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What's Cooking? (2000)
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What's Cooking? (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, Isabel's son has invited her estranged husband to their family dinner. Audrey and Ron Williams want to keep their own family's ruptures secret from Ron's visiting mother. In the Seelig household, Herb and Ruth are unwilling to discuss openly their grown daughter's living with her lover, Carla. Around each table, things come to a head. A gun, an affair, a boyfriend, and a pregnancy precipitate crises forcing each family to find its center.
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, talky, independent film, romantic, feel good ...
Plot: lesbian, dysfunctional family, food, culture clash, cooking, divorce, family bonds, pregnancy, family life, family problems, family gatherings, couple relations, parents and children, love affair, estrangement, thanksgiving, lgbt, family dinner, sibling rivalry, three generations, lgbtq, women of color, multiple storylines, interracial romance, chef ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, ireland
Keyword: americana, jewish, russian, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about family relations, love and romance, couples, parents and children, couple relations, family problems and family life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like What's Cooking?: Home for the Holidays (1995), Playing by Heart (1998), Chutney Popcorn (1999), Treading Water (2001), Saving Face (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Home for the Holidays (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their ...
Style: touching, humorous, intense, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, christmas, holiday, thanksgiving, gay, weekend, family relations, female protagonist, eccentric family, family life, nothing goes right, family conflict ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: baltimore, turkey
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100%
Playing by Heart (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her ...
Style: multicultural, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, woman, sapphic, family relations, lesbian mother, male homosexuality, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Treading Water (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Casey (Angela Redman) has rejected her privileged upbringing and restores old boats for a living. She lives a cozy life with her beautiful social worker girlfriend Alex (super sexy Nina Landey) until her stuffy family demands that she come home for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, eccentric family, culture clash, fish out of water, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, couples, society, addiction, family life, family relations ...
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Saving Face (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Style: touching, sexy, humorous, romantic comedy, intercultural ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lgbtq, sapphic, lesbian sex, gay, gays and lesbians, loneliness, marriage ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: indiana, new york, usa, paris france, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Out at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After telling her fiancé, Dana, that her entire family is dead, Manhattanite Alex whisks off to her childhood home in South Carolina to serve as bridesmaid at her high-maintenance, estranged sister Jeannie's wedding. As she tries not to steal ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, queer cinema
Audience: date night
Plot: lesbian, family relations, fall in love, self discovery, eccentric family, lgbt, couples, society, love and romance, looking for love, singleness, lgbtq ...
Place: new york, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Go Fish (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?
Style: independent film, black and white, sexual, clever, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtq, feminist, sexuality, gender, lgbtqi, sapphic, women of color, advocate, transgender ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: indiana, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family problems, family relations, homecoming, looking for love, family life, estrangement, couples, college, starting over, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Movie in collections
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Fools Rush In (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, touching, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, pregnancy, interracial love, wedding, culture clash, love, love affair, couples, nothing goes right, society, social differences, love story ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: usa, new york, las vegas, nevada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, ...
Style: humorous, intense, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, drug abuse, madea, family problems, family life, addiction, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, looking for love, siblings relations, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Eat with Me (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tired of her bland marriage, Emma moves in with her son Elliot in his downtown LA loft. Elliot is a chef at a lackluster Chinese restaurant facing foreclosure. Also he’s gay – and Emma’s distaste and denial over this has made strangers of ...
Style: melancholic, psychological, humorous, touching, sexy ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, restaurant, chef, food, husband wife relationship, gay couple, gay relationship, family relations, friendship, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 6K
Tiptoes (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 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: love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family life, sex, couple relations, introspection, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A study in culture bridging, including ... a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the "dream" of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related social ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, infidelity, gambling, immigrant, strong female presence, family problems, couples, family relations, gays and lesbians, couple relations, gender, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1989, 1940s
Place: new york, china, asia, usa, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: christmas, winter, family problems, family gatherings, homecoming, parents and children, siblings relations, family in crisis, couple relations, couples, holiday, christmas dinner ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't ...
Style: feel good, touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot: family relations, death, family problems, death in the family, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, life is a bitch, love and romance, dealing with death, terminal illness, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Tortilla Soup (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: food, cooking, eccentricity, secrets, family life, eccentric family, looking for love, parents and children, relationship vs career, women, love, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Reception (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The complex relationship between a wealthy French woman and her best friend a, gay black American, is thrown into turmoil when her estranged daughter comes to visit them with her new husband for the weekend in upstate New York. Through a series of ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot: wedding, family relations, family gatherings, homecoming, parents and children, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, couples, estrangement, family life, unfulfillment, gay african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Perfect Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: lesbian, dysfunctional family, church, family problems, couples, religions or cults, physical appearance, parents and children, society, couple relations, gays and lesbians, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style: sentimental, touching, psychological, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, aunt, grandmother, bike, mental health, coming of age, candy store, brother, bittersweet, family problems, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Something to Talk About (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style: talky, satirical, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, family relations, family problems, women, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, southern belle ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents ...
Style: humorous, realistic, touching, emotional, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: gay, gay couple, marriage, wedding, immigrant, love triangle, sexuality, lgbt, lgbtq, family drama, glbt, generation gap ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, taiwan, asia, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Polish Wedding (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is ...
Style: light, melancholic, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, pregnancy, infidelity, children, parenthood, family life, family bonds, happy ending, family relations, love affair, couples, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: paris france, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Irene in Time (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships.
Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: haunted by the past, looking for love, couples, family relations, couple relations, introspection, strong female presence, sexual content, parents and children, hopes, dating, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Evening Star (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty ...
Style: touching, cult classic, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: death, dysfunctional family, family relations, women, family gatherings, grandparent grandchild relationship, single parent, love and romance, human nature, family problems, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
32%
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and ...
Style: independent film, emotional, touching, black comedy, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, culture clash, dysfunctional family, transgender, hospital, food, blaxploitation, racial issues, wine, american history, transvestism, family relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Love's Kitchen (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, lifestyle, fall in love, starting over, love affair, english countryside, wine, gourmet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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A Girl Thing (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 237 min.
Story: A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to one star per hour. Hour one deals with a woman not capable of having a relationship. Hour Two is ...
Style: psychological, sincere, talky, erotic, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, sexy woman, introspection, family problems, dishonesty, love and romance, mentally unstable, lgbtq, lgbt, lesbian sex, therapist, lesbian relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Darling Companion (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dog, pets, family problems, couple relations, family life, disorder, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, lifestyle, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Standing Still (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A chain reaction of confrontations and romantic encounters occurs when college friends reunite for one's wedding.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot: wedding, college, lesbian, estrangement, couple relations, couples, sexual relations, love and romance, youth, lesbianism, marriage, party ...
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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