Movies and TV shows like The Middle

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The Middle (2009)
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The Middle (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.
Style: feel good, not serious, realistic, sitcom, humorous, offbeat, funny, game show, hilarious, odd ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family values, everyday life, siblings relations, family life, family relations, parents and children, parenthood, adolescence, small town, youth, childhood, couple relations, teenage boy, marriage, teenage girl, eccentric family, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, woman, construction worker, mother son relationship, misfit ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: indiana, usa

Most similar movies to The Middle

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sitcom, humorous, realistic and feel good films and TV series with plots about family relations, parents and children, family life, husband wife relationship, youth, marriage and suburbs mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like The Middle: The Goldbergs (2013), The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005), Malcolm in the Middle (2000), Roseanne (1988), According to Jim (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Goldbergs (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up, and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year old Adam these were his wonder years and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the ...
Style: retro, humorous, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: childhood, father daughter relationship, family life, family relations, parents and children, overbearing parent, teenage life, family values, three generations, brother sister relationship, teenager, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
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93%
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody is an American sitcom created by Danny Kallis and Jim Geoghan. The series was first broadcast on Disney Channel on March 18, 2005, with 4 million viewers, making it the most successful premiere for Disney Channel in ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, funny ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly
Plot: hotel, twins, brother brother relationship, youth, teenager, family relations, family life, heir, prank, adolescence, single parent, manager ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: youth, siblings relations, prodigy, eccentric family, social satire, teenage life, suburban life, sibling relationship, dysfunctional family, suburbs, teenager, family life ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Roseanne (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, biting, cynical ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: working class, overweight, exodus, strong female lead, girl, dysfunctional family, chubby, family affairs, women power, small business, siblings, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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According to Jim (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 1, 2001 to June 2, 2009.
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, couple relations, lifestyle, buddies, parents and children, family life, family values, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, parenting, misunderstanding ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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75%
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Modern Family (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5378 min.
TV show
Story: The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, mockumentary, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, everyday life, family relations, generation gap, family life, adolescence, gay adoption, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, blended family, gay couple ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, southern california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 8.3
 37K
Parenthood (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Parenthood is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Katims. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the same title, Parenthood tells of the Braverman clan which consists of an older couple, their four children and their families.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family drama, family life, parenthood, teenage pregnancy, responsibility, autism, family relations, large family, couple relations, adolescence, marital problem, supportive parent ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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100%
Fresh Off the Boat (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture.
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, mumblecore, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: child, family relations, middle school, marriage, immigrant, restaurant, family life, parents and children, youth, society, culture clash, kids and family ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place: usa, florida, taiwan, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Raising Hope (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: James "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball but well-intentioned family for ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, not serious, realistic, hilarious ...
Plot: youth, family life, babies and infants, living with parents, eccentric family, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, single father, family relations, stupidity, parenthood, immature ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Good Luck Charlie (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Good Luck Charlie is an American television sitcom, which premiered on April 4, 2010, on Disney Channel. The series was created by Phil Baker and Drew Vaupen, who wanted to create a program that would appeal to entire families, as opposed to only ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: adolescence, large family, diary, family relations, nurse, parents and children, youth, siblings relations, family values, parenthood, social relations, suburban life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Young Sheldon (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
Style: humorous, witty, clever, sitcom, saga ...
Audience: kids
Plot: child prodigy, prodigy, genius, adolescence, boy, childhood, school, scientist, child protagonist, society, parents and children, kids and family ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 90s, year 1989
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Married... with Children (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Married... with Children is an American sitcom that aired for 11 seasons. It featured a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago, Illinois, suburb. The show, notable for being the first prime-time television series to air on Fox, ran from ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, parody, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, promiscuous daughter, working class, family life, family problems, struggle, parents and children, misfit, suburbs, couples, family relations, adult humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 8K
Speechless (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Maya DiMeo is a mom on a mission who will do anything for her husband, Jimmy, and kids Ray, Dylan, and JJ, her eldest son with special needs. As Maya fights injustices both real and imagined, the family works to make a new home for themselves and ...
Style: sitcom, sincere, touching, emotional, witty ...
Plot: mute, wheelchair bound, cerebral palsy, disabled, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, society, exodus, family affairs, siblings, special needs ...
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100%
The Bernie Mac Show (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Bernie Mac Show is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sister's three kids: Jordan, Bryana, and Vanessa.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, black, artists and showbiz, parenthood, eccentric family, family life, parents and children, black family, black sitcom, husband wife relationship, marriage, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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100%
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Workin' Moms (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Four women juggle love, careers, and parenthood. They support, challenge, and try not to judge each other as life throws them curveballs. Whether it is an identity crisis, a huge job opportunity, postpartum depression, or an unplanned pregnancy – ...
Style: sitcom, funny, feel good, light, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: working mom, motherhood, job, women, love, female nudity, thirty something, parenthood, male female relationship, friendship, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada
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100%
 7.0
 20K
Melissa & Joey (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Melissa & Joey is an ABC Family original television series starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence that premiered on ABC Family on August 17, 2010. The series follows local politician Mel Burke and Joe Longo, whom Mel hires to look after ...
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: nanny, family relations, politician, parents and children, adolescence, custody, couples, child care, job seeking, family life, fish out of water, bankruptcy ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom starring Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, and Peter Boyle. It originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: overbearing parent, parents and children, family tradition, family life, family values, couple relations, siblings relations, eccentric family, marital problem, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, long island, usa
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58%
The King of Queens (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Three's definitely a crowd for parcel post deliveryman Doug Heffernan (Kevin James), whose newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur (Jerry Stiller), has moved in with him and his wife, Carrie (Leah Remini). Doug's no longer the king of his ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: working class, living with parents, friendship, marital problem, father daughter relationship, family relations, family problems, workplace, friends, buddies, battle of the sexes, love and romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Suburgatory (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Single father George Altman is doing his best to raise his sixteen-year-old daughter Tessa in the big city. When he discovers a box of condoms in her bedroom, though, he decides the time has come to move her to a more wholesome and nurturing ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: teenage life, suburban life, neighbor neighbor relationship, suburbs, family relations, youth, parents and children, everyday life, teenager, single parent, social relations, fish out of water ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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33%
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Yes, Dear (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A comedy about two young couples and their outrageously contrasting views on parenting. Greg and Kim Warner struggle on a daily basis to become perfect at the job. Kim is a neurotic, stay-at-home mother, and although her husband, Greg, is a success ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious, entertaining ...
Plot: family life, couples, housewife, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, siblings relations, irresponsible, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, kids and family, parenthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Everybody Hates Chris (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Everybody Hates Chris is an American television narrative sitcom that depicts the troubled teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock while growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. The show is set between 1982 and 1987, but Rock ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, touching, witty ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: comedian, african american, teenage life, youth, sibling rivalry, misfit, family values, friendship, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, social relations ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Friday Night Dinner (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family dinner, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, comedy of errors, socially awkward, disorder, couple relations, marriage, family gatherings, grandparent and grandchild, satire ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
American Housewife (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Plot: optimism, housewife, marriage, woman, humour, lifestyle, life, family life, social problems, province, women, nerd ...
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Surviving Jack (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A boy becomes a man, and a man becomes a father, in a time before coming of age was something you could Google.
Style: sitcom, humorous, sentimental, not serious, offbeat ...
Plot: parenthood, antisocial behavior, marriage, adulthood, family values, parents and children, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle change, youth, relatives, immature ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Wife and Kids (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: My Wife and Kids is an American television family sitcom that ran on ABC from March 28, 2001 until May 17, 2005. Produced by Touchstone Television, it starred Damon Wayans and Tisha Campbell-Martin, and centers on the character of Michael Kyle, a ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: black family, family relations, african american, black, couple relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, family life, working class, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Big Show Show (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Former WWE wrestler the Big Show is out of the ring and ready for an even tougher challenge: raising three daughters with his wife in Florida.
Style: humorous, entertaining, unusual plot structure, contemplative, light ...
Plot: teenage girl, celebrity, children, sister sister relationship, father, precocious child, girl, professional wrestling, parents and children, family relations, husband wife relationship, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Black-ish (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: african american, family relations, parents and children, family life, black family, social differences, society, disorder, fish out of water, social relations, black sitcom, teenager ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Last Man Standing (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A married father of three tries to maintain his manliness in a world increasingly dominated by women.
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, funny, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, teens, adult
Plot: family relations, parents and children, exodus, humour, social problems, male female relationship, family life, male protagonist, marital problem, family problems, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.9
 13K
George Lopez (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: George Lopez is an American sitcom starring comedian George Lopez. The show originally aired on ABC from March 27, 2002, to May 8, 2007.
Style: sitcom, witty, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, factory worker, best friend, factory, stand up comedian, disorder, unsupportive coworkers, promotion, optimism, friends, single parent, society ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 95K
Frasier (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, talky, witty ...
Plot: father son relationship, doctor, psychiatrist, living with parents, brother brother relationship, dating, radio, sibling rivalry, sibling relationship, verbal byplay, love and romance, uptight character ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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