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5 Flights Up (2014)
 6.2
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5 Flights Up (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, sweet, entertaining, comedy drama, humorous, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: real estate, couples, love and romance, society, elderly, couple relations, interracial relations, aging, husband wife relationship, senior citizen, girl, marriage, aged person, flashback, elderly couple, moving, married couple, fall in love, urban, city life, dog, artist, realtor, veterinarian, staircase ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, united states of america
Keyword: flat

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, aging and society mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like 5 Flights Up: Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005), And So It Goes (2014), Still Mine (2012), The Intern (2015), Mind the Gap (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, powerful ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, aging, mistaken identity, memory, couples, love and romance, writer's life, couple relations, writers, old age, senior citizen, poetry ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 15K
And So It Goes (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A self-centered realtor enlists the help of his neighbor when he's suddenly left in charge of the granddaughter he never knew existed until his estranged son drops her off at his home.
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly lovers, elderly, grandparent grandchild relationship, life turned upside down, love and romance, opposites attract, neighbor, little girl, child custody, father son estrangement, single woman, family home ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 5K
Still Mine (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: elderly, elderly couple, aging, alzheimer's disease, love and romance, couples, couple relations, senior citizen, libertarian, aged person, life story, old age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 272K
The Intern (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Style: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot: workplace, mentor, friendship, elderly, office, life philosophy, unlikely friendships, prejudice, fashion, workplace situations, intern, internet ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, san francisco, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 7.0
 1K
Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 4K
Elsa & Fred (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa ...
Style: touching, semi serious, captivating, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly, elderly lovers, couples, fall in love, starting over, self fulfillment, aging, dying woman, destiny, partner, flirting, old age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Darling Companion (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dog, pets, family problems, couple relations, family life, disorder, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, lifestyle, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.5
 313
Hello Lonesome (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, estrangement, friends, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Movie in collections
 5.3
 813
Walkaway (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, society, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, unsupportive parent, family tradition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 2K
Newlyweds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family relations, couples, city life, siblings relations, friendship, society, wedding, dysfunctional family, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Diary of a Tired Black Man (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Diary of a Tired Black Man is a simple story about the complex relationships between black men and black women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, black comedy ...
Plot: interracial relations, opposites attract, social differences, looking for love, couples, society, love and romance, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, african american, divorce, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.2
 429
Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Slaves of New York (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Style: ironic, sentimental, humorous, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: adaptation, artist, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, society, bittersweet, ambition, love, loneliness, art, fashion ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Thing About My Folks (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for ...
Style: talky, touching, sentimental, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, love and romance, husband wife relationship, escapades, food, aging, senior citizen, profanity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, non-linear ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, looking for love, lifestyle, society, misfit, social differences, fall in love, disorder, buddies, love and romance, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.6
 2K
Kotch (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, psychological, humorous ...
Plot: aging, teenage pregnancy, senior citizen, christmas, adoption, orphan, old age, retirement home, bittersweet, hospital, parents and children, bus ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Obama Effect (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look at his life. Motivated by a misguided obsession with getting Barack Obama elected, John takes an overwhelming involvement in the Presidential ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous
Plot: couples, family relations, couple relations, society, unfulfillment, parents and children, satire, politics, black, campaign, midlife crisis, usa president ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Other Sister (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
Style: touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, compassionate ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mentally challenged, wedding, women, disability, family relations, justice, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, parents and children, fall in love, mental retardation, looking for love ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Movie in collections
 6.4
 2K
Garbo Talks (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da ...
Style: sad, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: brain tumor, grief, tumor, hollywood, aging, last wish, terminal illness, couple relations, obsession, human nature, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Shades of Ray (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, identity crisis, interracial relations, family reunited, audition, family relations, moral dilemma, actor's life, couples, parents and children, society, proposal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.2
 329
Reach for Me (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of life Kevin becomes Alvin's hospice roommate. Through this "odd couple" ...
Style: realistic, humorous, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: aging, retirement home, couples, elderly, terminal illness, unfulfillment, retirement home life, time, love, widower, old man, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Here and There (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, clever, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, life is a bitch, lifestyle, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
42%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 39K
Fools Rush In (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, touching, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, pregnancy, interracial love, wedding, culture clash, love, love affair, couples, nothing goes right, society, social differences, love story ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: usa, new york, las vegas, nevada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
42%
 4.6
 5K
Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, family life, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time: year 2009
Place: usa, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
El Viaje de la Nonna (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!
Style: emotional, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, homecoming, travel, bittersweet, couples, love and romance, elderly, unfulfillment, memory loss, mental illness, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
100%
 5.1
 2K
The Freebie (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A couple hatches a highly dubious scheme to put the spark back in their marriage in this independent comedy drama. Annie (Katie Aselton) and Darren (Dax Shepard) have been married for seven years, and they love each other as much as the day they ...
Style: mumblecore, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: couples, love affair, moral dilemma, couple relations, sexual relations, love and romance, human nature, battle of the sexes, sex talk, open marriage, polyamory, polygamy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.4
 215
Weakness (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, light ...
Plot: society, love and romance, suburbs, suburban life, high school, couples, older man younger woman romance, male teacher female student affair, older man younger woman relationship, autism, teacher, school ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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