Movies like Finnegan Begin Again

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Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
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Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Plot: self discovery, old age, widow, husband wife relationship, mortician, newspaper man, columnist, female director

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about self discovery, husband wife relationship, love and romance, couples, couple relations, love and family relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Finnegan Begin Again: Then Came You (2020), Red Is the Color of (2007), Mary and Rhoda (2000), Marriage Retreat (2011), I Hate the Man in My Basement (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Then Came You (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets the innkeeper who changes her life forever.
Style: semi serious, captivating, entertaining
Plot: widow, male female relationship, relationships, love story, lifestyle change, changing lives, road trip, husband wife relationship, travel, couple relations, bucket list, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Red Is the Color of (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The tense marriage between two painters is shaken and stirred when the husband's provocative free-spirited nude model ignites his wife's sexual and spiritual awakening. In a three way game of subtle seduction, each of the three confront ...
Style: serious, realistic, art house, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot: marriage, destructive relationship, self discovery, love triangle, life turned upside down, seduction, love and romance, couple relations, couples, midlife crisis, sexual relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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93%
 5.0
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Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family problems, family relations, homecoming, looking for love, family life, estrangement, couples, college, starting over, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Marriage Retreat (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A roller coaster ride of love, emotions and comedy Jeff Fahey (LOST, MACHETE), Reginald Vel Johnson (Family Matters, DIE HARD), and Victoria Jackson (Saturday Night Live, BABY BOOM) star in this funny, heartfelt story about the difficulties many ...
Style: humorous, light, psychological, captivating, indie film ...
Plot: christian, couples therapy, christian faith, family relations, religions or cults, faith, husband wife relationship, marriage, marital problem, pregnancy, church, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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I Hate the Man in My Basement (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After his wife's death, Claude struggles to appear normal while living with a Secret.
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, emotional
Plot: society, past, loss of loved one, self discovery, depression, death, husband wife relationship, love, struggle, introspection, basement
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.5
 2K
Wake (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When things get tough for offbeat Carys Reitman, she does what any emotionally isolated, modern girl would do - she goes to strangers' funerals...
Style: humorous, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: funeral, estrangement, fall in love, introspection, family relations, parents and children, love story, self discovery, couples, friendship, society, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.3
 44K
Hope Springs (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Style: melancholic, romantic, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: elderly, couple relations, relationships, therapy, marriage counselor, psychiatrist, therapist, depression, happy ending, honest, love and romance, doctors and patients ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.8
 1K
Ruben, Ruben (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on a novel by Peter De Vries. Story of an alcoholic, lecherous Scottish poet on a tour of New England Universities, where he goes from one bed and bottle to another.
Style: independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: poet, obsession, poetry, writers, self discovery, drinking alcohol, college, alcoholism, university, campus, power relations, college life ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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 ⇓
52%
 4.3
 136
Little Vegas (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Quirky serio-comedy about the unusual residents of a desert trailer park that mobsters want to turn into a gambling mecca.
Style: dark comedy, independent film
Plot: sibling relationship, amusement park, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, widow, trailer park, mob
Place: nevada, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Style: humorous, witty, melancholic, philosophical, cult classic ...
Plot: infidelity, friendship, fetish, self discovery, life philosophy, character study, introspection, buddies, couple relations, dialogue, food, adultery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.4
 194
Swingers (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia, Latvia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: People who are very different in social origin, material capabilities, occupation and outlook on life are involved in a curious situation. Wealthy businessman Igor and his girlfriend Olga - a socialite who dreams of a career as a designer; tired ...
Style: light, humorous, sexy, feel good
Plot: sex, mate swapping, swinger, swinger couple, adultery, dating show, love, couple relations, sexual relations, seductress, fall in love, husband wife relationship ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.2
 67K
Moonstruck (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly, family outing
Plot: love story, female protagonist, dysfunctional family, love, couples, full moon, infidelity, love and romance, moon, self discovery, marriage proposal, marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
You're Killing Me Susana (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It is the journey of an educated man from Mexico City to the center of the United States, with its rigid society, its frigid winter, but most of all, it is an inner journey to face the contradictions between his love for his wife and the macho ...
Style: psychological, captivating, rom com, feel good
Plot: love and romance, cuckolded husband, unrequited love, husband wife relationship, unhappy wife, relationship problems, marital problem, relationships, female writer, male female relationship, love story, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.9
 9K
Punchline (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to ...
Style: talky, humorous, intense, realistic, clever ...
Plot: stand up comedian, creativity, showbiz, ambition, rise to the top, self discovery, nightclub, housewife, friendship, couples, performer's life, comedian ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.7
 2K
Dorian Blues (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out ...
Style: semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, coming of age, lgbtq, self discovery, teenage life, youth, friendship, introspection, parents and children, father son relationship ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them
Style: touching, sentimental, happy, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, bittersweet, death of husband, widow, grief, sisterhood, rock, female friendship, female protagonist, house painter, sister sister relationship, bereavement ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.6
 33K
Chaos Theory (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Frank Allen, a professional speaker who lectures on time management has a perfectly ordered and scheduled life, down to the minute. When his wife sets his clock forward 10 minutes as a joke, his day is thrown off. Deciding that his strictly ordered ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, touching, cult classic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, betrayal by friend, adultery, father daughter relationship, infidelity, nothing goes right, breaking point, chaos, disorder, human nature, love triangle, fatherhood ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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 ⇓
42%
The Tomorrow Man (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost ...
Style: social, romantic comedy, romantic
Plot: loss of child, survivalist, love, old age, teenager, lonely, aged person, senior citizen, lovers, father son relationship, widow, thanksgiving dinner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Something to Talk About (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style: talky, satirical, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, family relations, family problems, women, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, southern belle ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose ...
Style: feel good, touching, uplifting, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hotel, elderly, aging, self discovery, goodhearted, old age, introspection, loneliness, marital problem, choice, life changing experience, retirement home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, delhi, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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One True Loves (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Emma and Jesse are living the perfect life together, until Jesse disappears in a tragic helicopter crash on their first wedding anniversary. Four years later, Emma has found happiness again and is about to marry her best friend when Jesse ...
Style: romantic, satirical, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: relationship problems, love triangle, couple relations, ex couple relations, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love affair, relationships, love and romance, male female relationship, ex boyfriend, romantic relationship, problem ...
Place: maine, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 32K
Book Club (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.
Style: light, romantic, rom com, humorous, ironic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: female friendship, female protagonist, dating, friendship, widow, book, female judge, judge, senior citizen, discussion, online dating, drinking alcohol ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, emotional, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pregnancy, parenthood, baby, marriage, self discovery, midlife crisis, wedding, voice over narration, husband wife relationship, argument, dream, aspiring writer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: family life, self discovery, midlife crisis, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, unfulfillment, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Same Love, Same Rain (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jorge is a writer for a left-leaning Buenos Aires magazine that's at odds with the country's military dictatorship. He meets lovely and intelligent actress Laura and begins an on-and-off romance that will continue for the next two decades. ...
Style: touching, captivating, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: love, totalitarian regime, loss of father, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, fall in love, older man younger woman marriage, male female relationship, crush, cheating girlfriend, friendship between men ...
Time: 90s, year 1980
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.9
 2K
Blue State (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: BLUE STATE is a romantic comedy about a disgruntled Democrat who actually follows through on a drunken campaign promise to move to Canada if George "Dubya" Bush gets re-elected.
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic
Plot: vietnam war, politics, political campaign, brother brother relationship, self discovery, political unrest, culture clash, media, state affairs, starting over, democrat, love ...
Time: year 2004
Place: usa, canada, winnipeg, san francisco, ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
All the Days Before Tomorrow (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wes is awakened in the middle of the night by an unexpected phone call. It’s Alison, the girl who could have been, who is flying home to Tokyo in the morning and wants to come by for a night of reminiscing before she goes.
Style: sincere, semi serious, talky, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, friendship, unfulfillment, introspection, destiny, hopes, male female relationship, travel, first love, human relationship, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, montreal, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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