Movies and TV shows like Fresno

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Fresno (1986)
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Fresno (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: A long-format spoof of 1980s prime-time soap operas, set in raisin town Fresno, California.
Style: parody, spoof
Plot: dysfunctional family, rivalry, murder, family relations, drifter, competition, intrigue, matriarchy, male female relationship, greed, widow, power struggle, husband wife relationship, weirdo, masquerade, brother brother relationship, courtroom, attempted murder, eccentricity, mother son relationship, soap
Place: california
Keyword: matriarch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, feel good, parody and humorous films and TV series with plots about family relations, satire, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, relationships, social satire and family problems mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Fresno: The Windsors (2016), Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ (2016), School of Thrones (2013), The Hotwives of Orlando (2014), Viva Variety (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Windsors (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy soap opera re-imagining the lives of the British Royal Family as you have never seen them before.
Style: parody, sitcom, feel good, light, humorous ...
Plot: royal family, satire, family relations, political satire, rivalry, father son relationship, monarchy, dialogue, escapades, monarch, royalty, celebrity culture ...
Place: england, britain
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95%
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follow Platinum Realty, Los Angeles' premiere realty group as a group of realtors compete for a partner position in the firm by selling as much property as possible.
Style: parody, semi serious, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: satire, partner, realtor, competitor, business competition, professional rivalry, workplace, rivalry, coworker, co worker co worker relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
School of Thrones (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Parody of Game Of Thrones.
Style: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, prom, rivalry, friendship, teenage life, social relations, youth, teachers and students, high school life, sexual content, profanity, power relations ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Hotwives of Orlando (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A parody of one of the most popular franchises in reality television, “The Hotwives of Orlando,” takes you inside the uber-exclusive and glamorous world of six hot housewives livin’ large in Central Florida's sexiest city, Orlando. The ...
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, female bonding, couples, friends, silly humor, strong female presence, parents and children, thirtysomething life, couple relations, husband wife relationship, friendship, female friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Viva Variety (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Viva Variety is an American sketch comedy series that aired on Comedy Central from April 1997 to December 1999. The series satirizes European variety shows.
Style: sketch comedy, parody, spoof
Plot: sketch, society, satire, male female relationship, stereotypes, showbiz, comedy team, social satire, irreverence, television, variety show, monologue ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Life of Riley (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Life of Riley is a British comedy television series, shown on BBC One and BBC HD. The show stars Caroline Quentin and Neil Dudgeon, who are recently married, and is set around their dysfunctional family. The show also features the couple's four ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, funny ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, family life, family problems, couples, couple relations, husband wife relationship, marriage, children, baby, newlyweds ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Sarabhai V/S Sarabhai (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sarabhai vs Sarabhai is a 2005 sitcom featuring a quintessentially upper-class family in Mumbai. The show received a positive response from the critics and public alike and enjoyed one of the best TRPs for an Indian comedy show. In the final ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: social satire, husband wife relationship, prejudice, materialism, sarcasm, brother brother relationship, high society, bullying, intolerance, unhappiness, social status, strange behavior ...
Place: mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
A Perfect Family (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Aleksei stumbles upon a secret about his employer, an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company, that allowed it to amass millions of dollars. Fearing for his life, he finds no better place for his family to hide than the set of a… reality show. Now ...
Style: captivating, feel good, humorous, light, entertaining ...
Plot: escapades, rivalry, family relations, casting, husband wife relationship, couple relations, financial problem, contest, kids and family, money problems, humour, unconventional method ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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1600 Penn (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: 1600 Penn is an American single camera television comedy series about a dysfunctional family living in the White House. The series stars Jenna Elfman, Bill Pullman and Josh Gad. Gad, along with Jason Winer and Jon Lovett jointly created the central ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, political, feel good ...
Plot: politics, parents and children, family problems, couple relations, head of state, silly humor, family relations, state affairs, president, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, usa president ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Pretty the Series (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: These are the trials and tribulations of the Champagne family, and all their collective friends and enemies, on their bumpy road to temporary reality stardom.
Style: not serious, parody, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, family life, eccentric family, profanity, power relations, disorder, ambition, contests and competitions, teachers and students, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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New Texas (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium
TV show
Story: Following the sudden death of the family patriarch, the four argumentative Vrancken brothers are forced to live under the same roof for an entire year before they can claim their inheritance. Deliciously dark Belgian comedy.
Style: sitcom, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: villa, brother brother relationship, male female relationship, eccentric family, lifestyle, inheritance, love affair, slice of life, family life, satire, living together, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Married... with Children (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Married... with Children is an American sitcom that aired for 11 seasons. It featured a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago, Illinois, suburb. The show, notable for being the first prime-time television series to air on Fox, ran from ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, parody, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, promiscuous daughter, working class, family life, family problems, struggle, parents and children, misfit, suburbs, couples, family relations, adult humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Hotwives of Las Vegas (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a city where dreams and fortunes are made every day, along with hundreds of new cases of herpes. Meet a fresh batch of real Hotwives loving and clawing their way through the town with smiles on their faces - cause the Botox won't let ...
Style: parody, feel good, entertaining, semi serious, satirical ...
Plot: satire, social satire, housewife, female bonding, city life, lifestyle, urban setting, society, lgbt, husband wife relationship, friend, marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Mann & Wife (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: "Mann & Wife" is a new original Bounce TV series starring David and Tamela Mann as newlyweds Daniel and Toni Mann. The show revolves around the newly married couple and their blended family, each with two children from previous ...
Style: entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating
Plot: black cast, relationships, lifestyle, husband wife relationship, family life, marital problem, married couple, couple relations, male female relationship, kids and family, black american, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Brown Nation (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Hasmukh operates a small IT Consulting company "Shree Ganesh Computers Limited Inc" in Queens, NY. Staffed by a disinterested and lazy cast of characters, his business flounders. His home life is not much better. His wife Dimple, a ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot: social satire, family life, family relations, lifestyle, social problems, relationship vs career, husband wife relationship, marital problem, business, male female relationship, family problems, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Stallions de Amor (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story: In this telenovela spoof, two hapless detectives try to solve the murder of sensual matriarch Merlinda Stallion
Style: soap opera, spoof, satirical, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: eccentric family, matriarchy, sleuth, family life, relationships, crime solving, investigation, family problems, relationship problems, satire, uncover truth, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Thin Pink Line (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In this mockumentary, a film team in search of a new documentary project determines to find a wrongfully imprisoned death-row inmate. Enter Chauncey Ledbetter, the quirky, potentially gay, prisoner convicted of murdering his high school show choir ...
Style: parody, mockumentary, flamboyance
Plot: gay subtext, lgbt, eccentricity, murder, death sentence, rivals, gay interest, murder case, weirdo, colleague, envy, truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Family Time (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The Stallworths, a working class African American family, scratch off a lottery ticket and jump to middle class overnight.
Style: sitcom, feel good, satirical, captivating, semi serious
Plot: black cast, lottery ticket, kids and family, family relations, satire, relationships, social satire, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, changing lives, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Above Average Presents (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Above Average is the comedy network for high quality funny videos from top comedians, stars and rising talent. From the makers of SNL, The Tonight Show, and more.
Style: parody, sketch comedy, spoof
Plot: pop culture, social satire, comedian, joke, stand up comedian, satire
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Barely Famous (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Introducing "Barely Famous": a docu-style comedy series. This show explores the hypocrisy of reality TV by centering around two sisters who say they would never do a reality show, but are being filmed by a camera crew. Over the course of ...
Style: captivating, humorous, semi serious, realistic, parody ...
Plot: satire, nothing goes right, actor's life, looking for love, family relations, disorder, love and romance, media satire, showbiz, hollywood, hippie, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Woman's Fate (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: "A Woman’s Fate” is about the story of three women who are stuck to social patterns that prevent them from being happy. Stella, after fifty years of marriage, notices she has given up on dreams to be the woman behind a “great man” and ...
Style: satirical, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: female empowerment, lifestyle change, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, marriage, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, troubled marriage, family relations, marriage crisis, social problems, dysfunctional marriage ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Countryside (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: A group of urbanites flee the city for different reasons: existential, economic crisis, need for fresh air, search for peace, inspiration to compose ... The intention of these strangers is to settle in an abandoned town and start their lives from ...
Style: sincere, entertaining, captivating, light
Plot: disorder, love, family relations, society, rivalry, friendship, male female relationship, adaptation, escapades, youth, small town, house
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Grosse Pointe (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Grosse Pointe is an American television parody series which aired on the WB Network during the 2000–2001 television season. Created by Darren Star, it was a satire depicting the behind-the-scenes drama on the set of a television show, and was ...
Style: parody, sitcom, not serious, humorous, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: actor, actress, rivalry, actor's life, showbiz, lifestyle, celebrity culture, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, workplace, starlet, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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47%
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Brothers (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mike Trainor seemingly has it all—he's a good-looking, wealthy and recently retired NFL player living the high-life in New York City, but he's about to get sidelined. When his mom learns that Mike's business manager took off with ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot: american football, family relations, rivalry, family life, hometown, sibling relationship, parents and children, disability, brother brother relationship, getting home, friendship, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Payne (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Payne is an American television series, patterned after the British program Fawlty Towers. It starred American actor John Larroquette, who portrayed assistant district attorney Dan Fielding on the American television program Night Court. Larroquette ...
Style: sitcom
Plot: hotel, bellhop, hotel owner, husband wife relationship
Time: 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Beauty and the Baller (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Beauty and the Baller is a single-camera TV comedy series about a pro athlete, his hot wife and what their life is like off of the court. Despite their fame and fortune, at the end of the day John and Deena Castle are just like any other couple when ...
Style: semi serious, satirical, feel good, entertaining, captivating
Plot: marriage, husband wife relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, athlete's life, satire, family relations, life is a bitch, social satire, marital problem, couples, married couple ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Ben Stiller Show (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 306 min.
TV show
Story: The Ben Stiller Show is the name of two sketch comedy television shows that aired on MTV from 1990 to 1991, and then on Fox from September 1992 to January 1993. The Fox show stars Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk. Character ...
Style: sketch comedy, sitcom, parody, spoof, slapstick comedy ...
Plot: sketch, media, disorder, behind the scenes, showbiz, rock music, musician, guest, comedian, joke, pop culture, monologue ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Traffic Light (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: "Traffic Light" is a story about three childhood friends. They are slightly over 30. They are men in their prime. One is married, another is busy, the third is free as the wind. The characters are absolutely not similar, but they are ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, captivating, sincere
Plot: friendship, love and romance, male female relationship, mother daughter relationship, escapades, family relations, parents and children, drinking, society, drinking alcohol, infidelity, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Choufli Hal (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Tunisia
TV show
Story: Sboui, a comic character, lives with his brother and mother many funny adventure in the old building of a fortune teller, and fall in love with her daughter. he works at the office of his brother, a psychotherapist, as a secretary.
Style: semi serious, captivating, humorous, satirical, entertaining
Plot: relationships, family relations, male female relationship, fall in love, brother brother relationship, satire, lifestyle, relationship problems, family problems, love
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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NTSF:SD:SUV (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: NTSF:SD:SUV:: – meaning National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle:: – is a quarter-hour format American television comedy that parodies the police procedural and action film genres.
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, funny, spoof ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: terrorism, fighting crime, special agent, law enforcement, disorder, danger, fellow agent, partner, terrorist plot, murder, workplace, sketch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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