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The Right Way (2004)
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The Right Way (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Amy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy meets David it seems they both find what they are looking for. But when Amy gets pregnant, both Amy and David go through a personal and surreal crisis in making choices. Which leads them to decide if they should do it the right way or the wrong way?
Style: touching, realistic, surreal, controversial, independent film, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: materialism, unwanted pregnancy, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, mental illness, couples, society, single parent, drug abuse, male female relationship, surrealism, manic depression, abortion, mother daughter relationship, controversy, drug addict, addiction, drug addiction, suburbs, pregnancy, misfit, family problems, suburban life ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, couples, parents and children, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems and love and romance mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Right Way: Kept and Dreamless (2005), Good Fences (2003), Marine Life (2000), Raising Genius (2004), Palindromes (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kept and Dreamless (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Florence, a young irresponsible mother and her precocious daughter, Eugenia, have an unusual relationship. The roles between the two are reversed. Florence is totally inept at caring for a daughter, whereas Eugenia, only 10 years old, shows maturity ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: drug use, pregnant woman, abortion, dysfunctional family, youth, pregnancy, family relations, precocious child, single parent, child as adult, drug dealer, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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Good Fences (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to moves his wife and their ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: racism, family relations, ambition, against the odds, lifestyle, rise to the top, dysfunctional family, culture clash, social differences, racial prejudice, family problems, injustice ...
Time: 70s
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.3
 160
Marine Life (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, couples, family problems, single parent, love and romance, youth, child as adult, midlife crisis, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 3.9
 468
Raising Genius (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: genius, mathematics, dysfunctional family, family relations, prodigy, couples, family problems, youth, couple relations, lifestyle, society, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Palindromes (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, surreal, controversial ...
Audience: adult, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, child abuse, coming of age, abortion, sexual abuse, runaway teen, sexuality, teenage life, runaway, disability, suicide, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new jersey, kansas, usa, wyoming, india
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86%
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Bark! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A veterinarian is called to examine a woman who thinks she is a dog.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, couples, family problems, family relations, misfit, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, disorder, suburban life, suburbs ...
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The Debut (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot: culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, nightlife, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.9
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Judy Berlin (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dramatic comedy where a the relationship of a teacher and married principal goes much worse than that of their children.
Style: realistic, independent film, semi serious, surreal, thought provoking ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, alzheimer's disease, marriage, solar eclipse, suburbs, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, single parent, human nature ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
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86%
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The Acid House (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot: drug abuse, lsd, surrealism, god, rave, breast feeding, dark humor, transformation, infidelity, murder, family relations, vandalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Perfect Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: lesbian, dysfunctional family, church, family problems, couples, religions or cults, physical appearance, parents and children, society, couple relations, gays and lesbians, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style: humorous, touching, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mother daughter relationship, addiction, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drug, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Details (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, lifestyle, life turned upside down, family problems, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, under the surface, disorder, couples, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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84%
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 ⇓
84%
My Name Is Juani (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual
Plot: lifestyle, follow your dream, friendship, hopes, city life, on the road, friends, tough heroes, couples, society, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Life's a Breeze (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Life's A Breeze tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, family problems, on the road, comedy of errors, life turned upside down, disorder, family life, lifestyle, society, humour, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Duane Hopwood (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style: emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, parents and children, down on your luck, addiction, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Bliss (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, retro, art house, mind bending ...
Plot: advertising, surrealism, marketing, australian aboriginal, dark humor, couples, couple relations, drug dealing, redemption, life is a bitch, prostitute, self discovery ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Intimate Relations (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young merchant marine turns up in an English coastal town looking for a brother he barely knows. When his brother's wife rebukes him he takes up with the Beasley family. However, soon the mother and daughter are chasing and ending up in the ...
Style: erotic, realistic, semi serious, biting, disturbing ...
Plot: age difference, elderly lovers, love and romance, older woman younger man relationship, doomed love, age-gap relationship, dysfunctional family, infidelity, dangerous attraction, obsession, couple relations, orphan ...
Time: year 1996, 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
Style: humorous, satirical, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, farce, dark humor, addiction, satire, nothing goes right, self discovery, disorder, family problems, family life, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, chicago
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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 ⇓
83%
At Home with the Webbers (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: AT HOME WITH THE WEBBERS explores what happens when a typical American family is turned into a hot, new, totally uncensored TV show. Viewers get hooked on the real-life soap, while the Webbers grapple with their unexpected fame.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, humorous
Plot: family relations, obsession, dysfunctional family, couples, estate, actor's life, dealing with death, lifestyle, society, voyeurism, suburban life, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
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83%
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Wild Iris (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: parents and children, dysfunctional family, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, introspection, lifestyle ...
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82%
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style: humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, working class, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, family problems, couples, estrangement, death in the family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Chance (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 'Chance' is a black comedy about how hard it is to find "the one". Mostly told from the point-of-view of a young, sexually aggressive woman, named Chance, whom according to her: "we're all out there looking for true ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couples, wooing, mother daughter relationship, women, relationships, gays and lesbians, love and romance, twentysomething life, singleness, family relations ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Sex & the Single Mom (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jess Gradwell and her teenage daughter boast a superclose relationship. When it comes to sex, however, Mom won't stand for anything less than premarital celibacy. So she gets a pretty healthy dose of her own medicine when she winds up getting ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexual
Plot: pregnancy, single parent, love, moral dilemma, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, society, youth, family problems, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Here and There (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, clever, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, life is a bitch, lifestyle, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
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Snow White and Russian Red (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An aggressive thug has problems with his girlfriend. Over the course of several chaotic days he walks around the hood, takes drugs and confronts himself with other women.
Style: surreal, semi serious, realistic, disturbing, fast ...
Plot: life is a bitch, obsession, drug abuse, social misfits, misfit, addiction, violence, love, drug, fight scenes, nudity, sexual content ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Memories of Me (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: heart attack, father son relationship, hollywood, death of father, flashback, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son estrangement, surgeon, doctor, parent child relationship, bittersweet, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Geraldine's Fortune (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Geraldine Elmhurst Liddle - Deen to her friends - is up against five other contestants for the $2 million jackpot on the game show "Bring Home the Bacon!". News of her upcoming appearance on the show takes her small New Brunswick hometown ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, witty ...
Plot: small town, ambition, family relations, couples, rivalry, contests and competitions, parents and children, social relations, elderly, rags to riches, family secret, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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American Chai (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, teenage life, parents and children, youth, society, friendship, misfit, hopes, nothing goes right ...
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