Movies like The Guatemalan Handshake
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The Guatemalan Handshake (2006)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mysterious power failure in a small mountain town coincides with the disappearance of one of its most eccentric young residents. Mystery piles upon mystery as his family and friends search for him, fail, and ultimately try to forget about him, an undertaking that results in many unexpected, and in some cases bizarre, effects on the town's already peculiar community.
Style:
stylized, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, mumblecore, offbeat
Plot:
small town, friendship, social relations, friends, missing person, family relations, family life, best friends, nothing goes right, disorder, dark humor, pregnancy, couples, down on your luck, surrealism, small town life, dog, loneliness, camp, swimming, father, chocolate, outcast, electricity, disappearance ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about friendship, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, nothing goes right and parents and children mostly in Comedy, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Guatemalan Handshake: Bastards of Young (2013), Expecting (2013), Motherhood (2009), The Big Ask (2013), Two-Bit Waltz (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot:
pregnancy, infidelity, couples, couple relations, friends, thirtysomething life, best friends, introspection, crumbling marriage, friendship, divorce, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
pregnancy, friends, baby, best friends, friendship, family relations, life turned upside down, woman, father, husband, adoption, weakness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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32%
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
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, psychological, captivating, realistic
Plot:
friendship, desert, moral dilemma, best friends, bittersweet, dark humor, couples, buddies, death of mother, dealing with death, friends, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
concierge, family problems, nothing goes right, family life, homecoming, couples, disorder, society, getting home, friendship, couple relations, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Jennifer's thirtieth birthday party is supposed to be a special day. But what starts out as a day of celebration quickly spirals into a most ill-fated day Jennifer wishes she could forget, in this ensemble comedy set entirely in a kitchen.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, talky, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
birthday, family relations, disorder, nothing goes right, food, dishonesty, siblings relations, friendship, infidelity, restaurant, beer, fight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever
Plot:
friends, friendship, love and romance, partners, odd couple, lifestyle, self discovery, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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, light, spiritual, realistic ...
Plot:
travel, self discovery, bad luck, couples, social relations, small town, missing person, friendship, society, miraculous event, metaphysics, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
253
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:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, family life, youth, parents and children, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, high school life, innocence lost, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies similar to The Single Moms Club
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 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:
love and romance, couples, lifestyle, mentally unstable, midlife crisis, fall in love, unlikely couple, nothing goes right, dark humor, family life, writer's life, monkey ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ritchie is the epitome of everything wrong with modern man: a pompous, foul-mouthed idiot, driven only to get the latest girl of the week Something changes after his first real relationship that includes Ritchie's two favorite things: frequent ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
womanizer, friendship, couples, prostitute, sexual relations, fall in love, disorder, society, sexual content, looking for sex, best friends, transsexual ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, culture clash, friendship, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, nothing goes right, couples, friends, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A camping trip results in some twisted family memories in this off-the-wall black comedy. Hoping for one last family vacation before his children leave the nest, laid-back dad Eric Bury (Frank Harper) takes his brood to a trailer park teeming with ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, erotic, offbeat
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, imaginary kingdom, wish come true, insanity, family vacation, husband wife relationship, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
638
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two 12 year olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings
Style:
stylized, talky, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friends, love, children, young love, divorce, middle class, bittersweet, best friends, crumbling marriage, friendship ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. Gene ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot:
friends, love triangle, social misfits, friendship, rabbit, bicycle, pig, woman slaps man, knife
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. During these ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, mumblecore ...
Plot:
youth, children, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, bittersweet, thirtysomething life, family problems, dark humor, family relations, custody, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Father William Smoortser drops his bible into a toilet at a rest stop just before embarking on a day-long canoe trip, breaking loose all glorious hell.
Style:
humorous, not serious, surreal, captivating, light ...
Plot:
clergy, self discovery, on the road, disorder, nothing goes right, escapades, buddies, society, friendship, priest, religion, lonely ...
Place:
usa
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21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. Aware that his family doesn't think highly of him, he tries to spark a relationship with ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, disturbing, controversial, bleak ...
Plot:
toy store, lifestyle, nothing goes right, love and romance, looking for love, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, disorder, dark humor, parents and children, family life, collector ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Motherhood similar movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, surreal, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
stoners, obsession, losing-it hero, disorder, conspiracy theory, friendship, wedding preparations and rituals, drugs, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, end of the world, profanity
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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, youth, couple relations, actor's life, lifestyle, high school life, teachers and students, surrealism, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, emotional, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rehabilitation, family relations, dealer, lifestyle, drug dealing, disorder, student life, eccentric family, partners, nothing goes right, prodigy, pianist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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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 ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.
Style:
realistic, sincere, captivating, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, funeral, small town, homecoming, introspection, estrangement, social relations, unfulfillment, death of father, student athlete, high school friends, village ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, psychological, talky, touching ...
Plot:
small town, suburbs, existentialism, friends, dark humor, social relations, misfit, clergy, society, dealing with death, human nature, on the road ...
Time:
90s
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot:
couples, lifestyle, best friends, love and romance, singleness, down on your luck, friends, gays and lesbians, actor's life, gender, artists and showbiz, restaurant ...
Time:
21st century
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. But when Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is ...
Style:
stylized, humorous, semi serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
music band, friendship, battle of the sexes, friends, family relations, siblings relations, when the parents are away, coming of age, heat wave, rock band, melancholy, summer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lifestyle, dishonesty, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, social relations, couples, family relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family problems, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friendship, friends, obsession, interracial relations, family life, family relations, social relations, society ...
Time:
60s
Place:
nevada, usa
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