Movies and TV shows like Micawber

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Micawber (2001)
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Micawber (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
TV show
Story: Micawber is a 2001 ITV comedy drama series starring David Jason. It was written by John Sullivan, based upon the character of Wilkins Micawber from Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, although the storylines were original. Sullivan had originally written an adaptation of Dickens' novel which was rejected by the BBC in favour of the 1999 Adrian Hodges adaptation. It was broadcast in four parts, the first part on Boxing Day 2001 and starred a number of well-known British actors and actresses. Notably, the first episode was scheduled against the BBC's sitcom Only Fools and Horses, also starring Jason and written by Sullivan.
Plot: charles dickens, lawyer, prostitute, children, snake, hunting, striptease, female nudity, circus, orphan, homosexuality, duel, nobility, butler, debt, funeral, infidelity, mouse, child, husband wife relationship, optimism, pub, boarder, trial, court ...
Time: 1840s
Place: london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, captivating and realistic films and TV series with plots about infidelity, family relations, husband wife relationship, female nudity, friendship, couple relations and satire mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Micawber: Breeders (2020), The Darling Buds of May (1991), A Bit of a Do (1989), Metrosexuality (1999), Oliver Twist (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Breeders (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Breeders exposes the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.
Style: funny, humorous, sweet, light, ironic ...
Plot: parenthood, children, husband wife relationship, family relations, parents and children, father, mother, father son relationship, school, parent grown child relationship, family affairs, satire ...
Place: london
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95%
The Darling Buds of May (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking ...
Style: not serious, realistic, witty, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: english countryside, countryside, girl, post war, summer, family relations, rural area, taxes, lifestyle, fall in love, farm, family life ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
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83%
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A Bit of a Do (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A Bit of a Do is a British comedy drama series based on the books by David Nobbs. The show starred David Jason and was aired on ITV in 1989. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television. The show was set in a fictional Yorkshire town. ...
Style: sitcom
Plot: middle class, working class, newlywed, adulterous husband, extramarital affair, divorced man, wedding, class conflict, social satire, new life, ethical dilemma, starting over ...
Place: northern england, yorkshire
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82%
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Metrosexuality (1999)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: Kwame (Clarke), seventeen and straight, who is trying to reconcile his estranged fathers, Max (Beadle Blair) and Jordan (Collins). He must contend with Max's insistence that he is over Jordan, and Jordan's new relationship with former ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, lgbt, masturbation, lesbian, infidelity, drug dealing, young love, interracial couple, gay marriage ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Oliver Twist (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.
Style: period drama
Plot: charles dickens, child, children
Time: 1830s
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74%
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Trust (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a busy corporate law firm, Cooper-Fozard in the City of London, Stephen Bradley and his team work fast and furiously to put together mergers, takeovers and buyouts for a range of clients. But it's never as clear and clinical as that. When ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, satirical, thrilling, psychological
Plot: lawyer, law firm, partner, job, workplace situations, workplace, advocate, teamwork, satire, coworker, male female relationship, investigation
Place: london
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67%
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Mei's Butler (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The story revolves around a young woman named Mei, who was rescued as a young girl by someone calling himself her "butler." With only a vague memory, though, the experience seems like just a dream. But one day, after her parents' ...
Style: touching, captivating, humorous, dorama
Plot: butler, unrequited love, boarding school, orphan, family secret, love triangle, rivalry, friendship, loneliness, duel, childhood friend, competition ...
Place: japan
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62%
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Delicious (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Gina is a Cornish chef who is suddenly forced to evaluate her closest relationships. A comedic drama series about food, love and infidelity in Cornwall.
Style: captivating, satirical, disturbing, psychological, comedy drama
Plot: food, infidelity, love, ex wife, love triangle, unfaithful husband, ex couple relations, ex husband ex wife relationship, adulterous husband, romantic triangle, adultery, family problems ...
Time: future
Place: cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 222 min.
TV show
Story: The Buddha of Suburbia is a 1993 British four-part television serial, directed by Roger Michell. Based on the novel of the same name by Hanif Kureishi, the programme starred Naveen Andrews as the main character, Karim Amir. The programme's ...
Style: controversial, erotic, realistic, semi serious, serious ...
Plot: punk rock, arranged marriage, hippie, racism, sex scene, making love, sex orgy, infidelity, suburbs, satire, immigrant, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
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60%
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Cheaters (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story: A chance meeting after a cancelled flight leads to an unlikely night of drunken airport-hotel sex between two strangers in their late twenties, Fola and Josh. Both are already in relationships and unknowingly soon to be neighbours.
Style: semi serious, captivating, sex comedy, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot: sexual relations, oral sex, horny wife, unfaithful wife, relationships, one night stand, sex scene, cheating wife, male female relationship, neighbor, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
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59%
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Rock & Chips (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: Prequel to Only Fools and Horses, set in the 1960s, Joan Trotter is in an unhappy marriage with the work-shy Reg, with whom she has a teenage son, Derek ("Del Boy"). However, the reappearance in Peckham of bank robber, "art ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot: working class, society, theft, lifestyle, childbirth, bittersweet, promotion, petty criminal, dishonesty, infidelity, pregnancy, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1960, 60s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
TV show
Story: In her filthy cell in Newgate prison Moll Flanders, dubbed 'the wickedest woman in England' tells her story. Born in the gaol, after her mother is transported Moll is raised by the kindly mayor of Colchester and his wife, whose two sons ...
Style: costume drama, touching, historical romance, historical drama, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, rise to the top, betrayal, civil rights, feminist, time machine, human rights, woman, 007, orphan, society, prostitute ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 17th century
Place: london, england
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55%
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Grafters (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Grafters was a British drama–comedy programme originally broadcast in the UK on ITV from 27 October 1998 to 20 December 1999 for 16 episodes over two series. Grafters was based around the Purvis brothers Joe and Trevor, who along with their ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: construction worker, brother, couples, blue collar, sibling relationship, cousin, working class, couple relations, workplace, unfulfillment, siblings relations, workplace situations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, london, europe
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54%
Spanish Shame (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: Is a show about a wedding photographer, JesĂşs, who in fact wants to be an "artistic photographer", and his complicated relationship with his girlfriend Nuria. In his efforts to devote himself to art and to keep afloat his family and ...
Style: ironic, feel good, humorous, light, entertaining
Plot: family relations, husband wife relationship, surrealism, love, adultery, working class, misfit, urban setting, friendship, infidelity, unfaithfulness, shame ...
Place: madrid
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53%
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Life of Riley (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Life of Riley is a British comedy television series, shown on BBC One and BBC HD. The show stars Caroline Quentin and Neil Dudgeon, who are recently married, and is set around their dysfunctional family. The show also features the couple's four ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, funny ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, family life, family problems, couples, couple relations, husband wife relationship, marriage, children, baby, newlyweds ...
Time: 21st century
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51%
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Rake (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Rake is an Australian television series, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC1 in 2010. It stars Richard Roxburgh as rake Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: lawyer, trial, rivalry, career, against the rules, deal, courtroom, judge, dedicated lawyer, middle aged, law, criminal lawyer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Perfect Strangers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 238 min.
TV show
Story: A darkly comic tale of a young man who comes face to face with his huge family - a variety of eccentrics, all of whom are hiding secrets from their pasts. At a family reunion Raymond is presented with a copy of the family tree and is absolutely ...
Style: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, witty ...
Plot: family reunited, family relations, uncover truth, haunted by the past, dishonesty, estrangement, family feud, family life, family gatherings, twists and turns, lgbt, hotel ...
Place: london, europe
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47%
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Sweet Life (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A single mother from Perm, by the will of fate, finds herself in the capital of Russia, where she makes significant changes to the well-established life of six successful 30-year-old Muscovites.
Style: funny, light, inspirational, captivating, uplifting
Plot: infidelity, couple relations, love, sex scene, casual sex, cheating wife, roommate, female nudity, relationships, seduction, extramarital affair, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Everything Will Be Fine (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: A separated couple live together for their child's sake in this satirical dramedy about what it means to be a good parent and spouse in today's world.
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, disturbing, satirical ...
Audience: kids
Plot: marital problem, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, divorced parents, family relations, parents separation, husband wife relationship, marital crisis, lifestyle, satire, parent child relationship, family problems ...
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43%
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 229 min.
TV show
Story: Three part miniseries about Gerald Middleton, an aging historian, who reflects on his youth, relationships (especially the one with his best friend's girl), career (shadowed by a scandal), and current issues, like his marriage and kids.
Plot: 007, infidelity, excavation, introspection, husband wife relationship, historian, scandal, professor, female nudity, topless
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42%
Great Expectations (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mini-series based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Style: period drama
Plot: charles dickens, victorian england, rags to riches, orphan, benefactor
Time: 19th century
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42%
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Prospects (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Prospects is a British television comedy drama series that was written by Alan Janes and originally shown on Channel 4 in 1986. Created by Euston Films who had a pedigree of producing successful, gritty drama such as The Sweeney and Minder, it ...
Plot: british, interracial friendship, unemployment, friendship, working class, interracial relations, black british
Place: london, east end london
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40%
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Teachers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Teachers is a British television comedy-drama series, created by Tim Loane and originally shown on Channel 4. The series follows a group of secondary school teachers in their daily lives. While the first series centers heavily around probationary ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sitcom, soap opera ...
Plot: high school, high school life, infidelity, workplace situations, teachers and students, workplace intrigue, lifestyle, power relations, thirtysomething life, couples, unsupportive coworkers, workplace ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Infieles (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Erotic comedy series about infidelity in couples and the different situations that lead people to commit it. The episodes use as reasons, among others, serious sexual disagreement, simple use of a favorable moment without thinking about the ...
Style: sex comedy, anthology, erotic
Plot: infidelity, extramarital affair, sex life, seductive woman, one night stand, deception, outdoor sex, sexually frustrated woman, older woman younger man sex, bare breasts, cheating girlfriend, female nudity ...
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39%
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Mutual Friends (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Martin's comfortable world is upturned by his friend's mid-life crises, beginning with his best friend's suicide, and the secret affair he had with Martin's wife.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: friends, friendship, couple relations, couples, infidelity, midlife crisis, dealing with death, buddies, old friend, suicide
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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38%
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive ...
Style: costume drama, atmospheric, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: charles dickens, poverty, victorian england, orphan, aunt, kite, child's point of view, children, blackmail, betrayal, society, guardian ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, future, 1840s
Place: england, europe, dover england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
At Home with the Braithwaites (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright. The storyline follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, greed, wealth, secret, marriage, lifestyle, couples, family problems, youth, couple relations, family life, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Love, Nina (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North London in 1982, to care for the two young boys of a working single mother, George, the editor of a London literary review.
Style: ironic, light, humorous, sincere
Plot: nanny, single mother, family relations, eccentric family, female protagonist, follow your dream, mischievous children, neighbor neighbor relationship, aspiration, bohemian, literary agent, autobiography ...
Time: 80s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Kotaro Lives Alone (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Shin Karino is an unpopular manga writer and he is single. He lives in an apartment complex that has a rule forbidding children from living there. One day, Shin Karino's doorbell rings. When he opens his apartment door, he sees a small boy. The ...
Style: captivating, psychological, semi serious, satirical, disturbing
Audience: family outing
Plot: life, parents, child, neighbor, adult child friendship, child custody, satire, neighbor neighbor relationship, care, father, children, mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Everything Now (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After months in recovery for an eating disorder, 16-year-old Mia devises a bucket list of quintessential teen experiences to make up for lost time.
Audience: teen drama
Plot: anorexia, female protagonist, friend, childhood, friendship, teenage girl, mental illness, sapphic, bucket list, lgbt, eating disorder, coming of age ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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