Movies like Broadway Bound

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Broadway Bound (1992)
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Broadway Bound (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" is the Final Chapter of his acclaimed trilogy that began with "Biloxi Blues" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs".
Plot: family relations, radio, backstage, broadway, monologue, leaving home, writing
Time: 1940s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, love and romance, couples, parents and children, couple relations, artists and showbiz and family problems mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Broadway Bound: Lost in Yonkers (1993), The Sunshine Boys (1996), Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001), I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982), Chapter Two (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style: sentimental, touching, psychological, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, aunt, grandmother, bike, mental health, coming of age, candy store, brother, bittersweet, family problems, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Sunshine Boys (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot: old age, retirement, heart attack, spy, odd couple, friendship, human nature, elderly, artists and showbiz, betrayal, friends, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including ...
Plot: backstage, drug, restaurant, television
Time: 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever, touching ...
Plot: filmmaking, screenwriter, writers, struggling actor, estrangement, hollywood, midlife crisis, elderly, writer's life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, elderly lovers ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Chapter Two (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: widower, friendship, death of wife, actress, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, death in the family, love affair, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Only When I Laugh (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, clever, talky ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, drug, alcoholic, slice of life, women, best friend, socialite, drunkenness, parent child relationship, alcoholism, bittersweet, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 16K
Biloxi Blues (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During the Second World War, Eugene enlists in the US Army during the last year of the War and is sent to basic training in Biloxi Mississippi. There he must live with a variety of fellow soldiers while enduring the whims of a mentally unstable ...
Style: humorous, funny, realistic, clever, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, basic training, boot camp, gay, military life, military, friendship, adaptation, virginity, male virgin, youth ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.3
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Feel the Beat (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.
Style: sweet, feel good, light, funny, rom com
Audience: date night, family outing, chick flick, teens
Plot: broadway, dancing, dance, christmas, competition, rivalry, love affair, fall in love, escapades, family relations, girl, ambition ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Movie in collections
 6.4
 2K
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 ⇓
47%
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him.
Style: independent film, talky, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drag queen, gay, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, gay interest, gays and lesbians, transgender, gay bashing, gay bar, lgbtq, glbt ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
Style: talky, semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dysfunctional family, police detective, family relations, family problems, hopes, estrangement, couples, single parent, eccentric family, family life, parents and children, cons and scams ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: usa, las vegas, venice beach california, los angeles, brazil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story: Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, offbeat
Plot: lifestyle, social differences, farce, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations, misfit, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, fish out of water, celebrity culture, eccentric family ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Style: humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: unemployment, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, couple relations, down on your luck, unfulfillment, odd couple, family problems, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, brother brother relationship, neighbor ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Days and Nights (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", set in rural New England.
Style: humorous, touching, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, estate, parents and children, accident, summer, anton chekhov, siblings relations, eagle, suicide, director, actress ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Tango of Our Childhood (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and win back her husband, who left family for another woman, after return from the war.
Plot: breakup, family conflict, divorce, husband wife relationship, horse, mother, old woman, children, sadness, family relations, world war two
Time: 1940s
Place: caucasus, armenia, eastern europe, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
38%
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Plaza Suite (1971)
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: humorous, clever, witty, anthology, realistic ...
Plot: wedding, hotel, multiple storylines, luxury hotel, adultery, marriage, bittersweet, couples, family problems, family relations, anniversary, looking for love ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Monster in a Box (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This is the story of Spalding Gray and his attempt to write a novel. It is a first person account about writing and living, and dealing with success while trying to be successful.
Style: independent film, witty, clever, talky, realistic ...
Plot: writers, live performance, concert, one-man show, biopic, creative block, performer's life, media satire, showbiz, midlife crisis, musician's life, writer's life ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual ...
Style: funny, realistic, semi autobiographical, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: coming of age, jewish family, dysfunctional family, great depression, boy, stage play, past, family relations, breaking the fourth wall, gambling, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Breakable You (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, satirical, semi serious
Plot: manuscript, changing lives, family problems, lifestyle, relationship problems, marital problem, broadway, lifestyle change, screenwriter, satire, ex husband, playwright ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Mr. Write (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Aspiring writer (with no talent) gets a job on a TV commercial, falls for an advertising executive.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: writers, disorder, couples, down on your luck, love triangle, writer's life, lifestyle, opposites attract, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, love and romance, job ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.8
 20K
The Grass Harp (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, unrequited love, sister sister relationship, orphan, world war one, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, chambermaid, deep south, family life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Handle with Care (1977)
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, truck, radio, vigilantism, trucker, bigamy, truck driver, family relations, couples, social relations, artists and showbiz, love and romance ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
32%
Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Musical dancer on the way out (at 36) Paula McFadden had it swell with actor Tony DeSanti, but instead of taking her to Hollywood he gets a European movie part. He even sublets their (his) New York apartment to Elliot Garfield, who generously lets ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, unlikely couple, dancer's life, love and romance, starting over, family relations, couples, showbiz, male female relationship, artists and showbiz, workplace, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 438
Foxfire (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.
Style: realistic, uplifting, emotional, feel good, touching
Plot: afterlife, hillbilly, mountain, family relations, couples, elderly, human spirit, hopes, ghost, couple relations, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, appalachia, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.6
 5K
Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, family life, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time: year 2009
Place: usa, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Loitering with Intent (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Fledgling screenwriters retreat to a quiet country manor to work on their script, but a constellation of needy characters produces constant interruptions.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: friends, deadline, ambition, artists and showbiz, actor's life, family relations, house, disorder, farm, actor, writers, post traumatic stress disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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We Are Family (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Story: Six strangers (of different backgrounds, cultures, and economic statuses) are invited to a mysterious home, each for different reasons. With nothing in common, they soon find out that they are actually brothers and sisters. The father they never ...
Plot: black, family relations, half brother, last will and testament, inheritance, half sister, sibling relationship, siblings
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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