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Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
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Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Damon Runyon's fairytale, sweet and funny, is told by director Frank Capra. Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.
Style: sentimental, touching, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious, witty, christmas classics, black and white, cult classic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gangster, prohibition, high society, deception, christmas, couples, social differences, disorder, dishonesty, homeless, aging, class differences, gangster boss, mother daughter relationship, poverty, royal family, deaf, makeover, servant, lucky charm, christmas spirit, hobo, tramp, blaster, billiards ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, 60s, 1920s
Place: new york, spain, europe
Keyword: gangsters, oldies

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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 couples, love and romance, family relations, parents and children, society, couple relations and bittersweet mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pocketful of Miracles: Miss Firecracker (1989), Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013), 29th Street (1991), Placido (1961), Walkaway (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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29th Street (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the life of Frank Pesce (Danny Aiello), an actor who won $6 million in the first New York State Lottery in 1976, this comedy focuses on the tight-knit Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn where Pesce grew up. It's also the story ...
Style: christmas classics, hilarious, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: christmas, gambling, gangster, lottery, luck, atmosphere, con artists, xmas, lottery winner, dysfunctional family, winter, casino ...
Time: year 1991, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Placido (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrations ...
Style: social, biting, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: homeless, working class, dark humor, social differences, small town, lawyer, tramp, hobo, success, bourgeoisie, charity, social satire ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Walkaway (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, society, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, unsupportive parent, family tradition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, india
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Dinner at Eight (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A wry, insightful comedy of manners in which somewhat dizzy society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat while remaining oblivious to her husband's health and financial problems as well as her ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: couple relations, nothing goes right, dishonesty, love and romance, rivalry, intrigue, couples, disorder, bad attitude, dinner party, high society, greed ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
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Place: usa
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Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, family life, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time: year 2009
Place: usa, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Bob Funk (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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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
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, light ...
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Time: 21st century
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Duration: 96 min.
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Style: talky, touching, sentimental, feel good, semi serious ...
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Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
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Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Audience: date night
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Diary of a Tired Black Man is a simple story about the complex relationships between black men and black women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, black comedy ...
Plot: interracial relations, opposites attract, social differences, looking for love, couples, society, love and romance, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, african american, divorce, marriage ...
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With Honors (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, road movie ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 108 min.
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Duration: 107 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, unrequited love, sister sister relationship, orphan, world war one, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, chambermaid, deep south, family life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
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Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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It's My Turn (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A successful but stressed mathematics professor (Clayburgh) goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son (Douglas), a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mathematics, women, feminist, destiny, flirting, mathematician, wedding, couples, power relations, family relations, sport team, dangerous attraction ...
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41%
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All Together (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Plot: friendship, aging, couples, family relations, elderly, couple relations, parents and children, old age, truth, friends, bittersweet, heart attack ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Newlyweds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Audience: date night
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
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Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
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Diggers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
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Time: 70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place: new york, long island, usa
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