Movies like Valley of the Sun

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Valley of the Sun (2011)
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Valley of the Sun (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Andy Taggert, played by Johnny Whitworth, set out for Hollywood to pursue acting, but years later finds himself as Vick Velour and working in adult films. Disillusioned and trapped, Andy walks off the set and lands himself in a mental hospital. His estranged parents pick him up and take him to their Arizona retirement community where Andy’s troubles seemingly all but disappear until his past unexpectedly comes back to haunt him.
Style: humorous, light, sincere, captivating, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
Plot: family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, father son relationship, fish out of water, self discovery, hollywood, sexual content, elderly, disorder, retirement home life, male nudity, parents, porn star, rejuvenation, transformation, reconciliation, male objectification, mental breakdown, neglected wife, naked in public, public nudity, bare chested male ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: arizona, usa

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Most similar movies to Valley of the Sun

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, love and romance, disorder, lifestyle and self discovery mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Valley of the Sun: The Quitter (2014), Colombian Love (2004), Mind the Gap (2004), The Trouble with Bliss (2011), Almost Perfect (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Quitter (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
Style: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, single parent, homecoming, unfulfillment, love, basketball player, career, baseball
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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95%
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Colombian Love (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tali and Ori are a young Israeli couple. After attending their best friends' wedding, which ended in disaster, they have a big fight, which leads to Ori proposing. But there is trouble in paradise when Ori's conservative father meets Tali, ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, family relations, couple relations, meet the parents, parents and children, buddies, friends, friendship, nothing goes right, love, disorder, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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83%
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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 ⇓
72%
The Trouble with Bliss (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall) is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and the premature death of ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, thirtysomething life, dull life, couples, disorder, coming of age, unfulfillment, lifestyle, life turned upside down, family relations, unlikely couple, age difference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Almost Perfect (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, couples, eccentric family, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, fall in love, friendship, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family in crisis, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Young Kieslowski (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Grand romantic gestures need not apply in this comedic tale of star-crossed young love. Instead, freshman Brian Kieslowski displays endless reserves of bumbling awkwardness as he goes home with a girl for the first time... and then learns that he ...
Style: humorous, emotional, captivating, light, romantic ...
Plot: youth, young lovers, pregnancy, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, college, disorder, life turned upside down, relationships, college freshman, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
In Memory of My Father (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The youngest son of a legendary Hollywood producer, a Robert Evans type, accepts a bribe from his father to document his death.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, touching, entertaining ...
Plot: family relations, eccentric family, family problems, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, hollywood, narcissism, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, corpse, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Seasons Of Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.
Style: humorous, uplifting, semi serious, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, against the odds, hopes, looking for love, haunted by the past, family relations, redemption, couples, self discovery, friendship, black, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Love Hurts (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Ben Bingham slips into a funk and refuses to change out of his pajamas. Justin, Ben's 17-year-old son, has the cure for what ails his depressed dad: he gives Ben a makeover and pushes him out into the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage love, fall in love, lifestyle, doctor, looking for love, friendship, self discovery, only child, couples, renewed love ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: librarian, library, sexual content, family relations, couples, disorder, fish out of water, family life, urban, parents and children, men hatred, city life ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Get Well Soon (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After having a nervous breakdown, a popular talk-show host confronts his ex-girlfriend who is dating a cross-dresser.
Style: talky, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot: fish out of water, gender, media, lifestyle, disorder, nervous breakdown, male nudity, male to female cross dressing, bare chested male, talk show, crossdresser, unlikely couple ...
Place: usa, new york
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57%
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Jake Squared (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.
Style: semi serious, psychological, contemplative, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: midlife crisis, introspection, filmmaking, hollywood, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, society, art, relationships, losing-it hero, cause and meaning, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Reception (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The complex relationship between a wealthy French woman and her best friend a, gay black American, is thrown into turmoil when her estranged daughter comes to visit them with her new husband for the weekend in upstate New York. Through a series of ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot: wedding, family relations, family gatherings, homecoming, parents and children, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, couples, estrangement, family life, unfulfillment, gay african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Dorfman in Love (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, self discovery, unrequited love, fish out of water, life turned upside down, looking for love, daydreamer, disorder, misfit, singleness, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: family life, self discovery, midlife crisis, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, unfulfillment, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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2 Jacks (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, family relations, parents and children, follow your dream, ambition, hollywood, nightlife, hopes, filmmaking, love and romance, fall in love, gambling ...
Time: year 1992, year 2012, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.7
 626
Garbage (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two best friends, garbage truck drivers in Hollywood become celebrities overnight after they find Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar for JERRY MAGUIRE in the trash and suddenly their lives go topsy-turvy.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hollywood, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, overnight success, buddies, odd couple, lifestyle, celebrity culture, showbiz, once in a lifetime opportunity, working class, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Phileine Says Sorry (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gorgeous Dutch youngster Max has two passions, acting and girls. The first becomes his brilliant career, which takes off so well he gets invited to a prestigious New York theatre course for a year. But since he met fickle bitch Phileine in an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: battle of the sexes, couples, dishonesty, actor's life, lifestyle, infidelity, artists and showbiz, intimate, weatherman, love and romance, couple relations, city life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, new york, holland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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A Madea Christmas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
Style: christmas special, sincere, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, family relations, madea, parents and children, family life, black, xmas, christmas season, friendship, society, nothing goes right ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Ball & Chain (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Somewhere in the middle of Texas, Ameet (Sunil Malhotra) and Saima (Lisa Ray) have a problem. They were perfectly happy avoiding each other until their parents set them up to get married. The reluctant couple decide to do whatever it takes to break ...
Style: humorous, captivating, sentimental, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: wedding, family relations, couples, eccentric family, family gatherings, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, love, wedding planning, society, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Simmons are playing the brothers' father and uncle, respectively, while Caan is one of the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, contemplative ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, last wish, family problems, ex athlete, self discovery, introspection, terminal illness, friendship, death, society, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Premium (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Reginald "Cool" Coolidge is a struggling actor, fed up with taking stereotypical African American roles and waiting for his big break in a legitimate production. Until this time comes, he works at his mother's boyfriend's gas ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, wedding, couples, follow your dream, race against time, ambition, showbiz, nothing goes right, filmmaking, black, hip hop, blaxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
41%
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Bed & Breakfast (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life changes for three woman who run a failing hotel, when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.
Style: humorous, semi serious, talky, captivating, light ...
Plot: parents and children, family problems, mysterious character, family life, beach, generation gap, fall in love, 007, parent child relationship, couples, teleportation, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: usa, maine
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40%
A Short History of Decay (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A failed Brooklyn writer, Nathan Fisher, visits his ailing parents in Florida. His mother has Alzheimer's and his father has recently had a stroke and his girlfriend has recently broken up with him.
Style: emotional, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Plot: family relations, introspection, siblings relations, parents and children, dark humor, mental illness, unsuccessful, unfulfillment, bittersweet, elderly, aging, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. During these ...
Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: youth, children, disorder, nothing goes right, parents and children, bittersweet, family relations, thirtysomething life, family problems, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, custody ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Darling Companion (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dog, pets, family problems, couple relations, family life, disorder, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, lifestyle, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Mother's Love (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her daughter, Monica. It's going to take a mother's unconditional love to pray Regina ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot: parents and children, family life, family problems, couples, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family relations, marriage, black romance, woman, relationships, strong female lead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 2K
Wake (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When things get tough for offbeat Carys Reitman, she does what any emotionally isolated, modern girl would do - she goes to strangers' funerals...
Style: humorous, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: funeral, estrangement, fall in love, introspection, family relations, parents and children, love story, self discovery, couples, friendship, society, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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