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That's Life! (1986)
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That's Life! (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Style: sentimental, independent film, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, erotic, road movie ...
Plot: aging, midlife crisis, bittersweet, family gatherings, depression, cancer, hospital, birthday, priest, architect, fortune teller, family relations, family life, love and romance, couples, self discovery, society, family problems, terminal illness, clergy, human nature, death in the family, unfulfillment, dealing with death, party ...
Time: 80s
Place: malibu california, los angeles, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about couples, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, family problems, bittersweet and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like That's Life!: Dad (1989), Men Don't Leave (1990), Memories of Me (1988), Isn't It Delicious (2013), Garbo Talks (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dad (1989)
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: touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot: father son relationship, aging, family drama, hospital, family bonds, doctor, hopes, parents and children, family life, terminal illness, redemption, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles
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95%
Men Don't Leave (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: depression, bittersweet, widow, family relations, crumbling marriage, feminist, age-gap relationship, career, middle school, lottery, starting over, single mother ...
Time: 80s
Place: baltimore, usa
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72%
Memories of Me (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: heart attack, father son relationship, hollywood, death of father, flashback, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son estrangement, surgeon, doctor, parent child relationship, bittersweet, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Isn't It Delicious (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, terminal illness, bittersweet, husband wife relationship, one night stand, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Garbo Talks (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da ...
Style: sad, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: brain tumor, grief, tumor, hollywood, aging, last wish, terminal illness, couple relations, obsession, human nature, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Empty Nest (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: aging, couples, couple relations, midlife crisis, family relations, family problems, elderly, parents and children, love and romance, leaving home, college, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style: humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, working class, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, family problems, couples, estrangement, death in the family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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52%
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Mother Ghost (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Keith Bennets mother passed away a year ago, and he feels like he has moved on with his life, until one morning his mothers jewelry shows up on Keiths bathroom sink. The same jewelry she was buried in. Keith tells his wife Karen, about the jewelry ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Plot: self discovery, crumbling marriage, family relations, family problems, bittersweet, death in the family, humour, mother son relationship, psychiatrist, dealing with death, unfulfillment, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
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49%
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The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 1983 Burt Reynolds version -- This is the tale of a sculptor named David who has a major womanizing problem. He goes to seek help from a psychiatrist, Marianna, to cure him of his obsession with women. His story of sexual and romantic exploits with ...
Style: sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexual, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: psychiatrist, farce, womanizer, obsession, therapy, seduction, mental disorder, sculptor, infidelity, sex addict, looking for sex, looking for love ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: los angeles
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47%
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S.O.B. (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Style: funny, cynical, witty, clever, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, depression, corpse, film producer, hollywood, cynicism, dog, tantrum, funeral, nervous breakdown, doctor ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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
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45%
The Thing About My Folks (2005)
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, sentimental, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, love and romance, husband wife relationship, escapades, food, aging, senior citizen, profanity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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44%
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 ⇓
42%
Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and ...
Style: sex comedy, colorful, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: midlife crisis, adultery, sleaze, dating, family relations, couples, family problems, restaurant, thirtysomething life, eccentric family, infidelity, love affair ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
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41%
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 ⇓
40%
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, dog, single parent, writers, introspection, couple relations, family life, parents and children, family problems, family relations, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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39%
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Marine Life (2000)
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, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, couples, family problems, single parent, love and romance, youth, child as adult, midlife crisis, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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39%
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Tribute (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
Style: poignant, serious, realistic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, dying, agent, aging, dying father, couples, family problems, estrangement, prostitute, unfulfillment, couple relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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 ⇓
37%
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Hanging Up (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, women, thanksgiving, sister sister relationship, family problems, eccentric family, family life, looking for love, parents and children, terminal illness ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 2000s, year 1988, year 2000
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Unstrung Heroes (1995)
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, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, youth, mental illness, terminal illness, eccentricity, family drama, insanity, cancer, child hero, social justice, children ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place: los angeles
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36%
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Cleopatra (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, self discovery, friendship, human nature, on the road, introspection, looking for love, best friend, family business, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
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35%
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
34%
The Perfect Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: lesbian, dysfunctional family, church, family problems, couples, religions or cults, physical appearance, parents and children, society, couple relations, gays and lesbians, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Son of the Bride (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 123 min.
Story: At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment ...
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, witty, romantic ...
Plot: midlife crisis, divorce, family relations, heart attack, self discovery, childhood, introspection, fall in love, couple relations, human nature, old friend, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2001
Place: latin america, argentina, spain, buenos aires argentina, italy ...
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32%
Terms of Endearment (1983)
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: tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, single mother, husband wife relationship, grief, adultery, terminal illness, death of daughter, relationships, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s ...
Place: texas, houston texas, new york, nebraska, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Please Give (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Style: melancholic, depressing, humorous, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: midlife crisis, family drama, loneliness, complex characters, depression, human nature, parents and children, adultery, teenage life, suicide, cancer, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
All Night Long (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, midlife crisis, love affair, nightlife, human nature, love and romance, couples, lifestyle, unsupportive spouse, unfulfillment, jealousy, adultery ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and ...
Style: independent film, emotional, touching, black comedy, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, culture clash, dysfunctional family, transgender, hospital, food, blaxploitation, racial issues, wine, american history, transvestism, family relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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