Movies like Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and the complications are derived from that they have a more modern view of life.
Style:
talky, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, bleak, unusual plot structure, emotional ...
Plot:
lawyer, culture clash, americana, parents and children, society, family problems, introspection, human nature, cancan dance, family relations, dysfunctional family, bittersweet, love, art, death, divorce, fraternity, melancholy, marriage, sorority, nude, catastrophe, children, relationships, women ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 30s, 40s
Place:
usa, california, kansas, new york, paris france, poland, harvard university ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, talky, melancholic and reflective films with plots about catastrophe, storytelling, dialogue, culture clash, mentor, relationships and family relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Mr. & Mrs. Bridge: Nobody's Fool (1994), Howards End (1992), The Glass Menagerie (1987), September (1987), Joe Gould's Secret (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- ...
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feel good, touching, humorous, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
small town, father son relationship, redemption, justice, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, elderly, aging, retirement, generation gap, family reunited ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, new york state, usa, hawaii
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, stylized, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
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Plot:
english countryside, estate, wealthy family, sister sister relationship, infidelity, beautiful scenery, dysfunctional family, inheritance, greed, character study, country house, love triangle ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style:
psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, adaptation, brother sister relationship, aging, parents and children, family life, family in crisis, family problems, unfulfillment, domineering mother, cripple, nude ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience ...
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talky, realistic, clever, sentimental, sexy ...
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writers, coming of age, friendship, adoption, dysfunctional family, world war two, family relations, father daughter relationship, culture clash, betrayal, life philosophy, adolescence ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, tokyo, france, new england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.
Style:
talky, emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, adultery, friendship, depression, loneliness, love triangle, family relations, couples, family problems, parents and children, friends, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, realistic, gloomy, enigmatic ...
Plot:
friendship, writers, eccentricity, alone in the world, character study, mysterious character, human nature, buddies, writer's life, secret, reporter, philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, harvard university ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...
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touching, realistic, psychological, sentimental, talky ...
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girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, redemption, teacher, dysfunctional family, single father, family problems, family life, parents and children, life is a bitch, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
california, connecticut
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25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, bleak, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
depression, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, mental illness, family relations, divorce, character study, psychology, life philosophy, parenthood, family gatherings, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the ...
Style:
melancholic, talky, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
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Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style:
intense, art house, biting, talky, sexy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, suspense, prostitute, sex, male nudity, women, time travel, social outcast, feminism, melancholy, nude, cheating ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
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emotional, talky, intense, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, women, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, couple relations, human nature, love and romance ...
Place:
new jersey, los angeles
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24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
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sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, new jersey, europe, florida ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
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emotional, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
nebraska, usa, europe, england
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24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
It happened in 1983. It was a rare and remarkable theatrical experience. Controversial. Provocative. And shocking. Now, two Academy Award-winning actresses make the Pulitzer Prize-winning play the motion picture event of the year. What would you do ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, ...
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melancholic, sincere, psychological, serious, touching ...
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infidelity, marriage, adultery, pregnancy, family relations, couples, family life, love and romance, siblings relations, family problems, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
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vietnam, tokyo, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself ...
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erotic, emotional, touching, sexy, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, love and romance, prostitute, coming of age, dysfunctional family, adolescence, unlikely friendships, redemption, family relations, introspection, parents and children, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
georgia, california, usa
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, emotional, talky, semi serious ...
Plot:
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21st century
Place:
new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
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realistic, emotional, sexy, enigmatic, stylized ...
Plot:
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70s, 80s
Place:
san francisco, california
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Place:
stockholm sweden, europe, denmark, sweden, copenhagen ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
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sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, stylized ...
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Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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stylized, intense, sincere, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Place:
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, bleak, meditative, depressing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
philosophy, infidelity, multiple storylines, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, dysfunctional family, tragedy, relationships, women, life, parenthood, honest, parents and children, unfulfillment, family problems ...
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90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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sad, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking, biting ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
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touching, sad, emotional, sexy, compassionate ...
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loss of child, death in the family, marriage, grief, estrangement, tragedy, memory, redemption, support group, family problems, unlikely relationship, relationships ...
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