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The Perez Family (1995)
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The Perez Family (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.
Style: light, sweet, touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, hispanic, funny ...
Plot: immigration, mistaken identity, political prisoner, prostitute, family relations, society, human nature, politics, indians, immigrant, love, prison, dysfunctional family, women, migration, families, guard dog, love triangle, parents and children, family life, love and romance, fall in love, couples, couple relations, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: cuba, miami, usa, latin america, florida, united states of america
Keyword: gangsters, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, love and fall in love mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Perez Family: Fools Rush In (1997), Once Around (1991), Sabrina (1995), Mrs. Winterbourne (1996), Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fools Rush In (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, touching, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, pregnancy, interracial love, wedding, culture clash, love, love affair, couples, nothing goes right, society, social differences, love story ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: usa, new york, las vegas, nevada, mexico
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Once Around (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, age difference, true love, marriage, love, in love, family relations, pregnancy, couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston, new england, caribbean
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Sabrina (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
Style: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, light ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot: fall in love, age difference, love story, workaholic, cinderella story, love and romance, millionaire, love, happy ending, cinderella, couple relations, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, long island, new york
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Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that ...
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, love and romance, pregnancy, women, rags to riches, enemies to lovers, rise to the top, fall in love, society, couple relations, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A study in culture bridging, including ... a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the "dream" of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related social ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, infidelity, gambling, immigrant, strong female presence, family problems, couples, family relations, gays and lesbians, couple relations, gender, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1989, 1940s
Place: new york, china, asia, usa, america ...
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Angie (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This ...
Style: intense, touching, sentimental, entertaining, anamorphic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: pregnancy, self discovery, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, human nature, women, working class, female protagonist, eccentricity, twists and turns, girl ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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The Evening Star (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty ...
Style: touching, cult classic, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: death, dysfunctional family, family relations, women, family gatherings, grandparent grandchild relationship, single parent, love and romance, human nature, family problems, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas
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51%
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
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51%
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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
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Tiptoes (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family life, sex, couple relations, introspection, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, phoenix arizona
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The Housekeeper (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of ...
Style: sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: self discovery, infidelity, midlife crisis, housekeeper, father daughter relationship, human nature, love affair, beach volleyball, fall in love, couple relations, starting over, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
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Agnes Browne (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself.
Style: emotional, sentimental, humorous, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot: poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, happy ending, single father, best friend, childhood ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 60s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei ...
Style: retro, comedy drama, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, one night stand, unemployment, love, letter, sailor, working class, opposites attract, fall in love, love and romance, hopes ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: liverpool, england, russia, soviet union, europe
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Miss Firecracker (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi pins all her hopes on winning the local beauty pageant.
Style: humorous, talky, light, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, small town, underdog, contests and competitions, love and romance, human nature, family problems, couples, fall in love, youth, looking for love, family life ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
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: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Style: talky, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: divorce, holocaust, world war two, infidelity, love and romance, twists and turns, pregnancy, bigamy, peasant, self discovery, human nature, dark humor ...
Time: post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1989
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa ...
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All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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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
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49%
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Something to Talk About (1995)
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 ...
Style: talky, satirical, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 90s
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Expired (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: young lovers, fall in love, opposites attract, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, unlikely couple, single parent, lifestyle, family relations, couples, unfulfilled love ...
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Just a Kiss (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, couple relations, couples, infidelity, love affair, looking for love, thirtysomething life, sexual relations, workplace romance, dancer's life, love and romance, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york
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The Blue Diner (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A film about food, memory, language and caskets, BLUE DINER tells the story of a Puerto Rican mother and her daughter who struggle to explain how the daughter mysteriously loses her ability to speak Spanish, her first language.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
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Luke and Brie Are on a First Date (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: It is the first date of Luke and Brie. They will spend the night together at bars, parties and streets of Los Angeles. The risk of a first encounter, and the relentless pursuit of naturalness, will make their relationship dance between flirting and ...
Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, dating, love, society, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, first date, hipster, bar, date
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48%
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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
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Longest Week (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As he eases into adulthood at the age of forty, Conrad Valmont, the over-educated, under-employed heir to the Valmont Hotel fortune, is cut off from his allowance following his parents abrupt divorce and tossed out into the unforgiving streets of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, love, fall in love, love and romance, down on your luck, love story, lifestyle, singleness, couples, couple relations, looking for love, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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48%
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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 ⇓
48%
Full Moon in Blue Water (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: family relations, working class, family life, parents and children, love and romance, misfit, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, chess, women's wrestling, cons and scams, country ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Shades of Ray (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
I Like It Like That (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lisette and husband Chino face marital difficulties. She is fed up with the kids, while he has job troubles. His mother Rosaria hates Lisette and the neighborhood tramp has designs on Chino. Things get even worse when Chino goes to jail and Lisette ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, independent film, romantic drama ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: couples, family relations, culture clash, storytelling, hopes, dark humor, stereotypes, love affair, human nature, eccentric family, parents and children, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: usa, indiana, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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
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