Movies like The Dressmaker

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The Dressmaker (2015)
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The Dressmaker (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Style: romantic, period piece, melancholic, satirical, colorful, enigmatic, feel good, costume drama, social, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fashion, bullying, women, dressmaker, small town, mother daughter relationship, seamstress, memory, accidental death, illegitimate daughter, murder mystery, femme fatale, false accusation of murder, getting home, lie, exile, femininity, betrayal, brutality, strong female lead, justice, redemption, prejudice, love story, life philosophy ...
Time: 1950s, 1900s, year 1951, 50s
Place: australia, oceania, italy, new york, france, london, milan italy ...
Keyword: melbourne australia, doctors, movie theatre, australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, realistic, touching and semi serious films with plots about husband wife relationship, drinking, drink, mother daughter relationship, love, family relations and dancing mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Dressmaker: Mr. Church (2016), Muriel's Wedding (1994), August: Osage County (2013), To Return (2006), The Devil Wears Prada (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mr. Church (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style: sad, compassionate, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: african american, friendship, cooking, childhood, life, cancer, food, relationships, family bonds, loneliness, idealism, love story ...
Time: 70s, year 1986, year 1980, year 1971, year 1977 ...
Place: usa, boston, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Muriel's Wedding (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Muriel’s Wedding is P.J. Hogan’s film debut. A humorous emancipation story of an unemployed woman who evolves from a dreamer into a self sustaining successful woman. An amusing comedy that’s funny, silly, angry and serious.
Style: light, funny, humorous, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: wedding, friendship, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, dignity, women, small town, coming of age, leaving home, parenthood, happy ending, honest ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: australia, sydney australia, bali, ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
August: Osage County (2013)
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, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, suicide, cancer, family secret, mother daughter relationship, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 107K
To Return (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their ...
Style: black comedy, emotional, dark comedy, touching, hispanic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: secret, death, ghost, rape, child abuse, lust, twists and turns, family secret, dark secret, superstition, adultery, women ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss however is extremely demanding and cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: fashion, fashion industry, women, journalism, city life, strong female character, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, journalist, career woman, designer, relationship vs career ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, France, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
Style: satirical, semi serious, disturbing, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: fashion, haute couture, widow, cleaning lady, fashion model, fashion show, fashion designer, dream, bigger dreams, female protagonist, culture, dreaming ...
Time: 20th century, year 1957, 1950s
Place: paris france, london, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Antonia's Line (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around ...
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, independent film, art house ...
Plot: village life, strong female character, village, lesbian, philosophy, friendship, women, magic realism, free love, mathematics, generation gap, widow ...
Time: post world war two
Place: germany, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Intern (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Style: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot: workplace, mentor, friendship, elderly, office, life philosophy, unlikely friendships, prejudice, fashion, workplace situations, intern, internet ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, san francisco, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.9
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Calendar Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot: charity, small town, female nudity, women, leukemia, female empowerment, elderly, life philosophy, model, human spirit, friendship, family drama ...
Time: 90s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Man Called Ove (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she ...
Style: touching, ironic, emotional, feel good, scenic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: unlikely friendships, suicide attempt, love, aging, swedish, mentor, life & death, pregnant woman, cancer, friendship, destiny, adaptation ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place: spain, scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Just Before I Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for ...
Style: emotional, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: suicide attempt, gay, loneliness, midlife crisis, closeted homosexual, suicide, relationships, guilt, brutality, family relations, redemption, justice ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: New Zealand, UK, Canada, Australia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A domineering, magnetic rancher responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son, until the unexpected comes to pass.
Style: psychological, mindfuck, costume drama, serious, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: cowboy, mother son relationship, homosexuality, male full rear nudity, power relations, male nudity, brother brother relationship, animal cruelty, homosexual subtext, gay, brothers, alcoholic ...
Time: 2020s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: australia, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.1
 133K
Carnage (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Poland, Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After 11-year-old Zachary Cowan strikes his classmate across the face with a stick after an argument, the victim's parents invite Zachary's parents to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the incident in a civilized manner.
Style: talky, dark comedy, ironic, black comedy, minimal cast ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: marriage, psychology, dialogue, dark humor, family drama, bully, satire, parenthood, family relations, family problems, husband wife relationship, lawyer ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style: romantic, touching, offbeat, depressing, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, bipolar disorder, love, family drama, depression, life philosophy, adaptation, supportive parent, male female friendship, father son relationship, happy ending, social misfits ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, peru, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
 5K
Freak Show (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.
Style: social, touching, artsy, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lgbt, high school, gay, gay teenager, lgbt teen, lgbtq, lgbtqi, self acceptance, cheerleader, american football, friendship, teenager ...
Time: 2000s, 60s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.6
 6K
Damsel (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, absurd ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, alcohol abuse, love, marriage proposal, murder, husband wife relationship, native american, pursuit, chase, money, friendship, old west ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style: surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transvestism, transgender, gay slur, gay, transsexual, gender, adoption, coming of age, gender bending, lgbt, priest, ira ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place: ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Farewell (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, atmospheric, melancholic, sad ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: lie, masseuse, grief, wedding, female protagonist, terminal illness, women, dialogue, life, grandmother granddaughter relationship, lovers, disability ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: china, usa, new york, manhattan new york city, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.3
 26K
Lucky (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Style: psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, sad, captivating ...
Plot: loneliness, philosophy, elderly, aging, old age, father son relationship, small town, ex marine, doctor, friendship, guilt, secret ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 60s, year 1968 ...
Place: europe, kentucky, the philippines, okinawa japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.3
 138K
An Education (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style: realistic, period piece, costume drama, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lolita, self discovery, teenage girl, betrayal, virginity, teenage life, older man young girl relationship, culture ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 1900s, year 1961, 60s
Place: london, france, oxford university, paris france, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Introducing the Dwights (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: single parent, disability, family relations, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, divorced parents, sexual relations, siblings relations, mentally challenged, misfit ...
Time: year 2007
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 7.1
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High Tide (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, biting, touching ...
Plot: woman, women, youth, surfing, ocean, car trouble, life is a bitch, redemption, social misfits, unfulfillment, family relations, social relations ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.0
 26K
Mansfield Park (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich ...
Style: period piece, witty, costume drama, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, country estate, estate, couple relations, women, love, love and romance, love story, slavery, literary, love triangle, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.8
 168K
Adventureland (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style: romantic, independent film, funny, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, summer job, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, friendship, youth, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, misfit, young adult ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, new york, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.9
 54K
Hesher (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Style: bleak, realistic, independent film, serious, touching ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, grief, antisocial behavior, loner, depression, arson, life is a bitch, trauma, family problems, family drama, rebelliousness, coming of age ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 5K
Sweetie (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Explores sisters, in their twenties, their parents, and family dysfunctions. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a mole on his face and a lock of hair; then, falling out of ...
Style: cult classic, dark comedy, surreal, psychological, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, feminist, mental illness, male nudity, sisters, women, obsession, treehouse, woman peeing, siblings, feminism, voyeurism ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
Style: independent film, period piece, historical drama, romantic, uplifting ...
Plot: writers, feminist, ranch, farm, coming of age, biopic, women, woman, female writer, poet, woman power, summer ...
Time: year 1979, victorian era, 20th century, 70s, turn of the century ...
Place: australia, jerusalem, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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