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According to her (2016)
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According to her (2016)
Original name: According to Her
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Love, motherhood and a musical career strike dissonant chords in this dark tale of a young Russian woman who tries to keep her balance among wealthy French expats in New York.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot: mother, love, mother love, immigration, career, love and romance, couples, mother son relationship, women, friendship, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, piano, pianist, psychological drama, romance
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
Keyword: french, russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, psychological, realistic and humorous films with plots about family relations, couples, love and romance, parents and children, love, friendship and couple relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like According to her: All Relative (2014), Lady Luck (2017), Hunky Dory (2016), The Quitter (2014), Newlyweds (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Lady Luck (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Through their individual trials and turbulence, three strangers are drawn together under one roof.
Style: psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, light, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, redemption, love, relationship problems, love and romance, couples, family relations, strong female presence, man in underwear, oral sex, male objectification, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Hunky Dory (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A glam rock dilettante's life takes a dramatic turn when his ex unexpectedly drops their 11-year-old son off for the week.
Style: lgbt cinema, tense, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: father son relationship, abandoned by mother, family relations, gay, drug use, gay lead character, gay father, gay interest, baby, single father, parents and children, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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60%
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The Quitter (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
Style: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, single parent, homecoming, unfulfillment, love, basketball player, career, baseball
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Newlyweds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family relations, couples, city life, siblings relations, friendship, society, wedding, dysfunctional family, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Stuff (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: lesbian, love affair, lesbian relationship, family relations, lgbt, lgbtq, sister sister relationship, love, parents and children, love and romance, couples, parent child relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Chicken Girls: The Movie (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: With a new principal in town and the Spring Fling in jeopardy, Rhyme and the Chicken Girls must band together to save the dance.
Style: light, entertaining, contemplative, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, escapades, youth, friends, dishonesty, dancing, society, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Lemonade (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. When the process of ...
Style: suspense, rough, sentimental, tense, psychological ...
Plot: mother son relationship, green card, abuse of power, marriage, culture clash, society, escapades, dishonesty, life is a bitch, family relations, love, violence ...
Place: usa
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55%
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Walkaway (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, society, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, unsupportive parent, family tradition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, india
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54%
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Musical Chairs (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Perrine, a single, slightly awkward musician, loves birthday parties. One day she accidentally causes a man to fall into a skip at the waste disposal centre. When she learns that he´s in a coma, the young woman tries everything to awaken himand ...
Style: touching, contemplative, psychological, light, suspenseful ...
Plot: coma, hospital, violinist, musician, teenager, fall in love, couples, love and romance, family relations, love, friends, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Why Stop Now? (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Style: humorous, captivating, emotional, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rehabilitation, family relations, lifestyle, drug dealing, dealer, partner, disorder, nothing goes right, student life, eccentric family, piano, prodigy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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54%
Love Is All You Need? (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Set in a world where homosexuality is the norm, a small Indiana town is rocked to its core when Jude, the star quarterback of the local university football team, strikes up a love affair with Ryan, a sports journalism major. When the straight couple ...
Style: sexy, touching, contemplative, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot: bullying, switching roles, gay, love, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, youth, parents and children, couple relations, coming of age, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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53%
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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
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53%
Meet My Valentine (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Tom learns that he has terminal brain cancer, he decides to find a replacement husband for his wife and a father to his daughter, before it is too late. Unbeknownst to his wife Valentine, Tom sets up an on-line dating profile for her, and ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love, wife, cancer, daughter, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, parents and children, terminal illness, cooking, dating ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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53%
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Double Parked (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A resourceful and high-spirited woman deals with financial distress and her asthmatic thirteen-year-old son when his life is gravely complicated by a new friendship with the son of her former drunken and abusive husband.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: mother son relationship, coming of age, juvenile delinquent, teenager, child abuse, parent child relationship, family life, financial problem, friendship, family problems, money problems, family relations ...
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This Summer Feeling (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sasha, a French woman of thirty, dies suddenly in Berlin. Her Fiancé, Lawrence, and her sister Zoé, must come to terms as the consequences of this shock set in.
Style: psychological, touching, sad, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot: friendship, death, love and romance, loss of lover, meaning of life, couples, love, bare butt, nudity, female nudity, beach, male nudity ...
Time: year 2015
Place: paris france, new york, berlin germany
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Do it Right (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenage boy, teenage girl, school, high school, death of mother, youth, parents and children, society, mother son relationship, love and romance ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: paris france
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51%
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Momma's Man (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In Momma's Man an adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house. An odd premise, but executed with skill and tenderness.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, mumblecore, sincere ...
Plot: midlife crisis, introspection, family problems, family relations, love and romance, eccentric family, family life, parents and children, unfulfillment, pregnancy, relationship problems, living together ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
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51%
Breakfast with Curtis (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Syd is an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine. He caused a rift 5 years ago between his bohemian housemates and the family next door, but now tries to recruit his 14-year-old neighbor as a collaborator.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, friends, drug, teenage boy, coming of age, death threat, depression, love and romance, love, couples, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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50%
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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
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50%
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Son of Sofia (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: 11-year-old Misha is coming from Russia to Athens during the 2004 Olympic Games to live with his mother. He does not know there is a father waiting for him.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: child, stepfather stepson relationship, husband wife relationship, child protagonist, friendship, family relations, disorder, life is a bitch, parents and children, gay, greek, stroke ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: athens greece
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Juanita (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
Style: captivating, humorous, touching, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female nudity, sex, culture clash, love and romance, family relations, life is a bitch, couples, friendship, parents and children, society, escapades, hopes ...
Place: usa
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49%
Celle que j'aime (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Isabelle est une trentenaire célibataire (depuis qu'elle est divorcée). Elle est belle, sexy, drôle, émouvante, intelligente... Irrésistible ! Elle est numéro 2 d'un journal qu'elle a créé avec Brice son partenaire et ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: divorced mother, jealousy, family problems, love affair, parents and children, love story, male female relationship, family relations, relationships, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, mother and son ...
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49%
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Smother (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young couple.
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, family relations, comedy of errors, parents and children, nothing goes right, disorder, family life, couple relations, fired from the job, dysfunctional family, sensuality, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
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49%
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In the Heart (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, tragic love, love and romance, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, relationships, fighting illness, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Our Dream Wedding (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Commitment-shy Haley is as anti-marriage as it gets, but when she tries on her grandma’s ‘magical’ wedding veil, she’s transported to her future, where she and long-term boyfriend Scott are happily married with two beautiful children. ...
Style: talky, touching, romantic, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, love, true love, young lovers, fall in love, lovers, love affair, relationships, couples, couple relations, married life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
Duane Hopwood (2005)
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, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, parents and children, down on your luck, addiction, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Sugar Sand (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jonas has made an exit application, the boys have to recognize that they are soon separated from each ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense
Plot: little boy, friendship, single mother, border crossing, emigrant, emigration, border, mother son relationship, iron curtain, immigrant, boy, immigration ...
Time: 70s
Place: german democratic republic, east germany, germany, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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