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The Story of Luke (2012)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mumblecore, indie film, independent film
Plot:
autism, disability, autistic, job seeking, self discovery, looking for love, misfit, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, workplace, boss and employee, workplace situations, power relations, cooking, mental disorder, special needs, autist, psychology, illness, technology, mental illness, asperger's syndrome, wisdom of life, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and independent film films with plots about love and romance, family relations, couples, misfit, dysfunctional family, love and fall in love mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Story of Luke: The Other Sister (1999), Good Dick (2008), Benny & Joon (1993), Outsourced (2006), Simple Simon (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
Style:
emotional, inspirational, sentimental, touching, compassionate ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mentally challenged, wedding, mental retardation, women, disability, family relations, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, justice, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her ...
Style:
indie film, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, opposites attract, relationships, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, sex, passionate love, passion ...
Place:
los angeles
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Style:
sweet, feel good, melancholic, cute, compassionate ...
Audience:
date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, social misfits, brother sister relationship, poker, love, mechanic, love story, mental health, siblings living together, misfit, mental disorder, autism ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
usa, seattle, washington state
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
Style:
humorous, realistic, romantic, light, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
workplace, self discovery, arts and culture, human nature, travel, boss, office, fish out of water, call center, boss and employee, love and romance, corporate world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, seattle, asia, bombay india, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Simon has Asperger's syndrome and doesn't like changes in his life. He lives with his big brother Sam and Sam's girlfriend Frida. When Frida can't stand having to adapt to Simon's peculiarities anymore she takes off, leaving ...
Style:
touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
asperger's syndrome, mental illness, obsessive quest, autism, youth, brother brother relationship, nursing, couple relations, teenage life, escapades, psychiatry, disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, preschool
Plot:
autism, asperger's syndrome, fall in love, shyness, love, happy ending, neighbor, disability, lovers, first love, mental illness, depression ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Style:
sweet, emotional, touching, inspirational, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
asperger's syndrome, autism, mental illness, mathematics, taxi driver, hopes, couple relations, disability, eccentricity, loneliness, bird, support group ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Walter's dreams of taking over his family's smoked fish emporium are disrupted by ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, self discovery, rivalry, family business, store, family relations, workplace, disorder, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, escapades, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car accident. When the institution must close due budget cuts, Molly is left in the charge of her ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, sincere, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
autism, public nudity, disability, mental patient, advertising executive, siblings relations, human spirit, custody, hopes, doctors and patients, misfit, mentally challenged ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film follows Grace, a young woman whose irresponsible mother blows her college fund on her younger sister's beauty pageant campaign.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, indie film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, summer job, fall in love, teenage love, marijuana, friendship, teenage life, ambition, family problems, parents and children, youth, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, emotional, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, unrequited love, self discovery, lifestyle, fish out of water, life turned upside down, looking for love, disorder, daydreamer, misfit, singleness, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his attractive corporate counterpart. Based on Max Barry's novel.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
boss and employee, entrepreneurship, workplace, power relations, workplace situations, dishonesty, betrayal, inventions and discoveries, marketing, advertising, passion, passionate love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
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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, misfit, mental health, couple relations, family relations, unfulfillment, writers, estrangement, depression, fall in love, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style:
touching, funny, sentimental, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatric ward, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, suicidal, psychiatry, anxiety ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ordinary Jan has no easy life. He is by far the most unpopular employee at work. At home it's even worse. His marriage with the not so ordinary Bente is on the verge of a breakdown. Jan's boss finally sends him into group therapy where an ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, power relations, couples, dark humor, misfit, crumbling marriage, social misfits, love and romance, workplace, domestic disturbance, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sincere, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, hopes, looking for love, against the odds, haunted by the past, family relations, redemption, couples, self discovery, friendship, holiday, christmas time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jack Palmer is a social worker whose job has taken precedence over his personal life. Mainly, his job is to help four mentally challenged men live regular lives in a home. They consist of: Norman, who works at a donut shop and has a thing for keys; ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Audience:
kids
Plot:
golf, autism, social worker, donut, disability, family relations, love and romance, society, introspection, nothing goes right, misfit, pets ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
WORST FRIENDS is the story of two childhood friends who are forced to re-think their friendship as adults. When Jake (Richard Tanne) is injured in a car accident, the only person willing to take care of him is his childhood friend Sam (Noah Barrow). ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
suburban life, friendship, car accident, love and romance, friends, disability, unfulfillment, rivalry, society, suburbs, childhood friend, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, homecoming, hopes, family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, estrangement, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style:
touching, sentimental, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dysfunctional family, aunt, youth, candy store, grandmother, mental health, bike, family relations, coming of age, brother, family problems, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
opposites attract, student life, buddies, rich and poor, workplace situations, love and romance, workplace, boss and employee, concierge, teenager, in love, doorman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Desperate to get out from under her overprotective mother, a home-schooled teen runs off to live with her dad, and forms a bond with his much-younger boyfriend.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, coming of age, dysfunctional family, gay father, family relations, father daughter relationship, parents and children, eccentric family, disorder, follow your dream, workplace, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Josh is about to turn 30; he's mentally retarded, and likes to play at being a vampire. His sister Nicole is 15, and dealing with her impending womanhood; middle brother Mike is the "normal" one, but in some ways the most childish - ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, love and romance, obsession, dysfunctional family, teenage life, youth, lifestyle, misfit, siblings relations, sexual relations, couples, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, self discovery, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, bittersweet, parent child relationship, family drama, love, reconciliation, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
hospital, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, terminal illness, against the odds, life is a bitch, workplace, introspection, fall in love, family problems, dark humor ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After telling her fiancé, Dana, that her entire family is dead, Manhattanite Alex whisks off to her childhood home in South Carolina to serve as bridesmaid at her high-maintenance, estranged sister Jeannie's wedding. As she tries not to steal ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, queer cinema
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, gay couple, family relations, self discovery, fall in love, eccentric family, lgbt, couples, society, love and romance, looking for love ...
Place:
usa, new york, south carolina
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two brothers spend the day driving around Los Angeles county looking for the meaning of their lives, or cheap street drugs, depending on who you happen to believe.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
family relations, looking for love, sexual content, on the road, siblings relations, road trip, brother brother relationship, slacker, writers, dysfunctional family, self discovery, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Norway, Guatemala, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
Style:
sentimental, touching, psychological, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
mental illness, doctors and patients, self discovery, friendship, human nature, couples, support group, mental disorder, introspection, uncontrollable, psychiatry, mental health ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Coming & Going is an irreverent romantic comedy that poses the question: How far would you go to capture the heart of the one you love? Lee (Rhys Darby) is a young, skilled OBGYN who lacks confidence when it comes to talking to women outside ...
Style:
humorous, touching, light, feel good, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
disability, looking for love, disorder, misfit, lie, couples, friendship, dishonesty, cons and scams, social misfits, love and romance, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Unsure of what to do next, 23-year-old Marnie tries her best to navigate life after college in this romantic comedy. Still partying like there's no tomorrow, Marnie drags herself out of bed for her miserable temp job and can't decide ...
Style:
mumblecore, clever, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
youth, lifestyle, looking for love, friendship, college, survival, self discovery, relationships, hipster, coming of age, teenager, graduation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
19%
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