Movies like Popi
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Popi (1969)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day he notices that Cubans who escape are lionized and given exceptional benefits. He thinks up a plot to have his sons washed ashore as cuban immigrants who will be adopted by rich anglos.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, tragicomedy, retro, offbeat
Plot:
single father, latin, coming of age, father son relationship, gay slur, death of wife, parent child relationship, survival, rescue, family relations, parents and children, adoption, society, immigrants, single parent, hidden identity, chance, cons and scams, urban ghetto, hospital, cemetery, orphan, poverty, boat, slum ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
florida, new york, puerto rico, usa, harlem, cuba
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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, parents and children, love and romance, couples, society, coming of age and dysfunctional family mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Popi: Mind the Gap (2004), The Talent Given Us (2004), American Chai (2001), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), In Memory of My Father (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, lifestyle, human nature, family relations, couples, golden years, city life, introspection, single parent, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
on the road, eccentric family, family relations, elderly, parents and children, cross country, family in crisis, family problems, golden years, estrangement, dysfunctional family, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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, touching, witty, humorous, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, youth, nothing goes right, misfit, society, hopes ...
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86%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Style:
humorous, disturbing, semi serious, sincere, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenager, adolescence, family relations, eccentric family, teenage life, self discovery, single parent, sex aid, social differences, parents and children ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, tokyo, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The youngest son of a legendary Hollywood producer, a Robert Evans type, accepts a bribe from his father to document his death.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
family relations, eccentric family, lifestyle, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, hollywood, brother brother relationship, narcissism, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, corpse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Movies similar to Slums of Beverly Hills
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:
humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
homecoming, hopes, couples, dysfunctional family, family problems, family life, eccentric family, couple relations, family relations, estrangement, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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, light, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, couples, love and romance, city life, siblings relations, friendship, society, dysfunctional family, love, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall) is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and the premature death of ...
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere
Audience:
date night
Plot:
self discovery, disorder, couples, thirtysomething life, dull life, coming of age, life turned upside down, lifestyle, unfulfillment, family relations, unlikely couple, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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808
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:
semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, society, parents and children, fall in love, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Diahann Carroll was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe award for her gripping portrayal as the indomitable Claudine in this heartwarming comedy. While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, sincere
Plot:
african american, single mother, black history, blaxploitation, love, teenage pregnancy, girl, gangsters, city, women, social worker, single parent ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Films like Fatherhood
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When her idolized twin sister Audrey dies in a car accident, Laurel decides to take her place. But, as she eases into the life she has always wanted, she must decide between continuing the lie or revealing herself.
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
twins, mistaken identity, fall in love, hidden identity, self discovery, love and romance, dishonesty, disorder, teenager, coming of age, introvert, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, emotional, humorous ...
Plot:
father son relationship, heart attack, hollywood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, surgeon, flashback, father son estrangement, death of father, doctor, parent child relationship, bittersweet, family problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Minor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garret when Carlton’s mother becomes sick. Once reunited, Carlton struggles to deal with the series of misadventures ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
father son relationship, baseball, road trip, family relations, fiancee, father son reunion, parents and children, on the road, estranged son, dysfunctional family, nothing goes right, disorder ...
Place:
usa, houston texas, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
family life, siblings relations, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, best friends, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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, sentimental, clever, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrants, 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, new york, serbia, europe, belgrade
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Films like Parenthood
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
single parent, racial stereotype, family relations, support group, social differences, parents and children, friends, society, friendship, women, mental illness, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A rotten egg lobbed with spazmo aim at the spotless surface of the silver screen, FROWNLAND centers on social misfit and self-labeled "troll from under the bridge" Keith Sontag (Dore Mann). When he's not trying to sell coupons ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, witty ...
Plot:
friends, buddies, society, misfit, social misfits, love and romance, lifestyle, city life, suburbs, fall in love, insecurity, mental breakdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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, semi serious, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, social relations, americana, social differences, love and romance, save the day, youth, working class, father son relationship, family relations ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Young Claudia works in a supermarket where she promotes various types of products. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with severe appendicitis and meets Martha, a patient, laying in the bed next to hers.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, aids, friendship, single parent, supportive parent, life is a bitch, parents and children, adoption, teenager, youth, children, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
best friends, friendship, family life, lifestyle, couple relations, family relations, friends, couples, disorder, parents and children, mother, strong female presence ...
Place:
usa, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
introspection, eccentric family, family life, estrangement, family problems, single parent, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, dying, terminal illness ...
Place:
usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, stylized, light ...
Plot:
coming of age, parenthood, dysfunctional family, poverty, family relations, child's point of view, parents and children, black people, couple relations, single parent, family problems, school ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, tokyo, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style:
humorous, emotional, captivating, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot:
family business, save the day, family relations, family problems, restaurant, working class, society, estrangement, siblings relations, family in crisis, bank, parents and children ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, suburbs, couples, teen romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family life, parents and children, family problems, prodigy, eccentric family, society, hopes, friends ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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, love and romance, lifestyle, siblings relations, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
library, sexual content, couples, men hatred, disorder, manhood, family relations, city life, fall in love, parents and children, family life, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
At first glance, Mica seems a perfectly normal boy. But first glances can often be deceiving... For one, Mica's house is now a museum honouring Guillermo Garibai, the legendary Mexican crooner. Mica spends most of his time there, giving guided ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, stylized ...
Plot:
first love, love and romance, fall in love, youth, traumatic childhood, family relations, parents and children, high school, coming of age, misfit, self acceptance, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people waiting to dash his dreams. Through it all, Tracy remains irrepressibly upbeat, convinced he's ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, whimsical
Plot:
rise to the top, optimism, follow your dream, humble, society, youth, family relations, hopes, social misfits, teenage love, physical appearance, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worst, learn to like each other as friends
Style:
entertaining, talky, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
friends, gangsters, hip hop culture, hip hop, brotherhood, gang, blaxploitation, subway, police, interracial relations, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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