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Daddy Issues (2024)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
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Story:
After discovering she’s pregnant, hedonistic Gemma flatshares with her hapless father. Together, they have to navigate new friendships, new relationships and face up to parenthood.
Style:
realistic, dark comedy
Plot:
family drama, midlife crisis, working class, social realism, slice of life, bittersweet, hedonism, coming of age, city life, reconciliation, moral ambiguity, father daughter relationship, unplanned pregnancy, pregnancy, father, daughter
Place:
manchester
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, sitcom and captivating films and TV series with plots about slice of life, bittersweet, satire, working class, coming of age, midlife crisis and family relations mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Daddy Issues: Mount Pleasant (2011), Going Straight (1978), Var Bunlar (2022), Women on the Verge (2018), Alma's Not Normal (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The life of Mancunian Lisa and the day-to-day adventures she has with her husband, friends and family.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sitcom, family comedy
Plot:
family relations, friends, couples, slice of life, family drama, marriage, friendship, neighborhood, female protagonist, working class, parenting, humour ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manchester, europe, england
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had been set.
It sees Fletcher trying to become an ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, light hearted, heartfelt
Plot:
family relations, reformation, bittersweet, blue collar, slice of life, family drama, ex convict, urban, social realism, satire, teenage son, daughter ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 20 min.
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Story:
The fun adventures of two close friends who are dragged into the inextricable monotony of daily life.
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, light hearted, realistic
Plot:
friendship, companionship, slice of life, routine, bittersweet, male friendship, intimate, city life, social commentary, satire, coming of age, small town ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 40 min.
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Story:
The lives of three women in their 30s, as they navigate the challenges of life, love and relationships. Whilst everyone else is settling down, married with kids, and increasingly in control of their lives, Laura, Katie and Alison seem to be moving ...
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
female friendship, midlife crisis, satire, social satire, thirty something, problem, social problems, relationships, middle aged woman, female protagonist, lifestyle, career ...
Place:
dublin ireland, ireland
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
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Story:
Big dreams, no qualifications and always herself. Mum’s been sectioned, Gran’s too busy, but after a messy break-up, wild child Alma aims to break free in Bolton.
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, dark comedy, life affirming ...
Plot:
aspiration, slice of life, heroin addiction, mother daughter conflict, family drama, social problems, lifestyle, female protagonist, relationship problems, satire, resilience, self discovery ...
Place:
northern england
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
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A comedic exploration of one of life's big milestones, four sisters who have lost their parents and are packing up the family home to sell. But even in grief their messy lives go on.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, satirical, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sister, grief, family home, sisters, family drama, relationships, family relations, social satire, family problems, family life, women, sister sister relationship ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
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Story:
Glen and his fiancée share a perfect, perfectly mundane life together. Sure, Glen's got crippling erectile dysfunction and Kirsty has a secret shoplifting habit, but they're happy. That is until his brother Lee comes crashing into their ...
Style:
tense, dark comedy, satirical
Plot:
family drama, addiction, family conflict, brotherhood, claustrophobia, erectile dysfunction, toxic masculinity, sexual dysfunction, on the run, shoplifting, social realism, midlife crisis ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Forced to come back to Palermo to take care of his elderly parents, a deadpan driver-for-hire takes advantage of the situation to get back at the rigid authority figures who ruined his teenage years.
Style:
dark comedy, raunchy comedy, black humor
Plot:
family drama, revenge, getting home, resentment, caretaker, moral ambiguity, small town, social realism, midlife crisis, bittersweet, nostalgia, parents son relationship ...
Place:
italy, sicily
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Story:
Giving Me Life (in the Land of the Deadass) follows six Black and Latinx friends of diverse sexualities as they struggle to find work and love in New York City. Each episode features one friend on a shenanigan-filled adventure in a city that ...
Style:
humorous, multicultural, funny, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
friendship, city life, lgbtq, latina, african american, interracial friendship, relationships, friend, lgbt, group of friends, friends, latinos ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Story:
Blark and Son follows the adventures of Blark as he struggles to bond with his son who he loves more than anything else in the world.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, funny, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
father son relationship, son, relationships, suburbs, puppet, fatherhood, father, humour, parents and children, father and son, family relations, family drama ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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In Sickness and in Health is a BBC television sitcom which ran between 1985 and 1992. It was a sequel to the highly successful Til Death Us Do Part, which ran between 1966 and 1975, and Till Death..., which ran for one series of six episodes in 1981.
Style:
sitcom, dark comedy, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
disability, working class, elderly man, marriage, satire, bureaucracy, bittersweet, family drama, mortality, bigotry, social realism, nostalgia ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
australia, london
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marco Altoviti is an inspector at an insurance company. A trusted man of the owner Dr. Carletti, he also conducts courses for sellers.
Style:
realistic, art house
Plot:
slice of life, moral ambiguity, male protagonist, bureaucracy, office politics, bittersweet, satire, midlife crisis, social realism, unfaithfulness, male female relationship, affair ...
Place:
tuscany
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 4 min.
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Story:
Dad vs. Lad follows the relationship, or lack thereof, of put-upon Step-Dad Herb and his wayward Step-Son Weston, in Seasons 1 and 2. Then in Season 3 and onward follows Herb's struggles with his biological kids.
Style:
light, feel good, funny, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, adopted son, family relations, stepfather stepson relationship, parents and children, family life, biological father, humour, children, kids and family, father, stepfather ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Being a Middle Class Family That Can Afford Movie Tickets, They Dream of Producing a Whole New Movie to Fulfill Their Younger Son's Wish to Rediscover Himself Which Brings Grave Challenges
Style:
heartfelt, realistic, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Plot:
family drama, middle class, self discovery, perseverance, slice of life, bittersweet, coming of age, social realism, sibling relationship, intimate, small town, casting ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Mel is a broke, fat, Black JFK airport employee who's never been in love and forgotten how to dream, until an accidental brush with death catapults her on a journey to finally take flight and start living by any means necessary.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, uplifting, existential, rom com
Audience:
adult
Plot:
airport, female protagonist, second chance, near death experience, self discovery, resilience, women, mortality, working class, identity, friendship, bittersweet ...
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49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Warren Thompson just wants an easy life, but thanks to his naturally difficult personality, he’s constantly finding himself in sticky situations.
Style:
sitcom, feel good, funny, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
future
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49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sitcom, dark comedy ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, couples, couple relations, dark humor, aging, female protagonist, introspection, marriage, slice of life ...
Time:
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Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
47%
11K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Mahsun is a motorcycle courier in Istanbul. While searching for a way out of his life filled with debt, he accidentally discovers his "greatest" talent and decides to become a GIGOLO. Her manager will be her friend Leyla, who is a failed ...
Style:
comedy drama, dark comedy, romantic comedy, ambiguous ending, noir
Plot:
debt, gigolo, working class, self discovery, urban, ambition, street life, identity, friendship, moral ambiguity, career change, social commentary ...
Place:
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345
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Shelley is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 12 July 1979 to 12 January 1984 and from 11 October 1988 to 1 September 1992. Starred Hywel Bennett as James Shelley, originally 28 years old and a sardonic, ...
Style:
sitcom, witty, dark comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
unemployment, anti establishment, landlady, writers, satire, social satire, city life, political satire, slice of life, bureaucracy, political humor, unemployed ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Similarity:
46%
12K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart, ambition, and new relationships have changed them.
Style:
reflective, realistic, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, ambition, relationships, urban, nostalgia, intimate, bittersweet, identity, slice of life, reconciliation, midlife crisis, jealousy ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
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Story:
Friday night. 7pm. Film Club Week 198. Evie hasn't left the house in six months after a 'wobble', and Film Club is her escape. A weekly chance to create a world of wonder, deck the garage out in whatever the movie calls for and spend ...
Style:
romantic drama, heartfelt, realistic, lighthearted
Plot:
confession, introspection, intimate, friends to lovers, bittersweet, unspoken love, slice of life, longing, ritual, coming of age, young adult, love ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Chun-Il is married to Ra-Yeon and they have a daughter Ik-Hee. Chun-Il works as a salaryman and tries to survive at his company. Ra-Yeon is worried about her husband's low salary and Ik-Hee going through adolescence.
Style:
sitcom, realistic, semi serious, feel good, satirical ...
Plot:
family drama, house, slice of life, everyday life, relationships, social problems, family relations, male female relationship, family problems, husband wife relationship, money problems, lifestyle ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
korea
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of an intelligent loser who lives in a communal apartment in St. Petersburg works as a “literary Negro” by Olga Buzova and writes an autobiography on her behalf.
Style:
funny, light, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, ghost writer, friends, writers, writer's life, family problems, humour, financial problem, society, lifestyle, storytelling, living together ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.
Style:
sitcom, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous
Plot:
working class, christmas, sketch, voodoo, family relations, social commentary, oldtimer, couples, suffering, slacker, temperamental, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
manchester, northern england, england, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Story:
In this darkly comic series, three gay friends in their late 50s are forced to face the fact that their lives have fallen far short of what they imagined for themselves when they were in their 20s. Dreams of wealth, career success, and lasting love ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
gay, midlife crisis, friendship, lgbtq, aging, social problems, satire, gay friend, social satire, social issues, male homosexuality, gay lead character ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Multi-generation family sitcom set in the 1970s, loosely based on Emma Kennedy's memoirs. The Kennedy family pursue every opportunity they can to climb the social ladder on their housing estate.
Style:
humorous, captivating, satirical, entertaining, sitcom ...
Plot:
slice of life, satire, family relations, social climbing, aspiration, family life, society, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, father daughter relationship, parents and children, relationships ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Cyprus
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Story:
Takkoi are a typical Cypriot family. The father, George, is a real estate agent and the mother, Maro, is a teacher. They have three children: a daughter at university, Penny, a son in the army, Mike, and a young daughter in elementary school, Kalia.
Style:
comedy drama, humorous, melancholic
Plot:
family values, family drama, motherhood, slice of life, middle class, siblings, fatherhood, military service, small town, coming of age, social realism, marriage ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Pınar is a woman who comes from a traditional family and is trying to stand on her own feet in Istanbul. Working as an assistant brand manager at a food company, Pınar appears strong and determined from the outside, but in her inner world she is ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, rom com
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, self discovery, personal growth, office politics, single woman, aspiration, gender roles, family drama, female empowerment, workplace, coming of age, slice of life
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
43%
252
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
When Tom and Ellen are together, things seem to work. It's only in the spaces outside the relationship - the intrusions of real life, and the deadly collaboration of parents, siblings, friends and exes - that the flailing attempts to make good ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, captivating, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
relationships, couples, couple relations, friends, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, love and romance, male female relationship, romantic relationship, humour, love affair, love story ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story:
Uber driver Ben uses what he learns from his passengers to piece together his place in the world.
Style:
realistic, captivating, satirical, feel good, psychological ...
Plot:
relationships, fatherhood, character study, thirty something, satire, lifestyle, taxi, social issues, taxi driver, male female relationship, social problems, family relations ...
Place:
hamburg germany, germany
Similarity:
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