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Strange Relations (2001)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
Style:
touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, realistic, crying
Plot:
adoption, terminal illness, self discovery, uncover truth, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, dysfunctional family, family problems, working class, introspection, hopes, transplant, secret, dying, leukemia, family relations, life is a bitch, single parent, child illness, family in crisis, siblings relations, eccentric family, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
new york, england, usa, europe, liverpool, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, drinking alcohol, drinking, dysfunctional family and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Strange Relations: The Medicine Show (2001), Two Weeks (2006), Birds of America (2008), The Thing About My Folks (2005), Running with Scissors (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
hospital, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, terminal illness, against the odds, life is a bitch, workplace, introspection, fall in love, family problems, dark humor ...
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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, humorous, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2006
Place:
usa, north carolina
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style:
cult classic, stylized, disturbing, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, mental illness, gay interest, dysfunctional family, therapist, mental disorder, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, lesbian, marital problem, drinking problem ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2006
Place:
new york, seattle, massachusetts, california, new jersey
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A middle-aged London factory worker is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone's secrets are exposed.
Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, dark comedy, sincere ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, birth mother, adoption, great ending, family secret, bittersweet, working class, loneliness, black, women, foster child, child care ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, intense, surreal, dark comedy, humorous ...
Plot:
cemetery, dysfunctional family, disability, vengeance, children, moral ambiguity, segregation, british, justice, existentialism, siblings relations, brutality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, ireland, australia ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
father son relationship, heart attack, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, flashback, surgeon, death of father, father son estrangement, doctor, hollywood, parent child relationship, bittersweet, estrangement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, emotional, humorous, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, best friend, happy ending, single father, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 60s, year 1967
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, boston
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style:
emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
family business, save the day, family relations, working class, family problems, restaurant, society, siblings relations, family in crisis, bank, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex, love, fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, siblings relations, family life, couple relations, introspection, youth, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, addiction, parents and children, down on your luck, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, black comedy, independent film ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, cheerleader, childhood, character study, redemption, family relations, nursing, parents and children, siblings relations, sibling relationship ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
san diego california, los angeles, miami
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, michigan, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, psychological, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, love and romance, save the day, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, male nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family's most intimate secrets.
Style:
realistic, talky, humorous, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, eccentric family, family feud, family gatherings, writer's life, dark humor, artists and showbiz, sexual dysfunction, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, intense, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
lesbian, self discovery, family problems, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, family relations, haunted by the past, family life, parents and children, female martial artist, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
pittsburgh, pakistan, los angeles, new york, arizona ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, painting, small town, art, artist, culture clash, eccentricity, cheerleader, painter, newlyweds, jealousy ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
immigration, american dream, family relations, friendship, friends, family problems, estrangement, unemployment, parents and children, death in the family, rich and poor, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
former yugoslavia, montenegro, new york, serbia, europe ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, friendship, teenage life, social differences, parents and children, family relations, social misfits, love and romance, lifestyle, single parent, society ...
Time:
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Place:
london, europe, england, paris france
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When an uncle is charged with murder, the event reverberates throughout a poor Arkansas family, including a struggling musician and his wife, her mother, her sister, and his father.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, independent film, humorous ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, homecoming, sister sister relationship, jealousy, insecurity, car accident, argument, love, dream, trial, flirting, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, southern usa, nashville tennessee, switzerland, california ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
coming of age, oral sex, american football, high school student, masturbation, friendship, lifestyle, teenage life, eccentric family, youth, obsession, social misfits ...
Place:
texas, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style:
touching, melancholic, black comedy, independent film, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, dysfunctional family, cancer, funeral, mother daughter relationship, family secret, family in crisis, incestuous relationship, family drama, suicide of father, pills, addiction ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, peru, oklahoma city, southern usa, midwest ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, inspirational, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
39%
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