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Roommates (1995)
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, sentimental, inspirational, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
hospital, insomnia, orphan, funeral, doctor, boy, old man, single father, father daughter relationship, workaholic, father son relationship, widower, social worker, husband wife relationship, death of wife, affection, roommate, tragic event, depression, dysfunctional family, death, grandfather grandson relationship, wedding, illness, cemetery ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, 1960s
Place:
columbus ohio, pittsburgh, usa
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Most similar movies to Roommates
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, touching and semi serious films with plots about family relations, friendship, hospital, father son relationship, family, death and bittersweet mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Roommates: The Farewell (2019), Patch Adams (1998), The Thing About My Folks (2005), A Man Called Otto (2022), Country Remedy (2007). 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:
year 2019, 2010s
Place:
china, usa, new york, japan, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, uplifting, feel good, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
medical school, hospital, human spirit, doctors and patients, life philosophy, compassion, medical profession, friendship, dealing with death, doctor, happy ending, stereotypes ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s, year 1998, 60s ...
Place:
usa, virginia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for ...
Style:
talky, touching, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the road, father son relationship, family relations, parents and children, self discovery, love and romance, husband wife relationship, escapades, food, vegetable, senior citizen, aging ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Sweden, Canada, Ireland, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A cranky retired man strikes up an unlikely friendship with his boisterous new neighbors. A remake of the 2015 Swedish film.
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, touching, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suicide attempt, neighbor, loss of wife, miscarriage, neighborhood, cat, bus accident, friendship, depression, neighbor neighbor relationship, grief, hospital ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In order to secure the position of Head of Pediatrics at a top Chicago hospital, a young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina mountains. Clashing against the ways of ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
clinic, starting over, family relations, doctors and patients, lifestyle, friendship, family life, small town, widower, father son relationship, youth, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
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- ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot:
small town, father son relationship, redemption, thanksgiving, justice, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, aging, elderly, retirement, generation gap ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, new york state, usa, hawaii, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style:
sentimental, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, death, adultery, husband wife relationship, single mother, mother daughter relationship, grief, hospital, death of daughter ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s ...
Place:
nebraska, houston texas, texas, new york, louisiana ...
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
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:
25%
6K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting ...
Plot:
father son relationship, hospital, family bonds, aging, family drama, doctor, parents and children, hopes, family life, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, redemption ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, san francisco, california
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, single father, death of wife, love and romance, death, love story, relationships, single parent, honest, family drama, family relations, starting over ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Billy Crystal plays a Hollywood agent who stumbles upon Max, a giant living in Romania, and tries to get him into the movies.
Style:
humorous, touching, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
tall man, friendship, unrequited love, giant, destiny, voice over narration, talent agent, boy, selfishness, car accident, monk, actor ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
romania, usa, las vegas, new mexico, europe ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, addiction, parents and children, down on your luck, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Style:
witty, humorous, independent film, lighthearted, hilarious ...
Plot:
death, dysfunctional family, loneliness, suicide, investigation, murder, drinking, greed, storytelling, eccentricity, last will and testament, inheritance ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, texas, southern usa
Similarity:
24%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems, convent school, nun, overweight, angel, prodigy ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
Style:
contemplative, independent film, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, hotel, friends, marriage, grief, machismo, womanizer, casino, time travel, dream, divorce ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
new york, london, long island, england, europe ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
elderly lovers, friendship, aging, elderly, love and romance, lifestyle, human nature, dealing with death, bridesmaid, female bonding, wedding, single parent ...
Time:
year 1993, 50s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style:
touching, road movie, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, asthma, single mother, road trip, friendship, single parent, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, motel, on the road, human nature, starting over ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
san diego california, california, arizona, missouri, north carolina ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot:
old age, retirement, comedy team, heart attack, spy, odd couple, friendship, artists and showbiz, human nature, betrayal, elderly, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Simon Birch tells the story of Joe and Simon's heart-warming journey of friendship. Simon Birch was born with a condition that makes him much smaller than all the other kids in town. Now, due to his condition, Simon thinks God made him this way ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sweet, touching, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, destiny, illegitimate son, friendship, happy ending, disability, small town, voice over narration, child protagonist, bus accident, boy, secret ...
Time:
1950s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1964 ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, epic, scary ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, chess, children, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, redemption, single father, death, hospital, skinhead, middle school, youth ...
Time:
70s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
bay area, california, usa, oakland california, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Multi-storied, fish-eyed look at American culture with some 22 characters intersecting--profoundly or fleetingly--through each other's lives. Running the emotional gamut from disturbing to humorous, Altman's portrait of the contemporary ...
Style:
philosophical, sexy, cerebral, talky, captivating ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, marriage crisis, destruction of property, waitress, sex, redemption, bare butt, dysfunctional marriage, female nudity, cellist, earthquake, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california, usa
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
Style:
enigmatic, light, captivating, semi serious, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage boy, punk rock, friendship, tour guide, first kiss, grandmother grandson relationship, single father, architecture, mother daughter relationship, lie, drinking, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
minnesota
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
Style:
light, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, brutality, gangster, courage, eccentric family, redemption, human nature, aging, couples, campus, money, marriage ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, london
Similarity:
22%
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:
arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
senior citizen, friendship between men, widower, friendship, family relations, odd couple, bittersweet, social differences, singleness, parents and children, working class, social worker ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england
Similarity:
22%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
aging, christmas, old age, teenage pregnancy, senior citizen, old people, orphan, retirement home, family life, parents and children, friendship, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
palm springs california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style:
sincere, independent film, romantic, light, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
multiple storylines, love story, gay, love, divorce, adultery, illicit affair, affair, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, serious, tear jerker ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, misfit, friendship, disability, boy, bully, loneliness, youth, social misfits, illness, school bully, hot dog ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio, columbus ohio
Similarity:
22%
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