Movies like The Brothers McMullen

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The Brothers McMullen (1995)
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The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced by and starring Edward Burns.
Style: independent film, touching, realistic, witty, talky, art house, sincere, humorous, contemplative, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love, friendship, true love, irish catholic, guilt, marriage, high school, bromance, bad father, loss of father, abusive father, best friend, friends, family relations, love and romance, abortion, fall in love, couples, love affair, society, temptation, sexual content, working class, small town, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, ireland, long island, usa, california, boston
Keyword: irish, jewish

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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 love and romance, couples, friendship, couple relations, friends, love and family relations mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Brothers McMullen: Newlyweds (2011), She's the One (1996), The Groomsmen (2006), No Looking Back (1998), Nice Guy Johnny (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Newlyweds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family relations, couples, city life, siblings relations, friendship, society, wedding, dysfunctional family, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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She's the One (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one ...
Style: talky, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: infidelity, unlikely friendships, relationships, taxi driver, unlikely couple, dangerous attraction, wedding, love of one's life, sibling relationship, love affair, siblings relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, ireland, usa
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36%
The Groomsmen (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A groom (Ed Burns) and his four attendants wrestle with issues related to friendship and maturity a week before the big day.
Style: realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, family relations, brother brother relationship, male bonding, friendship, buddies, couple relations, hopes, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, love and romance ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
No Looking Back (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, working class, rock, old love, waitress, love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, friends, social relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
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Nice Guy Johnny (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Johnny Rizzo, is about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snooze-ville gig that'll pay enough to please his fiance. Enter Uncle Terry, a rascally womanizer set on turning a weekend in the Hamptons into an eye-opening fling for his ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, entertaining, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: job interview, love and romance, lifestyle, self discovery, male female relationship, new job, society, mentor, friendship, tennis player, beach, runner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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25%
Peter's Friends (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe, but it's less clear how much they have in common ...
Style: sentimental, touching, witty, intense, realistic ...
Plot: aids, friends, new year's eve, redemption, justice, weekend, thirtysomething life, adulthood, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, family problems ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Screen Door Jesus (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A vision of Jesus sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper's front porch sparks misadventures as the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon and the townsfolk start to take sides. As more people flock to the door, some for guidance, ...
Style: sincere, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: society, social relations, bittersweet, small town life, interracial relations, friendship, small town, human nature, religions or cults, religion, preacher, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Two Family House (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli) is a factory worker, a frustrated crooner who once had a shot at the big time. Buddy's dreams of greatness have been reduced to an endless series of failed moneymaking schemes. His latest is buying a two-family ...
Style: touching, sincere, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: working class, friendship, culture clash, love and romance, society, life is a bitch, couple relations, couples, down on your luck, pregnancy, love, ambition ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Sidewalks of New York (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a ...
Style: stylized, witty, sexy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, divorce, life philosophy, multiple storylines, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, looking for love, human nature, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Bridge and Tunnel (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Unspooled through a series of vignettes, this slice-of-life tale follows a group of young college graduates who are forced -- because of a bleak economic environment -- to shack up with their parents and settle for low-paying jobs.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, talky, independent film
Plot: couples, love, friendship, suburbs, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, profanity, bittersweet, funeral, money, unemployment ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Jewish Jack-the-lad David seriously fancies smart, rich Anglo-Saxon Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They run into each other again and though she still says she finds him appalling he works on it and they are soon together. ...
Style: romantic comedy, independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, best friend, friends, couples, religions or cults, wooing, looking for love, love affair, social differences, society, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
30 Years to Life (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together during the same year. Each one looks inside themselves to see where has my life gone and what ...
Style: witty, touching, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, starting over, love and romance, human nature, midlife crisis, society, lifestyle, looking for love, relationship vs career, buddies, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Chapter Two (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: widower, friendship, death of wife, actress, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, death in the family, love affair, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: new york
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All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family problems, family relations, homecoming, looking for love, family life, estrangement, couples, college, starting over, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
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Purple Violets (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti's ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
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Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The MatchMaker (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she ...
Style: touching, humorous, witty, feel good, black and white ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, destiny, love story, politics, love and romance, fall in love, small town, culture clash, small town life, dog, politician, election campaign ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: ireland, boston, europe, usa
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18%
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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 ⇓
18%
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Looking for Kitty (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate rock star
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, disturbing ...
Plot: bittersweet, friendship, introspection, crumbling marriage, fish out of water, odd couple, private detective, unfulfillment, couples, dream, private investigator, down on your luck ...
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
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18%
Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, spiritual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, starting over, fish out of water, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, disorder, friends, mine ...
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18%
Your Sister's Sister (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Style: romantic, sincere, emotional, independent film, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: relationships, love, lesbian, casual sex, sisters, love triangle, sex, love affair, life philosophy, sister sister relationship, friendship, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Jersey Girl (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love, working class, diner, family life, small town life, friendship, witness protection, opposites attract, yuppie, love and romance, stalking, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Trust the Man (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, sex addict, battle of the sexes, introspection, family problems, love affair, dishonesty, friendship, loneliness, adultery, sex, girl ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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18%
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Starting Over (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: starting over, support group, dating, hopes, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, infidelity, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: boston, usa, new york
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18%
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Not Cool (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: NOT COOL follows former prom king and college freshman Scott (Shane Dawson) who has just returned home for Thanksgiving break only to be dumped by his eccentric, long-term girlfriend. With his world turned upside down, Scott strikes an unlikely ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, scenic, teen ...
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, college life, youth, couples, unlikely couple, friends, small town, homecoming, love, college, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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18%
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The Brothers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style: romantic, light, melancholic, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, african american, relationships, black, marriage, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, hip hop, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Women (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
Style: sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, talky, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, lgbtq, female bonding, older woman younger man, friendship, best friend, sexual content, love and romance, unfulfillment, gender, aging, feminism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Dinner with Friends (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, sincere, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, family problems, secrets, introspection, marriage, crumbling marriage, love and romance, food, midlife crisis ...
Time: year 1988, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Bastards of Young (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot: couples, pregnancy, infidelity, couple relations, best friend, friends, thirtysomething life, introspection, crumbling marriage, adultery, divorce, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful ...
Style: romantic, humorous, touching, funny, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: rabbi, love story, love triangle, priest, catholicism, friendship, love and romance, love, judaism, women, unrequited love, jewish culture ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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