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The Evening Star (1996)
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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 line.
Style:
touching, cult classic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, romantic, road movie ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, dysfunctional family, family relations, women, minefield, family gatherings, grandparent grandchild relationship, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, teenage life, family problems, single parent, family in crisis, siblings relations, human nature, bittersweet, eccentric family, beach, psychiatrist, maid, baby, piano, brother ...
Time:
80s, year 1996, 90s, 1990s
Place:
texas, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family life and family problems mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Evening Star: Terms of Endearment (1983), Steel Magnolias (1989), Bruno (2000), The Other Sister (1999), Two Weeks (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style:
sentimental, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, death, adultery, husband wife relationship, single mother, mother daughter relationship, grief, hospital, death of daughter ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s ...
Place:
nebraska, houston texas, texas, new york, louisiana ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, sweet, sad, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, friendship, christmas, wedding, small town, southern belle, halloween, family relations, best friend, strong female character, life philosophy, wedding ceremony ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems, convent school, nun, overweight, angel, prodigy ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
Style:
emotional, inspirational, sentimental, touching, compassionate ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mentally challenged, wedding, mental retardation, women, disability, family relations, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, justice, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Plot:
introspection, family life, eccentric family, estrangement, family problems, single parent, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, dying, grief ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
usa, north carolina
Similarity:
100%
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, humorous, witty, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, dark humor, couples, family problems, family relations, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ego clash, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, youth, parents and children, midlife crisis, child as adult ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
100%
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, rehabilitation, drug abuse, domineering mother, women, female protagonist, depression, drug ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, bad ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, fall in love, age difference, marriage, love, male female relationship, pregnancy, in love, family relations, human nature, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 70s
Place:
massachusetts, boston, caribbean, new england
Similarity:
100%
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:
humorous, touching, intense, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, christmas, holiday, family life, thanksgiving, weekend, gay, female protagonist, family relations, eccentric family, nothing goes right, family conflict ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
baltimore, turkey
Similarity:
100%
80K
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, inspirational, touching, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, kids ...
Plot:
terminal illness, divorce, women, cancer, autumn, custody, remarry, step parent, friendship, parents and children, adoption, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sweet, rom com, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
mistaken identity, love and romance, pregnancy, enemies to lovers, women, rags to riches, pretend relationship, train crash, forbidden love, society, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style:
humorous, independent film, black comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, dysfunctional family, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, estrangement, family problems, couples, parents and children, family in crisis, family life ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Life changes for three woman who run a failing hotel, when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.
Style:
humorous, talky, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Plot:
parents and children, mysterious character, family problems, family life, beach, generation gap, fall in love, 007, parent child relationship, love and romance, mad scientist, on the run ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
usa, maine
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, couple relations, best friend, lifestyle, love and romance, babies and infants, coming of age, family problems, teenage life, siblings relations, crumbling marriage ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, feel good, witty, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
funeral, mother daughter relationship, death of husband, minefield, jewish family, second marriage, cinema, wedding, family relations, family life, eccentric family, wedding ceremony ...
Time:
1940s, year 1992, 60s, 20th century, year 1969 ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, entertaining, romantic comedy, anamorphic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
pregnancy, self discovery, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, human nature, women, working class, female protagonist, eccentricity, twists and turns, girl ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a comedic boil as the wildly dysfunctional Slocumbs squabble and fight their way to the funeral.
Style:
humorous, touching, light, intense, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, death, family drama, eccentric family, family problems, introspection, parents and children, family in crisis, self discovery, hip hop, african american, urban ...
Time:
year 2001
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style:
satirical, talky, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, southern belle, women, family problems, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
savannah georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style:
road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, family problems, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, on the road, couples, love and romance, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, youth ...
Place:
argentina, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, homecoming, hopes, family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, estrangement, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, sentimental, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dysfunctional family, aunt, youth, candy store, grandmother, mental health, bike, family relations, coming of age, brother, family problems, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sweet, touching, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, marriage proposal, nude model, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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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, touching, intense, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
hospital, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional family, women, sisters, family problems, eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, terminal illness, looking for love ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, year 2000, 2000s, year 1988
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
christmas, winter, family problems, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, couple relations, family in crisis, couples, siblings relations, christmas time, holiday ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
self discovery, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, terminal illness, family life, bittersweet, one night stand, husband wife relationship, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
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:
witty, humorous, talky, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, small town, underdog, seamstress, love and romance, human nature, contests and competitions, youth, fall in love, family problems, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Carolina is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Mika Boorem, Randy Quaid, and Jennifer Coolidge. Lisa Sheridan has a cameo role in the film, and Barbara Eden has the ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
romantic triangle, young lovers, family relations, fall in love, love triangle, looking for love, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, eccentric family, american football, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
Style:
semi serious, talky, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
brother sister relationship, love and romance, love affair, twentysomething life, couples, lifestyle, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, first date, heartache, free spirited ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. ...
Style:
hilarious, funny, melancholic, suspense, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, wedding, prank, fishing, old age, fish, loneliness, old man, rivalry, vengeance, neighbor neighbor relationship, reconciliation ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
minnesota
Similarity:
100%
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