Movies like Valley of the Sun
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Valley of the Sun (2011)
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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, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, golden years, father son relationship, fish out of water, self discovery, gay, hollywood, sexual content, elderly, disorder, retirement home life, male nudity, porn star, rejuvenation, transformation, reconciliation, male objectification, mental breakdown, neglected wife, naked in public, mother son relationship ...
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, family problems, disorder and lifestyle mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Valley of the Sun: Mind the Gap (2004), In Memory of My Father (2005), The Reception (2005), The Trouble with Bliss (2011), A Madea Christmas (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, lifestyle, human nature, family relations, couples, golden years, city life, introspection, single parent, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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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.
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cynical, semi serious, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
family relations, eccentric family, lifestyle, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, hollywood, brother brother relationship, narcissism, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, corpse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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81%
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 ...
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sexy, realistic, humorous, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
wedding, lifestyle, family relations, homecoming, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, parents and children, unfulfillment, couples, estrangement, family life, gay african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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71%
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:
realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere
Audience:
date night
Plot:
self discovery, disorder, couples, thirtysomething life, dull life, coming of age, life turned upside down, lifestyle, unfulfillment, family relations, unlikely couple, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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:
feel good, captivating, light, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot:
christmas, family relations, parents and children, family life, nothing goes right, friendship, society, african american, strong female presence, family gatherings, farce, eccentric family ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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, pregnancy, young lovers, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, college, life turned upside down, disorder, relationships, college freshman, love and romance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family relations, fall in love, teenage love, parents and children, lifestyle, doctor, looking for love, friendship, only child, self discovery, renewed love, dentist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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, meet the parents, couple relations, friends, buddies, parents and children, nothing goes right, love, disorder, friendship, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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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, semi serious, uplifting, sincere, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, looking for love, against the odds, hopes, haunted by the past, family relations, redemption, self discovery, couples, friendship, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
library, sexual content, couples, men hatred, disorder, manhood, family relations, city life, fall in love, parents and children, family life, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
dog, pets, family problems, couple relations, family life, disorder, love and romance, crumbling marriage, golden years, unfulfillment, parents and children, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sincere
Plot:
self discovery, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, terminal illness, family life, bittersweet, one night stand, husband wife relationship, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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:
touching, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, crumbling marriage, family problems, bittersweet, death in the family, psychiatrist, mother son relationship, humour, unfulfillment, family in crisis, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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:
disorder, gender, media, lifestyle, fish out of water, nervous breakdown, talk show, suspense, nothing goes right, couples, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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, touching, serious ...
Plot:
family life, self discovery, midlife crisis, introspection, writer's life, family relations, couple relations, couples, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Movies similar to Scandal Makers
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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, non-linear ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, nightlife, follow your dream, parents and children, family relations, ambition, hollywood, hopes, filmmaking, love and romance, fall in love, womanizer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 20th century, 90s, year 1992 ...
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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, emotional, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, self discovery, lifestyle, fish out of water, life turned upside down, looking for love, misfit, disorder, daydreamer, singleness, love triangle, unrequited love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, talky, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Plot:
parents and children, mysterious character, family problems, family life, beach, generation gap, fall in love, parent child relationship, love and romance, mad scientist, on the run, teleportation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, mumblecore ...
Plot:
youth, children, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, bittersweet, thirtysomething life, family problems, dark humor, family relations, custody, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot:
last wish, family relations, parents and children, ex athlete, family problems, self discovery, introspection, friendship, terminal illness, society, death, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hollywood, overnight success, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, once in a lifetime opportunity, buddies, partners, lifestyle, odd couple, showbiz, celebrity culture, working class ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, siblings relations, eccentric family, parents and children, family gatherings, dark humor, gay, friendship, dysfunctional family, lgbtq, lgbt, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
on the road, eccentric family, family relations, elderly, parents and children, cross country, family in crisis, family problems, golden years, estrangement, dysfunctional family, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a family whose growth is stunted... a family that learns how to love themselves while loving each other (a little too much).
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, gay, family relations, family problems, eccentric family, siblings relations, dark humor, disorder, gender, dishonesty, parents and children, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, emotional, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rehabilitation, family relations, dealer, lifestyle, drug dealing, disorder, student life, eccentric family, partners, nothing goes right, prodigy, pianist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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, sentimental, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
parents and children, family life, family problems, couples, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family relations, marriage, black romance, black woman, lifestyle, humour ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, emotional, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
hollywood, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, showbiz, filmmaking, fall in love, fish out of water, actor, audition, producer, couples, disorder ...
Place:
los angeles, california, iowa, usa
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37%
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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, introspection, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, love story, couples, self discovery, friendship, society, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A handful of men and women of a certain age pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director Susan Seidelman.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elderly, friendship, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, single parent, family problems, midlife crisis, couples, parents and children, family relations, lifestyle ...
Place:
florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, emotional, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding, family relations, couples, eccentric family, family gatherings, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, arranged marriage, love, rivalry, society, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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