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Taking Off (1971)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
Style:
atmospheric, social, clever, offbeat, humorous, captivating, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious ...
Plot:
marijuana, hippie, counterculture, renaissance, anti establishment, psychology, runaway, male nudity, teenage girl, time travel, nude girl, life & death, trauma, missing child, missing daughter, youth, rock, family relations, parents and children, midlife crisis, profanity, couples, dysfunctional family, self discovery, teenage life ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, new york, usa, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, couple relations and husband wife relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Taking Off: Igby Goes Down (2002), The Daytrippers (1996), Heartbreak Hotel (2006), Danny Collins (2015), 10,000 Saints (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style:
dark comedy, depressing, cynical, clever, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, mental illness, dark humor, addiction, fall in love, depression, existentialism, youth, teenage life, eccentric family, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
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independent film, hilarious, realistic, talky, clever ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, dysfunctional family, adultery, marriage, infidelity, road trip, family relations, thanksgiving, love, storytelling, gay, holiday ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two very different women, both in their 40s with grown-up children, are ready to go on with their lives and find love again.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, talky, realistic, clever
Plot:
wedding, midlife crisis, friendship, best friend, couples, parents and children, disorder, family relations, single parent, couple relations, lifestyle, nightlife ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ageing rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
musician, rock star, aging, musician's life, elderly, midlife crisis, transformation, family relations, starting over, introspection, cancer, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, los angeles, usa, new york
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage pregnancy, gay man straight woman relationship, boy, friendship, pregnancy, parents and children, punk, city life, estrangement, rehabilitation, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, vermont
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77%
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:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, homecoming, hopes, family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, estrangement, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rob Lawson's perpetual quest for success is interrupted when his estranged daughter shows up pregnant, challenging him to be a father before he becomes a grandfather.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, estrangement, family problems, couples, parents and children, river, pregnancy, unfulfillment, self discovery, moral dilemma, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
heavy metal, unfulfillment, hopes, parents and children, homecoming, rock, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, introspection, mental illness, daydreamer, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york state, new york
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, youth, parents and children, teenage angst, suburbs, teen romance, female protagonist, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, realistic, semi serious, biting ...
Plot:
feminist, infidelity, mental illness, satire, love triangle, extramarital affair, psychiatrist, adultery, marital problem, housewife, teen violence, abusive parent ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, funny, light, colorful ...
Plot:
rock, radio, music, hippie, rock and roll, rock music, boat, musician, friendship, rebellion, marijuana, counterculture ...
Time:
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Place:
london, britain, england
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style:
semi serious, stylized, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage love, dysfunctional family, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
76%
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, save the day, family relations, working class, family problems, restaurant, society, siblings relations, family in crisis, bank, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, love and romance, save the day, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, male nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
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75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, seattle
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74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Style:
atmospheric, talky, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, jazz, dark humor, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, fall in love, writers, addiction ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
new york, chicago, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 movie adapted from a song by Arlo Guthrie. The song is Arlo Guthrie's most famous work, a talking blues based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965. The movie reproduces the events of the song, in ...
Style:
psychedelic, humorous, semi autobiographical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hippie, counterculture, thanksgiving, garbage dump, restaurant, drug addiction, drug abuse, hospital, church, hitchhiking, small town, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, california, vietnam, usa, beverly hills ...
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
Style:
sincere, humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Set in the 1970's, MIGHTY FINE is the story of Joe Fine (Chazz Palminteri) a charismatic, high-spirited man, who relocates his family--wife Stella (Andie MacDowell), a Holocaust survivor, daughters Nathalie (Jodelle Ferland) and Maddie (Rainey ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, light, heartfelt ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, family life, starting over, parents and children, couples, couple relations, hopes, family drama, father daughter relationship, character study, intimate, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce ...
Style:
anthology, witty, clever, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding, multiple storylines, luxury hotel, adultery, marriage, hotel, bittersweet, couples, family problems, family relations, midlife crisis, honeymoon ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, new jersey
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
This movie tells the intersecting stories of various people connected to the music business in Nashville. Barbara Jean is the reigning queen of Nashville but is near collapse. Linnea and Delbert Reese have a shaky marriage and 2 deaf children. Opal ...
Style:
political, independent film, cult classic, stylized, anthology ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, satire, music, politics, musician, sexual content, country music, showbiz, election, government, american politics, parallel story ...
Time:
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Place:
tennessee, nashville tennessee, usa, california
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
Style:
sexy, mumblecore, ironic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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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:
71%
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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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:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
youth, adoption, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, family problems, obsessive quest, on the road, family in crisis, hopes, self discovery, escape ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, family life, self discovery, introspection, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, couples, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Q-SKY is the #1 radio station in Los Angeles mainly because of the music they play; running the station the way they want to, it has made them a ratings success.
Style:
political, semi serious, realistic, biting, humorous ...
Plot:
radio, radio station, workplace, love, musician, satire, revolution, friends, music band, musician's life, fighting the system, ambition ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, youth, parents and children, midlife crisis, child as adult ...
Time:
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Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
clever, serious, realistic, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
mathematics, coming of age, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage love, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, youth, estrangement ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
70%
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