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Checking Out (2005)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, sincere, parody, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
elderly, family life, family gatherings, lifestyle, siblings relations, family problems, actor's life, homecoming, parents and children, life & death, family relations, love and romance, couples, estrangement, artists and showbiz, golden years, painter, jewish, gorilla, suicide, african american, interracial love, actor, interracial relations, interracial marriage ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family life, couples, eccentric family, family problems and siblings relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Checking Out: The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012), The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008), The Talent Given Us (2004), The Pleasure of His Company (1961), The Cemetery Club (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, strong female presence, suburbs, family relations, unfulfillment, siblings relations, terminal illness, african american protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
One weekend, Aunt Bam's nephew-in-law Stewart is granted a court-ordered visitation with his children. Although his new, much-younger wife Mona is a bundle of nerves, Stewart seizes the opportunity to reconnect with his children, whom he loves ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic, emotional
Plot:
family relations, couples, family life, family problems, disorder, parents and children, strong female presence, dysfunctional family, couple relations, family gatherings, african american protagonist
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two brothers compete in their own private 25-event Olympics.
Style:
semi serious, sincere, realistic, humorous, mumblecore ...
Plot:
rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, farce, contests and competitions, siblings relations, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, family life, family relations, family problems, brother brother relationship, olympics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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 ⇓
82%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed in this black comedy.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, siblings relations, life is a bitch, family problems, betrayal, dark humor, eccentric family, parents and children, family life, estate, terminal illness, last will and testament ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Films like Our Family Wedding
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 ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Just as San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is set to get married, her absentee father arrives, disrupting the household of his ex-wife. Is he there to break up the wedding? Or to steal back his ex-wife? Or is Pogo finally ready to be a ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous
Plot:
dancing, couples, family relations, estrangement, love and romance, human nature, breakup, parents and children, family life, wedding, football player, rancher ...
Time:
60s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, elderly lovers, aging, elderly, love and romance, lifestyle, dealing with death, human nature, cemetery, wedding, female friendship, single parent ...
Time:
50s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, realistic
Plot:
couples, family relations, couple relations, single parent, parents and children, betrayal, friendship, small town, family life, contests and competitions, golden years, human nature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The complex relationship between a wealthy French woman and her best friend a, gay black American, is thrown into turmoil when her estranged daughter comes to visit them with her new husband for the weekend in upstate New York. Through a series of ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, humorous, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
wedding, lifestyle, family relations, homecoming, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, parents and children, unfulfillment, couples, estrangement, family life, gay african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In this Canadian comedy-drama, Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital -- failed writer Eli, neurotic Susan, and successful theatrical producer Edward. An onslaught of ...
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty ...
Plot:
family relations, hospital, couples, family problems, siblings relations, parents and children, looking for love, eccentric family, homecoming, infidelity, dysfunctional family, family in crisis ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
old age, retirement, heart attack, spy, odd couple, friendship, partners, artists and showbiz, elderly, human nature, golden years, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
eccentric family, family gatherings, family life, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, black man, black cast, gangsters, large family, strong female presence, suburbs ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns is an American sitcom created and produced by playwright, director, and producer Tyler Perry. The show revolves around a senior family living under one roof in Decatur, Georgia led by patriarch Mr. Brown and his ...
Style:
sitcom, sentimental, humorous, realistic, not serious
Plot:
family relations, family gatherings, family life, aging, parents and children, elderly, social relations, eccentric family, couples, siblings relations, african american, blaxploitation ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
screenwriter, struggling actor, writers, estrangement, alcohol abuse, midlife crisis, hollywood, family problems, couples, family relations, golden years, single parent ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Movies like Madea's Big Happy Family
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend. Film of the ...
Style:
mumblecore, touching, sincere, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
musician, friendship, love and romance, lifestyle, musician's life, couple relations, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, artists and showbiz, partners, human nature, friends ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fatherhood, baby born, pregnancy, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, friendship, youth, love and romance, buddies, custody ...
Place:
philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
funeral, family relations, midlife crisis, pregnancy, couples, family problems, dark humor, family gatherings, death in the family, siblings relations, eccentric family, suburban life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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:
humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
aging, couple relations, couples, family relations, family life, parents and children, midlife crisis, love and romance, elderly, leaving home, college, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Meet Etta Milford. Loving Wife. Doting Mother. Armed Robber. Etta's husband constantly blows their money on make-shift inventions. When she decides to secretly take "investment" matters into her own hands - things quickly go awry! ...
Style:
uplifting, not serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, couples, couple relations, hidden identity, lifestyle, eccentric family, family life, small town, small town life, parents and children, disorder, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Movies similar to Motherhood
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Members of a dysfunctional family settle their differences after a series of misadventures during their summer reunion
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, nothing goes right, parents and children, siblings relations, eccentric family, disorder, african american, silly humor, family relations, family gatherings, black cast ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
When a family meets for Christmas at their posh Cape Cod estate, family arguments and secrets cause a stir. It takes a real down-to-earth family - like Aunt Bam and the almighty Madea - to save this holiday.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
christmas, family relations, family problems, farce, estate, family gatherings, family life, disorder, unfulfillment, eccentric family, parents and children, master and servant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, self discovery, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, love, bittersweet, highway travel, on the road, road trip, road
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
doctors and patients, elderly, mental illness, golden years, couples, workplace, love and romance, introspection, fall in love, moral dilemma, human nature, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Movies similar to My Six Loves
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
"Drag' reboot of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Baby Jane and Blanche are sisters with a history, Baby Jane in Vaudeville and Blanche in Hollywood pictures.
Style:
parody, psychological, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
gender bending, drag, artists and showbiz, actor's life, family relations, haunted by the past, mental illness, rivalry, aging, siblings relations, female impersonator, woman played by man
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
All his life, African-American Renato has been raised in an Italian-American family. Completely unaware that he is Black, his life is upended when his birth parents materialize, causing Renato to examine what he true heritage is.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, offbeat
Plot:
interracial relations, dark humor, family relations, lifestyle, culture clash, friends, society, african american, adoption, male nudity, gangsters, animal shelter ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Fearlessly funny stand-up comic and sitcom star Donald Glover puts on a live show in New York, confessing his love for Cocoa Puffs and Toys "R" Us.
Style:
sincere, talky, humorous, clever, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
racial issues, social issues, society, actor's life, family relations, racism, family life, parents and children, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, absurd humor, stand up special ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family relations, friends, parents and children, family life, religions or cults, nothing goes right, single parent, love and romance, buddies, unlikely couple, wish come true, eccentric family ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
All hilarity breaks loose in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy when three generations of Fiedlers collide in a crazy family reunion. As they prepare for the biggest Bar Mitzvah on the block, they begin to see that they're much more alike ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, realistic
Plot:
rabbi, social differences, eccentric family, couples, lifestyle, family life, family gatherings, estrangement, parents and children, youth, judaism, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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