Movies like Adult Life Skills

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Adult Life Skills (2016)
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Adult Life Skills (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time working a menial job at a local boating center and hides in the depths of her imagination, making movies with her thumbs. Irritated by her childish behavior, Anna's mother insists that she move out of her shed and on with her life. When a troubled young boy starts hanging around, the two form an unlikely bond. Through their strange yet mutually beneficial friendship, Anna slowly begins to confront her perpetual state of arrested development.
Style: emotional, sincere, uplifting, feel good, sweet, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: recluse, isolation, arrested development, dead brother, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, best friend, relationships, dark humor, life, youth, family relations, neighbor, changing lives, life philosophy, death of brother, neighbor neighbor relationship, adolescence vs adulthood, mental health, twin brother and sister, loss of brother, ultimatum, mourning, injury, barn ...
Place: yorkshire

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, humorous, sincere and realistic films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, relationships, family problems, couples and teenage life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Adult Life Skills: All About Mothers (2018), The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007), Mommies, Happy New Year! (2012), Manhood (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All About Mothers (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: They are the President of the Republic, a nanny, a baker, an actress, a teacher, a florist, a journalist, unemployed, a pediatrician. They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in ...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, sincere
Plot: family life, parenthood, motherhood, life, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, relationships, family relations, mother son relationship, mother love, public nudity, female nudity ...
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The Happiest Girl in the World (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Netherlands, France, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe, romania
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The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, couples, wooing, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Mommies, Happy New Year! (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A continuation of a famous Russian comedy "Mamy" ("Mommies").
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: mother, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, holiday, social relations, kids and family, working mom
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Duration: 82 min.
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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
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The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
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Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, sexual ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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In a Relationship (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Long-term couple Owen and Hallie are breaking up—or maybe not?—and just as their relationship reaches a turning point, Matt and Willa embark on a romance of their own.
Style: romantic, captivating, uplifting, psychological, sweet
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Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. During these ...
Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: youth, children, disorder, nothing goes right, parents and children, bittersweet, family relations, thirtysomething life, family problems, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, custody ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
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Couch Potatoes (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
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My Daughter's First Time (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Alberto (Riccardo Rossi) is a local doctor, neat freak, separated by ten years and totally dedicated - emotionally and emotionally - to old daughter, Bianca (Benedetta Gargari). A day like all the others of his life completely organized, methodical ...
Style: light, feel good, sincere, captivating
Plot: first sex, teenage sexuality, party, family relations, life philosophy, society, parents and children, best friend, sex talk, father daughter relationship, youth, sexual humor ...
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Lovely Louise (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: André, 55, lives with his mother Louise, 80, and leads an unspectacular life. He works as a taxi driver while the elderly diva dreams of bygone days as an actress in Hollywood. One day the charismatic Bill, 50, an American, turns up on their ...
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
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Style: captivating, not serious, humorous, feel good
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 112 min.
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Style: light, funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Hardy Buchanan, a senior at an elite private school, needs to make some quick cash, he enlists the help of Bo, a beautiful runaway. Together, they devise an unconventional plan to profit off the wayward teens at Hardy's school. When the ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, sincere, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
Story: After marriage, a woman struggles to be the submissive wife that her husband and his family expect her to be.
Style: humorous, captivating, sincere
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Let's Dance (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dans la famille Bellinsky : il y a Salomon le père, 80 ans, débordant de vie. Il se bat pour ne pas être enterré trop vite, entre des cours de claquettes sous le haut patronage de Fred Astaire et la recherche d'une compagne...La mère, ...
Style: sweet, feel good, captivating, inspirational
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: realistic, contemplative, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, youth, friends, society, couples, nordic, twentysomething life, student life, night ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: youth, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, unlikely criminals, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, estrangement, family problems, teenage life, heist, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: humorous, emotional, captivating, light, romantic ...
Plot: youth, young lovers, pregnancy, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, college, disorder, life turned upside down, relationships, college freshman, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Swimsuit Issue (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: feel good, uplifting, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: friendship, self fulfillment, buddies, ambition, society, life is a bitch, family relations, sport team, youth, physical appearance, athlete and trainer, underdog ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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