Movies like Reach for Me

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Reach for Me (2008)
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Reach for Me (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of life Kevin becomes Alvin's hospice roommate. Through this "odd couple" relationship, Alvin learns that its not the minutes in our life, its the moments in your life that matter.
Style: realistic, humorous, psychological, captivating, independent film, semi serious, crying
Plot: aging, retirement home, couples, elderly, terminal illness, unfulfillment, retirement home life, love, time, old man, widower, introspection, fall in love, danger, mature, senior citizen, friends, love and romance, tragic hero, odd couple, hopes, sex, friendship, death, cancer ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, friendship, couple relations, aging, family relations and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Reach for Me: Hello Lonesome (2010), The White Angel (2007), 5 Flights Up (2014), Finding Joy (2013), The Lather Effect (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hello Lonesome (2010)
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 ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, estrangement, friends, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, friendship, retirement home, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.2
 11K
5 Flights Up (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Audience: date night
Plot: real estate, couples, couple relations, elderly, love and romance, society, aging, interracial relations, husband wife relationship, senior citizen, aged person, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.2
 429
Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Lather Effect (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school...
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, friends, couples, looking for love, love and romance, couple relations, introspection, unfulfilled love, adolescence vs adulthood, hopes, unfulfillment, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.5
 347
Old Love (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological
Plot: love and romance, friendship, couples, couple relations, youth, looking for love, introspection, society, teachers and students, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.6
 2K
Kotch (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, psychological, humorous ...
Plot: aging, teenage pregnancy, senior citizen, christmas, adoption, orphan, old age, retirement home, bittersweet, hospital, parents and children, bus ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 3.5
 670
Blockbuster (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, black and white
Plot: introspection, artists and showbiz, redemption, unfulfillment, actor's life, filmmaking, elderly, hopes, aging, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Anita Takes a Chance (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Fifty-something widow Anita loses her lifetime dream job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theater and build a trendy multiplex in its stead. Depressed at first, Anita finds comfort in watching the shirtless hunks ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual
Plot: aging, love affair, midlife crisis, fall in love, love and romance, friendship, infidelity, second chance, old woman, couples, unfulfilled love, bus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 7.5
 4K
Elsa & Fred (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa ...
Style: touching, semi serious, captivating, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly, elderly lovers, couples, fall in love, starting over, self fulfillment, aging, dying woman, destiny, partner, flirting, old age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.5
 196
Fourplay (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A story of friendship, love, marriage, secrets, lies that unfolds between two couples in one apartment during a Sunday brunch that will affect their lives forever.
Style: semi serious, satirical, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: marriage, friends, couples, couple relations, satire, love and romance, lifestyle, friendship, male female relationship, family life, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.7
 3K
All Together (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Plot: friendship, aging, couples, family relations, elderly, couple relations, parents and children, old age, truth, friends, bittersweet, heart attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.1
 201
Waltzing Anna (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot: doctors and patients, couples, workplace, moral dilemma, mental illness, elderly, introspection, fall in love, love and romance, misfit, human nature, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.2
 623
Max Rose (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: aging, introspection, jazz, flashback sequence, memory, death of wife, friendship, elderly, dishonesty, dealing with death, wife, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
One Too Many Mornings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fischer can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, mumblecore, captivating, light ...
Plot: wedding, church, self discovery, friendship, odd couple, buddies, redemption, addiction, coming of age, alcoholism, vandalism, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Duane Hopwood (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style: emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, parents and children, down on your luck, addiction, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.2
 461
Runaway Horse (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful girlfriend Helene, Helmut is quite ready to dismiss ...
Style: psychological, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: couple relations, romantic rivalry, childhood friend, rivalry, friendship, infidelity, journey, introspection, love, couples, routine, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.6
 626
Cleopatra (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, self discovery, friendship, human nature, on the road, introspection, looking for love, best friend, family business, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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A Short History of Decay (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A failed Brooklyn writer, Nathan Fisher, visits his ailing parents in Florida. His mother has Alzheimer's and his father has recently had a stroke and his girlfriend has recently broken up with him.
Style: emotional, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Plot: family relations, introspection, siblings relations, parents and children, dark humor, mental illness, unsuccessful, unfulfillment, bittersweet, elderly, aging, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Living on Tokyo Time (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When her visa expires, a young Japanese immigrant in San Francisco agrees to marry a Japanese-American boy to avoid being deported back to Japan.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: kids in trouble, foreigner, japanese woman, immigrant, couples, fall in love, misfit, society, unfulfillment, self discovery, love and romance, wooing ...
Time: 80s
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.8
 685
The Big Ask (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, desert, moral dilemma, best friend, bittersweet, dark humor, buddies, couples, death of mother, young adult, dealing with death, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.3
 922
Empty Nest (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: aging, couples, couple relations, midlife crisis, family relations, family problems, elderly, parents and children, love and romance, leaving home, college, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Same Love, Same Rain (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jorge is a writer for a left-leaning Buenos Aires magazine that's at odds with the country's military dictatorship. He meets lovely and intelligent actress Laura and begins an on-and-off romance that will continue for the next two decades. ...
Style: touching, captivating, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: love, totalitarian regime, loss of father, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, fall in love, older man younger woman marriage, male female relationship, crush, cheating girlfriend, friendship between men ...
Time: 90s, year 1980
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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You Wont Miss Me (2009)
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.
Style: mumblecore, psychological, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: alienation, misfit, introspection, mentally unstable, social misfits, unfulfillment, friendship, society, self discovery, love and romance, urban, looking for love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.5
 4K
Elsa & Fred (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Aged, embittered widower, Fred learns to enjoy life thanks to his elderly yet vibrant neighbor, Elsa. Upon learning Elsa is terminally ill, Fred takes her to the Fontana di Trevi in Rome in order to reenact her favorite scene from ‘La Dolce ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly lovers, elderly, widower, family relations, neighbor, love and romance, aging, couples, terminal illness, romanticism, retirement, elderly man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, rome italy, europe, england, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Redemption of a Dog (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Will Austin is not only a successful executive, but an equally successful ladies man who sees nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of his labor. But everything changes when he finds out the father he grew up idolizing was instead a man of abuse ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspense, independent film
Plot: redemption, love and romance, womanizer, fall in love, parent child relationship, adulterous husband, family relations, domineering father, sex, father son relationship, father and son, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Vince and Shonda have come to the proverbial end of their ropes with one another. Set in Atlanta during the 2008 Presidential Election season, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is the touching story of what happens when two people feel they have nothing ...
Style: realistic, humorous, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: introspection, couple relations, breakup, couples, fall in love, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, african american
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.2
 358
The New Year (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young woman is forced to return to her hometown to take care of her ailing father and, in turn, finds herself living a life she never imagined for herself.
Style: humorous, semi serious, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, homecoming, parents and children, drastic change of life, youth, college, student life, self discovery, introspection, society, friendship, high school ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.0
 2K
That's Life! (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Style: sentimental, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: aging, midlife crisis, bittersweet, family gatherings, hospital, depression, cancer, birthday, priest, fortune teller, architect, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: malibu california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Bastards of Young (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot: couples, pregnancy, infidelity, couple relations, best friend, friends, thirtysomething life, introspection, crumbling marriage, adultery, divorce, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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