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Cemetery Junction (2010)
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Cemetery Junction (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
Style: witty, inspirational, stylized, funny, humorous, talky, semi serious, melancholic, atmospheric, clever ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, friends, old love, love, relationships, profanity, love and romance, society, social differences, factory, flirting, social relations, small town life, life, working class, party, ambition, salesman, music, teenager, passion, meaning of life, railway ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london
Keyword: challenge, dreams

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Most similar movies to Cemetery Junction

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about friendship, love and romance, friends, coming of age, youth, society and family relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Cemetery Junction: Educating Rita (1983), Local Hero (1983), How to Be (2008), SoulBoy (2010), Diner (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Educating Rita (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rita, a 26 year old Scouse hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to her childhood sweetheart, the feckless Denny. He wants a baby, she doesn't. She wants to discover herself, so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant Is a ...
Style: talky, witty, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: working class, alcoholism, troubled marriage, teacher, teacher student relationship, literature, education, mentor, teaching, professor, self discovery, university ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place: england, london, ireland, europe, dublin ireland ...
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Local Hero (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, witty, sweet ...
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: small town, village life, greed, fish out of water, culture clash, american abroad, husband wife relationship, melancholy, social commentary, beautiful scenery, village, rabbit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place: scotland, houston texas
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 5.4
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How to Be (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: introspection, coming of age, self discovery, unfulfillment, lifestyle, hopes, artists and showbiz, youth, musician, psychology, musician's life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.9
 1K
SoulBoy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and ...
Style: humorous, contemplative, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, nightlife, youth, society, buddies, unfulfillment, lifestyle, music, friendship, youth culture, subculture, soul ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Diner (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: friendship, coming of age, food, christmas, diner, gambling debt, love and romance, adulthood, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, buddies, lifestyle ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1982, year 1959, 20th century
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
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51%
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West Is West (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, love and romance, looking for love, family problems, society, siblings relations, teenage life, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: england, pakistan, europe, middle east, manchester
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50%
Three and Out (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.
Style: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever ...
Plot: friendship, terminal illness, teenage life, cons and scams, writer's life, friends, dark humor, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, kinky sex, unfulfillment, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london, liverpool
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50%
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Anita & Me (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot: youth, culture clash, family relations, best friend, friendship, racism, family problems, hopes, teenage life, coming of age, interracial friendship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Life Is Sweet (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on ...
Style: sentimental, independent film, compassionate, sweet, funny ...
Plot: working class, food, secret lover, dysfunctional family, rebellious daughter, class differences, depression, family drama, restaurant, compassion, family relations, eating disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.1
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Career Girls (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Style: cult classic, realistic, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot: life & death, college, friendship, graduation, bittersweet, women, meaning of life, angry, female bonding, loser, female friendship, mother ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: london, europe, england
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49%
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Somers Town (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, friendship, social differences, teenage life, parents and children, family relations, lifestyle, social misfits, single parent, love and romance, society ...
Time: year 2008, 90s
Place: london, england, europe, paris france
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Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
Plot: life turned upside down, friendship, fall in love, looking for love, society, buddies, disorder, love and romance, interracial relations, profanity, friends, urban ...
Time: 21st century
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The Debut (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot: culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, nightlife, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
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Stay Hungry (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Stay Hungry is a 1976 dramatic comedy film by director Bob Rafelson from a screenplay by Charles Gaines. The story centers on a young Birmingham, Alabama, scion, played by Jeff Bridges, who gets involved in a shady real-estate deal. In order to ...
Style: realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot: bodybuilding, gym, friendship, contests and competitions, ambition, love and romance, rivalry, society, social differences, fitness, competition, fight ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: birmingham alabama, usa, alabama
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Turning Green (2005)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, Ireland
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, sincere, touching, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, hopes, love and romance, society, youth, getting home, fall in love, family relations, overnight success, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
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48%
 6.9
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East Is East (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and ...
Style: hilarious, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: muslim, tradition, family relations, gay son, domineering father, homosexual, gay interest, indians, dysfunctional family, family problems, racism, working class ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: england, northern england, europe
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48%
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Lovelife (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: professor, older man younger woman relationship, low self esteem, love, writers, love triangle, friendship, breakup, older woman younger man relationship, couples, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Breaking Away (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one ...
Style: touching, realistic, inspirational, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, working class, cycling, underdog, bicycle, friendship, small town, teenage life, bicycle race, father son relationship, childhood, teenage boy ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
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48%
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State and Main (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style: talky, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new england, vermont
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48%
 6.3
 32K
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Anywhere But Here (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, women, mother, teen angst, love, family drama, single mother, teenager, bittersweet, small town, daughter ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: wedding, lovers reunited, bride and groom, unrequited love, under the surface, love and romance, introspection, family problems, parents and children, love triangle, ex lover, marriage ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1932
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Starter for 10 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching "University Challenge," a ...
Style: feel good, witty, sweet, melancholic, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: university, coming of age, college, politics, social differences, unlikely friendships, happy ending, love triangle, student, buddies, youth, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 2000s, year 1985
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.0
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Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
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, sentimental, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: siblings relations, dysfunctional family, teenage love, teenage life, family life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, eccentric family, love and romance, family problems, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.3
 96K
Submarine (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar ...
Style: visually appealing, witty, surreal, touching, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, virginity, high school, school, teenager, teenage love, high school life, youth, teen angst, social relations, loss of virginity ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 80s, 20th century
Place: wales, england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Mistress America (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. MISTRESS AMERICA is a comedy about dream-chasing, ...
Style: independent film, humorous, depressing, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, coming of age, writers, betrayal, eccentric family, prank, follow your dream, hopes, disorder, family relations, dysfunctional family, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.5
 20K
Paper Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his ...
Style: touching, tricky, psychological, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: friendship, self discovery, midlife crisis, coming of age, imaginary friend, writers, small town, depression, loneliness, character study, relationships, creativity ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: long island, atlantic ocean, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 327
American Chai (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, teenage life, parents and children, youth, society, friendship, misfit, hopes, nothing goes right ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
I Really Hate My Job (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the ...
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sexy woman, workplace, waitress, friendship, love and romance, aging, introspection, midlife crisis, workplace romance, public nudity, female nudity, restaurant ...
Place: england, london, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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