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Handle with Care (1977)
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Original name: Citizens Band
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Style:
cult classic, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, bleak ...
Plot:
small town, radio, vigilantism, truck driver, bigamy, trucker, love triangle, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, couples, media, social relations, small town life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, revenge, prostitute, neo nazi, father son relationship, sabotage, missing father, bigamist, truck, apocalypse ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, california, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about couples, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, small town and social relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Handle with Care: Gummo (1997), Finding Joy (2013), The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008), 92 in the Shade (1975), Vaayai Moodi Pesavum (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Style:
disturbing, cult classic, experimental, controversial, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
white trash, suburbs, sister sister relationship, youth, sexual abuse, adolescence, unsettling, teenage boy, abuse, violence, animal abuse, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, america
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, wooing, family relations, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, estrangement, unfulfillment, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, homecoming, hopes, family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, estrangement, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, offbeat, atmospheric, humorous
Plot:
drifter, rivalry, fishing, feud, uninhibited rivalry, introspection, human nature, small town life, small town, couples, social relations, violent content ...
Time:
year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
florida, usa, key west florida
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A mysterious illness declared as dumb flu spreads in a quaint hill station forcing the town's residents from speaking. Will the problems in the place increase due to this or will it lead to better communication?
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, offbeat
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, communication problem, fall in love, small town life, family relations, imaginary, couple relations, couples, parents and children, misfit, small town, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Cullen Hoback travels to a private high school where he writes a script about a real couple and the student who comes between them.
Style:
semi serious, surreal, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
love triangle, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, social relations, actor's life, couple relations, lifestyle, youth, teachers and students, high school life, surrealism, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look at his life. Motivated by a misguided obsession with getting Barack Obama elected, John takes an overwhelming involvement in the Presidential ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot:
family relations, couples, society, unfulfillment, couple relations, parents and children, politics, satire, black, campaign, midlife crisis, barack obama ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Set in the 1970's, MIGHTY FINE is the story of Joe Fine (Chazz Palminteri) a charismatic, high-spirited man, who relocates his family--wife Stella (Andie MacDowell), a Holocaust survivor, daughters Nathalie (Jodelle Ferland) and Maddie (Rainey ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, light, heartfelt ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, family life, starting over, parents and children, couples, couple relations, hopes, family drama, father daughter relationship, character study, intimate, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, sitcom
Plot:
rising to stardom, actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, workplace, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, comedian, celebrity culture, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, love and romance, save the day, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, male nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, light, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, love and romance, couples, siblings relations, city life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, wedding, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
36%
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:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
couples, couple relations, parents and children, midlife crisis, elderly, college, artists and showbiz, family relations, leaving home, love and romance, family problems, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
interracial relations, identity crisis, couple relations, audition, moral dilemma, actor's life, parents and children, family reunited, couples, family relations, society, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, pakistan
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments...
Style:
offbeat, independent film, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
witch doctor, wealth, social relations, small town life, social differences, small town, healing power, society, supernatural ability, newlyweds, arrest, court hearing ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
rhode island, usa
Similarity:
32%
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:
game show, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
small town, ambition, contests and competitions, rivalry, family relations, couples, parents and children, elderly, social relations, rags to riches, family secret, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot:
power of love, singer, love triangle, friendship, breakup, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, friends, family relations, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young writer, nearing a mental breakdown caused by his family and boss, moves into an apartment occupied by a walking, talking, foul-mouthed ape in a Hawaiian shirt and Converse High Tops.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, love and romance, couples, lifestyle, mentally unstable, fall in love, unlikely couple, family life, nothing goes right, dark humor, writer's life, ape ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her marriage and marry the best man. And although she is able to ...
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wedding, small town, new year, family relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, small town life, school, car, new year's eve ...
Time:
19th century, year 1997, 1890s, 1920s
Place:
london, tokyo, italy, new jersey
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, parents and children, family in crisis, teenage love, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) is an unemployed graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from Satna college, who is forced to make a living writing letters for the uneducated people of his village. His real ambition is to become a novel writer. Through his ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
politics, dishonesty, ambition, love and romance, hopes, rebelliousness, couple relations, campaign, social relations, couples, small town, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
30%
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, light ...
Plot:
family life, parents and children, family problems, couples, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family relations, marriage, black romance, woman, lifestyle change, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, offbeat
Plot:
nothing goes right, live performance, lifestyle, social differences, farce, love and romance, misfit, opposites attract, couple relations, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, fish out of water ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
29%
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819
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, society, love and romance, parents and children, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
Similarity:
29%
3K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital ...
Style:
dark comedy, biting, realistic, humorous, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, female nudity, showbiz, nude girl, bare breasts, choreographer, social relations, disorder, couples, family relations, youth, introspection ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
28%
687
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Facing eviction from his parent's home on his 30th birthday, a socially awkward guy meets the girl of his dreams and creates his own rules for growing up.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
boy meets girl, opposites attract, fall in love, couples, family relations, workplace, love and romance, race against time, lifestyle, boss and employee, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, southern california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style:
talky, humorous, witty, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, dark humor, couples, family problems, family relations, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ego clash, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, tokyo
Similarity:
27%
313
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, family problems, family life, parents and children, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, innocence lost, high school life, girl man relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young and excentric radio DJ airs a successful program in which diverse calls come in from anonymous listeners, who reveal their love stories, all charged with mix-ups, disputes and passion.
Style:
anthology, contemplative, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, sexual relations, family life, siblings relations, love affair, family reunited, going crazy, suicide of mother ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chile
Similarity:
27%
250
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A soul-searching comedic adventure set among famous red rocks and vortexes of Sedona, Arizona, visitors to the mystical town encounter eccentric characters and a series of calamities that lead them to unexpected miracles.
Style:
humorous, captivating, contemplative, light, spiritual ...
Plot:
travel, self discovery, bad luck, small town, social relations, couples, missing person, miraculous event, society, friendship, truth, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
27%
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