Movies like Fast Food Nation

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Fast Food Nation (2006)
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Fast Food Nation (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an all-star cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, and Luis Guzman.
Style: talky, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, bad ending, sad, inspirational, mind bending, social, educational ...
Plot: fast food restaurant, food, junk food, cooking and food, butcher, hamburger, satire, public health, illegal immigration, health, greed, fighting the system, social problems, workplace, factory worker, boss and employee, vegan, restaurant, fast food, environmental issue, corporation, business, chef, environment, parallel story ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century, contemporary
Place: texas, usa, colorado, mexico, california
Keyword: americana, reading, french fries, mexican, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and clever films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, restaurant, food, father son relationship, couples and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Fast Food Nation: Slacker (1990), Men, Women & Children (2014), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Diggers (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Slacker (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, ...
Style: independent film, philosophical, surreal, cult classic, entirely dialogue ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, philosophy, slacker, loser, one day, dream, existentialism, anarchism, subculture, twenty something, teenager ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, barcelona ...
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95%
Men, Women & Children (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
Style: realistic, sexy, bad ending, dramatic, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage life, internet, youth, high school, teenage girl, sex scene, infidelity, sexual content, coming of age, parenthood, depression, video game ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
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, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: restaurant, cooking, cooking and food, food, chef, culture clash, interracial relations, prejudice, beautiful scenery, interracial romance, small town, immigrant ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, india, mumbai india, south of france, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Diggers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, save the day, love and romance, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, family relations, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place: new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Soul Kitchen (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: SOUL KITCHEN film centers on a likable but hopelessly disorganized restauranteur, Zinos, whose cafe is second home to a motley crew of lovable eccentrics. When his girlfriend Nadine up and moves to Shanghai, a love-sick Zinos decides to fly after ...
Style: talky, feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot: restaurant, chef, cooking, workplace, lifestyle, food, brother brother relationship, loneliness, family relations, life is a bitch, workplace problem, family business ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 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, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
Style: surreal, talky, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy ...
Plot: midlife crisis, car salesman, adaptation, surrealism, losing-it hero, self discovery, success, against the rules, couple relations, small town, small town life, satire ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: indiana, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Lonesome Jim (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Failing to make it on his own, 27-year-old Jim moves back in with his parents and deals with crippling family obligations.
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, coma, single parent, homecoming, alienation, introspection, writers, love and romance, hopes, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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 42K
The Joneses (2009)
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: adult
Plot: materialism, advertising, envy, suburban life, dysfunctional family, stereotypes, manipulation, business, marketing, suburbs, twists and turns, pretense ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Running with Scissors (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style: intense, disturbing, stylized, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, mental illness, adoption, therapist, writers, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, lesbian, parents and children, marital problem ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2006
Place: new york, seattle, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.8
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Entry Level (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, love and romance, hopes, society, workplace situations, workplace romance, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 7.1
 8K
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Style: independent film, cult classic, philosophical, dark comedy, talky ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 118 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 112 min.
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Style: clever, realistic, political, talky, witty ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dinner with Friends (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, sincere, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
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Place: new york, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.5
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Thumbsucker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, addiction, youth, teenager, depression, debate, teenage life, self discovery, lifestyle, drug, mental illness ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 22K
Nobody's Fool (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Time: 90s, year 1994
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: dark comedy, absurd, humorous, black comedy, semi serious ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Audience: date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: realistic, psychological, semi serious, clever, humorous ...
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Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: balkan, eastern europe, czech republic, burma, prague ...
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82%
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
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Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty, cult classic ...
Plot: journalist, wall street, redemption, politics, interracial relations, society, courtroom, justice, media, finance, legal action, dark humor ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
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Style: realistic, talky, humorous, semi serious, cynical ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 5.9
 916
Rick (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he's out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, clever, suspenseful ...
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Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 7.1
 39K
The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, redemption, character study, family relations, childhood, parents and children, nursing, siblings relations, cheerleader ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Cooking with Stella (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman cooks for clients and tries to keep her thefts of food and money from being discovered.
Style: realistic, clever, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: cooking, food, dishonesty, power relations, cons and scams, couple relations, unlikely criminals, master and servant, society, cooking and food, family relations, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, new delhi, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Year of the Dog (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
Style: dark comedy, melancholic, touching, humorous, spiritual ...
Plot: friendship, pets, eccentricity, depression, rescue, infidelity, couple relations, human nature, dark humor, dog, relationships, african american ...
Time: year 2007
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Family Resemblances (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Birds of America (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 35K
Igby Goes Down (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style: dark comedy, depressing, cynical, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, coming of age, addiction, depression, existentialism, youth, dark humor, teenage life, eccentric family, eccentricity, character study ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, chicago, new jersey, washington d.c., new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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