Movies like Pretty Ugly People

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Pretty Ugly People (2008)
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Pretty Ugly People (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The grass might not be as green as one might think on the other side of obesity. Pretty Ugly People takes a wickedly comedic look at body image, self-loathing and sex within a group of estranged friends in their mid-30s. Lucy was obese her entire life and had always longed to be a thin so she could finally lose her virginity.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, rom com, offbeat
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: college, best friend, human nature, closeted gay, friendship, betrayal, friends, estrangement, wilderness, lgbt, hiking, mistaken for gay, high school friend, weight loss, insecurity, old friend, profanity, gays and lesbians, sexual content, terminal illness, nudity, gay, airplane, bear, escape ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place: montana, usa
Keyword: old friends

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and touching films with plots about friends, friendship, best friend, couples, reunion, bittersweet and couple relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pretty Ugly People: Ornaments (2008), Moola (2007), The Alumni Chapter (2011), With Friends Like These (2007), The Flats (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ornaments (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Religion, alcohol and politics are three things best avoided at holidays - but it's something this group of friends haven't learned. In this dark comedy, six friends have reunited for what may be their last holiday together.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, christmas horror, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, christmas, estrangement, dark humor, love and romance, buddies, youth, college, holiday, gay, xmas, gay subtext ...
Time: 21st century
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95%
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Moola (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to-life comedy inspired ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot: friendship, friends, best friend, obsessive quest, betrayal, down on your luck, partner, buddies, sexual content, profanity, beach, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Alumni Chapter (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: What happens when you graduate from college, only to find that jobs are practically nonexistent and your best friends aren't what they seem? Four old friends reunite after college graduation. The conversation quickly turns sour, and a series of ...
Style: contemplative, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, college, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, unfulfillment, estrangement, society, best friend, friends, dull life, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
With Friends Like These (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himself a girlfriend and plans to move. Kurt and Blonde Kelly live together with their one-year-old ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: best friend, youth, friendship, friends, homecoming, young adult, nudity, snobbism, social relations, twentysomething life, bittersweet, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Flats (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The Flats tells a cautionary tale of friendship and desire played out among a group of 20-somethings transitioning into adulthood. Main character Harper and his buddies make the most of their freedom prior to an impending court-ordered jail ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: love triangle, youth, love and romance, human nature, unemployment, friendship between men, friendship, coming of age, friends, courtroom drama, siblings relations, friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
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72%
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Expecting (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, indie film ...
Plot: friends, baby, best friend, life turned upside down, family relations, friendship, pregnancy, woman, father, husband, adoption, weakness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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The Trip (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, political, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay relationship, aids, gay interest, lgbtq, road trip, gay slur, self discovery, couples, human nature, love affair, repression ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1984, year 1977, year 1973
Place: los angeles, usa, california, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Bastards of Young (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot: couples, pregnancy, infidelity, couple relations, best friend, friends, thirtysomething life, introspection, crumbling marriage, adultery, divorce, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Funeral Kings (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the service is ...
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, group of friends, altar boy, profanity, friendship, best friend, teenage boy, sexual content, teenage life, friends, buddies ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Women (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into ...
Style: entertaining, witty, humorous, light, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: infidelity, women, betrayal, divorce, friendship, transformation, fashion, family problems, lesbian, society, fashion show, female friendship ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, connecticut
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61%
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The Kitchen (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jennifer's thirtieth birthday party is supposed to be a special day. But what starts out as a day of celebration quickly spirals into a most ill-fated day Jennifer wishes she could forget, in this ensemble comedy set entirely in a kitchen.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: birthday, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, food, dishonesty, friendship, siblings relations, infidelity, wine, isolation, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Breaking the Rules (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.
Style: feel good, sad, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: cancer, youth, friendship, partner, best friend, friends, life is a bitch, buddies, tragic hero, unfulfillment, hopes, self discovery ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Sunshine Boys (1996)
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, humorous, offbeat
Plot: old age, retirement, heart attack, spy, odd couple, friendship, human nature, elderly, artists and showbiz, betrayal, friends, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Cloaca (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: friendship, nothing goes right, buddies, drug abuse, infidelity, midlife crisis, sex with teenager, secret, homosexual, reputation, lgbt, propaganda ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Wedding Weekend (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of guys who sang together in a college a cappella group reunite 15 years later to perform at a friend's wedding and discover how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases regressed -- since their college heyday.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, wedding, college, music band, lifestyle, music, reunited friends, weekend, group of friends, marriage, rivalry, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Talent Given Us (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, touching ...
Plot: on the road, eccentric family, family relations, elderly, cross country, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, friend, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Funny Bunny (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. Gene ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: friends, love triangle, social misfits, friendship, rabbit, bicycle, pig, woman slaps man, knife
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Never on Tuesday (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matt and Eddie are two young men from the mid-west travelling to California to see the sights - primarily semi-clad women on beaches. They hop into their car and head off through the desert...
Style: sexy, independent film, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: desert, best friend, nudity, road trip, car, car crash, summer, campfire story, surrealism, partner, youth, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, ohio
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40%
One Too Many Mornings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fischer can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, mumblecore, captivating, light ...
Plot: wedding, church, self discovery, friendship, odd couple, buddies, redemption, addiction, coming of age, alcoholism, vandalism, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Manuela and Manuel (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Deep inside, Manuel has always been Manuela. Amidst her worst love crisis, Manuela reinvents herself as Manuel in order to pass as the fiancé of her best friend Coca - who is pregnant from a one-night stand and must face her conservative family. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, hidden identity, wedding, transvestism, human nature, disorder, couples, gender bending, best friend, love, mistaken identity, gay man straight woman relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Standing Still (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A chain reaction of confrontations and romantic encounters occurs when college friends reunite for one's wedding.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot: wedding, college, lesbian, estrangement, couple relations, couples, sexual relations, love and romance, youth, lesbianism, marriage, party ...
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Second Best (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly successful L.A. producer.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: friendship, homecoming, introspection, unfulfillment, hollywood, unfulfilled love, best friend, gay interest, gays and lesbians, human nature, friends, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Dysfunctional Friends (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A group of college friends are reunited after the death of their very successful friend. The will dictates that each person will receive a large sum of money if they can all successfully stay in his mansion for a week. If one person leaves, everyone ...
Style: talky, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, estate, death of friend, group of friends, inheritance, funeral, rivalry, black cast, twins, thirtysomething life, friends, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Queens Logic (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, rock, gay subtext, buddies, gays and lesbians, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, gender, human nature, couples, friends ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, teachers and students, self discovery, elderly, dancer's life, aging, gay, dancing, widow, lgbt, gay interest, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.8
 685
The Big Ask (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, desert, moral dilemma, best friend, bittersweet, dark humor, buddies, couples, death of mother, young adult, dealing with death, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
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Dirty Girl (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
Style: road movie, touching, teen, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, high school, friendship, road trip, friends, female protagonist, on the road, honest, happy ending, sexpot, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, oklahoma, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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