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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
52K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Style:
sentimental, touching, intense, compassionate, sincere, semi serious, black and white, clever, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
family outing, adult
Plot:
interracial relations, racism, culture clash, miscegenation, african american, social commentary, interracial marriage, widower, doctor, prejudice, liberal, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, marriage, housekeeper, class differences, hypocrisy, engagement, interracial love, art gallery, interracial romance, race issues, love, dysfunctional family, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1960s
Place:
san francisco, california, america, usa, hawaii, american
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Most similar movies to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, humorous and touching films with plots about culture clash, family relations, mentor, catastrophe, runaway, african american and storytelling mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: The Help (2011), A Patch of Blue (1965), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), For Love of Ivy (1968), Guess Who (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
525K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, civil rights, discrimination, writers, women, master and servant, racial segregation, maid, feminist, racial issues, blacks and whites ...
Time:
60s, year 2011, year 1963, 1900s, 50s ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, southern usa, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Style:
black and white, talky, emotional, touching, tension ...
Plot:
blindness, friendship, interracial relations, interracial romance, blind character, disability, racism, age difference, blind woman, tolerance, interracial friendship, compassion ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york, new york state, africa
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall...
Style:
black and white, dramatic, aesthetic, retro, existential ...
Plot:
african american, racism, poverty, racial segregation, atheism, working class family, civil rights, black, black history, dysfunctional family, segregation, racial discrimination ...
Time:
year 1961, 50s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, africa, usa, illinois, nigeria
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When it was released in 1968, For Love of Ivy was the first mainstream Hollywood film to depict a mature romantic relationship between a black man and woman. Sidney Poitier stars as Jack Parks, a trucking executive who runs an illegal travelling ...
Style:
black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
blaxploitation, gambling, love, music and dance, family relations, black love, dinner, happy ending, urban, social differences, love affair, family life ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, harlem, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
48K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The fiancé of an African-American woman who's met with skepticism and suspicion from her father when she takes him home for the all-important introduction. As the wedding approaches, Dad must come to terms with his future son-in-law.
Style:
humorous, romantic, funny, entertaining, black comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
interracial romance, interracial relations, interracial love, interracial couple, white male black female relationship, racism, wedding, meet the parents, couple relations, father daughter relationship, father dislikes daughter's boyfriend, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, new jersey, new york, san francisco
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her colored chauffeur Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, period piece, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
racism, elderly, civil rights, friendship, old age, master and servant, chauffeur, racial segregation, cemetery, segregation, elevator, gardening ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 70s, year 1989 ...
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia, southern usa, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
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:
semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian, dysfunctional family, interracial romance, family bonds, culture clash, thanksgiving, couple relations, cooking, divorce, thanksgiving dinner, family dinner, pregnancy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Style:
hood, independent film, controversial, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
heat wave, racism, pizzeria, culture clash, hip hop, police brutality, pizza, african american, ghetto, boycott, black history, prejudice ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, new york state
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and ...
Style:
independent film, touching, emotional, black comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
adoption, culture clash, dysfunctional family, transgender, hospital, interracial love relationship, food, racial issues, blaxploitation, wine, american history, family relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, los angeles, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.
Style:
sexy, romantic, sweet, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
interracial relations, interracial romance, white male black female relationship, interracial love, opposites attract, racism, career woman, hot and sexy, prejudice, culture clash, blacks and whites, gardener ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, los angeles, east africa, africa ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, India
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, sentimental, sweet, touching, cute ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, restaurant, food, culture clash, chef, interracial relations, prejudice, interracial romance, beautiful scenery, small town, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2014, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
france, india, mumbai india, paris france, switzerland ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin ...
Style:
cult classic, surreal, independent film, biting, humorous ...
Plot:
racism, bigotry, satire, transformation, racial issues, african american, social commentary, bus, culture clash, black, interracial sex, sex ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
england, new jersey, africa
Similarity:
21%
10K
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:
tear jerker, sentimental, touching, hood, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
black, black romance, food, hip hop, thanksgiving, blaxploitation, women, sisters, black history, african american, family relations, chef ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, africa, usa, illinois, north america
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
Style:
rom com, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, family tradition, couple relations, family gatherings, family feud, parents and children, culture clash, black, class differences, african american, meet the parents, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england, massachusetts
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
interracial romance, friendship, nanny, self discovery, couples, daughter, interracial relations, single father, starting over, housekeeper, interracial love, hopes ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles, washington d.c., seattle
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, best man, wedding preparations and rituals, black, friendship, friends, couple relations, buddies, love and romance, marriage, christmas season, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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:
touching, feel good, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, manly
Plot:
biracial, self discovery, drinking, family drama, betrayal, secrets, justice, interracial relations, racism, family problems, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s, 70s
Place:
arkansas, america, chicago, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
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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, independent film, intense, talky ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
holiday, road trip, food, dysfunctional family, family drama, cancer, eccentric family, dialogue, reconciliation, parents and children, family feud, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, tokyo ...
Similarity:
20%
24K
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:
emotional, independent film, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, painting, small town, art, artist, culture clash, eccentricity, cheerleader, painter, newlyweds, jealousy ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, realistic, witty, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
elderly, family relations, love story, daughter, family holiday, passion, marriage, summer, alienation, husband and wife, lake, couples ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new england, new hampshire, maine
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Singapore, Russia, New Zealand, Kazakhstan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and ...
Style:
hilarious, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
muslim, culture clash, gay interest, tradition, family relations, gay son, gay asian, gay brother, domineering father, mixed marriage, dysfunctional family, indians ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
england, northern england, europe, israel, london
Similarity:
20%
819
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, society, love and romance, parents and children, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior ...
Style:
black and white, christian film, touching, retro, social ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
desert, nun, catholic, religion, chapel, priest, faith, farm, literary, african american, mother superior, convent ...
Time:
year 1963, 50s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
19%
6K
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 ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting ...
Plot:
father son relationship, hospital, family bonds, aging, family drama, doctor, parents and children, hopes, family life, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, redemption ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, san francisco, california
Similarity:
19%
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:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style:
romantic, melancholic, light, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
friendship, relationships, african american, marriage, black, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, love, hip hop, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California.
Style:
humorous, intelligent, independent film, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
illegitimate son, interracial love relationship, corporate executive, interracial, interracial relations, parent child relationship, society, youth, opposites attract, family relations, disorder, injustice ...
Time:
future, 80s, 70s, year 1981
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
racism, high school, african american, american football, civil rights, racial tension, racial prejudice, against the odds, high school football, football, prejudice, life lesson ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place:
virginia, boston, usa, america, africa ...
Similarity:
18%
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:
18%
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