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May in the Summer (2013)
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May in the Summer (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Jordan, Qatar, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted with the aftermath of her parents’ divorce.
Style: captivating, humorous, realistic, emotional, semi serious, independent film
Plot: family problems, culture clash, parents and children, couples, introspection, doubt, divorced parents, wedding planning, lesbian, refugee, woman, siblings, divorce, marriage, wedding, family relations, family life, family in crisis, disorder, siblings relations, family gatherings, mother daughter relationship, secrets, secret, three sisters ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: jordan, middle east
Keyword: new yorker

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and captivating films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, couples, family life, siblings relations and family gatherings mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like May in the Summer: Manhood (2003), A Mother's Love (2011), Brooklyn Lobster (2005), Quitters (2015), No. 2 (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Manhood (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, life turned upside down, manhood, youth, family problems, disorder, dysfunctional family, parents and children, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
A Mother's Love (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her daughter, Monica. It's going to take a mother's unconditional love to pray Regina ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot: parents and children, family life, family problems, couples, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family relations, marriage, black romance, woman, relationships, strong female lead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style: emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family business, family relations, save the day, family problems, restaurant, working class, estrangement, parents and children, bank, siblings relations, family in crisis, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 5.2
 274
Quitters (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, independent film
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, youth, family life, disorder, social relations, high school life, innocence lost, girl man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 6.5
 610
No. 2 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, humorous
Plot: family relations, family gatherings, siblings relations, parents and children, family history, family problems, aging, heir, party, pacific islander, blaxploitation, brother ...
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Simmons are playing the brothers' father and uncle, respectively, while Caan is one of the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, contemplative ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, last wish, family problems, ex athlete, self discovery, introspection, terminal illness, friendship, death, society, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.4
 2K
Two Weeks (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, spiritual ...
Plot: introspection, eccentric family, family life, estrangement, family problems, single parent, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, dying, terminal illness ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: One weekend, Aunt Bam's nephew-in-law Stewart is granted a court-ordered visitation with his children. Although his new, much-younger wife Mona is a bundle of nerves, Stewart seizes the opportunity to reconnect with his children, whom he loves ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family life, family problems, parents and children, disorder, strong female presence, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, african american protagonist
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 5.3
 160
Marine Life (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, couples, family problems, single parent, love and romance, youth, child as adult, midlife crisis, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, parents and children, friendship, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, friends, couples, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Life's a Breeze (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Life's A Breeze tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, family problems, on the road, comedy of errors, life turned upside down, disorder, family life, lifestyle, society, humour, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Family United (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ('Azuloscurocasinegro', 'Cousins​​'), he embarks on a new comedy that has as a backdrop the World Cup in South Africa and the setting is a wedding that takes precisely the day of the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, captivating
Plot: wedding, couples, childhood sweetheart, family relations, pregnancy, siblings relations, family problems, couple relations, love and romance, sibling relationship, family reunited, infidelity ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.8
 2K
Family Law (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
Style: semi serious, captivating, light, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, parents and children, family problems, hopes, youth, lawyer, father son relationship, teacher, husband wife relationship, teenager, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.3
 669
Lost Islands (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, family in crisis, teenage love, parents and children, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Rolling Family (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style: road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: gender, family relations, family problems, siblings relations, on the road, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, family in crisis, eccentric family, dysfunctional family ...
Place: argentina, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 5.5
 1K
Last Weekend (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, eccentric family, parents and children, siblings relations, dark humor, family gatherings, gay, friendship, dysfunctional family, lgbtq, lgbt, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her ...
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot: self discovery, elderly, introspection, disorder, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, siblings relations, pregnancy, couples, humour, heart disease ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 ⇓
59%
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June in January (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A newly engaged bride dreamed of her wedding day with her late mother for her entire life, and is looking forward to planning every perfect detail to honor her mom's memory. But her special day is nearly ruined by her intimidating future ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, sexual ...
Plot: wedding, couples, parents and children, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance, youth, wedding planning, nothing goes right, holiday, unlikely couple, family gatherings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.5
 622
Ball & Chain (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Somewhere in the middle of Texas, Ameet (Sunil Malhotra) and Saima (Lisa Ray) have a problem. They were perfectly happy avoiding each other until their parents set them up to get married. The reluctant couple decide to do whatever it takes to break ...
Style: humorous, captivating, sentimental, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: wedding, family relations, couples, eccentric family, family gatherings, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, love, wedding planning, society, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.5
 2K
Kingdom Come (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a comedic boil as the wildly dysfunctional Slocumbs squabble and fight their way to the funeral.
Style: touching, humorous, light, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, death, family drama, eccentric family, family problems, introspection, family in crisis, parents and children, self discovery, hip hop, african american, urban ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Rock the Casbah (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, islamic ...
Plot: funeral, family relations, life turned upside down, family gatherings, family problems, death in the family, family life, parents and children, disorder, muslim, arab, housekeeper ...
Place: morocco, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, madea, black, black man, black history, life changing, black cast ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Weddings and Other Disasters (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: introspection, event planner, couples, self discovery, strong female presence, disorder, marriage, wedding planning, singleness, fall in love, family relations, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, florence
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, "Last Summer in the Hamptons" concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances ...
Style: independent film, talky, clever, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, death in the family, matriarchy, theatre group, theatrical troupe, actor, anton chekhov, theatre play, family home, playwright, theatre director, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.1
 767
Momma's Man (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In Momma's Man an adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house. An odd premise, but executed with skill and tenderness.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, mumblecore, sincere ...
Plot: midlife crisis, introspection, family problems, family relations, love and romance, eccentric family, family life, parents and children, unfulfillment, pregnancy, relationship problems, living together ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.0
 662
Cocked (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: The Paxsons are a broken family working together - and against each other - in the most quintessentially American business, the business of guns.
Style: humorous, clever, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, workplace, family business, siblings relations, homecoming, law, female nudity, bare breasts
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.0
 1K
Latin Lover (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
Style: touching, tragicomedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, family life, rivalry, ego clash, family problems, strong female presence, village, estate, siblings relations, family gatherings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.5
 846
Uncle Nino (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, indie film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family gatherings, family life, family relations, fish out of water, parents and children, optimism, couples, society, uncle, youth, family reunited, friendship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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