Movies like The Good Life 2007
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The Good Life (2007)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about a mostly normal young man who makes the most out of fitting in when he obviously doesn't.
Style:
sincere, semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, cult classic, whimsical
Plot:
small town, family problems, fish out of water, small town life, hopes, youth, dysfunctional family, teenage life, society, sport team, working class, introspection, lifestyle, social relations, athlete's life, friendship, brother brother relationship, social problems, family life, relationship problems, city life, urban setting, graduation, mental health, suicide of father ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
nebraska, usa
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Most similar movies to The Good Life
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about youth, teenage life, coming of age, friends, society, friendship and family relations mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Good Life: The Go-Getter (2007), Caterina in the Big City (2003), Country Remedy (2007), Whiteboyz (1999), Rustin (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
Style:
road movie, ironic, melancholic, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, parents and children, love and romance, introspection, human nature, lifestyle, obsessive quest, boy, friendship ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s
Place:
oregon, new orleans, california, new jersey, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an ambient extremely divided politically.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
youth, social differences, fish out of water, friendship, teenage life, politics, lifestyle, human nature, society, hopes, school, city life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In order to secure the position of Head of Pediatrics at a top Chicago hospital, a young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina mountains. Clashing against the ways of ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
clinic, starting over, family relations, doctors and patients, lifestyle, friendship, family life, small town, widower, father son relationship, youth, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and Trevor. He talks Black slang, he dresses Black. He's also ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, hood, cynical ...
Plot:
hip hop, small town, friendship, follow your dream, fish out of water, teenage life, urban, culture clash, gangster, youth, misfit, small town life ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
iowa, chicago, usa
Similarity:
30%
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146
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A small town drama about a man who is forced to confront some uncomfortable issues when his past comes back to haunt him. Billy Stagen is a former professional football player and present-day sheriff in his hometown, the picturesque Rustin, Alabama.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
small town, athlete's life, ambition, social relations, lifestyle, sport team, teenage life, youth, homecoming, ex football player, village life, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama, usa
Similarity:
27%
313
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, family problems, family life, parents and children, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, innocence lost, high school life, girl man relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
27%
1K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A pizza deliveryman develops a bond with a girl nearly half his age.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching
Plot:
youth, love and romance, misfit, introspection, friends, thirtysomething life, high school life, working class, teenage life, small town life, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, introspection, fish out of water, culture clash, teenage life, society, youth, hopes, immigrant, social relations, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place:
usa, vietnam, israel
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, on the run, youth, misfit, society, social misfits, family problems, dysfunctional family, mute or deaf, dealing with death, college dropout ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, friends, youth, homecoming, thanksgiving, college, society, woman, coming of age, small town, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 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, witty, touching ...
Plot:
culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, family life, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
Style:
melancholic, compassionate, mumblecore, clever, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, friendship, bullying, small town, loneliness, existentialism, teenage life, character study, eccentricity, misfit, physical appearance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
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:
witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, society, nothing goes right, misfit, youth, hopes ...
Similarity:
22%
204
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An introverted nerd and a dumb, violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rivalry, cheerleader, high school football, coming of age, school, beach, partner, performer's life, power relations, sport team, friends, social relations ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, teenage life, getting home, society, hopes, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, youth, overnight success, family relations, fall in love, bittersweet ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, follow your dream, ambition, social relations, hopes, youth, boarding school, athlete's life, lifestyle, friends, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
Style:
humorous, tragicomedy, semi serious, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coping, love and romance, misfit, terminal illness, family problems, dishonesty, teenage life, teenage love, social relations, life is a bitch, introvert, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friend, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, underdog, overweight man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style:
sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, self discovery, friendship, eccentricity, depression, flood, female protagonist, aunt niece relationship, grief ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 70s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
On their last night of Thanksgiving break, four old friends, now all college freshmen, realize their small town has more meaning than they ever imagined.
Style:
humorous, teen sex comedy, captivating, light, emotional ...
Plot:
thanksgiving, coming of age, friends, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, small town, homecoming, college student, college freshman, college, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, palo alto california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen comedy
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, society, lifestyle, buddies, youth, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
20%
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, stylized, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage love, dysfunctional family, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, couple relations, best friend, lifestyle, love and romance, babies and infants, coming of age, family problems, teenage life, siblings relations, crumbling marriage ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to moves his wife and their ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot:
racism, family relations, ambition, against the odds, lifestyle, rise to the top, culture clash, social differences, dysfunctional family, racial prejudice, couples, injustice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
connecticut, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, indie film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, loser, high school, teenage life, teenage love, social misfits, lifestyle, society, misfit, adolescence vs adulthood, high school life, teachers and students ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four women, Patti, Emma, Angela, and Nicki are completing their last year of high school. Unfortunately for the group, one of their own, Nicki, unexpectedly commits suicide. The three remaining women, upon finding out that Nicki had been raped ...
Style:
harsh, disturbing, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, women, high school, suicide, coming of age, death of friend, juvenile delinquency, righting the wronged, teenage love, life is a bitch, human nature, family relations ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new jersey, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A rebellious teenage girl wrestles with the true nature of miracles when her father begins to believe in a religious hoax which she has secretly created.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
hoax, teenage life, life turned upside down, self discovery, social relations, overnight success, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, miraculous event, cons and scams, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
genius, mathematics, cheerleader, dysfunctional family, family relations, prodigy, family problems, couples, couple relations, youth, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hal, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route he joins the school debating team, which sends ...
Style:
clever, sincere, teen, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, high school, debate, nothing goes right, teenage love, dysfunctional family, friendship, teenage life, misfit, contests and competitions, teacher, youth ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, hotel, friendship between men, human nature, life is a bitch, misfit, power relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, male nudity ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
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