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Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
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Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
Style: touching, emotional, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, philosophical, spiritual, existential, hilarious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: loneliness, neighbor, depression, terminal illness, religion, faith, existentialism, love and romance, society, dealing with death, catholic, nosy neighbor, miraculous event, redemption, solitude, hospital, magic, graffiti, loner, house, spirituality, photograph, forgiveness, dying man, underdog ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place: california, usa, seattle, new jersey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about society, hopes, love and romance, father son relationship, bittersweet, family relations and parents and children mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Henry Poole Is Here: The Way (2010), Funny People (2009), The Truman Show (1998), With Honors (1994), The Four Seasons (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Way (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to ...
Style: emotional, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: adult
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Time: 21st century
Place: spain, france, iberian peninsula, europe
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Funny People (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Famous and wealthy funnyman George Simmons doesn't give much thought to how he treats people until a doctor delivers stunning health news, forcing George to reevaluate his priorities with a little help from aspiring stand-up comic Ira.
Style: funny, humorous, tragicomedy, melancholic, black comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: comedian, cancer, loneliness, character study, dark humor, midlife crisis, sarcasm, redemption, destiny, life philosophy, old love, supportive friend ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, san francisco
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The Truman Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, simulated reality, alternate reality, freedom, video surveillance, small town, fictional reality show, hidden camera, utopia, dystopia, paranoia, god complex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, future
Place: florida, persia, america, usa
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With Honors (1994)
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, touching, sentimental, inspirational, road movie ...
Audience: kids
Plot: college, homeless, friendship, youth, college student, father son relationship, law school, justice, happy ending, graduation, self discovery, college life ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, boston, harvard university
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The Four Seasons (1981)
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, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
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The Upside of Anger (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, witty, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, friendship, suburban life, neighbor, parenthood, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, starting over, couples, lifestyle, fall in love ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, michigan, detroit
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Everything Must Go (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
Style: touching, realistic, feel good, humorous, talky ...
Plot: friendship, addiction, salesman, unemployment, alcohol abuse, bittersweet, loneliness, tragedy, character study, self discovery, starting over, marital problem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, texas, phoenix arizona
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Leap of Faith (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting 'miracles' with the help of his friend and manager, Jane, and their entourage. One of their ...
Style: melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: religion, redemption, character study, preacher, loneliness, dishonesty, cons and scams, small town life, con men, small town, faith, con artists ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: kansas, usa
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Norman (2010)
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
Style: emotional, tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, terminal illness, misfit, coping, dishonesty, family problems, teenage life, social relations, teenage love, life is a bitch, introvert, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Duration: 114 min.
Story: Eddie Murphy stars as an over-the-top television evangelist who finds a way to turn television home shopping into a religious experience, and takes America by storm.
Style: touching, humorous, satirical, intense, funny ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: guru, life philosophy, justice, religion, media satire, materialism, workplace, media, love affair, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, satire ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, miami
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story: About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, light ...
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Time: 21st century
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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: touching, emotional, sentimental, scary, epic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, atlanta georgia
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The feature film debut by artist Miranda July about a various comic situations and plots that intertwine. One story line is about a father who is ending his marriage and the other story is of a video artist (possibly autobiographical of Miranda ...
Style: touching, disturbing, realistic, humorous, surreal ...
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Time: year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
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Duration: 112 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, disturbing ...
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Duration: 84 min.
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Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
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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, surreal, stylized, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, entertaining, talky ...
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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, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: aging, midlife crisis, bittersweet, family gatherings, hospital, depression, cancer, birthday, priest, fortune teller, architect, family relations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
Style: southern gothic, spiritual, existential, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot: preacher, religion, redemption, satire, dream, deep south, religious fanatic, blindness, catholic, hicksploitation, exodus, mercy ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: georgia, southern usa
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God Send Me a Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A stage play about a young lady in her 20's who keeps dating the wrong men, her friends and family try to make her see what she's doing wrong but she learns on her own that that the man she really needed was right in front of her the whole ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, independent film ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
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Style: tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man finds himself torn between his current girlfriend and an old flame at a funeral of friend where lifestyles and attitudes clash over a long weekend in this faith-based dramedy.
Style: christian film, contemplative, serious, sincere, touching ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Style: tragicomedy, humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick
Plot: loneliness, bittersweet, friendship, depression, small town, melancholy, society, loss, solitude, prejudice, grief, railway ...
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Place: new jersey, nebraska, usa, canada, manhattan new york city
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Orphans (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply ...
Style: emotional, intense, surreal, dark comedy, touching ...
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Time: 90s
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Dad (1989)
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: touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot: father son relationship, aging, family drama, hospital, family bonds, doctor, hopes, parents and children, family life, terminal illness, redemption, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles
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Memories of Me (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, emotional ...
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Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
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Hanging Up (2000)
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: touching, sentimental, intense, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, women, thanksgiving, sister sister relationship, family problems, eccentric family, family life, looking for love, parents and children, terminal illness ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 2000s, year 1988, year 2000
Place: los angeles, usa
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