Movies like What Children Do

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What Children Do (2017)
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What Children Do (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A comedy about two estranged sisters brought back into each other's lives by the impending death of their grandmother.
Plot: women, karate, religion, death, house, small town, sister sister relationship, reunion

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Most similar movies to What Children Do

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about family relations, small town, sister sister relationship, family life, parents and children, friendship and small town life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like What Children Do: The ButterCream Gang (1992), Urban Country (2018), Abbey of Thelema (2007), A Very Brady Christmas (1988), Wishin' and Hopin' (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The ButterCream Gang (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Unlike most gangs, the ButterCream gang does good deeds. Their leader, Pete, has to go live with his aunt in Chicago. But things don't go well in Chicago and Pete is changed when he returns. Soon Pete is hanging around with the wrong crowd. But ...
Style: epic, independent film, realistic, serious, touching
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: religious, street punk, friendship, gang, aunt nephew relationship, small town life, small town, teenage life, city life, friends, family relations, buddies ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.7
 349
Urban Country (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young, troubled city girl decides to move to her family owned horse ranch in a small, southern town for the summer to care for her dying mother.
Style: emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, powerful ...
Plot: horse ranch, coming of age, family relations, teenager, farmhouse, summer, country, mother daughter relationship, horse, self discovery, friendship, tomboy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mississippi, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Abbey of Thelema (2007)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Based on actual facts and events, explores the Thelemic Commune in Cefalu, Sicily from 1920-1923.
Plot: religion, death, commune, sect, conspiracy, priest, chief of police, abbey
Time: 1920s
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
A Very Brady Christmas (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Almost 20 years after the start of the original "Brady Bunch" the kids are grown up and have kids of their own. Everyone is having a wonderful time back at the family house for Christmas, until Mike learns of a structural problem in one of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, xmas, disorder, family relations, family gatherings, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, television, travel agency, doctor, argument ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Wishin' and Hopin' (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by award winning author Wally Lamb. A vivid slice of 1960s life, Wishin' and Hopin' is a wise-and-witty holiday tale that celebrates where we've been-and how far we've come. In the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, light, entertaining ...
Plot: coming of age, christmas, youth, small town, substitute teacher, catholic school, parents and children, teachers and students, family relations, friendship, social relations, redheaded woman ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inheriting a family resort in Hawaii, the Wyatts find it in such a run-down condition that they decide to sell it after trying to fix it up. Amidst confusing goings-on among the triplet teenage girls and the boys they meet, Jeffrey meets an old high ...
Style: rom com
Audience: kids
Plot: twins, sister sister relationship, family relations, clone, live action
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind ...
Style: talky, clever, emotional, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: transvestism, friendship, women, lgbt, small town, lgbtq, death, drinking, grief, rock, drug addiction, time travel ...
Time: 70s, year 1982, 80s, 1950s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.6
 378
Divine Access (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jack Harriman becomes a spiritual celebrity after debunking Reverend Guy Roy on a public-access TV show. While on the road speaking his brand of truth, forces natural and supernatural lead him to question whether he has a deeper calling.
Plot: religion, female nudity, male pubic hair, male nudity, skinny dipping, pubic hair
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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A Golden Christmas (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a magical summer together, a nine-year-old boy whispers his heart into the ear of a best friend. With a loyal, golden dog by their side, the boy and girl bury a time capsule of keepsakes then they go their separate ways. Years later, looking ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, feel good
Audience: family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, family relations, starting over, getting home, dog, pets, christmas romance, holiday, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, realtor, parent grown child relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small ...
Style: touching, sentimental, light, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: small town, dog, father daughter relationship, animal, childhood, children, pets, loneliness, single father, beautiful scenery, mischievous children, friendship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Torkelsons (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: The Torkelsons is an American sitcom which aired on the NBC television network from September 21, 1991 to June 6, 1993. Produced by Walt Disney Television, the series starred Connie Ray, Olivia Burnette and William Schallert. For the second season, ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: slice of life, women, boarder, teenager, large family, single mother, absent parent, suburbs, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, hopes, religions or cults ...
Time: 90s
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Handcuff King (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
Plot: family relations, childhood, leukemia, friendship, death, father son relationship
Time: 70s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.5
 167
Babyfever (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a family, and the unexpected arrival of an old boyfriend wanting to pick up where they left off. To further complicate matters, she might be ...
Style: independent film
Plot: women, interview, party, female bonding, boyfriend, pregnancy, baby shower
Time: year 1994
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.5
 554
Annayya (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Rajaram (Chiranjeevi), owner of a fleet of lorries, meets Devi (Soundarya), a garment factory owner. After that acquaintance, she once seeks his help in dealing with two street ruffians, who were teasing her sisters, Lata (Chandini) and Geetha ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, grudge, vendetta, sister sister relationship, anger, marriage proposal, drunkenness, attempted murder, remorse, brother
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Weepah Way For Now (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Elle and Joy spend their last week before their next music tour wandering through the heart of Laurel Canyon, whiling away carefree afternoons with their friends as they plan for their own going away party.
Style: psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling, cliffhanger
Plot: dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, sisters, family problems, sister sister relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, relationships, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, women, party ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.3
 914
Palo Alto, CA (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On their last night of Thanksgiving break, four old friends, now all college freshmen, realize their small town has more meaning than they ever imagined.
Style: humorous, teen sex comedy, captivating, emotional, light ...
Plot: thanksgiving, friends, coming of age, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, homecoming, small town, college student, college freshman, college, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, palo alto california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Meg of June Hill (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A second movie based on Astrid Lindgren's novel "Madicken och Junibackens pims", which is about two sisters and their adventures in 1910s Sweden.
Audience: kids
Plot: sister sister relationship, child, young love, nordic, child protagonist, girl, female protagonist, picnic, strong female character, prank, cow, strong female lead ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 5.1
 610
Fairhaven (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, funeral, small town, homecoming, introspection, estrangement, social relations, unfulfillment, death of father, student athlete, high school friends, village ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.1
 3K
Housekeeping (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style: sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.7
 696
Mayor Cupcake (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. Uneducated, she relies on her street smarts to clean up the town.
Style: humorous, sincere, captivating, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: rise to the top, campaign, small town life, family life, society, small town, uneducated, ambition, family relations, parents and children, food, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.2
 202
Wilbur Falls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A teen gives her graduation address and reveals her involvement in the disappearance of one her classmates, a boy who had taunted her. The film then moves into flashback to tell the story. Danny Aiello appears as her unorthodox, but compassionate, ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
Plot: sex, male nudity, lesbianism, small town, female nudity, death, teenage girl, drowning, masturbation, accident, erotica, lesbian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Once I Was a Beehive (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After losing her father to cancer, a teenage girl reluctantly joins her new step-cousin at a summer camp for Mormon girls.
Style: sad, dramatic, captivating, emotional, sincere
Plot: girl, christianity, death of father, summer camp, teenage girl, female protagonist, death, family relations, parents and children, children, camp, death in the family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Christmas with a Capital C (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: An attorney returns to his small home town in Alaska and quickly rocks the boat by getting an injunction against the nativity display tradition and attacking Christmas.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, christmas comedy, disgusting ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, winter, small town, lawyer, battles, family relations, love and romance, boss and employee, workplace, small town life, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.9
 5K
Wide Awake (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A feel-good comedy about the laughter, excitement and fun that come with being a kid! Joshua is a thoughtful 10-year-old looking for some simple answers to life's eternal questions. The problem is that no one - including his concerned parents ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, light, humorous, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, boys' school, religion, life philosophy, existentialism, society, death in the family, human spirit, teenage life, baseball, happy ending ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: philadelphia, usa, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Turn Right by the Yellow Dog (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A fair point, considering the father happens to be dead! Philip is a successful architect with little or no time for his 16-year-old son. When his own father dies, Philip suddenly realises the pain of having been abandoned years ago. Enter Karl, a ...
Plot: family relations, theater, garden, retirement home, flying, father son relationship, dog, funeral, death, broken arm, cigar smoking
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A Belle for Christmas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Family film about a pair of children whose father's girlfriend has kidnapped their dog. Dean Cain stars as Glenn Barrows, a recent widower doing his best to raise his young kids Elliot and Phoebe, who really miss their mother. Things start to ...
Style: touching, feel good, emotional, sweet, light
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas, dog, single father, kids and family, animal, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, family life, best friend, pet owner relationship, family relations, new year's eve ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.8
 13K
Hanging Up (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, women, thanksgiving, sister sister relationship, family problems, eccentric family, family life, looking for love, parents and children, terminal illness ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 2000s, year 1988, year 2000
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.8
 205
Sister, Sister (1982)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: siblings, women, blaxploitation, black, african, small town, estrangement, family relations, black family, infidelity, life turned upside down, love affair ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Happiness Is... (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Humorous adventures and dangerous escapades of young Mike Adams and his mischievous friends. Together, they learn when character counts. This delightful, Tom Sawyer-like story presents the adventures of Mike Adams and his mischievous friends. Their ...
Style: independent film, christian film
Plot: faith, friendship, lie, electrocution, bicycle, mother daughter relationship, grandfather, gift, prank, ambulance, christian, christianity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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