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Home (2005)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On a hot summer night in Brooklyn, singles and couples converge in a brownstone apartment to flirt, fight, hook up and break up. A dreamy comedy-drama about sex, love and freedom, "Home" packs a lot of stories into just two floors.
Style:
independent film, realistic, melancholic, wistful
Plot:
apartment building, flirting, intimacy, urban, slice of life, character study, self discovery, bittersweet, friendship, breakup, infidelity, love, pregnancy, party, jealousy, pianist, nerd, ex boyfriend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dialogue driven, kitchen, cigarette smoking, beer drinking, break up
Time:
2000s, contemporary
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, melancholic and satirical films with plots about slice of life, bittersweet, friendship, character study, urban, intimate and dialogue driven mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Home: Creative Nonfiction (2009), Halfway Decent (2005), Ex-Girlfriends (2012), Fourth of July (2022), Cravate club (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
College student Ella is completely focused on her ambiguously romantic relationship with her dorm-mate, Chris. She is so consumed by trying to understand his behavior that she's neglecting the screenplay she is supposed to write in order to ...
Style:
mumblecore, metafiction, realistic, melancholic, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
college life, creative process, dormitory, self discovery, female protagonist, creative block, character study, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, identity crisis, autobiography ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When his wife pressures him to have another child, Tom Black retreats from his marriage and takes a stab at living alone. But in light of his crumbling personal life and a mountain of on-the-job problems, what he had before seems halfway decent.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, dishonesty, love and romance, singleness, couples, lifestyle, urban, dating, ex girlfriend, romantic rivalry, cheating ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A recovering alcoholic and jazz pianist in NYC confronts his acerbic family during their annual Fourth of July vacation.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, wistful
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two architects and best friends have a difficult time sharing an office and their troubled private lives.
Style:
realistic, comedy drama
Plot:
friendship, architecture, workplace, character study, relationship problems, male friendship, slice of life, infidelity, loneliness, office politics, awkwardness, midlife crisis ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Needing a sudden escape from the city, Robbie leaves Brooklyn to stay in the Hudson Valley with his aunt, who runs a home for pregnant teens. As the only man in the house, Robbie captures the attention of many of the girls, and when he strikes up a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two Chicago couples struggle to keep their love alive when secrets and long-simmering resentments rise to the surface.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, character study, secrets, realism, husband wife relationship, marital problem, satire, lifestyle, secret, relationship problems, couple relations, relationships ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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294
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Members of a once-promising hip-hop group, now in their late 30s, struggle with regret, disappointment, and change on Election Night 2008.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, bittersweet, hip hop, friends, introspection, once promising, unfulfillment, urban, midlife crisis, regret, frustration, nostalgia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Returning home to working class Warwick, Rhode Island, Peter Latang encounters childhood friend Donald Treebeck for what starts as a simple favor and turns into a long van ride into two friends past.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, cult classic, independent film
Plot:
friendship, small town, nostalgia, character study, memory, loss, grief, bittersweet, intimate, slice of life, road trip, coming of age ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, rhode island
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Taylor Starks and his co-workers, all aspiring actors, toil in a Los Angeles restaurant while "waiting" for their big break.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
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Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Two close friends from Sudbury, Ontario take a road trip to Toronto that will change the nature of their relationship.
Style:
road movie, indie film, emotional, tension, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
toronto ontario canada, ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, earnest
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Comedy directed by Joseph Jacoby.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Longtime couple Henry and Dianne are afraid that if they finally tie the knot it would mean the end of their days as free-spirited urbanites. But a whirlwind night apart involving temptations from a duo of strangers will either make them realize why ...
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
51%
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, uplifting, semi serious, sweet, romantic drama ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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357
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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310
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Style:
witty, entertaining, humorous, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, house, grownups, suicidal, friend, loss of brother, adulthood, brothers, brother, friends, life, suicide ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
sweet, disturbing, captivating, romantic comedy, lighthearted ...
Plot:
friendship, student, love affair, male female relationship, dating, lifestyle, promise, society, couples, love and romance, love, heartbreak ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
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896
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A self-loathing, failed Eastside novelist living in the ‘hipster’ neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles is shocked to find himself falling in love with everything he hates, including a simple All-American blonde girl from the Westside.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
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