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The Roses (2025)
51K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
Style:
dark comedy, intense, romantic comedy, modern day adaptation
Plot:
architect, cooking, building collapse, lawyer, food, twins, whale, storm, male nudity, waiter, flirting, drunkenness, divorce lawyer, husband wife relationship, poisoning, marriage, dinner party, troubled marriage, rottweiler, failed marriage, female chef, dog, gay, airplane, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
california, new york, london, big ben london
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Most similar movies to The Roses
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and dark comedy films with plots about husband wife relationship, kiss, friendship, restaurant, drinking, bare chested male and party mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Roses: Rough Night (2017), Friendship (2024), Splitsville (2025), Waiting... (2005), Boys' Night Out (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five best friends from college reunite 10 years later for a wild bachelorette weekend in Miami. Their hard partying takes a hilariously dark turn when they accidentally kill a male stripper. Amidst the craziness of trying to cover it up, ...
Style:
buddy comedy, sexy, humorous, rom com, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, friends, drinking, death, bachelorette party, male stripper, murder, woman urinating, blonde, female friendship, female protagonist, strip show ...
Time:
year 2017, year 2006, year 2016
Place:
miami, florida, usa
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, as Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.
Style:
dark comedy, absurd, hilarious, crying, complex
Plot:
orgasm, weatherman, toad, neighbor, flowers, sewer, friendship, missing wife, tunnel, father son relationship, snow, sandwich ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After Ashley asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage, that is until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their ...
Style:
dark comedy, neo screwball comedy, f word
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, cuckolded husband, open marriage, friendship between men, male friendship, divorce, birthday party, fish, car accident, fraud, breakup ...
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new jersey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, parody, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
restaurant, food, employer employee relationship, friendship, workplace romance, college, waiter, staff, buddies, prank, wooing, workplace situations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, sex comedy, satirical, retro ...
Plot:
adultery, teacher student relationship, redheaded woman, screwball, marriage, sociology, psychology, office politics, infidelity, couples, disorder, love and romance ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
324K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Annie’s life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian’s maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to ...
Style:
funny, romantic, sweet, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, boys' night ...
Plot:
wedding, best friend, friendship, female friendship, wedding preparations and rituals, wedding dress, friends, sex scene, bachelorette party, fear of commitment, single woman, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, milwaukee wisconsin, paris france, wisconsin
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
Style:
entertaining, light, humorous, witty, captivating ...
Plot:
wedding, love, marriage, dysfunctional family, parents, relationships, family life, family problems, love affair, parents and children, childish behavior, gay son ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Just as San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is set to get married, her absentee father arrives, disrupting the household of his ex-wife. Is he there to break up the wedding? Or to steal back his ex-wife? Or is Pogo finally ready to be a ...
Style:
technicolor, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
dancing, wedding, human nature, love and romance, couples, family relations, estrangement, family life, breakup, parents and children, card playing, pianist ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, vigilantism, dark humor, neighbor neighbor relationship, false accusation, investigation, college, uncover truth, racism, college professor, disorder, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
massachusetts, hawaii, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
THREE FOR TWO presents Lucy with the Great One, Jackie Gleason, combining their comedic talents for the first time, in a trio of comedy-dramas centered on the various aspects of marriage.
Style:
comedy drama, anthology, realistic, light hearted, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
marriage, married life, infidelity, relationship problems, character study, parenting, slice of life, marital crisis, domestic drama, independence, bittersweet, new year's eve ...
Place:
rome italy, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
With his life already in shambles -- his girlfriend just dumped him, he's lost his acting gig, and his cat is seriously ill -- sad-sack Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg) comes home New Year's Eve to find a gay burglar (Lombardo Boyar) looting ...
Style:
realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious, talky ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, breakup, dark humor, disorder, love and romance, friends, couples, redemption, artists and showbiz, down on your luck, best friend, gay ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.
Style:
art house, funny, dark comedy, surreal, entertaining ...
Plot:
female rivalry, female protagonist, suburbs, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, peer pressure, social satire, parents and children, satire, rivalry, eccentric family, football player ...
Place:
europe, paris france, france, cincinnati ohio, berlin germany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Style:
clever, humorous, talky, witty, sincere ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, girls' night
Plot:
sexism, female empowerment, workplace, workplace situations, siblings relations, shyness, love and romance, hopes, father daughter relationship, feminist, dysfunctional family, feminism ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, ireland, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
18%
45K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After losing his beloved mother, a man risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas — grandmothers — as the chefs.
Plot:
death of mother, italian restaurant, restaurant, second chance, funeral, cooking, old woman, husband wife relationship, job, chef, family relations, best friend ...
Time:
year 1967, year 2007
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It's punk rock meets Animal House in this campus comedy that stars Ben Affleck as Jack, a soon-to-be graduate who finds he's having a difficult time letting go of the college life -- and decides maybe he doesn't have to. Also ...
Style:
light, sentimental, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
college, friends, relationship vs career, graduation, student, teacher, adolescence vs adulthood, singleness, nightlife, student life, college life, looking for love ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
344K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
Style:
funny, not serious, entertaining, humorous, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
youth, stupidity, friendship, satire, high school, plan gone awry, fraternity, friends, manipulation, revenge, drinking, male objectification ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 1930s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
You slipped into my life as easily as vermouth into a glass of gin, purrs reclusive singing star Angela Arden. Arden is not only haunted by a secret, she's treated like dirt by her louse of a husband, her snoopy maid, and her petulant daughter. ...
Style:
humorous, witty, melancholic, satirical, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
murder, transvestism, dysfunctional family, family relations, artists and showbiz, eccentric family, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, dark humor, love affair, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 60s ...
Place:
spain, greenwich village manhattan new york city, hong kong
Similarity:
18%
45K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure.
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, funny, light, captivating ...
Plot:
male nudity, weekend, friend, life, friendship, father, family life, friends, buddies, african american, public nudity, bare chested male ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
18%
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14K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A grown man is still caught in the crossfire of his parents' 15 year divorce. He discovers he was unknowingly part of a study on divorced children and is enlisted in a follow-up years later, which wreaks new havoc on his family.
Style:
witty, humorous, semi serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
parents separation, dysfunctional family, remarry, parents and children, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family feud, couple relations, ex husband ex wife relationship, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
To escape the police, a father and his son are forced to find refuge in a summer camp for young adults with mental disabilities, taking on the role of an educator and a boarder. The beginning of troubles and a wonderful human experience that will ...
Style:
witty
Plot:
summer camp, father son relationship, heist gone wrong, disabled person, cow, bare chested male, heist, police, cooking, lie, christmas, disabled ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two young men meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance.
Style:
dark comedy, sincere, crying, lgbt cinema, f word
Plot:
gay sex, gay, gay interest, male male relationship, male nudity, gay straight relations, homosexuality, friendship between men, death, twins, lie, jealousy ...
Place:
seattle, portland oregon, idaho
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet ...
Style:
road movie, black comedy, sexy, witty, funny ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, road trip, mistaken identity, adoption, on the road, gay couple, farce, misunderstanding, attraction, acid trip, baby, adopted son ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new mexico, new york, michigan, usa, san diego california ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Danny and Elliot avoid military service by pretending to be gay, but they have to act the part when the recruiting officer doesn't buy it.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, political, freeze frame, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female sexual predator, gay, lgbt, pretending to be gay, vietnam war, gay slur, bare breasts, gay stereotype, childish woman, gay cruising, homophobic slur, gigolo ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, miami
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A scathing black comedy of embarrassment that charts the emotional breakdown and rebirth of a woman ripe for self-discovery.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, hopes, rejection, dark humor, punk, misfit, divorce, breakup, ex girlfriend, chocolate, female protagonist, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, usa, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Young Manhattan chef Samir rediscovers his heritage and passion for life through the enchanting art of cooking Indian food.
Style:
feel good, humorous, culinary, light, captivating ...
Plot:
cooking and food, chef, food, cooking, family relations, workplace, self discovery, parents and children, love and romance, lifestyle, restaurant, cookery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, indiana
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A housewife who despises society's obsession with health and looks suspects her husband of cheating on her with a hot model in a local health spa. She decides to infiltrate the spa, find the woman and get her revenge. But is it that simple?
Style:
psychological, suspense, black comedy, dark comedy, sex comedy ...
Plot:
infidelity, jealousy, marriage, model, female protagonist, satire, social commentary, obsession, revenge, irony, suspicion, domestic drama ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
17%
897
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gorp is a delighfully silly send up of summer camp movies. It is set in a Catskills style resort for wealty Jewish kids. The main source of plot movement is from the following elements: camp waiters vs. camp management; camp guests vs. waiters; ...
Style:
independent film, teen sex comedy, grindhouse, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
summer camp, rabbi, female on male rape, sexual frustration, gay african american, male nudity, female rapist, summer, masturbation, food, teenager, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
17%
139K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one ...
Style:
rom com, entertaining, cult classic, teen, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, lesbian, lgbtq, teenager, high school, lesbian teen, teenage lesbian, last day of school, sapphic, high school student, female best friends, teen party ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new haven connecticut
Similarity:
17%
258K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Style:
absurd, humorous, hilarious, not serious, action comedy ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
silly humor, teddy bear, lawyer, marijuana, foul language, buddy, satire, adoption, anthropomorphism, sarcasm, buddies, friends ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new york
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious ...
Style:
humorous, psychological, funny, ironic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
slacker, tattoo artist, arrested development, re-education, stoner, traumatized man, fear of commitment, adhd, coming of age, tattoo, jealousy, meditation ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york, hawaii, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
17%
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