Movies like Dad
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Dad (1989)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan Hawke), the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, feel good, uplifting, inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, heartbreaking, dramatic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, aging, doctors, hospital, family bonds, parents and children, hopes, family life, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, redemption, bittersweet, catastrophe, gangsters, revenge, lawyer, natural disaster, relationships, life, islam, cancer, divorce, beautiful scenery, secret service, gunfight ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, san francisco, new jersey, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, feel good and melancholic films with plots about dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, storytelling, redemption, destiny and culture clash mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Dad: Nobody's Fool (1994), Patch Adams (1998), That's Life! (1986), Men Don't Leave (1990), Roommates (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
small town, father son relationship, redemption, justice, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, elderly, aging, retirement, generation gap, family reunited ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, new york state, usa, hawaii
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
human spirit, medical school, hospital, compassion, medical profession, doctors and patients, friendship, dealing with death, stereotypes, mad scientist, unconventional method, clinic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1971
Place:
usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, erotic, poignant, visually appealing ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, bittersweet, family gatherings, cancer, depression, hospital, unlikely friendships, fantasy world, existentialism, mental illness, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
malibu california, new jersey, los angeles
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40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, feel good, thought provoking ...
Plot:
depression, bittersweet, widow, family relations, musician, homeless, guilt, parenthood, redemption, dysfunctional family, destiny, hospital ...
Time:
80s
Place:
baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
Style:
feel good, touching, unusual plot structure, poignant, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
vengeance, adaptation, catastrophe, hospital, brutality, police investigation, cancer, coming of age, irish, parenthood, death, college ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, light, atmospheric ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, jewish, youth, mental illness, terminal illness, eccentricity, cancer, insanity, twists and turns, first contact, segregation ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
los angeles
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, light, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, direction and purpose, father son relationship, justice, tragedy, dysfunctional family, redemption, happy ending, midlife crisis, actor's life, thirtysomething life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
Style:
compassionate, sentimental, stylized, surreal, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doctors, redemption, life philosophy, depression, hospital, introspection, parents and children, life is a bitch, dark humor, terminal illness, doctor patient relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ...
Audience:
family outing, manly
Plot:
self discovery, biracial, family relations, betrayal, loneliness, secrets, justice, interracial relations, racism, family problems, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
arkansas, chicago illinois, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style:
sad, emotional, touching, heartbreaking, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
terminal illness, death, reconciliation, cancer, honest, childbirth, pregnancy, self discovery, couple relations, family life, unfulfillment, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, sexy, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
food, black romance, hip hop, women, sisters, thanksgiving, african american, family relations, blaxploitation, cooking and food, divorce, kids and family ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
africa, chicago illinois, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some ...
Style:
sad, touching, emotional, tear jerker, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
disability, depression, hospital, courtroom drama, suicide, female nudity, euthanasia, doctors, adaptation, gangsters, greed, gunfight ...
Time:
80s
Place:
massachusetts, boston
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28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, feel good, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, children, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, redemption, hospital, single father, betrayal, farce, monster, child abduction, middle school ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, oakland california
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27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty ...
Style:
touching, sexy, visually appealing, stylized, reflective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, redemption, divorce, first contact, life philosophy, mentor, mother daughter relationship, multiple storylines, fantasy world ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style:
talky, realistic, sentimental, touching, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
divorce, friendship, bittersweet, desert island, parenthood, runaway, character study, vacation, love, multiple storylines, life, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside ...
Style:
sentimental, sad, touching, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
divorce, terminal illness, step parent, women, friendship, custody, parents and children, cancer, remarry, rebellious daughter, family life, human nature ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style:
talky, touching, humorous, witty, cerebral ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dark humor, cancer, obsession, parenthood, dysfunctional family, depression, redemption, relationships, mentor, existentialism, life, honest ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, tokyo, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, feel good, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
hospital, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, women, thanksgiving, sister sister relationship, family problems, eccentric family, terminal illness, family life, parents and children, family gatherings ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, year 2000, year 1988, 2000s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, feel good, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
single father, adoption, redemption, hopes, teacher, time, life & death, identity, happy ending, first contact, fight scenes, hospital ...
Time:
80s, 19th century, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
virginia, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
survival, farm, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, against the odds, couple relations, family business, family farm, family problems, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
iowa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Style:
touching, melancholic, emotional, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, dysfunctional family, tragedy, relationships, women, life, parenthood, honest, parents and children, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york
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24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hospital, cancer, medical, redemption, coldhearted, doctors and patients, nurse, surgery, existentialism, psychiatrist, fantasy world, secrets ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
women, friendship, dysfunctional family, youth, twists and turns, revenge, family bonds, sacrifice, solitude, child hero, sex crime, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
Place:
jamaica, baltimore, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sexy, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, grandmother, aunt, race issues, childhood, redemption, violent, corruption, mentor, crime gone awry, vengeance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
Style:
feel good, sweet, sentimental, touching, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
college, homeless, friendship, youth, college student, father son relationship, law school, justice, happy ending, graduation, self discovery, ambition ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa, boston, new jersey, harvard university
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23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent ...
Style:
funny, feel good, light, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, date night
Plot:
senior citizen, thanksgiving, buddies, small town, beautiful scenery, aging, friendship, buddy, winter, love triangle, fall in love, couples ...
Time:
90s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
minnesota, california, usa
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23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, emotional, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
bathhouse, father son relationship, tradition, parents and children, life philosophy, society, human nature, family relations, small town, disability, bittersweet, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, beijing china, tokyo, asia, tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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