Movies like Everything's Jake
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Everything's Jake (2000)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, realistic, psychological
Plot:
friendship, survival, life is a bitch, lifestyle, teaching the ways of the world, injustice, society, social misfits, homelessness, homeless, street life, down on your luck, winter, teacher, pianist, african american, male female relationship, sociology, publishing, urban setting, black american, death of son, suicide attempt, working the system, black ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and psychological films with plots about society, friendship, life is a bitch, friends, urban, social misfits and hopes mostly in Drama, Comedy and Action genres. Some movies like Everything's Jake: The Good Heart (2009), Stone Pillow (1985), Night Shapes (1999), You Wont Miss Me (2009), Man in the Chair (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Brian Cox stars as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas (Dano), a ...
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homeless, friendship, friends, social misfits, redemption, misfit, homelessness, mentor protege relationship, heart attack, workplace, elderly, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, san francisco, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes ...
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homeless, homeless shelter, social worker, woman in danger, survival, friendship, society, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, friends ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on ...
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migration, refugee, lovers, illegal prostitution, village life, homeless, religions or cults, immigrants, society, clergy, prostitute, hopes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
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psychological, realistic, humorous, captivating, mumblecore ...
Plot:
alienation, misfit, introspection, mentally unstable, unfulfillment, social misfits, society, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, looking for love, twentysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot:
follow your dream, obsessive quest, friendship, aging, lifestyle, youth, society, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, filmmaking, hollywood ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running scheme that goes awry. When things start getting messy, they rue the day they agreed to the venture; ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, heroin, social misfits, human nature, youth, life is a bitch, buddies, innocence lost, partners, society, redemption ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1975
Place:
michigan, detroit, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
friendship, mental illness, amusement park, misfit, self discovery, best friends, social misfits, betrayal, buddies, life is a bitch, missing person, down on your luck ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
I'm Bout It is a 1997 film by rapper Master P. The plot details his life in a New Orleans uptown ghetto. Master P wrote, directed and acted in the film.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough
Plot:
hip hop, hip hop culture, gangsters, hopes, drug dealing, follow your dream, life is a bitch, ambition, going straight, society, criminal heroes, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his demons and desperately trying to connect with the daughter he abandoned, he navigates the system, hustling for change and somewhere safe ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, atmospheric
Plot:
homeless, social decay, estrangement, down on your luck, homeless shelter, hopes, life is a bitch, society, redemption, parents and children, homelessness, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, friendship, boarding school, couples, family relations, friends, family problems, battles, innocence lost, life is a bitch, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
70s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
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realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, friendship, understanding, family relations, society, gay, best friends, twentysomething life, friend, sex, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A stage play about a young lady in her 20's who keeps dating the wrong men, her friends and family try to make her see what she's doing wrong but she learns on her own that that the man she really needed was right in front of her the whole ...
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semi serious, captivating, emotional, psychological, realistic ...
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family relations, couples, young lovers, society, youth, womanizer, midlife crisis, suburbs, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, christian, looking for love, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
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realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, starting over, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, society, relationships, friends, best friends
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
city life, immigrants, restaurant, friendship, americana, self discovery, diner, workplace romance, workplace, family relations, social misfits, lonely ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in present day New York City, "Happy Hour" is a literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it. Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, love affair, going straight, redemption, lifestyle, once promising, dysfunctional family, addiction, parents and children, family in crisis, looking for love, terminal illness ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worst, learn to like each other as friends
Style:
entertaining, talky, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
friends, gangsters, hip hop culture, hip hop, brotherhood, gang, blaxploitation, subway, police, interracial relations, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Place:
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56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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808
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, society, parents and children, fall in love, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de ...
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semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Plot:
friendship, disorder, partners, society, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, misfit partners, poverty, loss of job, rescue, homeless, unemployment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, paris france
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53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
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realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, friends, estrangement, unfulfillment, golden years, lifestyle, aging, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time:
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usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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; ...
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a split narrative, a young man follows two paths: his father's dream of him becoming a cop, and his own dream of becoming a rapper
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sincere, rough, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Days before his birthday and weeks before his wedding, Tate Bradley, a twenty-five year old, African-American man attempts to commit suicide. He survives the ordeal, but from his actions, it is obvious that "Something is Killing Tate." The ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, touching, biting ...
Plot:
african american, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, society, life is a bitch, hopes, interracial relations, relationship problems, curses spells and rituals, suicide attempt, suicide, incest ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Hollywood and Venice beach.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
homeless, haunted by the past, youth, juvenile delinquency, society, orphan, street life, survival, life is a bitch, troubled youth, beach, hollywood ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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new york, colombia, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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realistic, thought provoking, serious, bleak
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
coping, terminal illness, life is a bitch, women, destiny, human spirit, doctor, newlyweds, unfulfillment, strong female presence, death of mother, breast cancer
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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