Movies like Kramer vs. Kramer
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, sad, realistic, clever, emotional, sexy, inspirational, scary ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, divorce, marriage, custody battle, single father, father son relationship, court, family relations, abandonment, legal, justice, hospital, fighting the system, dysfunctional family, female nudity, depression, happy ending, courtroom drama, family problems, relationships, child custody, couples, workaholic, mother ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, california, usa, manhattan new york city, manhattan, new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, emotional and dramatic films with plots about culture clash, catastrophe, mentor, dialogue, storytelling, family relations and redemption mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Kramer vs. Kramer: What Maisie Knew (2012), Rain Man (1988), A Cool, Dry Place (1998), I Am Sam (2001), Philadelphia (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the Henry James novella, the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely ...
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
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road movie, sincere, uplifting, touching, inspirational ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five year old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new ...
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kids, teens
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small town, love triangle, coming of age, single father, divorce, friendship, bittersweet, basketball, hitman, life & death, culture clash, life philosophy ...
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Place:
kansas, texas, usa
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, inspirational, sad, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
lawyer, mentally challenged, father daughter relationship, disability, single father, social services, custody, custody battle, child custody, parents and children, parenthood, justice ...
Time:
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california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, lawyer, courtroom drama, gay, lgbt, hiv, court, lawsuit, judiciary, homosexual, prejudice, courtroom ...
Time:
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn ...
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chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing
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Place:
usa, chicago illinois
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
terminal illness, dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, leukemia, cancer, teenage boy, father daughter relationship, family problems, single parent, siblings relations, sibling relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
florida, usa, ohio, orlando florida
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Style:
touching, melancholic, emotional, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, ...
Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
adoption, courtroom drama, custody battle, racist, justice, single parent, parents and children, family problems, legal action, family relations, life is a bitch, human nature ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
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Plot:
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new york, india, usa, ohio, taj mahal ...
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody ...
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family relations, adoption, terminal illness, legal action, couples, family problems, family in crisis, child illness, pregnancy, custody, redemption, rivalry ...
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Place:
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100%
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Plot:
relationships, terminal illness, dying, reconciliation, house, divorce, father son relationship, suburbs, redemption, illness, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Ireland, UK, Netherlands
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
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21%
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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