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Citizen Ruth (1996)
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Citizen Ruth (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: "Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.
Style: witty, political, melancholic, stylized, talky, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, grim ...
Audience: teens
Plot: abortion, drug abuse, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, addiction, pregnancy, politics, female protagonist, moral dilemma, youth, life is a bitch, women, drug addiction, satire, criminal, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, character study, justice, lesbian, dark humor, manipulation, abortion rights, lawyer ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: nebraska, vietnam

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about satire, family relations, society, profanity, mother daughter relationship, couples and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Citizen Ruth: Saved! (2004), Election (1999), Manny & Lo (1996), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Trees Lounge (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Saved! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenage Mary Cummings, who has "been Born Again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore with her Fundamentalist Christian friends Hilary Faye and Veronica, the three of whom ...
Style: touching, independent film, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, coming of age, gay, youth, friendship, pregnant girl, satire, teenager, atheism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, xian, baltimore, california
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Election (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, political, witty, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teacher, election, satire, teenage girl, politics, campaign, jealousy, coming of age, society, school, teachers and students ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, y2k, 20th century
Place: nebraska, washington d.c., new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Manny & Lo (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.
Style: humorous, road movie, feel good, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, kidnapping, teenage pregnancy, police, pregnancy, robbery, dream, adoption, girl power, child, hostage, on the road ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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40%
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style: humorous, touching, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mother daughter relationship, addiction, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drug, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Trees Lounge (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with ...
Style: independent film, cult classic, grim, talky, dark comedy ...
Plot: drinking, alcoholic, alcoholism, drug addiction, addiction, drunk, small town, self discovery, coming of age, alcohol abuse, older man younger woman relationship, loner ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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38%
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Gridlock'd (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being ...
Style: dark comedy, hood, stylized, harsh, talky ...
Plot: addiction, hip hop, drug addiction, drug, urban, drug abuse, murder, heroin, gangster, justice, crime gone awry, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, detroit, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The New Age (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style: satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative, cynical ...
Plot: dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, society, self discovery, crumbling marriage, filmmaking, lifestyle, starting over, rise and fall, couple relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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37%
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Grassroots (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, political ...
Plot: politics, ambition, satire, against the odds, society, campaign, friends, unemployment, election campaign, political campaign, campaigning, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Obvious Child (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Style: humorous, atmospheric, independent film, witty, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: abortion, pregnancy, kick-butt women, loneliness, feminist, self discovery, relationships, existentialism, unwanted pregnancy, one night stand, nothing goes right, introspection ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.1
 88K
Wag the Dog (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
Style: black comedy, political, talky, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: politics, conspiracy, political corruption, journalism, cia, election, satire, government, political conspiracy, president, secret service, senator ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., albania, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 10K
Hurlyburly (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Based on a play by David Rabe, Hurlyburly is about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes, whose dysfunctional personal lives are more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.
Style: talky, dark comedy, cynical, captivating, philosophical ...
Plot: hollywood, addiction, drug abuse, drug, insanity, marijuana, showbiz, buddies, friendship, love triangle, filmmaking, destiny ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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36%
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State and Main (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style: talky, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new england, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Right Way (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Amy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy ...
Style: realistic, surreal, touching, controversial, independent film ...
Plot: materialism, unwanted pregnancy, lifestyle, family relations, drug abuse, mental illness, parents and children, single parent, life is a bitch, society, couples, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
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35%
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Mistress (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the ...
Style: humorous, cynical, cult classic, light, captivating ...
Plot: filmmaking, mistress, screenwriter, hollywood, showbiz, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire, media satire ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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34%
August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style: touching, melancholic, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, suicide, cancer, family secret, mother daughter relationship, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Boppin' at the Glue Factory (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A junkie nurse rules the night shift at a convalescent hospital.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, independent film, realistic
Plot: satire, workplace, dark humor, life is a bitch, against the rules, dishonesty, workplace situations, addiction, drug abuse, cons and scams, retirement home, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
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Bob Roberts (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the ...
Style: mockumentary, political, cynical, witty, talky ...
Plot: political satire, election campaign, politics, journalism, satire, manipulation, political campaign, conspiracy, republican, senator, society, ambition ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, nicaragua, new york
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34%
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All the Rage (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint.
Style: clever, intense, melancholic, satirical, realistic ...
Plot: obsession, geek, prejudice, crimes of passion, mental illness, family problems, society, crumbling marriage, satire, family drama, loneliness, lgbt ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
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34%
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Spinning Boris (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
Style: clever, realistic, political, talky, witty ...
Plot: politics, campaign, head of state, ambition, idealism, leadership, rise to the top, political unrest, culture clash, political intrigue, political conspiracy, society ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: russia, moscow russia
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33%
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The Candidate (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Style: political, witty, realistic, cynical, thought provoking ...
Plot: politics, election, american politics, father son relationship, campaign, satire, candidate, idealism, political campaign, underdog, political rally, president ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place: california, usa, san francisco, san diego california
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33%
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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33%
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Grandma (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her ...
Style: road movie, suspense, depressing, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: road trip, abortion, lesbian, pregnancy, aging, lgbtq, grandparent grandchild relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, writers, friendship, gay, depression ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Kept and Dreamless (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Florence, a young irresponsible mother and her precocious daughter, Eugenia, have an unusual relationship. The roles between the two are reversed. Florence is totally inept at caring for a daughter, whereas Eugenia, only 10 years old, shows maturity ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: drug use, pregnant woman, abortion, dysfunctional family, youth, pregnancy, family relations, precocious child, single parent, child as adult, drug dealer, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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28 Days (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs ...
Style: touching, realistic, intense, compassionate, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, drug addict, alcoholism, wedding, rehabilitation, dysfunctional family, going straight, doctors and patients, siblings relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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33%
Critical Care (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million ...
Style: black comedy, cynical, humorous, dark comedy, independent film ...
Plot: medical, hospital, medicine, dark humor, satire, law, business, half sister, nun, family problems, power relations, family relations ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Trust (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
Style: independent film, dark comedy, surreal, cult classic, talky ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, love and romance, age difference, coming of age, bittersweet, dark humor, redemption, age-gap relationship, women, young heroes, drifter, troubled youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 80s, 20th century
Place: long island, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Everything Must Go (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
Style: touching, realistic, feel good, humorous, talky ...
Plot: friendship, addiction, salesman, unemployment, alcohol abuse, bittersweet, loneliness, tragedy, character study, self discovery, starting over, marital problem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, texas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Eulogy (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family secret, funeral, eccentric family, death in the family, lesbian, family life, family feud, parents and children, fall in love, generation gap, loss of grandfather ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
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33%
What Just Happened (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben (Robert De Niro) must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss (Catherine Keener) demands extensive ...
Style: stylized, melancholic, witty, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, movie business, hollywood, midlife crisis, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, workplace, disagreement, workplace situations, satire, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her ...
Style: multicultural, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, woman, sapphic, family relations, lesbian mother, male homosexuality, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, asia, india
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33%
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