Movies like River Street

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River Street (1996)
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River Street (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the station. Sentenced to community service at a local day centre, Ben's influence with a young tearaway forces him to question his values and he learns to see life from a different angle when he falls in love with Wendy, the centre's formidable and devoted manager...
Plot: teenager, police officer, wedding, church, fiancee, father daughter relationship, teenage boy, husband wife relationship, engagement, grandmother granddaughter relationship, community service, voice over narration, real estate development, marriage engagement
Place: australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, semi serious, realistic and humorous films with plots about father daughter relationship, family relations, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, love and romance, wedding and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like River Street: Chhoti Si Mulaqat (1967), Hotel de Love (1996), Muriel's Wedding (1994), Ali's Wedding (2017), The Man Who Sued God (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chhoti Si Mulaqat (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Shanker Choudhury's (Tarun Bose) mother (Pratima Devi), at the pleas of her dying husband, marries off his (Shanker's) daughter to a youth. Both the children are under-age and do not know nor understand that they have been married.
Plot: teenage boy, vacation, teenage girl, jealousy, engagement, wedding, marriage, death, grandmother granddaughter relationship, skiing, party, lawyer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.0
 675
Hotel de Love (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: hotel, twins, farce, love, male nudity, love triangle, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance, contests and competitions ...
Time: 80s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Muriel's Wedding (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Muriel’s Wedding is P.J. Hogan’s film debut. A humorous emancipation story of an unemployed woman who evolves from a dreamer into a self sustaining successful woman. An amusing comedy that’s funny, silly, angry and serious.
Style: light, funny, humorous, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: wedding, friendship, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, dignity, women, small town, coming of age, leaving home, parenthood, happy ending, honest ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: australia, sydney australia, bali, ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Ali's Wedding (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
Style: sweet, feel good, sentimental, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: wedding, husband wife relationship, friendship, love, marriage, hopes, love and romance, couples, musician, music, love affair, youth ...
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Man Who Sued God (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: courtroom, media, legal, insurance, journalism, partner, fighting the system, rivalry, dishonesty, courtroom drama, religion, husband wife relationship ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.6
 251
Labor Pains (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sarah (Kyra Sedgwick) is a New York City columnist who falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- Ryan (Rob Morrow), a free-spirited artist who promptly vanishes for eight months. Ryan, of course, has no idea he's going to be a ...
Style: melancholic, sincere, captivating, touching, independent film
Plot: true love, fear of commitment, husband wife relationship, pregnancy, interracial friendship, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, first date, wedding, marriage proposal, nurse, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film "Looking for Alibrandi" begins light-heartedly, and the viewer gets a very quick understanding of Josie's character through her interactions with her friends and family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, teenage love, high school, love triangle, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, parents and children, fish out of water, teenage life, suicide ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.6
 6
What a Sun (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Story: Veronica is a high school student studying to be a glazier, although she dreams of being a theatre actress. The only thing that she finds joy in at school is the company of her friend, Klemen and writing the script for a theatre play in her spare ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, teenage boy, teenage girl, teenager, part time job, teacher student relationship, factory
Place: slovenia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.1
 120
Violet's Visit (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Violet, a feisty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes he lives in the city with his new wife, but in ...
Style: independent film
Plot: gay, lgbt, father daughter relationship, gay father, teenage girl, teenage boy, gay couple, gay parent, marijuana, teenage runaway, crush, gay relationship ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Last Frontier (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A single mother from LA marries an Australian cattle rancher following a whirlwind courtship. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children, and dies before they arrive. His widow is left with a debt-ridden ranch during one of the worst ...
Plot: land grab, death of spouse, family relations, wooing, widow, child, outback, single parent, ranch, widower, farm, australian outback ...
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by ...
Style: talky, humorous, funny, melancholic, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family drama, stereotypes, happy ending, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, construction worker, parents and children, gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Polish Wedding (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is ...
Style: light, melancholic, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, pregnancy, infidelity, children, parenthood, family life, family bonds, happy ending, family relations, love affair, couples, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: paris france, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, true love, family relations, couples, opposites attract, unfulfillment, lifestyle, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, orphan ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.0
 307
Floating Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. They stay with a daughter who has already begun a successful career. Meanwhile their eldest daughter lives in Germany and their eldest son remains in Hong Kong. The film ...
Style: independent film
Plot: minimal dialogue, refugee, generation, miscarriage, depression, family relations, husband wife relationship, multiculturalism, mother daughter relationship, isolation, father son relationship, loneliness ...
Place: hong kong, sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
There's No Place Like Home (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of grandma Alba and grandpa Pietro in a big Villa, on the island they moved to. Because ...
Style: light, humorous, captivating, psychological, happy ...
Plot: family relations, family conflict, pregnancy, island, husband wife conflict, love, wedding anniversary, storm, under the surface, isolation, incest, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
 106
Serenades (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, tragic love, culture clash, human spirit, injustice, true love, parents and children, society, hopes, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: australia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 10K
How to Deal (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mandy Moore stars as Halley, a young hip high school student who's convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand. Her ...
Style: romantic, sweet, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, teenage love, teenage pregnancy, wedding, true love, coming of age, pregnancy, bullying, love and romance, youth, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.5
 434
Love Trap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Law student Thijs shares a house in which every room is the HQ of constant cruising for one night stands, relationships are considered a waste of lives. Suddenly Ben, his best mate since childhood, announces he passed on his room to Susan, who ...
Style: juvenile
Plot: bare chested male, one night stand, golf, wedding ring, best man, mother in law, church, female nudity, sex, father daughter relationship, bicycle, drinking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 61
I Do (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Story: Mayumi is a girl with a happy disposition in life who dreams of meeting her "the one" someday. She has been dreaming of meeting her "the one" and having the perfect wedding ever since she was a little girl. When she meets Lance, ...
Style: tagalog
Plot: marriage, chauffeur, death, funeral, grandfather, school, friend, hospital, father daughter relationship, tradition, college, large family ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: oral sex, food, feminism, self discovery, friendship, betrayal, family relations, suburbs, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, infidelity, elderly ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Father of the Bride (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A father coming to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.
Style: satirical, semi serious, romantic, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: wedding, father daughter relationship, father, daughter, wedding planning, love and romance, male female relationship, romantic relationship, wedding preparations and rituals, marriage, relationships, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Children of the Revolution (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, clever, black comedy, biting ...
Plot: satire, politics, dark humor, farce, violence, murder, insanity, brutality, male nudity, communism, communist, cold war ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: australia, russia, latvia, ussr, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.1
 302
A School Trip (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
Plot: school, high school, mountain, travel, high school student, trip, teenager, college, teacher, love, student, teenage girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Movie in collections
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 381
Lonely Hearts (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, crying, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: age-gap relationship, dating, looking for love, adult virgin, love affair, computers and web, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, lifestyle, hopes, human nature ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.4
 68
Holiday (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "where i see myself in 10 years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.
Plot: male female relationship, family relations, family reunited, rocket, death of wife, death of mother, capitalist, older man younger woman relationship, patriarch, working class, debate, letter ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Swinging Safari (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special ...
Style: sexy, light, unusual plot structure, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: wife swapping, swinger, sexual revolution, attempted seduction, beach, swinger couple, teenage sexuality, seductive woman, young love, parent child relationship, teenager, teenage life ...
Time: 70s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
Style: romantic, humorous, sexy, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: dance, dancing, ballroom dancing, love story, love and romance, competition, partner, rise to the top, artists and showbiz, rivalry, ambition, female partner ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Sugar Factory (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: With his distinctive voice and unusual view of life, Harris takes us through his story: a harrowing journey of humour, grief, resolution and redemption. Harris, as a child of five, sits underneath his house amongst the cobwebs making ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, teen angst, female pubic hair, trauma, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, rehabilitation center, bare breasts, male female relationship, mute girl, loner, teenage boy ...
Place: sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Sleepwalk with Me (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Style: funny, humorous, talky, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: sleepwalking, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, adulthood, loser, marriage, mental illness, mental disorder, road trip, biopic ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, philadelphia, ohio, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.2
 282
Rainbow Days (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Nijiiro Days follows the colorful lives and romantic relationships of four high school boys—Natsuki Hashiba, a dreamer with delusions of love; Tomoya Matsunaga, a narcissistic playboy who has multiple girlfriends; Keiichi Katakura, a kinky sadist ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, light, touching
Plot: teenage boy, group of friends, teenage girl, teenage life, best friend, family relations, youth, teenager, love and romance, friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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