Movies like City Island
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City Island (2009)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.
Style:
feel good, sexy, emotional, witty, funny, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, audition, eccentric family, character study, deception, warden, teenage boy, family life, family problems, prison, nothing goes right, family relations, suburbs, betrayal, island, family reunited, love, catastrophe, gangsters, twists and turns, relationships, dark humor, depression, group sex, justice ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york, bronx new york city, new jersey, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, talky and semi serious films with plots about culture clash, honest, dysfunctional family, storytelling, runaway, mentor and relationships mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like City Island: The Descendants (2011), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), People Like Us (2012), Junebug (2005), Pieces of April (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
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touching, depressing, thought provoking, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
infidelity, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, teenage daughter, marriage, dying mother, family relations, cheating wife, bittersweet, greed, parenthood, estate ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style:
road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night
Plot:
road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, honest, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, nothing goes right, coming of age, parenthood, drugs ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, new mexico, arizona, albuquerque new mexico ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
It tells the story of a struggling man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, intense, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
family secret, salesman, family bonds, relationships, father son relationship, family relations, funeral, single mother, introspection, family problems, drinking problem, financial problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, ...
Style:
humorous, emotional, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, art, small town, eccentricity, painting, jealousy, love and romance, eccentric family, meet the parents, newlyweds, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago illinois, usa, southern usa
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, intense, talky, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
holiday, thanksgiving, road trip, food, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, loneliness, reconciliation, parents and children, family feud, nothing goes right, generation gap ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, tokyo, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station ...
Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, marriage, adultery, family relations, suburbs, infidelity, drunkenness, chance meeting, multiple storylines, mentor, maze, depression ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
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46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style:
touching, humorous, emotional, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family gatherings, infidelity, homecoming, death of father, children, jewish, family relations, loneliness, life & death, last wish, eccentric family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
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46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
lesbian, thanksgiving, dysfunctional family, food, culture clash, divorce, family bonds, pregnancy, family problems, family life, family gatherings, americana ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two ...
Style:
sentimental, sexy, melancholic, witty, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dysfunctional family, friendship, suburban life, mother daughter relationship, neighbor, suspense, parenthood, family relations, couples, starting over, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan, california, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the ...
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dysfunctional family, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, pregnancy, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, single mother, family relations, little girl, husband wife relationship, little boy ...
Time:
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Place:
missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Films like Little Miss Sunshine
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style:
feel good, touching, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, asthma, friendship, loneliness, on the road, starting over, human nature, self discovery, family problems, single parent, love and romance, mother ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa, south carolina, santa fe new mexico, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style:
talky, cynical, depressing, stylized, melancholic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, wedding, nude, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, secrets, greed, character study, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, long island, vermont, harvard university
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
Style:
humorous, satirical, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, farce, dark humor, satire, self discovery, nothing goes right, disorder, family problems, family life, couple relations, lifestyle, couples ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with ...
Style:
emotional, stylized, sentimental, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, gay, coming of age, suicide, suburbs, family secret, loneliness, parenthood, family problems, youth, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi pins all her hopes on winning the local beauty pageant.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, talky, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, small town, underdog, contests and competitions, love and romance, human nature, youth, family problems, couples, cons and scams, looking for love, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
mississippi, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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, feel good, sincere, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
working class, friendship, culture clash, love and romance, human nature, life is a bitch, society, couples, down on your luck, couple relations, pregnancy, love ...
Time:
50s, 90s
Place:
new jersey, ireland, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
Style:
feel good, humorous, talky, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dysfunctional family, police detective, family relations, family problems, hopes, estrangement, couples, single parent, parents and children, eccentric family, cons and scams, family life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, las vegas, venice beach california, brazil, los angeles
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Everybody has the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother Ned, an erstwhile organic farmer whose ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, sweet, realistic ...
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chick flick, teens
Plot:
lesbian, hippie, marijuana, dog, golden retriever, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, relationships, loneliness, family relations, goofy hero, eccentric family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey, california, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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, emotional, melancholic, stylized, depressing ...
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girls' night
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Time:
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Place:
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot:
adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, moral dilemma, human nature, couple relations ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah ...
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Time:
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43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their ...
Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, christmas, thanksgiving, holiday, gay, weekend, family relations, female protagonist, nothing goes right, family life, eccentric family, family conflict ...
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43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After breaking up with his lover and boss, a smooth-talking man takes his teenaged nephew out on the town in search of sex.
Style:
cynical, thought provoking, biting, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
virginity, womanizer, nightlife, seduction, coming of age, relationships, sexuality, brothel, battle of the sexes, suspense, youth, flirting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, ohio, usa, manhattan new york city
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43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, emotional, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, depression, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, character study, redemption, family relations, childhood, nursing, parents and children, siblings relations ...
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43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style:
talky, touching, humorous, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, parents and children, eccentric family, family problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa
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43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who ...
Style:
feel good, touching, realistic, melancholic, emotional ...
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family outing, manly
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43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Style:
romantic, melancholic, satirical, cynical, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
materialism, advertising, envy, gadget, dysfunctional family, suburban life, stereotypes, manipulation, suburbs, twists and turns, pretense, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After two failed marriages a science fiction writer decides that coming to terms with his mother will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with her.
Style:
talky, clever, humorous, witty, poignant ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, mother, mother son relationship, eccentricity, divorce, sibling rivalry, brother brother relationship, moral ambiguity, vengeance, violent, women, writers ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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