Movies like Widows' Peak
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Widows' Peak (1994)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
Style:
humorous, witty, surprise ending, slasher, realistic, semi serious, biting, independent film, light, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
small town, spinster, plot twist, widow, gossip, feud, sting operation, comedy of manners, cigar, interwar period, false accusation, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, village life, fall in love, couples, social differences, society, social relations, small town life, dishonesty, couple relations, lie, lake ...
Time:
1920s, year 1994, 20th century, 20s
Place:
ireland, europe, england
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Most similar movies to Widows' Peak
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and witty films with plots about love and romance, family relations, couples, social relations, small town, couple relations and society mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Widows' Peak: Wish You Were Dead (2001), Mapp & Lucia (2014), Relative Values (2000), Slim Susie (2003), Waking Ned (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.
Style:
suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot:
hitman, dark humor, danger, fall in love, dishonesty, love affair, fish out of water, couples, social relations, parents and children, small town, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint village.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, period piece ...
Plot:
small town, village, rivalry, lesbian, society, social relations, village life, small town life, snobbism, priest, friendship, gossip ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets, the story is set in 1952 England, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda Frayle, upsetting both his mother, Countess Felicity of Marshwood, and her former love, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, stylized, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
master and servant, social differences, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, couples, power relations, intrigue, fall in love, servant, risk, wedding ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Erik, a Stockholm urbanite, learns that his beauty-queen sister, Susie, is missing, he goes to their country roots to look for her. But after talking to the eccentric locals -- including a shy video store clerk and a corrupt police officer -- ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, cynical, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot:
disappearance, confession, small town, dishonesty, gang, love and romance, dark humor, family relations, missing person, nordic, brother sister relationship, road trip ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland, France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Style:
humorous, feel good, dark comedy, black comedy, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
lottery winner, small town, friendship, friends, countryside, lottery, gambling, death, greed, skinny dipping, casino, landscape ...
Time:
future, year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for ...
Style:
feel good, funny, sexy, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
marijuana, drug dealer, small town, weed, drug dealing, family problems, cannabis, female protagonist, farce, police investigation, twists and turns, drug ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, cornwall, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, black comedy, erotic, tense ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, adultery, female detective, femme fatale, investigation, infidelity, obsession, murder, orgasm, dark humor, crime gone awry, justice ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
las vegas, austria, los angeles, salt lake city utah
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, witty, semi serious, cerebral ...
Plot:
murder, closeted homosexual, writers, perfect crime, gay lead character, gay relationship, murder mystery, scared to death, manuscript, sociopathy, sociopath, stage play ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
new york state, long island, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Anne-Marie vient de perdre son mari dans un accident de voiture. Elle est enfin libre d'aimer celui qu'elle voit en cachette depuis deux ans. Mais elle n'a pas prévu que sa famille, pétrie de bons sentiments, a décidé de rester à ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, love triangle, love and romance, dealing with death, couple relations, dishonesty, eccentric family, infidelity, family gatherings, mother son relationship, dark humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, sex comedy
Plot:
small town, couples, couple relations, isolation, family relations, battle of the sexes, village life, small town life, love, male female relationship, friendship between men, social relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, teenage life, getting home, society, hopes, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, youth, overnight success, family relations, fall in love, bittersweet ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) is an unemployed graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from Satna college, who is forced to make a living writing letters for the uneducated people of his village. His real ambition is to become a novel writer. Through his ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
politics, dishonesty, ambition, love and romance, hopes, rebelliousness, couple relations, campaign, social relations, couples, small town, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
Style:
political, realistic, dark comedy, black comedy, biting ...
Plot:
politics, satire, corruption, social commentary, small town, political corruption, desert, dictatorship, mayor, greed, protest, leader ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
latin america, mexico, south america, north america
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Style:
cult classic, humorous, independent film, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot:
small town, radio, vigilantism, trucker, bigamy, truck driver, couples, family relations, social relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, media ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, tokyo, california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style:
sexy, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, dishonesty, friendship, family problems, social relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family relations, couples, happiness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
memory loss, starting over, love and romance, couple relations, hopes, cooking, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, television, divorce, amnesia, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A mysterious illness declared as dumb flu spreads in a quaint hill station forcing the town's residents from speaking. Will the problems in the place increase due to this or will it lead to better communication?
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, offbeat
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, communication problem, fall in love, small town life, family relations, imaginary, couple relations, couples, parents and children, misfit, small town, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
26%
405
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, black comedy, biting ...
Plot:
border, life turned upside down, comedy of errors, satire, disorder, social relations, society, politics, cons and scams, political unrest, village life, village ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Zonad (Simon Delaney) is from space…probably. Or so the Cassidy family assume when they discover an apparent alien in a shiny red space suit and helmet passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet. The Cassidys and the people of ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, witty, black comedy ...
Plot:
family relations, mistaken identity, hidden identity, family life, cons and scams, social relations, dishonesty, village, disorder, con artists, alien, morality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, humorous, dark comedy
Plot:
domineering mother, social differences, love affair, family relations, couples, culture clash, fish out of water, homecoming, parents and children, misfit, society, feminism ...
Time:
50s
Place:
iceland, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, closeted homosexual, gay lead character, bus, unrequited love, homosexual, working class, self discovery, small town, poetry, gay slur ...
Time:
year 1963, year 1994, 60s, 70s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mysterious Inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.
Style:
surprise ending, thought provoking, serious, period piece, talky ...
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, inspector, whodunit, uncover truth, introspection, law enforcement, family problems, haunted by the past, justice, rich and poor ...
Time:
year 1912, 1910s, 20th century, edwardian era
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland, Armenia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hamo, a handsome 60-year old man, lives alone in a Romenian village with one of his daughters and his granddaughter. He also owns a retirement of seven dollars per month, a closet, an old russian television set and a military costume.A letter from ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, islamic, sentimental ...
Plot:
fall in love, family relations, couples, parents and children, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, bittersweet, small town, kurd, poverty, widow ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
kurdistan, russia, armenia, caucasus
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Ireland, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, period piece, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
love and romance, crime gone awry, family relations, missing person, kidnapping, murder suspect, sister sister relationship, nobleman, couples, society, alcohol abuse, missing child ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period, 21st century
Place:
ireland, europe, britain
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, tense, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
disorder, couples, fall in love, couple relations, wooing, love and romance, dishonesty, family relations, parents and children, love, male female relationship, graduate student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
cons and scams, murder, life is a bitch, social decay, working class, dishonesty, hidden identity, stalking, family relations, psychopath, father son relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.
Style:
period piece, talky, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, castle, women, love, summer, holiday, self discovery, marriage, garden, socialite, retreat, passionate kiss ...
Time:
1920s, future, year 1991, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
italy, europe, london, england
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
small town, young couple, village life, pub, catholic, friendship, religion, priest, catholic priest, agnostic, englishman abroad, rise and fall ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
ireland, england, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of Piero, from when he was a kid to fatherhood, over the background of the town of Livorno, Tuscany, where the director Virzì was born.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, realistic, humorous, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth culture, coming of age, bittersweet, working class, teacher student relationship, dysfunctional family, factory worker, teenage love, oil refinery, blue collar, puberty, proletarian ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
tuscany, europe, italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, wooing, family relations, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, estrangement, unfulfillment, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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