Movies like The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.
Style: southern gothic, independent film, clever, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky, crying
Plot: great depression, fight, feminism, deep south, wedding, family relations, cafe, small town, prison, forbidden love, betrayal, alcohol abuse, love and romance, interracial relations, couples, dysfunctional family, love affair, vengeance, society, store, social misfits, clergy, unfulfilled love, solitary, small town life ...
Time: year 1991, 1930s, 30s
Place: georgia, atlanta georgia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, crying, independent film and humorous films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, couples, photograph, mother daughter relationship, drinking and male female relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Wetherby (1985), Great Moments in Aviation (1994), The Grass Harp (1995), A Month by the Lake (1995), Don't Tell (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wetherby (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: loneliness, angst, heartache, memory, solitude, obsession, investigation, world war two, adultery, spinster, dinner party, school teacher ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: yorkshire, england
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95%
Great Moments in Aviation (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journey to England. Stewart is pursued by his nemesis Rex Goodyear (John Hurt), and the group are ...
Style: realistic, serious, humorous
Plot: ship, chess, aviation, interracial, murder, intrigue, betrayal, forgery, couples, cruise, gays and lesbians, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1994, 1930s, 50s
Place: england, scotland, west indies
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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The Grass Harp (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, unrequited love, sister sister relationship, orphan, world war one, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, chambermaid, deep south, family life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw ...
Style: sexy, romantic, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, true love, lake, hotel, love, adultery, lesbian love, summer, age-gap relationship, interwar period, nanny, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, pre world war two
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Don't Tell (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: incest, nightmare, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family relations, sexual abuse, self discovery, introspection, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Pieces of April (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her ...
Style: realistic, emotional, intense, talky, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: holiday, thanksgiving, road trip, family drama, food, dysfunctional family, cancer, eccentric family, loneliness, reconciliation, parents and children, family feud ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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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
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65%
Winter Passing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, addiction, writers, eccentricity, character study, complex characters, family relations, homecoming, unlikely friendships, family problems, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, michigan, manhattan new york city
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61%
Cape of Good Hope (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: interracial relations, pregnancy, love affair, love triangle, couples, family problems, hopes, single parent, society, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, cape town south africa
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59%
Bleak Moments (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her retarded sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizzare neighbour and irritating workmate.
Style: independent film, cult classic, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot: female nudity, secretary, thirty something, office worker, restaurant, friendship, nudity, medium, piano, tenant, loneliness, waiter ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: london, england, europe
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58%
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Up and Down (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are ...
Style: realistic, psychological, semi serious, clever, humorous ...
Plot: racism, immigrant, family relations, adoption, parents and children, terminal illness, youth, dealing with death, couple relations, love and romance, society, black market ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: balkan, eastern europe, czech republic, burma, prague ...
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57%
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Style: humorous, witty, independent film, hilarious, southern gothic ...
Plot: suicide, loneliness, investigation, murder, death, dysfunctional family, drinking, eccentricity, greed, storytelling, theatre director, countryside ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, texas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
1, 2, 3, Freeze (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home ...
Style: sexy, experimental, controversial, non-linear, surreal ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, milf, interracial relations, theft, first love, poverty, unemployment, teacher student relationship, children, death of boyfriend, mother daughter relationship, fear ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, france, marseille
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54%
These Foolish Things (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, lifestyle, actor's life, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: london, england
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53%
The Mystic Masseur (2001)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, India, Trinidad and Tobago, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Circa 1940 in Trinidad, still a British Colony, lives Ganesh Ramseyor, of East Indian origin, along with his wife, Leela. He longs to reach out to people, especially to Hindus, in order to promote the Hindu Faith, and be known as a writer. He does ...
Style: meditative, talky, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: masseur, politics, miraculous event, ambition, writer's life, rise to the top, rise and fall, love and romance, love affair, friendship, celebrity culture, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, year 2001, 1950s
Place: india, oxford university, latin america
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52%
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Reach the Rock (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A small town troublemaker (Alessandro Nivola), directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief (William Sadler) engage in a battle of wills and wit.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, small town, haunted by the past, society, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, grudge, social decay, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s
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51%
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Peep World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family's most intimate secrets.
Style: realistic, talky, humorous, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, family gatherings, family feud, eccentric family, writer's life, dark humor, artists and showbiz, family problems, sexual dysfunction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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47%
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and ...
Style: independent film, emotional, touching, black comedy, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, culture clash, dysfunctional family, transgender, hospital, food, blaxploitation, racial issues, wine, american history, transvestism, family relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles, california
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46%
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The Moderns (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He ...
Style: clever, humorous, surreal, expressionism, realistic ...
Plot: art, artist, sensuality, painter, writers, painting, forgery, collector, drinking, love, nude photography, world war one ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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45%
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: poverty, missing person, small town, family in crisis, female protagonist, bail, dysfunctional family, down on your luck, mental illness, rural setting, family crisis, uncle niece relationship ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa
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44%
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Junebug (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, ...
Style: independent film, humorous, emotional, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, dysfunctional family, painting, art, small town, eccentricity, jealousy, eccentric family, love and romance, social differences, meet the parents, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, chicago, usa, southern usa
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43%
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Possession (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. ...
Style: romantic, period piece, clever, realistic, serious ...
Plot: investigation, fall in love, writers, infidelity, opposites attract, uncover truth, lesbian, passion, love affair, couples, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, year 2002, victorian era
Place: london, england, europe, france, english channel ...
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42%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Heartburn (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living ...
Style: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: journalism, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, divorce, journalist, battle of the sexes, cheating, marriage, writers, infidelity, crumbling marriage, fall in love ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, washington d.c., usa
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40%
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Georgia Rule (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding ...
Style: teen, melancholic, stylized, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, small town, dysfunctional family, family problems, teenager, parents and children, rebellious daughter, confession, justice, generation gap, family relations, uncontrollable ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa, san francisco, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Style: sentimental, meditative, breathtaking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, racism, culture clash, forbidden love, prejudice, justice, murder mystery, fisherman, betrayal, jury, courtroom ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: washington state, japan, asia, pearl harbor, fictional island ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Quarry (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, escape, small town, interracial relations, mistaken identity, gay subtext, violent content, disorder, religions or cults, clergy, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: south africa, belgium, europe, holland, canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Sea (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Norway
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever, contemplative ...
Plot: favoritism among siblings, sexual abuse, dysfunctional family, fisherman, life is a bitch, family problems, family business, parents and children, family gatherings, family life, half brother half sister relationship, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe, reykjavik iceland, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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