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5 Flights Up (2014)
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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:
couples, real estate, love and romance, society, elderly, couple relations, interracial relations, aging, husband wife relationship, senior citizen, flashback, elderly couple, girl, interracial love relationship, middle aged woman, marriage, middle age romance, old people, aged person, moving, married couple, fall in love, urban, city life, dog ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, united states of america
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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, aging, friendship and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like 5 Flights Up: Here and There (2009), Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005), The Thing About My Folks (2005), And So It Goes (2014), The Intern (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, sentimental, clever, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, life is a bitch, 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:
100%
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, old age, writer's life, couple relations, love and romance, couples, writers, senior citizen, grandson ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the road, father son relationship, family relations, parents and children, self discovery, love and romance, husband wife relationship, escapades, food, vegetable, senior citizen, aging ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elderly, elderly lovers, love and romance, life turned upside down, opposites attract, neighbor, little girl, child custody, middle aged woman, father son estrangement, family home, single woman ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, girls' night, teens
Plot:
workplace, mentor, friendship, elderly, office, destiny, prejudice, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, fashion, workplace situations, life ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, peru, san francisco ...
Similarity:
67%
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, aging, elderly couple, love and romance, couple relations, couples, bureaucracy, making love, life story, senior citizen, libertarian, old age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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:
inspirational, sentimental, period piece, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
racism, elderly, civil rights, friendship, old age, master and servant, chauffeur, racial segregation, cemetery, segregation, elevator, gardening ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 70s, year 1989 ...
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia, southern usa, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, ...
Style:
feel good, touching, road movie, humorous, light ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, job interview, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, mentor, friends, stranger, actor's life, celebrity culture ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, seattle, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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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:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elderly, elderly lovers, couples, fall in love, starting over, aging, self fulfillment, dying woman, partner, flirting, destiny, old age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
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, couple relations, smiling, pets, family problems, family life, disorder, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, parents and children, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
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, sentimental, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, friends, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, naked man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
819
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, society, love and romance, parents and children, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
Similarity:
42%
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, sincere, light, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, love and romance, couples, siblings relations, city life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, wedding, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
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:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, black comedy ...
Plot:
interracial relations, opposites attract, looking for love, social differences, couples, love and romance, society, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, african american, divorce, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
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, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
adaptation, artist, couples, society, self discovery, lifestyle, bittersweet, love, ambition, loneliness, fashion, art ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
40%
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, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, wooing, family relations, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, estrangement, unfulfillment, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
2K
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, semi serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
aging, christmas, old age, teenage pregnancy, senior citizen, old people, orphan, retirement home, family life, parents and children, friendship, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
palm springs california
Similarity:
40%
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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, elderly, couples, terminal illness, unfulfillment, retirement home life, time, love, widower, old man, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
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:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, non-linear ...
Plot:
looking for love, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, fall in love, disorder, lifestyle, misfit, society, buddies, social differences, nightlife ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Aged, embittered widower, Fred learns to enjoy life thanks to his elderly yet vibrant neighbor, Elsa. Upon learning Elsa is terminally ill, Fred takes her to the Fontana di Trevi in Rome in order to reenact her favorite scene from ‘La Dolce ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elderly lovers, elderly, elderly man, widower, neighbor, love and romance, aging, couples, terminal illness, elderly woman, romanticism, retirement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, england, europe, louisiana, nebraska ...
Similarity:
100%
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, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
brain tumor, hollywood, aging, tumor, grief, terminal illness, last wish, unfulfillment, gays and lesbians, nothing goes right, obsession, love and romance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
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:
humorous, romantic comedy, entertaining, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, pregnancy, wedding, interracial love, destiny, culture clash, love, couples, love affair, society, nothing goes right, social differences ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1995, year 1996
Place:
las vegas, usa, new york, nevada, mexico ...
Similarity:
39%
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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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot:
family relations, couples, society, unfulfillment, couple relations, parents and children, politics, satire, black, campaign, midlife crisis, barack obama ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
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:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
interracial relations, identity crisis, couple relations, audition, moral dilemma, actor's life, parents and children, family reunited, couples, family relations, society, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, pakistan
Similarity:
39%
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, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Plot:
family life, parents and children, family problems, couples, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family relations, marriage, black romance, woman, lifestyle change, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. ...
Style:
talky, humorous, feel good, not serious, witty ...
Plot:
friendship, aging, life philosophy, partner, odd couple, elderly, retiring, couples, apartment building, father daughter relationship, african american, lie ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
38%
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, family life, friendship, disorder, family relations, friends, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, rom com, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
elderly, love story, love and romance, fall in love, age difference, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, opposites attract, couples, female nudity, dating, writers ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, new york, france, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
38%
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, sincere, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
couples, couple relations, sexual relations, love affair, moral dilemma, love and romance, human nature, battle of the sexes, sex talk, polyamory, open relationship, polygamy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
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