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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Alice Pratt, a hard working Christian woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple diner of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter Andrea graduated in Economic Science and works in a construction corporation while her sister Pam stayed with Alice and worked in the diner. Andrea is married to construction worker Chris, who works in the same corporation as his wife but dreams of starting up his own business. However she is being unfaithful to him - with their boss William Cartwright. William is the son of Alice's best friend, the wealthy Charlotte Cartwright. While Alice travels with Charlotte on a road trip, the ambition and infidelity of William triggers a series of events that will affect relationships in both families.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, crying, black cinema
Plot:
family business, friendship, family relations, female friendship, single mother, mother daughter relationship, family life, working class, black, friends, parents and children, couples, rivalry, social differences, workplace intrigue, human nature, dishonesty, dysfunctional family, adultery, loss of job, road trip, family crisis, interracial friendship, absent father, biracial ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, georgia
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Most similar movies to Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and sincere films with plots about family relations, friendship, couples, society, friends, parents and children and black mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys: Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), Juanita (2019), Degrassi Takes Manhattan (2010), Why Did I Get Married? (2007), The Single Moms Club (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, teen ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
temptation, adultery, black, family problems, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, life turned upside down, dysfunctional family, disorder, obsession, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
washington d.c., new orleans, usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
battle of the sexes, couple relations, crumbling marriage, family problems, friendship, black, dishonesty, breakup, unfulfillment, lifestyle, infidelity, remarry ...
Time:
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Place:
bahamas, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
Style:
captivating, touching, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female nudity, sex, culture clash, love and romance, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, friendship, parents and children, hopes, society, escapades ...
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Film spin-off of Nickelodeon's popular teen program Degrassi.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, friends, rivalry, youth, couples, couple relations, vengeance, infidelity, high school, party, drunken sex ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Before it was a movie, it was a theatrical phenomenon! When Helen learns that her husband is leaving her for her best friend, the women in her family are ready with advice. Her devout mother preaches strength and forgiveness, while her parolee ...
Style:
semi serious, emotional, humorous, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, life turned upside down, hopes, dishonesty, couple relations, human spirit, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, breakup, estate, madea ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The film is about the difficulty of maintaining a solid relationship in modern times. Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, couple relations, black, introspection, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, human nature, intrigue ...
Time:
year 2007, 80s, 21st century
Place:
colorado, georgia, indiana, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
single parent, single mother, support group, racial stereotype, social differences, parents and children, family relations, friendship, friends, society, women, sisterhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, serious, touching ...
Plot:
racism, racial discrimination, family relations, discrimination, injustice, social differences, parents and children, rich and poor, follow your dream, single parent, couple relations, black ...
Time:
50s
Place:
usa, america, chicago
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, black comedy ...
Plot:
couples, black, love affair, adolescence vs adulthood, family life, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, sexual content, madea, nightclub singer, love ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
injustice, fall in love, life is a bitch, society, interracial relations, social differences, friendship, working class, parents and children, family life, pregnancy, human nature ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
mississippi, usa, virginia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia, a beautiful, Ivy ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, erotic, hood ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, custody, black, lawyer, looking for love, parents and children, family life, social differences, legal, society, fall in love, human spirit ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street.But when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, not serious, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot:
eccentric family, female protagonist, family relations, single parent, death in the family, family gatherings, siblings relations, family life, black, parents and children, small town life, madea ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, georgia, usa
Similarity:
46%
303
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, social differences, human nature, society, working class, unemployment, culture clash, deportation, interracial friendship, unlikely hero, unrequited love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.
Style:
rom com, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
single parent, forbidden love, brother brother relationship, fall in love, fiance fiancee relationship, businessman, opposites attract, social differences, black, idealism, society, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style:
independent film, touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
slavery, african american, old man, segregation, slave, social justice, interracial, youth, slave trade, suburbs, interracial relations, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, year 1998
Place:
virginia, usa, alabama, california
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
infidelity, couples, looking for love, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, redemption, haunted by the past, bittersweet, heartbreak, troubled marriage, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A television drama that revolves around a family that runs a pharmaceutical company.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, dramatic ...
Plot:
family business, pharmaceutical company, family relations, workplace, family problems, parents and children, love, rivalry, couples, ethical dilemma, family drama, morality ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
civil rights, racism, african american, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, racial segregation, children, american south, abuse, interracial relations, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place:
indiana, africa, usa, south carolina
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
Style:
christmas special, light, feel good, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, family relations, madea, parents and children, family life, medea, black, xmas, christmas season, friendship, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alabama, georgia, usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 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, emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
grief, women, youth, friendship, dysfunctional family, housekeeper, child hero, black, sex crime, adolescence, racism, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
jamaica, baltimore, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
farm hand, family relations, aging, immigrant, single parent, society, parents and children, farm, family life, human nature, working class, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
43%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, melancholic, talky ...
Plot:
coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, african american, black, child's point of view, family relations, school, parents and children, single parent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, tokyo, africa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, sincere, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
social differences, rivalry, youth, couples, family life, society, interracial relations, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, football team, football ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friends, friendship, obsession, family relations, social relations, interracial relations, family life, society ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
43%
875
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, thought provoking, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
asthma, friendship, high school, teenager, adolescence, musician's life, lifestyle, against the odds, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society ...
Time:
90s, 80s, future
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, california ...
Similarity:
42%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
racism, friendship, interracial relations, society, odd couple, family life, youth, uncle nephew relationship, couples, family relations, friends, grudge ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style:
psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, working class, loneliness, oral sex, character study, single parent, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, talky, touching ...
Plot:
black romance, black, family relations, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, family feud, couples, hopes, couple relations, love and romance, family values ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style:
captivating, touching, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, youth, human nature, society, family relations, working class, fall in love, teenager, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
illinois, california, texas, new jersey
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42%
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