Movies like Kotch

If you like "Kotch" you are looking for independent film, psychological and sentimental movies about / with aging, christmas, orphan, adoption, teenage pregnancy, senior citizen and old age themes of Comedy and Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Kotch (1971)
 6.6
 2K
Kotch (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose in life. Jack Lemmon's first film as director stars his old friend Walter Matthau.
Style: independent film, psychological, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: aging, christmas, orphan, adoption, teenage pregnancy, senior citizen, old age, retirement home, friendship, pregnancy, friends, hospital, family relations, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, bus, teenage life, babies and infants, elderly lovers, elderly, single parent, human nature, bittersweet ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: palm springs california

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to Kotch

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about couples, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, love and romance, friendship and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Kotch: The Amazing Catfish (2013), All Together (2011), Nobody's Fool (1994), Empty Nest (2008), The Grass Harp (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
The Amazing Catfish (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young Claudia works in a supermarket where she promotes various types of products. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with severe appendicitis and meets Martha, a patient, laying in the bed next to hers.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: aids, friendship, single parent, supportive parent, life is a bitch, parents and children, adoption, family relations, youth, coming of age, children, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 3K
All Together (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Plot: friendship, aging, couples, family relations, elderly, couple relations, parents and children, old age, truth, friends, bittersweet, heart attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.3
 22K
Nobody's Fool (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: small town, father son relationship, redemption, thanksgiving, justice, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, aging, elderly, retirement, family reunited ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, new york state, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 922
Empty Nest (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: aging, couples, couple relations, midlife crisis, family relations, family problems, elderly, parents and children, love and romance, leaving home, college, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Movie in collections
 6.8
 20K
The Grass Harp (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, unrequited love, sister sister relationship, orphan, world war one, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, chambermaid, deep south, family life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.0
 165
To Find a Man (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage pregnancy, friendship, family relations, family problems, boarding school, battles, couples, friends, youth, society, betrayal, love and romance ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.5
 313
Hello Lonesome (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, estrangement, friends, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.6
 5K
Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, family life, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time: year 2009
Place: usa, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Movie in collections
The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, friendship, retirement home, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 2K
Garbo Talks (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da ...
Style: sad, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: brain tumor, grief, tumor, hollywood, aging, last wish, terminal illness, couple relations, obsession, human nature, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
 5K
Dad (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot: father son relationship, aging, family drama, hospital, family bonds, doctor, hopes, parents and children, family life, terminal illness, redemption, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever, touching ...
Plot: filmmaking, screenwriter, writers, struggling actor, estrangement, hollywood, midlife crisis, elderly, writer's life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, elderly lovers ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, powerful ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, aging, mistaken identity, memory, couples, love and romance, writer's life, couple relations, writers, old age, senior citizen, poetry ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.4
 2K
Angie (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This ...
Style: intense, touching, sentimental, entertaining, anamorphic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: pregnancy, self discovery, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, human nature, women, working class, female protagonist, eccentricity, twists and turns, girl ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.6
 626
Cleopatra (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, self discovery, friendship, human nature, on the road, introspection, looking for love, best friend, family business, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, couples, wooing, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Bastards of Young (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot: couples, pregnancy, infidelity, couple relations, best friend, friends, thirtysomething life, introspection, crumbling marriage, adultery, divorce, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Movie in collections
touching movies
11218
pregnancy movies
4308
humorous movies
22119
friends movies
11694
The Cemetery Club (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, elderly lovers, aging, elderly, love and romance, lifestyle, dealing with death, human nature, cemetery, female bonding, wedding, female friendship ...
Time: year 1993, 50s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
 11K
5 Flights Up (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Audience: date night
Plot: real estate, couples, couple relations, elderly, love and romance, society, aging, interracial relations, husband wife relationship, senior citizen, aged person, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.1
 1K
Expecting (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, indie film ...
Plot: friends, baby, best friend, life turned upside down, family relations, friendship, pregnancy, woman, father, husband, adoption, weakness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 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 ⇓
22%
 5.3
 390
Raising Flagg (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: parents and children, single parent, couple relations, betrayal, family relations, couples, friendship, eccentric family, family life, contests and competitions, small town, human nature ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Movie in collections
El Viaje de la Nonna (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!
Style: emotional, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, homecoming, travel, bittersweet, couples, love and romance, elderly, unfulfillment, memory loss, mental illness, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Thing About My Folks (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for ...
Style: talky, touching, sentimental, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, love and romance, husband wife relationship, escapades, food, aging, senior citizen, profanity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Men Don't Leave (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: depression, bittersweet, widow, family relations, crumbling marriage, feminist, age-gap relationship, career, middle school, lottery, starting over, single mother ...
Time: 80s
Place: baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
 1K
Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Dandelions (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot: friendship, best friend, parents and children, family life, friends, couples, couple relations, children, culture, female friendship, school teacher, school ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, parents and children, friendship, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, friends, couples, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie