Movies like My Mother Frank

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My Mother Frank (2000)
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My Mother Frank (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, independent film, emotional
Plot: family relations, love, boredom, college, fall in love, self discovery, youth, parents and children, society, college life, against the odds, adolescence vs adulthood, overprotective parent, teachers and students, power relations, mother love, love triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, overprotective mother, student, friendship, widow, kids and family, mother and son, humour ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, family relations, fall in love, parents and children, couples, youth and love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like My Mother Frank: The Buddy System (1984), Looking for Alibrandi (2000), The Young Kieslowski (2014), Nanban (2012), The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Buddy System (1984)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: youth, parents and children, infidelity, love and romance, couples, single parent, family relations, self discovery, buddies, school, friendship, friends ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film "Looking for Alibrandi" begins light-heartedly, and the viewer gets a very quick understanding of Josie's character through her interactions with her friends and family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, teenage love, high school, love triangle, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, parents and children, fish out of water, teenage life, suicide ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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 ⇓
83%
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, school, friendship, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, best friend, sex, family relations, looking for sex, fall in love, teenage love, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: chicago, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 7.8
 17K
Nanban (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story: The plot of the film illustrates the embankment of two friends on a quest for a lost buddy, who was once an optimistic and successful student. On their journey, they recount their college life and special moments that the three shared up until their ...
Style: humorous, touching, sincere, captivating, light ...
Plot: friendship, college, student, college life, teachers and students, coming of age, old friend, fall in love, buddies, free spirited, professor, education ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, couples, wooing, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A wedding planner looks to persuade her mother not to marry a man she's only known for a brief period of time, until an unexpected development forces her to re-examine her feelings.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, wedding, event planner, couples, family relations, fall in love, parents and children, christmas romance, ritual, party, love, winter ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Two best friends being convinced that they are not in love search for each other's love.
Style: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: friendship, true love, best friend, college graduate, womanizer, looking for love, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, love triangle, young lovers, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
American Desi (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is a fun-loving romantic comedy reminiscent of the great teen films of the 80's.From Kris, an All-American boy from India, to Ajay, an Afro-Centric Hindu homeboy, to Farah, a devoutly religious but modern Muslim girl, 'American ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sex comedy, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, friendship, tradition, roommate, love and romance, youth, buddies, society, college life, culture, college, performer's life ...
Place: new jersey, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Other Sister (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
Style: touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, compassionate ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mentally challenged, wedding, women, disability, family relations, justice, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, parents and children, fall in love, mental retardation, looking for love ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.5
 1K
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 ⇓
50%
 8.2
 10K
Bommarillu (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Siddu is the son of an over-protective business man. Every decision of his is made by his father, which leads him into frustration. He half-heartedly agrees to become engaged to a rich man's daughter, but then falls for a middle-class ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Plot: overprotective parent, adulthood, family disapproval, father son relationship, respect, maturity, family relations, self fulfillment, self discovery, fall in love, parents and children, identity crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Love and Debate (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfriends, to ethnicity, to religion, to sexual assault.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot: roommate, love affair, rivalry, college life, coming of age, ambition, family relations, rehabilitation, youth, debate, education, parent child relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Too Young to Marry (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lovers reunited, hopes, fall in love, love and romance, interracial relations, couples, wish come true, college life, unfulfilled love, coming of age, youth, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Circle of Friends (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style: period piece, emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, college, small town, love, pregnancy, class differences, college life, adaptation, love affair, lust, breakup ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.0
 127
The Blue Diner (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A film about food, memory, language and caskets, BLUE DINER tells the story of a Puerto Rican mother and her daughter who struggle to explain how the daughter mysteriously loses her ability to speak Spanish, her first language.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, starting over, self discovery, estrangement, hopes, forbidden love, social decay, relationship vs career, betrayal, society, parents and children, pregnancy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Krishna Vrinda Vihari (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Krishna falls for Vrinda and tells a white lie at home to ensure they’re married. But what happens when it leads to unnecessary misunderstandings?
Style: funny, entertaining, captivating, exciting, humorous ...
Plot: love, family relations, parents, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, couples, girl
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.0
 2K
Love Birds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Love Birds is a hilarious charming romantic comedy that tells the story of a regular Kiwi bloke who finds himself on a quest to find true love – all with the help of a native New Zealand Shelduck. Comedian Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, The ...
Style: humorous, feel good, uplifting, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: self discovery, fall in love, looking for love, family relations, journey, friendship, society, rock, love and romance, bird
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.7
 10K
The Classic (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Shy Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, forbidden love, social differences, love affair, young lovers, society, youth, family relations, parents and children, diary, love ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
40%
 6.2
 2K
Bootmen (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sean Odkin loves to dance much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love Sean goes in search of the only thing that can make him whole again and that is dancing.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, brother brother relationship, dance, tap dance, family relations, father son relationship, artists and showbiz, ambition, dancer's life, love and romance, follow your dream, against the odds ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Swindler in My Mom's House (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An attractive single mother rents a room in her house to a mysterious drifter who has nefarious plans to swindle her.
Style: sentimental, humorous, captivating, funny, romantic ...
Plot: love and romance, cons and scams, single parent, family relations, social relations, couples, village life, dishonesty, mother, escapades, fall in love, con trick ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Mischievous Kiss the Movie Part 1: High School (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on a popular manga series of the same name, this Japanese romantic comedy follows the lives of two high school students, Kotoko, a bubbly girl who’s hopeless in school, and Naoki, her smart and handsome senior. Although Kotoko gathers up the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, light, humorous, touching ...
Plot: unrequited love, first love, opposites attract, love and romance, school, unfulfilled love, teenage love, unlikely couple, fall in love, high school, teenage life, grownups ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Everything You Want (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It was at a very young age that Abby found herself experimenting with the gift of art while she practically...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, rom com
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: imaginary friend, love, lifestyle, love triangle, fall in love, love and romance, youth, unlikely couple, opposites attract, prodigy, couples, wooing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.8
 697
I Do...Knot (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sebastian is very lucky with women, going to parties and getting drunk every night. His mother asks him to change his way of life but he refuses to stop partying and meeting new women. One day, after one night of serious partying he wakes up with a ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: couples, fall in love, womanizer, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, wedding, love story, singleness, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 1K
Puppy Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She ...
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, parents and children, fall in love, family relations, single parent, pets, hopes, friendship, couples, animal, holiday, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.5
 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 ⇓
38%
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