Movies like Everyday People

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Everyday People (2004)
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Everyday People (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, thought provoking, contemplative, independent film
Plot: restaurant, workplace romance, interracial relations, fighting the system, social differences, workplace, family relations, love and romance, society, working class, social relations, hopes, boss and employee, workplace situations, power relations, cooking and food, urban, fired from the job, interracial romance, racial slur, diner, food, city life, bittersweet, african american ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa

Most similar movies to Everyday People

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about society, family relations, hopes, friendship, friends, working class and workplace mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Everyday People: All Our Desires (2011), Choking Man (2006), Our Song (2000), Chicago Boricua (2004), A Cooler Climate (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All Our Desires (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: injustice, society, legal investigation, legal, courtroom drama, hopes, legal action, life is a bitch, fighting the system, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe
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100%
 5.9
 599
Choking Man (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: immigrant, city life, friendship, self discovery, restaurant, diner, workplace romance, workplace, family relations, social misfits, lonely, urban ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, high school, teenager, asthma, adolescence, against the odds, lifestyle, musician's life, working class, life is a bitch, hopes, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Chicago Boricua (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of young Puerto Ricans in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood grapple with issues of identity: A beauty queen may need to mask her ethnicity; a college student falls for a bad boy; a real estate agent resists exploiting his roots.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, ambition, social differences, fall in love, moral dilemma, unlikely couple, couples, love and romance, society, workplace, boss and employee, city life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 466
The Off Hours (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot: diner, small town, hopes, unfulfillment, bittersweet, dull life, love and romance, introspection, society, fall in love, love affair, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.2
 351
Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.0
 225
Game of Life (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: social differences, couples, rivalry, society, family life, youth, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, interracial relations, lifestyle, football ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Spring Forward (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the seasons change in a Connecticut town, two men of different age and backgrounds who work together outdoors for the local park system, share thoughts and feelings that gradually deepen into a relationship approaching father and son. Paul is ...
Style: realistic, talky, touching, independent film, existential ...
Plot: working class, friendship, gay subtext, partner, odd couple, love and romance, society, hopes, boss and employee, buddies, human nature, starting over ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Life Support (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, hiv, drug abuse, lifestyle, going straight, friendship, drug addict, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, society ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Lulu the Tool (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, political ...
Plot: working class, factory, factory worker, rebellion, fighting the system, rebelliousness, boss and employee, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Entry Level (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, love and romance, hopes, society, workplace situations, workplace romance, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
 3K
Cafe (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When tragedy strikes the community surrounding a cafe in West Philadelphia, the cafe's regulars come to realize how intertwined their lives truly are.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Plot: food, love and romance, friends, workplace situations, friendship, city life, direction and purpose, best friend, strong female presence, pregnant woman, free will, pregnancy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.6
 316
America Brown (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, prodigy, starting over, haunted by the past, society, on the run, rivalry, redemption, hopes, youth, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Eat Sleep Die (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, psychological, crying ...
Plot: working class, immigrant, unemployment, society, workplace, unfulfillment, parents and children, fired from the job, coming of age, lady, supportive coworker, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. 10,000 Black Men Named George, the title, refers to the fact ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: african american, racism, labor union, interracial relations, injustice, fighting the system, ambition, rise to the top, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.8
 100
Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 6.9
 667
The Salesman (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: With an enthralling central performance by Gilbert Sicotte, this masterful debut feature examines the life of the top car salesman in a fading Quebec town as events challenge the 67-year-old’s sense of identity and the meaning of life at the most ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: obsession, aging, working class, bittersweet, retiring, workplace situations, small town, society, elderly, social relations, countryside, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.2
 702
X/Y (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: friends, city life, friendship, understanding, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
 299
Amexicano (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, friendship, social differences, human nature, society, deportation, culture clash, working class, unemployment, interracial friendship, unrequited love, unlikely hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
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Mac (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Niccolo (Mac) Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers and leads their family after their beloved father dies. Their father was a builder and his sons continue in this family trade. At first, they work for Polowski, who does shoddy work and cheats on ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: manly
Plot: working class, family business, ambition, workplace, boss and employee, society, family life, family in crisis, construction, brother brother relationship, gambling, dilemma ...
Time: year 1992, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Sky Is Gray (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Drama - From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the ...
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: racism, african american, blaxploitation, youth, injustice, family relations, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, interracial relations, bittersweet, dignity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Won't Back Down (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Two determined mothers­, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: education, teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, parents and children, teachers and students, youth, society, changing lives, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 716
Girlfriend (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, love and romance, single parent, impossible love, hopes, society, misfit, human spirit, social relations, mother son relationship, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.8
 490
Strike (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIE’S CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: politics, working class, labor union, rebellion, human spirit, ambition, fighting the system, injustice, rivalry, life is a bitch, legal, society ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
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A Family (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: family business, workplace, follow your dream, parents and children, couples, hopes, family problems, couple relations, cooking and food, father daughter relationship, death, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, new york, europe, usa, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Labour of Love (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, introspection, working class, society, couples, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Profoundly Normal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story. Donna Lee Shelby (Kirstie Alley), a mentally retarded girl who lives in Forest Haven, an institution for the developmentally disabled, meets Ricardo Thornton (Delroy Lindo), a fellow resident. When Forest Haven is closed by a ...
Style: serious, emotional, uplifting, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: couples, interracial relations, friendship, fighting the system, idealism, society, human spirit, hopes, family in crisis, coping, family life, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 485
The Tic Code (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, independent film, serious ...
Plot: disability, jazz, youth, music, illness, musician's life, fall in love, hopes, coming of age, love and romance, prodigy, misfit ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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