Movies like Passed Away
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Passed Away (1992)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
funeral, pregnancy, family relations, midlife crisis, dark humor, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, dysfunctional family, family problems, suburbs, elderly, single parent, suburban life, clergy, nothing goes right, siblings relations, eccentric family, death in the family, golden years, family gatherings, love, death, nun ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, family life, couples, dysfunctional family and eccentric family mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Passed Away: The Funeral (1984), Meeting Daddy (2000), Checking Out (2005), With a Little Help from Myself (2008), A Wake in Providence (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the course of the three-day funeral, which is held (as is ...
Style:
art house, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
sex, ritual, funeral, culture clash, suburbs, dark humor, curses spells and rituals, eccentric family, couples, elderly, midlife crisis, clergy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed in this black comedy.
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semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, siblings relations, life is a bitch, family problems, betrayal, dark humor, eccentric family, parents and children, family life, estate, terminal illness, last will and testament ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas
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84%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, strong female presence, suburbs, family relations, unfulfillment, siblings relations, terminal illness, african american protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
culture clash, family relations, love affair, fish out of water, eccentric family, opposites attract, family problems, couples, family gatherings, breakup, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, new york, georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, sincere, parody ...
Plot:
elderly, family gatherings, family life, lifestyle, siblings relations, homecoming, family problems, actor's life, parents and children, life & death, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Besieged matriarch Sonia tries to make certain her daughter's nuptials come off flawlessly even as events spiral out of control is in this dark comedy helmed by François Dupeyron. With Sonia's wayward eldest son under arrest on drug ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
immigrants, family relations, family problems, family life, interracial relations, couples, society, dark humor, youth, dysfunctional family, parents and children, eccentric family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Going back home can be hard, particularly when you come from a traditional Italian family, and especially when the girlfriend you bring back is not Italian. But the roof caves in when she's African American. This is the problem that Anthony ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family gatherings, interracial relations, family relations, silly humor, love and romance, society, family life, eccentric family, culture clash, social differences, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rhode island, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family relations, friends, parents and children, family life, religions or cults, nothing goes right, single parent, love and romance, buddies, unlikely couple, wish come true, eccentric family ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, realistic
Plot:
couples, family relations, couple relations, single parent, parents and children, betrayal, friendship, small town, family life, contests and competitions, golden years, human nature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
When Madea gets sick, her family comes to her aid. What they don't realize is that they're the ones who need her help. As always, Madea's cockeyed outlook on life saves the day and guarantees side-splitting laughs along the way.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
eccentric family, family life, family problems, goofy hero, family relations, fish out of water, teaching the ways of the world, nothing goes right, theater, golden years, couples, prison ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Movies like Johnson Family Vacation
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot:
funeral, womanizer, divorce, family relations, father daughter relationship, marriage, wife, couple relations, parents and children, death, daughter, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Do We Eat? is the story of the "world's fastest Passover seder" gone horribly awry. It's about an old school dad (Michael Lerner) who's as tough on his sons as his father (Jack Klugman) is on him. On this night, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, food, parents and children, ecstasy, couple relations, youth, prank, nothing goes right, eccentric family, family life, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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, sentimental, realistic, emotional
Plot:
family relations, couples, family life, family problems, disorder, parents and children, strong female presence, dysfunctional family, couple relations, family gatherings, african american protagonist
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
blaxploitation, family relations, wedding, politics, society, life is a bitch, couple relations, couples, family problems, injustice, suburban life, suburbs ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, philosophical ...
Plot:
odd couple, meet the parents, adoption, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, family relations, parent child relationship, nothing goes right, family gatherings, family problems, estrangement ...
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Series like Grounded for Life
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties ...
Style:
sitcom, sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
opera, alcohol abuse, couples, family problems, family relations, youth, love and romance, family gatherings, eccentric family, thirtysomething life, unfulfillment, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
Style:
surprise ending, semi serious, humorous, witty, feel good ...
Plot:
wealth, greed, millionaire, uncle nephew relationship, bowling, eccentric family, disorder, family relations, family gatherings, vandalism, grandfather, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bobby is a gay man in the closet in 2003, afraid to come out to his three older brothers, even though he's at least 30 and is being pressed by his sister, his boyfriend, and his lesbian beard to tell the lads. The death of his father and a ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
gay, coming out, family relations, self discovery, forbidden love, eccentric family, gay lead character, dishonesty, best friends, opposites attract, love and romance, couples ...
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two brothers compete in their own private 25-event Olympics.
Style:
semi serious, sincere, realistic, humorous, mumblecore ...
Plot:
rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, farce, contests and competitions, siblings relations, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, family life, family relations, family problems, brother brother relationship, olympics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
Style:
humorous, tragicomedy, funny, light, absurd ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, funeral, farce, dark humor, death, secret, british, sarcasm, secrets, adultery, foul language, multiple storylines ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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TV shows like Meet the Browns
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sex comedy
Plot:
village, small town, couples, couple relations, isolation, family relations, battle of the sexes, village life, small town life, love, male female relationship, friendship between men ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
lesbian, dysfunctional family, church, religions or cults, couples, family problems, parents and children, physical appearance, couple relations, society, gender, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
All hilarity breaks loose in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy when three generations of Fiedlers collide in a crazy family reunion. As they prepare for the biggest Bar Mitzvah on the block, they begin to see that they're much more alike ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, realistic
Plot:
rabbi, social differences, eccentric family, couples, lifestyle, family life, family gatherings, estrangement, parents and children, youth, judaism, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A 17-year-old boy buys mini-cameras and displays the footage online at I-see-you.com. The cash rolls in as the site becomes a major hit. Everyone seems to have fun until it all comes crashing down....
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Plot:
voyeurism, lifestyle, family life, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family, computers and web, brother sister relationship, computer, media, crumbling marriage, nanny ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When 10-year-old Joshua (Lurie Poston) decides to join the cheerleading squad at his Catholic school, he faces an uphill battle -- and opposition from his single mom, Andy (Carrie Preston), who struggles to understand her Hollywood musical- and ...
Style:
semi serious, sexy, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
youth, cheerleader, family relations, gay, teenage life, estrangement, family problems, hopes, lifestyle, gender, family life, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A human-rights activist takes in an illegal immigrant and her daughter, then shocks his family when they learn that he has married the sexy 28-year-old.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, family relations, breaking point, undocumented immigrant, immigrants, golden years, misfit, elderly, society, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family life, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, youth, single parent, love and romance, parents and children, child as adult, midlife crisis ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, witty, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, family relations, holiday, new year, restaurant, pregnancy, family problems, couples, estrangement, self discovery, crumbling marriage, single parent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, russia, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Members of a dysfunctional family settle their differences after a series of misadventures during their summer reunion
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, nothing goes right, parents and children, siblings relations, eccentric family, disorder, african american, silly humor, family relations, family gatherings, black cast ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Joe (Alex Campbell) and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, erotic, offbeat
Plot:
murder, dysfunctional family, crime gone awry, eccentric family, teenage life, lust, youth, family life, siblings relations, family problems, dark humor, disorder ...
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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