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Irreconcilable Differences (1984)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
Style:
sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
Audience:
date night
Plot:
little girl, husband wife relationship, marital separation, emancipation, filmmaking, divorce, hollywood, dysfunctional family, custody, battle of the sexes, female nudity, book, love, past, mistress, adultery, maid, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, parents, mother daughter relationship, female writer, girl, imagination, actress ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
africa, middle east, usa, egypt
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Most similar movies to Irreconcilable Differences
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and clever films with plots about couples, love and romance, family relations, husband wife relationship, couple relations, writers and divorce mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Irreconcilable Differences: Home Fries (1998), Raising Helen (2004), An Unmarried Woman (1978), Something to Talk About (1995), Blume in Love (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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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 ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) ...
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italy, venice, los angeles, europe, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic, intense ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, friendship, couple relations, infidelity, writers, book, love, happy ending, crumbling marriage, teacher, passion, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, england
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
light, clever, melancholic, romantic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
florida, miami, orlando florida, new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, realistic, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, independent film, realistic, semi serious, cynical ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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33%
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Story:
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Style:
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Similarity:
32%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
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Similarity:
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22K
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
32%
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
32%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
31%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
31%
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, new york, france, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. ...
Style:
talky, sentimental, clever, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, humorous, witty, clever, talky ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california, new york
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style:
humorous, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
30%
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