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Necessary Roughness (2011)
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Necessary Roughness (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Necessary Roughness is a USA Network television series starring Callie Thorne and Scott Cohen. The one-hour drama series was picked up for 12 episodes on January 19, 2011. The series debuted on June 29, 2011, with a 90-minute premiere episode. The second season premiered on June 6, 2012. On January 7, 2013, USA Network announced the series was renewed for a 10-episode third season, which began on June 12, 2013.
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot: single mother, football, single parent, family relations, changing lives, overcoming, relationship vs career, power relations, therapy, friendship, self discovery, morality, therapist, psychology, women, doctor, football team, mental health, athlete, psychotherapist, sport team, strong female presence, patient, workplace situations, outside help ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa
Keyword: sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and humorous films and TV series with plots about family relations, power relations, friendship, love and romance, workplace, workplace situations and couples mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Necessary Roughness: 90210 (2008), Anger Management (2012), Fairly Legal (2011), Help Me Help You (2006), Private Practice (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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90210 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 90210 revolves around several students at the fictional West Beverly Hills High School, including new Beverly Hills residents Annie Wilson and Dixon Wilson. Their father, Harry Wilson, has returned from Kansas to his Beverly Hills childhood home ...
Style: realistic, romantic, captivating, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, rich kid, teenager, high school hunk, teenage life, family relations, high school student, teen romance, friends, teenage love, social relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: beverly hills, california, los angeles, usa
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Anger Management (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie is a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. He has a successful private practice and he performs pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison. Prior to his career as a therapist, he was a major league ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, hilarious ...
Plot: therapist, support group, anger management, sexual humor, rage, anger, silly humor, psychiatrist, disorder, doctors and patients, frustration, irony ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Fairly Legal (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: Kate Reed is a firm believer that justice can always be found--even if it's not always in the courtroom. Once a lawyer at her family's esteemed San Francisco firm, Kate's frustration with the legal system led her to a new career as a ...
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: female lawyer, lawyer, legal, law firm, family relations, workplace situations, parents and children, career change, power relations, workplace, starting over, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
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50%
Help Me Help You (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A collection of eccentric individuals are in group therapy with a respected therapist—who may quite possibly have more problems than his patients.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, sitcom, light
Plot: therapist, therapy, patient, doctors and patients, group therapy, support group, power relations
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Private Practice (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: doctor, medical, hospital, treatment, surgery, parenthood, friendship, psychiatrist, workplace, workplace romance, workplace situations, clinic ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, santa monica california
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Just Legal (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Just Legal is a television courtroom drama that stars Don Johnson and Jay Baruchel as two courtroom lawyers in Venice, California. The series premiered on The WB on September 19, 2005 and was canceled on October 3, 2005 after only three episodes had ...
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, psychological, serious ...
Plot: lawyer, law firm, boss and employee, workplace, relationship vs career, hotshot lawyer, price of justice, power relations, righting the wronged, prodigy, legal, trial ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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Black Box (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Catherine Black is a world-famous neurologist at the state-of-the-art medical institution known as "The Cube". Catherine is brilliant, beautiful, and at the top of her game, though she's hiding a secret of her own: she's bipolar. ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: mental illness, treatment, mental disorder, workplace, surgery, workplace situations, therapy, family relations, couple relations, couples, patient, medical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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50%
The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: When three women put their careers above their personal relationships in their quest to succeed, would they change anything about their lives now that they’re in their 30s? Lee Shin Young is a reporter for the UBN broadcasting company. Jung Da ...
Style: serious, light, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: female friendship, changing lives, fall in love, relationship vs career, male female relationship, love triangle, love, betrayal, ex classmate, cheating, older woman younger man relationship
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Enlightened (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Enlightened follows the story of Amy, a self-destructive executive, who, after a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, tries to get her life back together.
Style: spiritual, sincere, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: self discovery, starting over, workplace situations, coping, midlife crisis, sanity, family relations, ex couple relations, optimism, depression, ex husband, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Almost Perfect (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, couples, eccentric family, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, fall in love, friendship, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family in crisis, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Cedar Cove (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Judge Olivia Lockhart is considered the community's guiding light in the picturesque, coastal town of Cedar Cove, Washington. But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: relationship vs career, small town, loss of son, small town life, courtroom, love and romance, looking for love, family relations, career woman, couple relations, legal, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington state, seattle, washington d.c.
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48%
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Togetherness (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
Style: sitcom, humorous, offbeat, light, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, couple relations, relationship vs career, couples, buddies, ambition, hopes, follow your dream, love and romance, family relations, depression, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
All That Matters (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Alles was zählt is a German television soap opera first broadcast on RTL on September 4, 2006. The original plot revolved around Diana Sommer's dream to become a world class ice skater. She fell in love with Julian Herzog, who signed her at ...
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera
Plot: family business, ambition, family problems, couple relations, boss and employee, workplace situations, family life, couples, friendship, workplace, male female relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
My Mad Fat Diary (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend ...
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, fat girl, teenage life, youth, loneliness, depression, teenage love, adolescence, high school life, unhappy, first love, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: One Life to Live is an American soap opera broadcast on television for more than 43 years on the ABC network, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network since April 29, ...
Style: soap opera, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
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Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 60s ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy ...
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48%
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Presidio Med (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Presidio Med is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 2002, to January 2003. The series centers on a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, medical drama
Audience: girls' night
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48%
The Young and the Restless (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 37 min.
TV show
Story: The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, rivalry, couple relations, infidelity, family life, couples, power relations, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 2000s ...
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Duration: 96 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, mumblecore ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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46%
Cashmere Mafia (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Cashmere Mafia is an American television comedy-drama which ran on ABC from January 6, 2008 to February 20, 2008. The series was created by Kevin Wade, who also served as executive producer alongside Darren Star, Gail Katz, Jeff Rake and Michael ...
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: The series follows the life of two sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, who, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
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Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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Body & Soul (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Rachel Griffen returns from the Far East, planning on incorporating alternative medicine with traditional practices. Her mentor Dr. Isaac Braun is skeptical and administrator Quinten Bremmer outright hostile. Oz is the ever cheerful orderly.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental
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In Treatment (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions and centering around Dr. Paul Weston, a psychotherapist who exhibits an insightful, reserved demeanor while treating his patients—but displays a crippling insecurity while ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 912 min.
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Story: The life of a 15 year-old high school student, whose angst-ridden journey through adolescence, friendship, parents, and life teaches her what it means to grow up.
Style: sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic ...
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46%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, sincere, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
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46%
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Relativity (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Relativity is an American drama television series which followed a twenty-something couple, Isabel Lukens and Leo Roth, and the lives and loves of their friends and siblings in Los Angeles. The short-lived ABC series was the product of ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, sentimental
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
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46%
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My Generation (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A documentary crew follows the stories of nine classmates during their high school years in Austin, Texas, and then revisits them ten years later to examine how far they have come.
Style: sincere, sentimental, humorous, realistic, serious ...
Plot: childhood sweetheart, high school, youth, friendship, lifestyle, adulthood, self fulfillment, friends, hopes, teenage life, social relations, videotaping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, austin texas
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46%
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: How do you deal with anger? Where does happiness actually come from? These questions are at the heart of Fix You, a touching drama about a quirky psychiatrist on a mission to help people heal, and a rising star whose emotional wounds run deep. Lee ...
Style: psychological, emotional, sincere, humorous, captivating
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45%
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Miss Match (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Miss Match is a 2003 American television series created by Jeff Rake and Darren Star and produced by Twentieth Century Fox, Darren Star Productions and Imagine Entertainment. It aired in the U.S. on NBC, Australia on Network Seven, Arena and FOX8, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, sex comedy
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Winners & Losers (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of four best friends bound together by their shared experience of being "the losers" in high school. Now ten years later the women are about to become winners, but at what cost?
Style: emotional, touching, feel good, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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