Movies and TV shows like Mum

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Mum (2016)
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Mum (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A comedy about a mother at a milestone in her life. We follow her and her family through a year of new beginnings as she rebuilds her life following the death of her husband. Mum is joined by her supportive life-long friend Michael. Through a year of new beginnings she rebuilds her life surrounded by her family: son Jason and his girlfriend Kelly; her brother Derek and his new partner, Pauline; and her in-laws.
Style: sitcom, light, humorous, sincere, captivating, melancholic
Plot: mother, death of husband, brother sister relationship, eccentric family, love and romance, new life, female protagonist, mother son relationship, feminist, daily life, widow, bereavement, heartbreak, woman, suburbs, grief, british humour, family
Time: 2010s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sitcom, humorous, light and captivating films and TV series with plots about british humour, family relations, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, friendship and love and romance mostly in Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mum: Detectorists (2014), Hold the Sunset (2018), Crashing (2016), This Country (2017), Together (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Detectorists (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.
Style: sitcom, funny, humorous, not serious, entertaining ...
Plot: treasure hunt, friendship, archaeologist, obsessive quest, buddies, english countryside, treasure, partner, escapades, odd couple, fortune, hidden treasure ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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Hold the Sunset (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Edith's dreams of retirement to the sun with her long-term suitor Phil are shattered when her 50-year-old son Roger arrives home, seeking to recapture his boyhood happiness.
Style: sitcom, feel good, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: son, retirement, parents and children, family relations, male female relationship, social problems, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, family problems, neighbor neighbor relationship, lifestyle, satire ...
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Crashing (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A comedy drama that crashes straight into the lives and loves of six twenty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.
Style: humorous, ironic, sweet, funny, sitcom ...
Plot: twenty something, lgbt, friendship, lgbtq, gay, gay lead character, roommate, neighbor neighbor relationship, couple relations, closeted homosexual, jealousy, childhood friend ...
Place: england
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100%
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This Country (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of cousins Kerry and Kurtan in the rural village of Cotswolds.
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: rural setting, small town, brother sister relationship, grownups, friendship, countryside, society, identity crisis, adolescence, nature, youth, aspiration ...
Place: britain, england
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30%
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Together (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When Tom and Ellen are together, things seem to work. It's only in the spaces outside the relationship - the intrusions of real life, and the deadly collaboration of parents, siblings, friends and exes - that the flailing attempts to make good ...
Style: sitcom, captivating, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Plot: relationships, couples, friends, couple relations, humour, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, love story, family relations, male female relationship, romantic relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Grandma's House (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Grandma's House is a sitcom television series broadcast on BBC Two. Written by Simon Amstell and long term collaborator Dan Swimer, the series stars Simon Amstell playing a version of himself: an ex-television presenter searching for meaning in ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, light, feel good ...
Plot: career, starting over, family relations, grandmother, doubts and hesitations, unfulfillment, oldtimer, lgbt, mother son relationship, jewish family, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
2point4 Children (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: 2point4 children is a 1990s British sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall. It follows the lives of the Porter family; an average family that is persistently faced with surreal situations and sheer bad luck. The show was originally ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: family relations, couples, parents and children, eccentric family, couple relations, family life, siblings relations, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, father ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england
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25%
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Uncle (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Andy is a dissolute out-of work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 12-year-old nephew Errol after being morally blackmailed into looking after him by his chaotic sister Sam - all on the day Andy was planning to kill himself. Not a ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot: responsibility, uncle nephew relationship, family relations, comedy of errors, musician, nothing goes right, youth, escapades, gay, mental health, child care, accident ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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
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25%
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Blandings (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 13 January 2013, and stars Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and Mark Williams. The ...
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: eccentric family, english countryside, lord, master and servant, butler, family relations, estate, castle, power relations, pig, aristocrat, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Still Open All Hours (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: store, family relations, workplace, workplace situations, parents and children, family business, friendship, cooking show, storekeeper, salesman, customer, photograph ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Down There (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Iñaki is a Basque man in his thirties who has never left Euskadi. He lives in San Sebastián with his absorbent mother Maritxu, and runs a bar he inherited from his father, where he routinely engages in a weekly game of mus with his longtime ...
Style: sincere, entertaining, thought provoking, humorous, light ...
Plot: mother, lifestyle change, changing lives, mother son relationship, friendship, coma, male female relationship, family relations, mother and son, travel, new life, trip ...
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24%
In with the Flynns (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In with the Flynns is a British sitcom created by Caryn Mandabach, produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions, and broadcast by the BBC. The first series began broadcast on 8 June 2011 for six episodes on BBC One and in high definition on BBC One HD in ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: family life, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, supportive parent, everyday life, rivalry, friendship, love, youth, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: manchester, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
How Not to Live Your Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: How Not to Live Your Life is a British sitcom, written by and starring Dan Clark that aired between 27 September 2007 and 22 December 2011, about a neurotic twenty-nine-year-old man who is trying to navigate his way through life but is not helped by ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, feel good ...
Plot: down on your luck, lifestyle, roommate, financial problem, crush, debt, unfulfillment, love and romance, failed attempt, nothing goes right, humour, comedy of errors ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Lovesick (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, light ...
Plot: friendship, sexually transmitted disease, buddies, down on your luck, disorder, farce, humour, sexual relations, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, illness ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Kim's Convenience (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Kim ('Appa' and 'Umma') immigrated to Toronto in the 80's to set up shop near Regent Park and ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, psychological, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: society, adaptation, friendship, brother sister relationship, rivalry, love, friend, parents and children, love and romance, family relations, teenage life, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada, ontario canada
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Cockroaches (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Tom and Suze, two nineteen-year-olds both dreaming of the future, have sex when nuclear war strikes. Unfortunately, they then survive. Awkward. Cockroaches is a post-apocalyptic comedy about one family trying to survive in a wasteland of cannibals, ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: life turned upside down, survival, love and romance, couples, escapades, eccentric family, disorder, chaos, survivor, dystopia, zombie, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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21%
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Bread (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of ...
Style: sitcom
Plot: scam, mother, slacker, unemployment, classic car, father, religious, brother, sister, dog, grandfather, neighborhood ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: liverpool, northern england
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21%
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The Pitts (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Pitts is a short-lived FOX sitcom that aired 7 half-hour episodes between March and April 2003. It is about a family and their bad luck. It was a satire on typical American sitcoms with over-the-top sight gags.
Style: sitcom, entertaining, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot: bad luck, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, supernatural, paranormal, werewolf, supernatural power, talking car, teenage girl, little boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
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Doll & Em (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Doll & Em is a British comedy series starring real-life friends Emily Mortimer (Em) and Dolly Wells (Doll), filmed in the style of a reality TV show. After a breakup, Doll heads to Hollywood to be with her childhood best friend Em, who's ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, visually appealing, feel good, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hollywood, friendship, best friend, ambition, showbiz, artists and showbiz, actor's life, female friendship, strong female presence, relationship vs career, friends, friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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21%
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Man Down (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life, whose world is at near collapse. His girlfriend Naomi is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks. He has two uniquely dysfunctional friends and a ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, psychological, entertaining ...
Plot: socially awkward, absurdism, father son relationship, breakup, man child, teacher, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, british, school teacher, director, father ...
Time: 2010s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Bridget & Eamon (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bridget & Eamon are the typical unhappily married 80s Irish couple. They live somewhere in the Midlands with their indeterminate number of children. Chain-smoking Bridget has notions. She wants the lifestyle from the pages of Woman's Way ...
Style: sitcom, light, entertaining, absurd, ironic
Plot: eccentric family, husband wife relationship, relationships, parents and children, prankster, couple relations, brother sister relationship, lifestyle, absurd humor, humour, british humour
Time: 80s
Place: ireland
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21%
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Dinnerladies (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 34 min.
TV show
Story: Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, realistic, comfort
Plot: workplace, mother, staff, handyman, christmas, working class, manager, workplace situations, factory, love and romance, up and down relationship, factory worker ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: northern england, england, europe, manchester, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Whitney (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Whitney is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from September 22, 2011 to March 27, 2013. The series originally aired in the 9:30 pm /8:30 pm Thursday night timeslot. The show stars Whitney Cummings and is based on her real-life experience and her ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot: lifestyle, couples, love and romance, couple relations, verbal byplay, drug, relationships, twentysomething life, strong female presence, woman, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Roger & Val Have Just Got In (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Roger & Val Have Just Got In is a British sitcom that stars Dawn French and Alfred Molina playing married couple Roger and Val Stevenson. The show premiered on BBC Two on 6 August 2010 and six episodes were broadcast for the first series. The ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: married couple, couple relations, working class, family relations, everyday life, rivalry, long term relationship, bittersweet, couples, realism, verbal byplay, british humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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20%
Raised by Wolves (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set on a Wolverhampton council estate, Raised By Wolves is modern day reimagining of the childhood of Caitlin Moran and her brothers and sisters. Single-mum Della lives in a three bedroom council house with Germaine, Aretha, Yoko, Mariah, Wyatt and ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, single mother, eccentric family, family life, youth, single parent, teenage life, aspiration, rite of passage, strong female lead, feminist, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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20%
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GameFace (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Marcella is an aspiring actress recovering from a relationship break up. Despite her optimistic attempts, and with help from her friends, therapist and driving instructor, she is unable to get her life back on track.
Style: sitcom, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: satire, actress, lifestyle, aspiring actress, social problems, relationship vs career, thirtysomething life, coping, slice of life, female protagonist, ambitious woman, breakup ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Witless (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Leanne and Rhona are two ordinary flatmates whose lives are thrown into disarray after witnessing a gangland shooting. They find themselves whisked into witness protection, given new identities and left to fend for themselves in a grubby flat ...
Style: sitcom, light, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: witness, hitman, murder, new life, danger, lifestyle, shooting, witness protection, british humour
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Welcome to the Family (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Welcome to the Family is an American television series that aired on NBC from October 3, to October 17, 2013 on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. Eastern/7:30 p.m. Central, after Parks and Recreation. On May 10, 2013, the network placed a series order for the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, captivating, light ...
Plot: family life, pregnancy, eccentric family, teenage love, love and romance, parents and children, couple relations, life turned upside down, society, marriage, in-laws, culture clash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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20%
Call Your Mother (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: An empty-nester mom wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away. She decides her place is with her family and as she reinserts herself into their lives, her kids realize they might actually need ...
Style: sitcom, funny, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Plot: kids and family, young adult, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, relationships, life, family relations, humour, lifestyle, teenager, teenage life, protective mother ...
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20%
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