkansas, america, chicago, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Good Mother (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: courtroom drama, divorce, women, children, lawyer, love, friendship, sex, father daughter relationship, piano, sculptor, sex crime ...
Time: 80s
Place: connecticut, maine, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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50/50 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style: touching, sentimental, tragicomedy, depressing, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, friendship, chemotherapy, relationships, weed, meaning of life, doctor, patient, coming of age, best friend, life ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, iran, washington state, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Style: feel good, emotional, light, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, teacher, optimism, homeless, looking for love, character study, elementary school, working class, social worker, roommate, love and romance, goodhearted ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: london, europe, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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