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Pieces of April (2003)
23K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.
Style:
realistic, emotional, independent film, intense, sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, social, multicultural ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
holiday, road trip, food, dysfunctional family, family drama, cancer, eccentric family, dialogue, reconciliation, parents and children, family feud, nothing goes right, generation gap, estrangement, interracial love, coming of age, neighbor, urban, bittersweet, restaurant, interracial relations, girl, interracial love relationship, dating, interracial romance ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, tokyo, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, touching and semi serious films with plots about family relations, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, dialogue, storytelling, parents and children and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pieces of April: The Farewell (2019), City Island (2009), The Savages (2007), The Station Agent (2003), Everything Is Illuminated (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, melancholic, atmospheric, sad ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
lie, masseuse, wedding, grief, female protagonist, terminal illness, women, lovers, dialogue, life, death, immigrant ...
Time:
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Place:
china, usa, new york, japan, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections ...
Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, teenage boy, audition, eccentric family, character study, warden, deception, family life, family problems, prison, nothing goes right, family relations ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, black comedy, independent film ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, cheerleader, childhood, character study, redemption, family relations, nursing, parents and children, siblings relations, sibling relationship ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, bittersweet, depression, small town, grief, melancholy, loner, train, new in town, loss, solitude ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather ...
Style:
touching, road movie, tragicomedy, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
holocaust, closeted homosexual, on the road, culture clash, journey, self discovery, collector, road trip, prejudice, judaism, dog, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, europe, odessa ukraine, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love ...
Style:
touching, humorous, sexy, sweet, cute ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love, fall in love, love story, love and romance, parenthood, love triangle, relationships, wedding, widower, in love, single parent, destiny ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, depressing, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
midlife crisis, family drama, complex characters, loneliness, infidelity, depression, human nature, parents and children, adultery, teenage life, sarcasm, cancer ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
23%
136K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Style:
hood, funny, independent film, feel good, light ...
Plot:
african american, ghetto, hip hop, weed, marijuana, friendship, drug, rap, friends, rapper, friendship between men, drug dealer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, entertaining, hilarious ...
Plot:
christmas, nothing goes right, holiday, family gatherings, eccentric family, disorder, parents and children, escapades, on the road, race against time, road trip, xmas ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, melancholic, talky ...
Plot:
coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, african american, black, child's point of view, family relations, school, parents and children, single parent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, tokyo, africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style:
touching, melancholic, black comedy, independent film, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, dysfunctional family, cancer, funeral, mother daughter relationship, family secret, family in crisis, incestuous relationship, family drama, suicide of father, pills, addiction ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, peru, oklahoma city, southern usa, midwest ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Style:
touching, emotional, intense, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, eccentric family, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, dealing with death, estrangement, book, snow ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station ...
Style:
independent film, hilarious, realistic, talky, clever ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, dysfunctional family, adultery, marriage, infidelity, road trip, family relations, thanksgiving, love, storytelling, gay, holiday ...
Time:
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Place:
new york
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Style:
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Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and ...
Style:
independent film, touching, emotional, black comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, los angeles, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family life, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, pregnancy, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, single mother, little girl, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
missouri, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style:
cult classic, stylized, disturbing, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, mental illness, gay interest, dysfunctional family, therapist, mental disorder, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, lesbian, marital problem, drinking problem ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2006
Place:
new york, seattle, massachusetts, california, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, insomnia, family relations, couples, estrangement, family problems, youth, vengeance, family gatherings, parents and children, couple relations, introspection ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style:
touching, humorous, emotional, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, infidelity, family drama, family gatherings, childhood home, homecoming, children, family relations, loneliness, family home, brother sister relationship, extramarital affair ...
Time:
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Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, feel good, sentimental ...
Plot:
wedding, nothing goes right, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, disorder, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, wedding ceremony, family reunited, stepmother stepson relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, youth, family drama, eccentricity, cancer, uncle nephew relationship, children, child hero, social justice, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
18%
24K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, painting, small town, art, artist, culture clash, eccentricity, cheerleader, painter, newlyweds, jealousy ...
Time:
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Place:
north carolina, chicago, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Style:
sentimental, touching, intense, compassionate, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, teen, disturbing, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, adolescence, exploring sexuality, sexual awakening, family relations, sex, loss of virginity, teenage life, eccentric family, parents and children, social differences ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills, tokyo
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, witty ...
Plot:
eccentric family, on the road, family relations, elderly, family in crisis, cross country, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, friend, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, new york, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to ...
Style:
touching, independent film, emotional, teen, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, cancer, adolescence, friendship, terminal illness, teenager, coming of age, dying, leukemia, friends, teenage boy, illness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
18%
80K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, kids ...
Plot:
terminal illness, divorce, women, cancer, autumn, custody, remarry, step parent, friendship, parents and children, adoption, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding ...
Style:
teen, sincere, stylized, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
small town, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, teenager, family problems, parents and children, rebellious daughter, redemption, drinking, honest, secrets, confession ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
idaho, usa, salt lake city utah, san francisco, new jersey ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style:
humorous, independent film, black comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, dysfunctional family, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, estrangement, family problems, couples, parents and children, family in crisis, family life ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, tokyo
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
Style:
touching, clever, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, overweight, mother daughter relationship, first sex, dressmaker, youth, culture clash, women, physical appearance, factory, husband wife relationship, dating ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york, latin america
Similarity:
18%
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