Movies like Soul Food 1997

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Soul Food (1997)
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Soul Food (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy strikes, it's up to grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond) to pull the family together and put the soul back into the family's weekly gatherings.
Style: tear jerker, sentimental, touching, hood, sincere, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: black, food, hip hop, thanksgiving, black romance, women, sisters, black history, african american, family relations, chef, black cast, cooking, urban, cooking and food, blaxploitation, divorce, discrimination, african, cookery, wine, hip hop culture, culture, sister, black woman ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place: chicago, africa, usa, illinois
Keyword: gangsters, american

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Most similar movies to Soul Food

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, couples, black, urban, african american, gangster and love and romance mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Soul Food: The Wood (1999), Jumping the Broom (2011), The Best Man (1999), People Like Us (2012), This Is Where I Leave You (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Wood (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, hood, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, wedding, high school, african american, black, hip hop, storytelling, homecoming, writers, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 80s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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100%
Jumping the Broom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, rom com ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: wedding, family tradition, family gatherings, family relations, family feud, couple relations, parents and children, culture clash, black, class differences, meet the parents, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Best Man (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Harper, a writer who's about to explode into the mainstream leaves behind his girlfriend Robin and heads to New York City to serve as best man for his friend Lance's wedding. Once there, he reunites with the rest of his college circle.
Style: romantic, clever, romantic comedy, rom com, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: black romance, wedding, black, african american, corruption, friendship, black history, urban, black cast, infidelity, hip hop, black american ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: africa, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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People Like Us (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 114 min.
Story: It tells the story of a struggling man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew ...
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: family secret, salesman, family bonds, relationships, father son relationship, family relations, funeral, single mother, introspection, family problems, siblings relations, family life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
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, independent film, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, infidelity, family gatherings, homecoming, childhood home, death of father, children, family relations, loneliness, life & death, last wish ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: restaurant, cooking, cooking and food, food, chef, culture clash, interracial relations, prejudice, beautiful scenery, interracial romance, small town, immigrant ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, india, mumbai india, south of france, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Love Jones (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with ...
Style: romantic, sexy, light, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: sex, black romance, love affair, love, friendship, black, women, hip hop, life philosophy, lifestyle, writer's life, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, chicago
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35%
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Crooklyn (1994)
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: humorous, touching, sentimental, stylized, light ...
Plot: coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, black, african american, family relations, school, child's point of view, parents and children, black people ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Players Club (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Young single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. She ends up working at a shoe store, but meets two strippers from a nearby gentlemen's club who convince her there's fast money to be made ...
Style: hood, intense, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: stripper, hip hop, gangster, urban, blaxploitation, black, crime gone awry, police investigation, organized crime, rape, fish out of water, nightlife ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worst, learn to like each other as friends
Style: hood, entertaining, black comedy, independent film, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: urban, friends, gang, hip hop culture, brotherhood, blaxploitation, hip hop, black, gangster, neighborhood, discrimination, subway ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, hip hop, family business, workplace romance, workplace, friends, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Brothers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style: romantic, light, melancholic, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, african american, relationships, black, marriage, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, hip hop, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Soul Food (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, talky, sincere ...
Plot: black, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, family feud, family life, couples, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, family values, family tradition ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They ...
Style: feel good, romantic comedy, light, funny, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: sisters, family relations, black, love and romance, couple relations, verbal byplay, shakespeare, hip hop, conspiracy, sister sister relationship, african american, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end ...
Style: sexy, romantic, romantic comedy, touching, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, friendship, black woman, women, black, couples, self discovery, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, unlikely couple, looking for love ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: jamaica, caribbean, indiana, bay area, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Best Man Holiday (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Style: realistic, sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, best man, black, friendship, friends, wedding preparations and rituals, couple relations, love and romance, buddies, christmas season, marriage, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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18 Meals (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, culinary ...
Plot: cooking and food, food, couples, love and romance, couple relations, bittersweet, uninvited guest, restaurant, cookery, cooking, wine, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined ...
Style: touching, sexy, melancholic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: divorce, friendship, black romance, women, betrayal, black, female protagonist, adultery, african american woman, love story, infidelity, best friend ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Cooley High (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and ...
Style: hood, black comedy, entertaining, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, blaxploitation, african american, high school, black, teenager, urban, black history, exploitation, black cast, basketball, horny teenager ...
Time: year 1975, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 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, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, madea, black, black man, black history, life changing, black cast ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Tortilla Soup (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: food, cooking, eccentricity, secrets, family life, eccentric family, looking for love, parents and children, relationship vs career, women, love, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style: emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family business, family relations, save the day, family problems, restaurant, working class, estrangement, parents and children, bank, siblings relations, family in crisis, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Roll Bounce (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roll Bounce is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Norman Vance Jr. and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film stars hip hop artist Bow Wow as the leader of a roller skating crew in 1970s Chicago. The ...
Style: sweet, light, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, dancing, father son relationship, dance, rivalry, unlikely friendships, kids and family, black, friendship, contests and competitions, teenage love, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2005
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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School Daze (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the oponent.
Style: hood, cult classic, black comedy, social, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, black, blaxploitation, hip hop, male nudity, fraternity, coming of age, college life, school, urban, black history, african ...
Time: 80s
Place: africa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Two Weeks (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, spiritual ...
Plot: introspection, eccentric family, family life, estrangement, family problems, single parent, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, dying, terminal illness ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Barbershop (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, ...
Style: hood, black comedy, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: workplace, urban, hairdresser, black, family business, hip hop, blaxploitation, catastrophe, beauty salon, african american, society, buddies ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Inkwell (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
Style: humorous, touching, sex comedy, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, black, blaxploitation, african american, imaginary friend, friendship, urban, teenager, dysfunctional family, love, gangster, black lives matter ...
Time: 70s, year 1994, year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
God Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style: talky, witty, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cancer, dark humor, human nature, artists and showbiz, couple relations, ego clash, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, lifestyle, family problems, family relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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