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Just Add Water (2008)
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Just Add Water (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An offbeat romantic comedy about a decent guy, Ray Tuckby, with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, CA. After encouragement from a stranger whom he happens upon, Ray begins to dream again. He sheds the parasites in his life, musters the nerve to pursue his childhood love, and finally takes back his community by toppling the local teenage Meth-baron.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, dark comedy
Plot: addiction, family relations, hopes, love and romance, dysfunctional family, self discovery, drug dealing, working class, eccentric family, couple relations, small town, desert, toilet humor, equality, vigilante, rural area, parents and children, family life, couples, society, starting over, social relations, small town life, white trash, middle age romance ...
Time: 20th century, contemporary
Place: california, usa

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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 couples, love and romance, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, hopes and fall in love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Just Add Water: American Fusion (2005), An Uzi at the Alamo (2005), The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008), Jesus, Mary and Joey (2005), Shirin in Love (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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American Fusion (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Yvonne is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her large and eccentric family. Suddenly, romance enters her life and Yvonne gets a long deferred chance ...
Style: touching, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, eccentric family, family life, parents and children, fall in love, couples, immigrant, interracial relations, hopes, culture clash, society, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
An Uzi at the Alamo (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Searching for his identity, a young writer pledges to his dysfunctional family that he will commit suicide on his 25th birthday. As the fateful day approaches, he stumbles upon love and a new sense of self. Fearing family humiliation if he backs out ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film
Plot: family relations, fall in love, coming of age, eccentric family, self discovery, hopes, love and romance, twentysomething life, bittersweet, suicide, birthday, masturbation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Jesus, Mary and Joey (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed ...
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, true love, starting over, faith, hopes, miraculous event, eccentric family, couples, wish come true, terminal illness, disagreement ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Bed & Breakfast: Love is a Happy Accident (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bed and Breakfast is a romantic comedy about a saleswoman from a large department store in Rio who discovers she has inherited property in the wine country of California. She could never expect what she would find in "Webster", a small ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, opposites attract, comedy of errors, love affair, couples, small town, inheritance, male female relationship, fall in love, money problems, love story, in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 5.0
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Shirin in Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Despite being engaged to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Shirin finds herself falling for a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in northern California.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, culture clash, family relations, fall in love, society, interracial marriage, love and romance, couples, friendship, parents and children, persian
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, persia, california, los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.2
 506
16 to Life (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Romantic comedy. A small town teenager's angst about sexual inexperience drives a comic quest for love and understanding on a birthday to end all birthdays.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, romantic ...
Plot: farce, affection, teenage life, looking for love, matchmaking, couples, youth, love and romance, small town, singleness, self discovery, teen angst ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa, china, midwest, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Best Day of My Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: family relations, hopes, couple relations, disorder, wedding, couples, introspection, love and romance, nothing goes right, battle of the sexes, romantic relationship, parents and children
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Across the Moon (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state prison.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: prison, female bonding, prisoner, desert, social relations, friends, on the road, small town, friendship, working class, small town life, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, ...
Style: humorous, intense, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, drug abuse, madea, family problems, family life, addiction, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, looking for love, siblings relations, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Mariachi Gringo (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A stifled, small-town man stuck in a dead end life, runs away to Mexico to be a mariachi singer. MARIACHI GRINGO is a musical tour-de-force exploring the reality of "following your dreams" across cultural, personal, social and geographical ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, light, captivating ...
Plot: small town, hopes, trip, travel, musician, couples, friendship, society, love and romance, small town life, bare chested male, mariachi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.3
 390
Raising Flagg (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: parents and children, single parent, couple relations, betrayal, family relations, couples, friendship, eccentric family, family life, contests and competitions, small town, human nature ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.2
 970
Never Again (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Style: witty, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, introspection, starting over, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, couple relations, wooing, sexual relations, couples, male female relationship, lgbt ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.1
 156
Herman U.S.A. (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In this quirky romantic comedy inspired by a true story, an influx of women invade the small town of Herman, Minn., to get their hands on a surplus of bachelors yearning for female companionship. When the persuasive "cry from the heart" of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, looking for love, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, singleness, love, male female relationship, dating, gender, love and romance, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.0
 453
Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family problems, family relations, homecoming, looking for love, family life, estrangement, couples, college, starting over, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Answer Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Twenty years ago, Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) wrote a book about spirituality that became wildly popular. These days, he's a curmudgeonly recluse who only enjoys the company of his chiropractor, Elizabeth (Lauren Graham). As Elizabeth's ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, writers, human nature, hopes, single parent, dishonesty, self discovery, love and romance, writer's life, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.6
 275
Meeting Daddy (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, family relations, love affair, fish out of water, eccentric family, opposites attract, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family gatherings, breakup ...
Time: 90s
Place: georgia, california, usa, los angeles, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: One weekend, Aunt Bam's nephew-in-law Stewart is granted a court-ordered visitation with his children. Although his new, much-younger wife Mona is a bundle of nerves, Stewart seizes the opportunity to reconnect with his children, whom he loves ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family life, family problems, parents and children, disorder, strong female presence, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, african american protagonist
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Keeping Up with the Randalls (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alicia Crosby is a hugely successful children's fashion designer based in Los Angeles. Her personal life is equally successful as Alicia suspects her boyfriend Will Randall is going to pop the question any day now. But first, Alicia must ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: eccentric family, fashion, contests and competitions, couples, family relations, family gatherings, couple relations, holiday, love and romance, ambition, working the system
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.1
 1K
Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: starting over, parents and children, gambling, love affair, teenage life, opposites attract, small town, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, small town life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.8
 917
Smooch (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An imaginative youngster (Kiernan Shipka) comes across an amnesiac prince (Simon Kassianides), who she believes is a fairy-tale figure. Convinced the man would be perfect for her widowed mom (Kellie Martin), she launches a plan to set the two up, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining, light ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: looking for love, love and romance, parents and children, couples, family relations, cinderella story, youth, girl, wooing, memory loss, nanny, chores ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 807
Black Coffee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, black, couples, couple relations, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, black american, amor, black romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: family life, self discovery, midlife crisis, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, unfulfillment, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.2
 283
Novel Romance (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Book editor Max Normane can perfect anyone’s story apart from her own. Highly successful but highly single, she comes up with a novel plan: a publication in exchange for a sperm donation. But will she get her happy ending?
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, love, mother, single parent, looking for love, family relations, workplace situations, love and romance, couple relations, workplace, lifestyle, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by ...
Style: talky, humorous, funny, melancholic, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family drama, stereotypes, happy ending, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, construction worker, parents and children, gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.8
 844
Hit List (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Charlotte is a woman with anger management issues whose therapist suggests she write a journal to keep her emotions in check. Unlucky in love, she ventures online to find a boyfriend. Just as she reaches her limit of unsuccessful dates, Charlotte ...
Style: humorous, captivating, sentimental, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: hitman, dishonesty, couple relations, couples, love and romance, violence spree, hidden identity, anger issues, bully, hostility, dysfunctional family, ex boyfriend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Our Family Wedding (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, interracial relations, father daughter relationship, black, couples, family life, culture clash, parents and children, love and romance, wedding ceremony, interracial marriage, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.1
 298
Max (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: unlikely couple, family relations, hopes, society, love and romance, starting over, parents and children, redemption, bittersweet, christmas, social misfits, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two brothers share a house in LA's Fairfax district: Tony's a feckless actor, Chris is an accountant. Both are in relationships on rocky ground. As these emotions swirl, Tony meets his US Postal Service letter carrier, a single mom named ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, accountant, couples, family relations, friends, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, couple relations, human nature, musician's life, actor's life, love and romance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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