Movies and TV shows like Perfect Strangers 2001

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Perfect Strangers (2001)
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Perfect Strangers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 238 min.
TV show
Story: A darkly comic tale of a young man who comes face to face with his huge family - a variety of eccentrics, all of whom are hiding secrets from their pasts. At a family reunion Raymond is presented with a copy of the family tree and is absolutely amazed by the complexity of his family ties.
Style: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, witty, crying, period drama
Plot: family reunited, family relations, haunted by the past, uncover truth, family life, estrangement, family feud, dishonesty, family gatherings, twists and turns, lgbt, hotel, family secret, love, sex, dancing, world war two, crocodile, escape, food, party, female nudity, businessman, illness, priest ...
Time: contemporary
Place: london, europe
Keyword: bbc, jewish, german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and humorous films and TV series with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, parents and children, family life, family problems, couples and mother daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Perfect Strangers: The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Margot at the Wedding (2007), Honest (2008), Strange Relations (2001), White Heat (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 222 min.
TV show
Story: The Buddha of Suburbia is a 1993 British four-part television serial, directed by Roger Michell. Based on the novel of the same name by Hanif Kureishi, the programme starred Naveen Andrews as the main character, Karim Amir. The programme's ...
Style: controversial, erotic, realistic, semi serious, serious ...
Plot: punk rock, arranged marriage, hippie, racism, sex scene, making love, sex orgy, infidelity, suburbs, satire, immigrant, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
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93%
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Honest (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Honest is a British comedy-drama series that aired on ITV in 2008. The series is a remake of the New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune, written by James Griffin and Rachel Lang, that first aired in 2005. The programme stars Amanda Redman as Lindsay ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Plot: parents and children, family relations, family life, dishonesty, teenage life, going straight, juvenile delinquency, cons and scams, petty criminal, prison sentence, small time, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Strange Relations (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
Style: semi serious, emotional, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: adoption, terminal illness, self discovery, uncover truth, hopes, introspection, family problems, parents and children, working class, dysfunctional family, family life, mother son relationship ...
Place: new york, europe, england, usa, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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White Heat (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A story about a group of seven London-based students from 1965 to the present day.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, saga ...
Plot: drug addict, society, group of friends, love affair, friendship, lifestyle, social relations, love and romance, friends, destiny, ethnic diversity, flatmate ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 90s ...
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The House of Flowers (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The outward perfection of a family-run flower business hides a dark side rife with dysfunctional secrets in this darkly humorous comedy series.
Style: captivating, cynical, emotional, erotic, romantic ...
Plot: sibling rivalry, family relations, dysfunctional family, gay, lgbt, transgender, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, gay couple, twists and turns ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Rich Do Not Ask for Permission (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
TV show
Story: This series narrates the story of the Villalba's ares, owners of a huge estate named Santa Elena, after their mother suspiciously dies. The three siblings will try and figure this mystery out along with the house employees. Greed and pride will ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, captivating, soap opera, telenovela
Plot: family problems, investigation, mysterious villain, eccentric family, siblings relations, relationship problems, secret, family secret, family reunited, uncover truth, murder investigation, family relations ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Delicious (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Gina is a Cornish chef who is suddenly forced to evaluate her closest relationships. A comedic drama series about food, love and infidelity in Cornwall.
Style: captivating, satirical, disturbing, psychological, comedy drama
Plot: food, infidelity, love, ex wife, love triangle, unfaithful husband, ex couple relations, ex husband ex wife relationship, adulterous husband, romantic triangle, adultery, family problems ...
Time: future
Place: cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An Irish funeral has a wake. A Jewish funeral has sitting shiva. A traditional Chinese funeral is something else entirely. Thats what the estranged siblings of the Chinese-American Xiao family must undergo upon news of their mothers death. The one ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot: estrangement, lesbian, self discovery, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, family gatherings, parents and children, family relations, haunted by the past, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Metroland (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris ...
Style: cult classic, sexual, comedy drama, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: male nudity, friendship, male pubic hair, marriage, adultery, sex, bittersweet, coming of age, midlife crisis, drinking, railway, liar ...
Time: year 1997, 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1977
Place: england, paris france, london, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
At Home with the Braithwaites (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright. The storyline follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, greed, wealth, secret, marriage, lifestyle, couples, family problems, youth, couple relations, family life, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Flambards (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
TV show
Story: In the early 1900s in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, period drama
Audience: girls' night
Plot: makeover, world war one, couple relations, love and romance, society, fall in love, estate, uneducated, couples, family relations, countryside, manners ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, melancholic, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, estrangement, eccentric family, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, dealing with death, bookstore, snow ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Six Feet Under (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.  When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as ...
Style: emotional, surreal, captivating, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot: funeral home, gay, dealing with death, gays and lesbians, dark humor, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, depression, hopes, family drama, lgbt, self discovery ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.2
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Anna Karenina (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: To help her brother mend his failing marriage, young Russian beauty Anna Karenina - who's married to eminent nobleman Alexei Karenin - leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow, where she meets the dashing Count Vronsky. They soon fall madly in love, ...
Style: captivating, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: dishonesty, betrayal, tragic hero, infidelity, tragic love, breakup, extramarital affair, couples, family problems, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Another Year (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Style: emotional, touching, meditative, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: midlife crisis, friendship, jealousy, marriage, everyday life, family life, parents and children, suffering, loneliness, character study, desperation, divorce ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, paris france, ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Automatic Hate (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Davis Green's (Joseph Cross) alluring young cousin Alexis (Adelaide Clemens) appears on his doorstep one night, he discovers that a side of his family has been kept secret from him. Against his father’s wishes, Davis travels to rural, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, mumblecore
Plot: sex between cousins, cousins incest, cousin cousin relationship, family secret, overheard conversation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, dark secret, sister sister relationship, female nudity, male protagonist, brother brother conflict, open ending ...
Place: new york state, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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White Teeth (2002)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: An adaptation of Zadie Smith's bestseller concerning the lives of two families from as far back as the 1800s and India to late 1990s Willesden.
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, multicultural
Plot: family relations, interracial relations, generation gap, social differences, parents and children, family life, social decay, culture clash, couples, family problems, society, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: africa, england, london, europe, bangladesh
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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A Place to Call Home (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, ...
Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, society, love and romance, family life, starting over, social differences, forbidden love, family secret, country estate, family relations, nurse, male female relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Life in Squares (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 171 min.
TV show
Story: A story of the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: artist, love triangle, rebelliousness, family relations, couples, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, bohemian, poet, sister sister relationship, family life ...
Time: victorian era, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
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54%
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Crying Ladies (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Three working-class Manila women — Stella, Ailing and Choleng — are hired as paid mourners at a traditional Chinese funeral.
Style: crying
Plot: funeral, nosy neighbor, swindle, women, unfaithfulness, death of father, friend, jail, gambler, dancing, car accident, extramarital affair ...
Place: taiwan, manila philippines
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53%
The Darling Buds of May (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking ...
Style: not serious, realistic, witty, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: english countryside, countryside, girl, post war, summer, family relations, rural area, taxes, lifestyle, fall in love, farm, family life ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Inheritance (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than a spacious apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles – from the apartment’s sale to splitting ...
Style: humorous, realistic, serious, emotional
Plot: lesbian couple, family relations, family gatherings, inheritance, family problems, parents and children, estrangement, death in the family, sister sister relationship, strained relationship, death of mother, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Emma (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 246 min.
TV show
Story: Emma Woodhouse seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit - matchmaking. She cannot resist finding suitors for her friends, most of all Harriet Smith. Emma is desperate for ...
Style: period piece, witty, feel good, costume drama, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids
Plot: marriage, aristocracy, couples, female protagonist, looking for love, love and romance, love, fall in love, friendship, love triangle, naivete, opposites attract ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1800s, georgian era, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
32 Brinkburn Street (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Drama moving between the lives, loves and lies of two generations of the same family who live at 32 Brinkburn Street in 1931 and 2011.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, suspense, sentimental ...
Plot: attic, society, family relations, couples, haunted by the past, family life, parents and children, couple relations, interracial relations, family problems, step siblings, secret ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Being Julia (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style: period piece, stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, loneliness, women, complex characters, actor's life, love, art, adultery, backstage, vengeance ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938
Place: england, europe, london, west end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.5
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The Farewell (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, atmospheric, melancholic, sad ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: lie, masseuse, grief, wedding, female protagonist, terminal illness, women, dialogue, life, grandmother granddaughter relationship, lovers, disability ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: china, usa, new york, manhattan new york city, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Style: emotional, light, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, dancing, siblings relations, parents and children, family life, human nature, sibling relationship, love and romance, life is a bitch, sisters, brother sister relationship, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998, year 1936, 20th century
Place: ireland, africa, europe, england, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Rock & Chips (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: Prequel to Only Fools and Horses, set in the 1960s, Joan Trotter is in an unhappy marriage with the work-shy Reg, with whom she has a teenage son, Derek ("Del Boy"). However, the reappearance in Peckham of bank robber, "art ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot: working class, society, theft, lifestyle, childbirth, bittersweet, promotion, petty criminal, dishonesty, infidelity, pregnancy, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1960, 60s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Avoidance (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Jonathan's life revolves around his nine year-old son Spencer, and he's always deferred the big and small decisions to his partner Claire. So when Claire asks him to leave, Jonathan realises he has no home, no friends and no ambition. ...
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, thrilling, psychological
Plot: mental health, satire, relationships, father son relationship, family life, changing lives, family relations, lifestyle, lifestyle change
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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