Movies like The Happy Housewife

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The Happy Housewife (2010)
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The Happy Housewife (2010)
Original name: De Gelukkige Huisvrouw
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapés for nappies.
Style: sentimental, humorous, captivating, semi serious, psychological, realistic
Plot: depression, family relations, life turned upside down, couples, parents and children, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, mother child relationship, stewardess, mad love, parents, mental illness, childbirth, parent child relationship, mourning, masturbation, sexual content, strong female presence, thirtysomething life, nudity, babies and infants, female nudity, woman, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, holland
Keyword: dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about couples, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, family problems and unfulfillment mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Happy Housewife: Stricken (2009), Family Way (2012), Soof (2013), Almost Perfect (2011), A Mother's Love (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stricken (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cancer, cancer patient, true love, self discovery, infidelity, womanizer, love affair, crumbling relationship, life turned upside down, terminal illness, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
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100%
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Family Way (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 132 min.
Story: All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn't ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: family relations, eccentric family, couples, couple relations, parents and children, videotaping, siblings relations, anniversary, group therapy, relationships, happiness, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Soof (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'?
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Plot: infidelity, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family, family life, couple relations, dishonesty, disorder, cooking and food, parents and children, family relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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A Mother's Love (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her daughter, Monica. It's going to take a mother's unconditional love to pray Regina ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot: parents and children, family life, family problems, couples, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family relations, marriage, black romance, woman, relationships, strong female lead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Madly in Love (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film focuses on the tumultuous romance in the lives of four women in The Hague. Teenage daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older sister Anna make it under one roof Hague together a nice game of. They are beautiful, courageous and ...
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, looking for love, battle of the sexes, looking for sex, family life, parents and children, youth, couple relations, fall in love, family relations, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Another Woman's Life (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: disorder, family problems, love and romance, wooing, romantic relationship, couples, family relations, renewed love, crumbling marriage, introspection, hopes, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Jackie (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dutch twin sisters travel to America to look for their long-lost mother.
Style: road movie, humorous, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: twins, family relations, journey, disorder, cross country, family problems, siblings, on the road, parents, happiness, lady, soul searching ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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I Do...Knot (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sebastian is very lucky with women, going to parties and getting drunk every night. His mother asks him to change his way of life but he refuses to stop partying and meeting new women. One day, after one night of serious partying he wakes up with a ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: couples, fall in love, womanizer, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, wedding, love story, singleness, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Every Other Week (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Pontus is divorced and has custody of his children every other week while living life as a bachelor the rest of the time. His older brother, Jens, is married since 20 years and has three children. When Jens' marriage collapses, he moves in with ...
Style: semi serious, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: brother brother relationship, divorce, ex husband ex wife relationship, love affair, family life, platonic, family problems, breakup, infidelity, couples, single parent, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Bark! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A veterinarian is called to examine a woman who thinks she is a dog.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, couples, family problems, family relations, misfit, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, disorder, suburban life, suburbs ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: love and romance, wedding, renewed love, marriage, couples, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, parents separation, parents and children, in laws ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Tricked (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 55 min.
Story: During his 50th birthday party thrown by his wife, Remco's life takes a turn for the worse. His business partners are scheming behind his back to sell him and his former mistress shows up pregnant.
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy ...
Plot: pregnancy, infidelity, workplace intrigue, businessman, nothing goes right, life turned upside down, blackmail, family problems, couples, family relations, womanizer, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
43%
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Colombian Love (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tali and Ori are a young Israeli couple. After attending their best friends' wedding, which ended in disaster, they have a big fight, which leads to Ori proposing. But there is trouble in paradise when Ori's conservative father meets Tali, ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, family relations, couple relations, meet the parents, parents and children, buddies, friends, friendship, nothing goes right, love, disorder, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.5
 622
Ball & Chain (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Somewhere in the middle of Texas, Ameet (Sunil Malhotra) and Saima (Lisa Ray) have a problem. They were perfectly happy avoiding each other until their parents set them up to get married. The reluctant couple decide to do whatever it takes to break ...
Style: humorous, captivating, sentimental, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: wedding, family relations, couples, eccentric family, family gatherings, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, love, wedding planning, society, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Numb (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a ...
Style: psychological, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: mental illness, therapy, introspection, misfit, couple relations, family relations, unfulfillment, mental health, depression, writers, estrangement, fall in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
A Business Affair (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA, Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, thought provoking, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, writer's life, relationship vs career, couples, infidelity, fall in love, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, extramarital affair, love of one's life, strong female presence, feminism ...
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
A Happy Event (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk ...
Style: realistic, sincere, semi serious, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, family outing
Plot: husband wife relationship, babies and infants, family relations, pregnancy, couples, couple relations, family life, childbirth, disorder, life turned upside down, parents and children, breast feeding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The American Standards (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: At a crossroads in his life, Doc Jennings goes home to celebrate his mother's birthday and uncovers dramatic family secrets. Lies, affairs and afflictions bubble to the surface of his seemingly perfect family. Can they come back together or is ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: family relations, family problems, couples, family in crisis, parents and children, wedding anniversary, life turned upside down, love, father son relationship, hospital, society, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Engagement Ring (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and find that their attraction is hindered by the old feud.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous
Plot: true love, family relations, family life, family business, couples, couple relations, unfulfilled love, cooking, holiday, nudity, world war two, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Every Blessed Day (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposing characters and working schedules: he works a night job as a doorman in a hotel, and she works as an employee for a rental car service. This is the story of what happens to Guido and Antonia when ...
Style: touching, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: love and romance, love affair, couples, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, young lovers, young love, hotel
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Manhood (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, life turned upside down, manhood, youth, family problems, disorder, dysfunctional family, parents and children, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 5.7
 397
Watermelon (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching
Plot: pregnancy, couples, couple relations, love and romance, family problems, family in crisis, infidelity, hopes, breeding, heterosexuality, female nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.6
 79
Excited (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kevin Staal, 37, is a successful businessman. He suffers from primary premature ejaculation. His tip is too sensitive. Kevin is divorced. He has been single eight years but has finally met someone he likes. Hayaam, 39, is educated, infertile, and ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, family relations, sexual relations, parents and children, singleness, businessman, looking for love, love and romance, couples, sexual content, female nudity, domineering mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 244
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 ⇓
42%
A Thousand Kisses (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, erotic, contemplative
Plot: family relations, young lovers, life is a bitch, terminal illness, mercy killing, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, lifestyle, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sense of Humor (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Élise lives with her 10-year-old son Léo, whose father is deceased. She has a chaotic relationship with Paul her lover. They go from happy moments to intense feuds. Élise introduces him to Léo and in time, they get to know and appreciate each ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, couples, single parent, breakup, love, friends, couple relations, son, divorced divorcee
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Everyone (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The perfect gay couple are having a wedding in their backyard and they've invited the family and all their emotional baggage.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay wedding, wedding, gay, couples, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, gender, lifestyle, unfulfillment, family gatherings, friendship ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.6
 408
Heartbeat (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The beautiful and talented Adrian is a writer for one of America's most popular TV soap operas. She is also pregnant, and when she refuses to abort her baby, Adrian's selfish husband deserts her. It falls to one of the soap opera's ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, pregnancy, family relations, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, forbidden love, unfulfillment, producer, passion, love, dilemma, parents ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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