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Divorce American Style (1967)
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Divorce American Style (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Style: funny, retro, romantic comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: divorce, battle of the sexes, marriage, prostitute, couples, satire, suburban life, passionate kiss, hypnotist, divorce lawyer, divorced woman, comedy of manners, legal action, family relations, family life, love and romance, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, society, infidelity, family problems, down on your luck, breakup, suburbs, custody ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: los angeles

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about couples, couple relations, family relations, love and romance, lifestyle, suburbs and husband wife relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Divorce American Style: My New Gun (1992), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972), A New Life (1988), Edie & Pen (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jeff and Mari Thompson have been married for fifteen years. Although their marriage is not perfect, they are seemingly happy in their married and family life. But all their married friends seem to be getting divorced or separated. These newly single ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: divorce, nudity, friendship, couples, marriage, female nudity, sexuality, love, extramarital affair, friends, revolution, family relations ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
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My New Gun (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
Style: independent film, semi serious, offbeat, humorous, witty ...
Plot: satire, hot and sexy, strong female lead, neighbor, infidelity, suburbs, profanity, family problems, dishonesty, unsupportive spouse, suburban life, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Style: humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: unemployment, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, couple relations, down on your luck, unfulfillment, odd couple, family problems, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, brother brother relationship, neighbor ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and ...
Style: sex comedy, colorful, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: midlife crisis, adultery, sleaze, dating, family relations, couples, family problems, restaurant, thirtysomething life, eccentric family, infidelity, love affair ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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A New Life (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, talky, touching, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dating, pregnant woman, blind date, divorce, wall street, ego clash, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, starting over, hopes, battle of the sexes, self discovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
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88%
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Edie & Pen (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: divorce, best friend, couples, friends, thirtysomething life, family relations, screwball, midlife crisis, love triangle, breakup, verbal byplay, down on your luck ...
Time: 90s
Place: reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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She-Devil (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Style: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, revenge, novelist, mistress, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, divorce, women, breakup, embezzlement, extramarital affair, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Mother (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After two failed marriages a science fiction writer decides that coming to terms with his mother will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with her.
Style: talky, humorous, witty, clever, laugh out loud ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, mother, mother son relationship, eccentricity, divorce, brother brother relationship, starting over, sibling rivalry, slice of life, psychology, aspiring writer, novelist ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: san francisco, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Any Wednesday (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More ...
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: farce, couple relations, infidelity, love affair, love triangle, couples, womanizer, love and romance, dishonesty, mistress, screwball, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Cold Turkey (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill ...
Style: parody, realistic, semi serious, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: church, clergy, drug, satire, small town, addiction, silly humor, disorder, social relations, lifestyle, media, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Madhouse (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
Style: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot: uninvited guest, family gatherings, couples, eccentricity, pregnancy, family life, down on your luck, lifestyle, disorder, family problems, siblings relations, childhood ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Scenes from a Mall (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make some startling confessions.
Style: talky, intense, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: infidelity, dysfunctional family, adultery, crumbling marriage, family problems, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, life turned upside down, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, divorce ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Real Life (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
Style: mockumentary, satirical, funny, humorous, witty ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, society, family relations, dark humor, lifestyle, family life, nothing goes right, disorder, fictional reality show, satire, husband wife relationship, showbiz ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
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: technicolor, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot: dancing, love and romance, human nature, family relations, estrangement, couples, breakup, parents and children, family life, wedding, football player, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Daytrippers (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station ...
Style: independent film, hilarious, talky, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, adultery, family relations, infidelity, love, thanksgiving, night, bickering, drunkenness, chance meeting, on the road ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Bringing Down the House (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Straight-laced lawyer, Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) meets and falls in love with online chat friend "Lawyer-Girl", Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), only to discover she's a convicted bank robber. Charlene escapes from jail and comes ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lawyer, friendship, divorce, workaholic, odd couple, farce, interracial romance, couple relations, looking for love, comedy of errors, prison, single parent ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The First Wives Club (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: divorce, revenge, battle of the sexes, friendship, female protagonist, female bonding, feminism, women, dancing, breakup, feminist, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 60s, year 1969
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Fully Realized Humans (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and hilarious portrait of parents and children.
Style: entertaining, humorous, feel good, funny, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, married couple, parenthood, baby shower, pregnancy and birth, relationships, pregnant wife, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, family relations, family life, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Love Thy Neighbor (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Suburbanites Danny and Linda try to overcome their various differences and try to get along after his wife and her husband run off with each other.
Style: realistic, semi serious, offbeat, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, suburbs, bittersweet, family relations, family problems, couples, suburban life, family life, love affair, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Bug (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A small boy squashing an insect sets in motion a series of events, large and small, that include a lost restaurant reservation, a drunken fender-bender, disruption of basic cable television service, and more than one relationship falling apart. One ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: family problems, love and romance, destiny, crumbling marriage, couples, hopes, couple relations, down on your luck, group, dysfunctional marriage, fortune cookie, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Lost in America (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling ...
Style: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: road trip, on the road, self discovery, motor home, fired from the job, marriage, couples, fish out of water, nothing goes right, cross country trip, married couple, promotion ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place: las vegas, arizona, nevada, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Sex Monster (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A neurotic L.A. building contractor (Mike Binder in his best Woody Allen imitation) pushes his wife (Mariel Hemingway) into entering into a three way sexual relationship. Unfortunately for him, his wife gets more out of it than he does and becomes a ...
Style: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: looking for sex, threesome, lesbian sex, lesbian, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, infidelity, love affair, looking for love, love triangle, sexually dissatisfied wife, lesbianism ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his ...
Style: funny, independent film, talky, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, adultery, dysfunctional family, catholic, friends, family relations, couples, love triangle, twentysomething life, eccentric family, love affair, family life ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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How Sweet It Is! (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, all funny, vibrant and charming.
Style: sex comedy, retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: hippie, photographer, lawyer, gay, teenage life, on the road, infidelity, chase, love and romance, couples, disorder, male male relationship ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, france, paris france, new york, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
These Old Broads (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: "These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, actor's life, against the odds, rise and fall, aging, filmmaking, love affair, artists and showbiz, farce, hollywood ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
Style: sex comedy, laugh out loud, retro, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: marketing, suburbs, private detective, family relations, love triangle, neighbor, fish out of water, comedy of errors, suburban life, breakup, cons and scams, family life ...
Time: 60s
Place: bay area, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Love Guide (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A comedy about a woman who saves her chicken farm and her family by agreeing to be the subject of a "reality show" with a celebrity Hollywood weight loss expert. Both women change and discover the true meaning of success (Imdb.com)
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: lifestyle, farm, manipulation, life turned upside down, ambition, family problems, disorder, couples, culture clash, family in crisis, society, family business ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
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, humorous, feel good, witty, realistic ...
Plot: rabbi, social differences, eccentric family, lifestyle, couples, family gatherings, family life, estrangement, parents and children, youth, coming of age, judaism ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: california, usa, new mexico, los angeles
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82%
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Smile (1975)
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, realistic, biting, humorous, satirical ...
Plot: female nudity, choreographer, showbiz, family relations, disorder, social relations, couples, contests and competitions, youth, society, mischievous children, introspection ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
If a Man Answers (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Chantel worries about her new marriage to photographer Eugene failing so she decides to take her mother's advice and manipulate him. First, her mother gives her a book that will solve all her problems about how to treat a husband - namely a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: pregnancy, young lovers, breakup, gender, battle of the sexes, feminism, media, midlife crisis, social differences, infidelity, love, lonely ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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