Movies and TV shows like Whoopi

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Whoopi (2003)
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Whoopi (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Whoopi was an American situation comedy, starring Whoopi Goldberg. The series revolved around the events and people at her hotel, the Lamont Hotel, in New York City. The show aired on Tuesdays from September 9, 2003, on NBC to April 20, 2004.
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, humorous, soap opera
Plot: hotel, starting over, culture clash, workplace, boss and employee, workplace situations, society, black, interracial relations, singer, brother sister relationship, female protagonist, hotel owner, iranian, racism, misfit, family relations, maid, social misfits, strong female presence, siblings relations, ethnic, verbal byplay, politically correct, power relations ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and sitcom films and TV series with plots about workplace, workplace situations, friendship, family relations, society, power relations and boss and employee mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Whoopi: Kingdom (2007), Linc's (1998), A.U.S.A. (2003), That Girl (1966), On Our Own (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kingdom (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and ...
Style: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: small town life, small town, boss and employee, siblings relations, legal, lawyer, family relations, hotshot lawyer, legal investigation, apprentice, patronizing, workplace ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Linc's (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Linc's is an American comedy-drama based in a bar in Washington D.C.. The series starred Steven Williams, Pam Grier and Golden Brooks, and aired on Showtime for two seasons from 1998 to 2000 before being cancelled. After cancellation, it was ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: black, politics, social relations, workplace situations, boss and employee, society, workplace, caucasian, debate, bartender, government, customer ...
Time: 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa
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A.U.S.A. (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A.U.S.A. is an American sitcom television series that aired in 2003 on NBC, starring Scott Foley.
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot: workplace intrigue, hotshot lawyer, rivalry, lifestyle, relationship vs career, boss and employee, ambition, workplace, legal, friendship, society, prosecutor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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32%
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That Girl (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, semi serious, retro ...
Plot: female protagonist, lifestyle, actor's life, workplace, media, love and romance, workplace situations, couples, power relations, artists and showbiz, performer's life, boss and employee ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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On Our Own (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: On Our Own is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 13, 1994 until April 14, 1995. The series stars Ralph Louis Harris and six real life siblings: Jazz, Jocqui, Jake, Jojo, Jurnee, and Jussie Smollett. The series was created and ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: black, urban, family relations, orphan, fighting the system, society, siblings relations, family life, brother sister relationship, gender disguise, brother brother relationship, car accident ...
Time: 90s
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28%
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HAPPYish (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Thom Payne is a 44 year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25 year-old "wunderkind" boss arrives, saying things like "digital," "social" and "viral." Is he in need of a ...
Style: cynical, realistic, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Plot: midlife crisis, boss and employee, workplace situations, workplace, depression, unfulfillment, self discovery, introspection, couples, happiness, love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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27%
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Fired Up (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Fired Up is a short-lived 1997–1998 situation comedy airing on NBC. It lasted for two seasons and 28 episodes. The series, the first from Grammnet Productions, starred Sharon Lawrence and Leah Remini. The series was about a self-centered ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: business partner, boss and employee, workplace situations, battle of the sexes, partner, love and romance, workplace romance, unlikely partners, relationship vs career, workplace, unemployment, starting over ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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27%
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George Lopez (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: George Lopez is an American sitcom starring comedian George Lopez. The show originally aired on ABC from March 27, 2002, to May 8, 2007.
Style: sitcom, witty, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, factory worker, best friend, factory, stand up comedian, disorder, unsupportive coworkers, promotion, optimism, friends, single parent, society ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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27%
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Super Fun Night (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Junior attorney Kimmie Boubier and her two best friends, Helen-Alice and Marika, have had a standing date every Friday night for the last 13 years. They even have a motto for what they call "Friday Night Fun Night": "Always together! ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lifestyle, friends, best friend, workplace romance, siblings relations, misfit, workplace situations, workplace, family relations, socially awkward, promotion, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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26%
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Leap Year (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: After being laid-off from their corporate day jobs, Aaron, Bryn, Derek, Olivia and Jack compete to get their businesses off the ground when a mystery benefactor promises to invest $500,000 in one of their startups.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot: money raising, workplace, ambition, boss and employee, programmer, computers and web, buddies, power relations, rise to the top, society, rivalry, startup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Bagdad Cafe (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bagdad Cafe is an American television sitcom starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jean Stapleton. The series premiered March 30, 1990 on CBS. The show is based on the 1987 Percy Adlon film Bagdad Cafe.
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: hotel, cafe, desert, women, black, restaurant, best friend, friends, redemption, misfit, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 80s
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25%
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Roc Live (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Roc is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on Fox from August 1991 to May 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimore garbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as his wife Eleanor.
Style: sitcom, hood, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: black, black sitcom, african american, american culture, social issues, working class, society, politics, collector, family life, garbage collector, network ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore, usa
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24%
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Barbershop (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Calvin Palmer is the owner of a barbershop on the Southside of Chicago. Reluctantly inheriting the neighborhood establishment and popular hangout from his father, he juggles his responsibilities to his clients, his family, and his community as a ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: barbershop, workplace, hairdresser, family business, society, misfit, buddies, power relations, family relations, workplace situations, everyday life, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Night Shift (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Three men working at a petrol station in Reykjavik battle boredom, strange visitors and their own customers.
Style: humorous, semi serious, tragicomedy, captivating, light ...
Plot: gas station, workplace, workplace situations, obnoxious boss, boss and employee, loser, misfit, friendship, rivalry, customer, love, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe
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23%
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Stacked (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Stacked is an American television sitcom that premiered on Fox on April 13, 2005. On May 18, 2006, Stacked was canceled, leaving five episodes unaired in the United States. The last episode aired on January 11, 2006. The five unaired episodes have ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: workplace, power relations, workplace situations, family business, physical appearance, boss and employee, misfit, fish out of water, store, siblings relations, bookstore, workplace humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
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Pepper Dennis (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pepper Dennis is a comedy-drama television series
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, sexy ...
Plot: ambition, tv reporter, love and romance, workplace, boss and employee, television, rivalry, friendship, society, writers, journalism, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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23%
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Cristela (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In her sixth year of law school, Cristela is finally on the brink of landing her first big (unpaid) internship at a prestigious law firm. The only problem is that her pursuit of success is more ambitious than her traditional Mexican-American family ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: law firm, intern, american dream, family relations, ambition, culture clash, follow your dream, workplace, working class, eccentric family, lawyer, racism ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Norm Show (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Norm Show is an American television sitcom that ran from 1999 through 2001 on the ABC television network.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, fun
Plot: boss and employee, workplace, friendship, crime and punishment, parole officer, ex athlete, workplace situations, friends, social worker, hockey, power relations, step siblings ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The John Larroquette Show (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom that ran on NBC from September 2, 1993 until October 30, 1996. Created by Don Reo, the show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series ...
Style: sitcom, tragicomedy, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, recovering alcoholic, female police officer, nightshift, friends, dark humor, social misfits, society, friendship, misfit, workplace situations, policewoman ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, missouri
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22%
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Benched (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Nina is a dedicated, career driven corporate attorney who has a very public nervous breakdown after getting passed up for an expected promotion and now finds herself working as a public defender. Her personal and professional worlds are turned ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sitcom, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: workplace, legal, lawyer, workplace situations, life turned upside down, disorder, power relations, courtroom, love and romance, colleague, courtroom drama, female protagonist
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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22%
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Jesse (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Jesse Warner is a 26-year-old single mother juggling between her job, her dreams and her family responsibilities.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot: doctor, single mother, best friend, strong female presence, family relations, friends, supportive coworker, couples, workplace, rivalry, starting over, single parent ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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22%
The Tracy Morgan Show (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Tracy Morgan Show is an American sitcom that aired from December 2, 2003 to March 20, 2004 on NBC. The series stars Tracy Morgan and Tamala Jones. The show was canceled in its first season after 18 episodes.
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: family relations, family life, black, workplace, working class, parents and children, family business, urban, friendship, african american, american culture, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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21%
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Enlightened (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Enlightened follows the story of Amy, a self-destructive executive, who, after a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, tries to get her life back together.
Style: spiritual, sincere, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: self discovery, starting over, workplace situations, coping, midlife crisis, sanity, family relations, ex couple relations, optimism, depression, ex husband, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
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Barney Miller (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore ...
Style: sitcom, retro, detective, intellectual, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, police, law enforcement, police detective, police station, cop, police officer, badass, nypd, partner, creative block, partners against crime ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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21%
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Wings (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
Style: sitcom, witty, humorous, talky, not serious ...
Plot: aviation, workplace, airport, family relations, friendship, siblings relations, sibling relationship, staff, workplace situations, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, team ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, massachusetts
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21%
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Amen (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: black, church, african american, urban, american culture, black sitcom, religion, family relations, religions or cults, workplace, clergy, society ...
Time: 80s
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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21%
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Van As & Sons (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
TV show
Story: Frans Van As does all his life a firm in demolition, but other times does not realize that other rules questions. He must be forced to retire, but sees none of his sons are able to take over the family business. Eventually put French still step ...
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious
Plot: siblings relations, parents and children, disorder, workplace situations, family relations, dysfunctional family, power relations, workplace, brother brother relationship, supportive coworker, favoritism among siblings, boss and employee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgium
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20%
 7.2
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Just Legal (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Just Legal is a television courtroom drama that stars Don Johnson and Jay Baruchel as two courtroom lawyers in Venice, California. The series premiered on The WB on September 19, 2005 and was canceled on October 3, 2005 after only three episodes had ...
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, psychological, serious ...
Plot: lawyer, law firm, boss and employee, workplace, relationship vs career, hotshot lawyer, price of justice, power relations, righting the wronged, prodigy, legal, trial ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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20%
The Wayans Bros. (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Wayans Bros. is a situation comedy that aired from January 1995 to May 1999 on The WB. The series starred real-life brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans. Both brothers were already well-known from the sketch comedy show In Living Color that was ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids
Plot: african american, black, black sitcom, urban, american culture, stoner, family relations, dating, sibling relationship, love and romance, workplace, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Happyland (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Having grown up in a world of manufactured happiness, Lucy, the cynical teenage daughter of a idealistic theme park princess mom, wants to get out and experience something real. When Ian, the new park owner's son, arrives and sweeps her off her ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, workplace situations, workplace, dysfunctional family, love and romance, teenage love, amusement park, high school, family secret, strong female presence, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
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