Movies like Beauty Shop

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Beauty Shop (2005)
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Beauty Shop (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: You thought you'd heard it all in the barbershop, but you haven't heard anything yet - the women get their own chance to shampoo, shine, and speak their minds in Beauty Shop.
Style: humorous, melancholic, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious, funny, teen, hood, black comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: beauty salon, women, small business, hairdresser, vengeance, adaptation, single parent, workplace situations, black, ambition, urban, culture clash, school, boss, business, teenager, fashion, ghetto, african american, interracial relations, happy ending, hair, black american, black history, black people ...
Time: year 2005, contemporary
Place: usa, africa, georgia, chicago, atlanta georgia, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, atlanta, sport, black women

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about black, urban, gangster, friends, african american, family relations and couples mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Beauty Shop: Barbershop (2002), Bringing Down the House (2003), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), Nora's Hair Salon II (2008), Da' Booty Shop (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Barbershop (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, ...
Style: hood, black comedy, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: workplace, urban, hairdresser, black, family business, hip hop, blaxploitation, catastrophe, beauty salon, african american, society, buddies ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, usa, illinois
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Bringing Down the House (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Straight-laced lawyer, Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) meets and falls in love with online chat friend "Lawyer-Girl", Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), only to discover she's a convicted bank robber. Charlene escapes from jail and comes ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lawyer, friendship, divorce, workaholic, odd couple, farce, interracial romance, couple relations, looking for love, comedy of errors, prison, single parent ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, hip hop, family business, workplace romance, workplace, friends, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Nora's Hair Salon II (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair ...
Style: talky, realistic, witty, humorous, clever ...
Plot: beauty salon, family relations, friends, society, friendship, workplace, estrangement, city life, workplace situations, hairdresser, hair, black ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Da' Booty Shop (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tyrone Johnson is in jail. As a result his sister Yolanda, an exotic dancer, inherits Tyrone's struggling hair salon business. She first sees the shop as a burden and waste of her time and puts the shop up for sale. But Yolanda eventually sees ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: ambition, relationship vs career, society, workplace, follow your dream, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, independent woman, exotic dancer, store, anti hero, beauty salon ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Phat Girlz (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two plus-sized ladies meet the men of their dreams in the most unexpected of ways.
Style: humorous, inspirational, feel good, semi serious, black comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: overweight woman, fashion, life philosophy, prejudice, friendship, follow your dream, looking for love, self discovery, lifestyle, introspection, african american, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, africa, nigeria
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B*A*P*S (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Can two clueless Georgia homegirls with big hearts -- and even bigger hair -- find happiness, fame and thrills in the swank hills of Beverly? Anything is possible when you are B.A.P.'s. They revive Blakemore's interest for life, and he ...
Style: black comedy, cult classic, rom com, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: black, hip hop, irreverence, black cast, urban, women, friendship, female bonding, millionaire, restaurant, guilt, nephew ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, usa, california, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After Elle Woods, the eternally perky, fashionably adventurous, famously blonde Harvard Law grad gets fired by her law firm because of her opposition to animal testing, she takes her fight to Washington. As an aide for Congresswoman Victoria Rudd, ...
Style: satirical, not serious, humorous, romantic, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: fashion, blonde, lawyer, fish out of water, courtroom, female protagonist, culture clash, women, legal, rivalry, court, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., boston, usa, los angeles, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Hair Show (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Peaches, a hair stylist from Baltimore, and her estranged sister, Angela, the owner of an upscale salon in Beverly Hills, get reacquainted when Peaches decides to attend a celebration for Angela in LA. The reunion is bittersweet and worsens when ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: beauty salon, female protagonist, ambition, friendship, follow your dream, family business, contests and competitions, love and romance, rivalry, working class, culture clash, relationship vs career ...
Time: year 2004
Place: beverly hills, los angeles, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Homie Spumoni (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: All his life, African-American Renato has been raised in an Italian-American family. Completely unaware that he is Black, his life is upended when his birth parents materialize, causing Renato to examine what he true heritage is.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot: interracial relations, dark humor, family relations, lifestyle, culture clash, friends, society, adoption, male nudity, african american, black, animal shelter ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Jumping the Broom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, rom com ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: wedding, family tradition, family gatherings, family relations, family feud, couple relations, parents and children, culture clash, black, class differences, meet the parents, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hollywood, farce, racism, filmmaking, blaxploitation, black, prejudice, dark humor, storytelling, movie business, black history, misfit ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Made in America (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: interracial romance, interracial relations, high school, teenage girl, culture clash, single parent, comedy of errors, sperm donor, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, fall in love ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Class Act (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought of as a real bad dude, if only ...
Style: hood, feel good, black comedy, funny, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, hip hop, black, urban, mistaken identity, urban ghetto life, discrimination, love, gang, african american protagonist, hip hop culture, school ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Joyful Noise (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: teenage love, autism, follow your dream, rivalry, music band, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions, musician's life, choir, lifestyle, unlikely partners, chorus girl ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Outcasts (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: youth, teenage life, society, misfit, school, teenager, best friend, bullying, rivalry, social misfits, friends, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, road movie, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: interracial romance, road trip, teenager, hip hop, family relations, on the road, eccentric family, nothing goes right, family life, mischievous children, parents and children, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri, los angeles
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25%
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The Cookout (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep things real, he decides to throw a barbeque at his place -- just like the ones his family used to have. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, funny, entertaining ...
Plot: basketball, rise to the top, ambition, family gatherings, social differences, chaos and mayhem, neighbor, contract, fame, parents and children, sport team, black ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Trippin' (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', daydreaming about being a big success as a poet, a student, a lover. His ...
Style: hood, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, prom, youth, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, college, college life, black, ghetto, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, y2k
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24%
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Guess Who (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The fiancé of an African-American woman who's met with skepticism and suspicion from her father when she takes him home for the all-important introduction. As the wedding approaches, Dad must come to terms with his future son-in-law.
Style: romantic, humorous, funny, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: interracial romance, interracial relations, interracial love, interracial couple, racism, white male black female relationship, parents and children, wedding, meet the parents, father daughter relationship, father dislikes daughter's boyfriend, society ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new jersey, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
My Baby's Daddy (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fatherhood, baby born, pregnancy, friendship, lifestyle, parents and children, family life, eccentric family, youth, love and romance, buddies, custody ...
Time: year 2004
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: fashion, teenager, mischievous children, coming of age, children, high school, babysitter, dysfunctional family, childhood, crime gone awry, twists and turns, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Living Single (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Living Single is an American television sitcom that aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 22, 1993, to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends who share personal and professional experiences while living in a ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, black cinema
Plot: black, urban, black sitcom, african american, black history, young heroes, black cast, women, strong female presence, chubby, girl power, african ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Barbershop (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Calvin Palmer is the owner of a barbershop on the Southside of Chicago. Reluctantly inheriting the neighborhood establishment and popular hangout from his father, he juggles his responsibilities to his clients, his family, and his community as a ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: barbershop, workplace, hairdresser, family business, society, misfit, buddies, power relations, family relations, workplace situations, everyday life, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.5
 21K
Head of State (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam (Rock) as his replacement .
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, absurd ...
Plot: politics, president, usa president, farce, presidential election, stereotypes, black, hip hop, state affairs, ambition, republican, head of state ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa, washington d.c., chicago, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Ride (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of young people leave Harlem for a bus trip down to Miami. The voyage starts off with problems, but it ends up becoming a learning experience, as they end up learning things about each other they had not previously known.
Style: hood, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: hip hop, urban, ghetto, black, black girl, road trip, bus trip, ambition, bus, friends, destiny, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: miami, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
That's What She Said (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: best friend, city life, friends, singleness, twentysomething life, nothing goes right, disorder, lifestyle, strong female presence, friendship, friendship between men, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Roll Bounce (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roll Bounce is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Norman Vance Jr. and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film stars hip hop artist Bow Wow as the leader of a roller skating crew in 1970s Chicago. The ...
Style: sweet, light, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, dancing, father son relationship, dance, rivalry, unlikely friendships, kids and family, black, friendship, contests and competitions, teenage love, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2005
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The House Bunny (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women ...
Style: feel good, teen, funny, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night ...
Plot: sorority, college, college life, youth, friendship, personality change, makeover, women, campus, rivalry, female friendship, friends ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
How to Be a Player (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dray is a young playboy whose only objective in life seems to be to have sex with as many girls as he can without getting caught by his girlfriend Lisa. Dray's sister Jenny and her friend Katrina plan to show him that the way he lives is wrong ...
Style: hood, humorous, black comedy, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: hip hop, battle of the sexes, black, urban, dating, infidelity, farce, black cast, friends, looking for sex, women, stoner ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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