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Hobson's Choice (1983)
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Hobson's Choice (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
Plot: father daughter relationship, pride, prejudice, shoemaker, shoe store
Time: 1910s
Place: new orleans

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about father daughter relationship, family relations, love and romance, couples, love, husband wife relationship and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hobson's Choice: Our Town (1977), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), Hannah Free (2009), Romeo & Juliet (1994), What Love Will Make You Do (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Our Town (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
Plot: literary, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, wedding, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, small town, death, ghost, funeral, brother sister relationship, death in childbirth ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s
Place: new england, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An uninterrupted rehersal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to ...
Style: melancholic, sincere, cerebral, talky, stylized ...
Plot: theater, loneliness, relationships, character study, artists and showbiz, family problems, human nature, art, existentialism, family gatherings, anton chekhov, drinking ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s, 1890s, turn of the century
Place: new york, russia, usa, manhattan new york city, st. petersburg russia
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57%
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Hannah Free (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.
Style: sincere, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lgbtq, forbidden love, parents and children, family relations, elderly lovers, nurse patient relationship, lgbt, love and romance, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Romeo & Juliet (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, shakespeare, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, love, father daughter relationship, family relations, male female relationship, teenager
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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What Love Will Make You Do (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Girl meets boy. Girl's daddy is in prison. Daddy's girl becomes a pawn for revenge.
Style: entertaining, light, captivating, romantic
Plot: love and romance, relationships, male female relationship, romantic relationship, father and daughter, love affair, couple relations, love story, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, fall in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Different Kind of Christmas (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he ...
Style: christmas comedy
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, xmas, youth, father daughter relationship, family relations, christmas movie, santa claus suit
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Only Game in Town (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.
Style: realistic, semi serious, gloomy, humorous, touching ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, gambling, chorus girl, bride and groom, bittersweet, couples, hotel, addiction, love and romance, unfulfillment, couple relations, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: las vegas, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Jane White Is Sick & Twisted (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jane White's only ambition is to appear on a popular talk show.
Style: cynical, semi serious, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, obsessive quest, family relations, mentally unstable, parents and children, female protagonist, transvestism, couples, media, love and romance, mentally challenged, serial killer ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Baptista, a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca, will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina, a hellish shrew, has wed. Lucentio, a student and the son of a wealthy Pisan merchant, has fallen in love with ...
Style: costume drama, clever, humorous, witty, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: battle of the sexes, shakespeare, opposites attract, medieval, wedding, marriage, renaissance, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, makeover, stage play, royal family ...
Time: 16th century, year 1967, 20th century
Place: persia, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Thieves (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school. Romantic dalliances with others convince them that they're meant to be together despite ...
Style: romantic comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: couples, female teacher, school, love affair, destiny, love and romance, husband wife relationship, divorce, father daughter relationship, extramarital affair, corpse, nihilism ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her colored chauffeur Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: racism, friendship, elderly, master and servant, civil rights, old age, african american, racial segregation, chauffeur, prejudice, stereotypes, black ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: georgia, atlanta georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
Style: feel good, romantic, funny, humorous, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: wedding, culture clash, mother daughter relationship, greek, bride and groom, prejudice, dysfunctional family, love and romance, stereotypes, makeover, parents and children, parent child relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Fools (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Comedy - Two strangers brush hands on a train and move in together days later, fabricating the history of their love as they go along. - Rebecca Spence, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Danny Goldring
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
Plot: partner, moving, bassist, unknown father, stranger, dead wife, makeup artist, dead mother, father daughter relationship, picnic, train, bare breasts ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Chapter Two (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: widower, friendship, death of wife, actress, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, death in the family, love affair, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: new york
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38%
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Something New (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.
Style: romantic, sexy, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: interracial romance, interracial relations, white male black female relationship, interracial love, racism, opposites attract, career woman, prejudice, culture clash, blacks and whites, hot and sexy, looking for love ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, los angeles, east africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
35%
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Jersey Girl (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his ...
Style: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, love and romance, single parent, death, relationships, love story, family drama, honest, death of wife, family relations, starting over ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Jenny's Wedding (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roommate is actually her fiancée? As the old-fashioned Farrells attempt to come to terms with the ...
Style: sexy, rom com, humorous, light, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, love, lgbt, lgbtq, wedding, marital argument, couples, gay lead character, secret ...
Place: new york, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Christmas Reservations (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It's Christmas at the Treeline Ski Resort, where Holly is the event coordinator at her family lodge. She plans every event and keeps all the guests happy. But when her college sweetheart, now widowed with two children, checks in, Holly ...
Style: feel good, light, romantic, entertaining, humorous
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, ski resort, christmas romance, family business, starting over, unfulfilled love, beautiful scenery, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, second chance, family relations, unfulfillment ...
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31%
Spin the Bottle (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When five childhood friends reunite for a weekend in the country, old jealousies resurface, sexual debauchery ensues, and it quickly becomes clear that time may not heal all wounds...
Style: crying, independent film, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, friends, anti feminist, nudity, closeted gay, gay lead character, regression, bisexual man, bisexuality, gay sex ...
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Wash (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the transition to leave her husband and go to this fellow.
Style: independent film
Plot: family relations, east asian lead, mother daughter relationship, haunted by the past, wife leaves husband, racist, ex husband ex wife relationship, family drama, interracial marriage, unhappy wife, widower, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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August (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton ...
Style: melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, depression, self discovery, friendship, love triangle, family problems, siblings relations, fall in love, love and romance, midlife crisis, anton chekhov, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, edwardian era, victorian era, 1890s
Place: wales, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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
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30%
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Just a Kiss (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, couple relations, couples, infidelity, love affair, looking for love, thirtysomething life, sexual relations, workplace romance, dancer's life, love and romance, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Divorce (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Style: sexy, talky, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, culture clash, divorce, prejudice, justice, happy ending, desire, pregnancy, sisters, wine, betrayal, marriage ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Christmas Getaway (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a reservation mix-up at a mountain resort forces a newly-single travel writer to share a cabin with a handsome widower and his precocious daughter over the holidays, their lives are transformed by the magic of Christmas and the unexpected power ...
Style: romantic, funny, sincere, feel good, light ...
Plot: christmas, single father, christmas season, father daughter relationship, snowstorm, single parent, christmas romance, party, lawyer, misunderstanding, female writer, car breakdown ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bianca, a tenth grader, has never gone on a date, but she isn't allowed to go out with boys until her older sister Kat gets a boyfriend. The problem is, Kat rubs nearly everyone the wrong way. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey, ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, teen, rom com, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, teenager, opposites attract, youth, fall in love, couples, teenage life, teen romance, love and romance, initially antagonists, school, enemies to lovers ...
Time: year 1999, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, semi autobiographical ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, father daughter relationship, family relations, mental disorder, parents and children, absent mother, mental health, illness, poverty, husband wife relationship, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 70s, year 1978, year 1967 ...
Place: boston, usa, new york, new england, massachusetts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Karel Bursík, as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father, a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children hoping they would escape a country poverty. He soon threw his daughter Vera out of home; he did ...
Plot: economist, renaissance, unfaithfulness, sex, brother brother relationship, voyeurism, suburbs, family relations, grape, brother brother conflict, father daughter relationship, memory ...
Time: 1930s
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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