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Enlightened (2011)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Enlightened follows the story of Amy, a self-destructive executive, who, after a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, tries to get her life back together.
Style:
spiritual, sincere, humorous, sentimental, realistic, mumblecore, sitcom, hilarious, laugh out loud, offbeat ...
Plot:
coping, self discovery, midlife crisis, starting over, workplace situations, family relations, optimism, coworker, ex couple relations, sanity, depression, self destructing, ex husband, disorder, hopes, unfulfillment, character change, power relations, workplace, women, supernatural, medicine, feminist, journalism, worker ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and sitcom films and TV series with plots about workplace, workplace situations, family relations, power relations, friendship, strong female presence and parents and children mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Enlightened: Men of a Certain Age (2009), Getting On (2013), Six Feet Under (2001), HAPPYish (2015), Hindsight (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 942 min.
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Men of a Certain Age is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered on TNT on December 7, 2009. The hour-long program stars Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula as three best friends in their late forties dealing with the ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
group of friends, midlife crisis, friendship, parenthood, family relations, bonding, family life, old friend, salesman, age difference, marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, workplace, dark humor, friendship, elderly, doctors and patients, patient, aging, workplace situations, medical, women, colleague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as ...
Style:
captivating, surreal, sexual, dramatic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
funeral home, gay, dealing with death, hopes, dark humor, death, sibling relationship, depression, dysfunctional family, gays and lesbians, family drama, male male relationship ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, syria
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50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Thom Payne is a 44 year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25 year-old "wunderkind" boss arrives, saying things like "digital," "social" and "viral." Is he in need of a ...
Style:
cynical, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, workplace situations, boss and employee, workplace, depression, unfulfillment, self discovery, happiness, couples, love, introspection, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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51%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The series begins with Becca on the eve of her second wedding. It all seems perfect this time around, but she is still plagued by doubt. What if she could fix everything, and make the 'right' choices this time? Becca finds herself thinking ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
changing the past or future, best friend, friendship, introspection, time travel, starting over, hopes, couples, couple relations, bittersweet, colleague, drug ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Unexpectedly dumped by her movie-mogul husband of 10 years, Molly Kagen must reassess her life and her friends when she finds herself on the outside of the elite circles she once commanded.
Style:
humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coping, starting over, self discovery, hopes, lifestyle, single parent, love and romance, singleness, divorce, male female relationship, hottie, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.
Style:
humorous, sincere, sitcom, dark comedy, hilarious ...
Plot:
dark humor, comedian, performer's life, midlife crisis, family relations, city life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, disorder, parenthood, everyday life, mishap ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Keith Barret, a taxi driver, is estranged from his wife, Marion, and children, Rhys and Alun. Although it's clear the separation is having a devastating effect on him, he's determined - to the point of near insanity - to remain positive.
Style:
mockumentary, semi serious, sincere, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
taxi driver, introspection, optimism, family relations, hopes, workplace situations, dark humor, parents and children, workplace, taxi, monologue, british humour ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows a best-selling author of a self-help book series who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40's in Los Angeles. She starts to side with and take advice more from ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
starting over, divorce, friends, dating, self discovery, breakup, singleness, writer's life, marriage, middle aged, relationship problems, character change ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Whoopi was an American situation comedy, starring Whoopi Goldberg. The series revolved around the events and people at her hotel, the Lamont Hotel, in New York City. The show aired on Tuesdays from September 9, 2003, on NBC to April 20, 2004.
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, realistic, hilarious, humorous ...
Plot:
hotel, starting over, boss and employee, workplace, workplace situations, culture clash, society, black, brother sister relationship, singer, hotel owner, iranian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Will Freeman lives a charmed existence as the ultimate man-child. After writing a hit song, he was granted a life of free time, free love and freedom from financial woes. He's single, unemployed and loving it. So imagine his surprise when ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
youth, lifestyle change, dating, single parent, dysfunctional family, character change, parents and children, family problems, friendship, thirtysomething life, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
widow, depression, bittersweet, crumbling marriage, family relations, feminist, middle school, male female relationship, age-gap relationship, career, starting over, lottery ...
Time:
80s
Place:
baltimore, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
That's Life is an American comedy-drama series created by Diane Ruggiero, that was broadcast on CBS from October 1, 2000 to January 26, 2002.
Style:
humorous, sincere, touching, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, lifestyle, parents and children, looking for love, family relations, family life, love and romance, student life, couple relations, family problems, college, male female relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
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Huff is an American television comedy-drama series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt, a psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sentimental, funny ...
Plot:
disorder, psychiatrist, sexual perversion, dysfunctional family, self fulfillment, direction and purpose, mental disorder, family relations, family problems, sanity, life is a bitch, fighting illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Brody, a young hot-shot banker at Whitestone Trust, thought he was just having a one-night stand with Jennifer, a beautiful woman he met at a bar. But when he discovers that she works in maintenance for the building where he works, their worlds ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
boss, workplace romance, office, employer employee relationship, employment, love and romance, coincidence, workplace situations, boss and employee, workplace, power relations, hot and sexy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 293 min.
TV show
Story:
Ben Donovan is a self-involved manager of a second-rate San Diego sports arena who begins to re-evaluate his life on his 40th birthday. Working alongside him is his boss and arena owner, Crystal--attractive, powerful and highly erratic; Alice--the ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, hilarious, realistic
Plot:
workplace, ex athlete, boss and employee, midlife crisis, workplace situations, disorder, self involved, arena, colleague, arrest, birthday, owner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
47%
282K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D" Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.
Style:
sitcom, witty, humorous, medical drama, surreal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, medical, doctors and patients, bromance, couples, doctor, workplace situations, workplace romance, friendship, friends, love and romance, workplace ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
Having grown up in a world of manufactured happiness, Lucy, the cynical teenage daughter of a idealistic theme park princess mom, wants to get out and experience something real. When Ian, the new park owner's son, arrives and sweeps her off her ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
parents and children, coming of age, fall in love, teenage love, love and romance, workplace situations, dysfunctional family, workplace, female protagonist, mother and daughter, amusement park, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, ...
Style:
sexy, cynical, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
satire, greed, profanity, dark humor, single parent, father son relationship, african american, workplace situations, power relations, flirting, ethics, ambitious ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to ...
Style:
medical drama, realistic, semi serious, sensual, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
addiction, hospital, doctors and patients, nurse, double life, dark humor, medical, infidelity, workplace situations, against the rules, conflict, drug abuse ...
Time:
y2k, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Life After Fat is a comedy-drama web series filmed in New York City, focusing on Maddie, a 24 year old thrift store employee who loses 90 lbs over the course of a year. For the first time in her life, she feels noticed, and attractive, which ends up ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, physical appearance, city life, feminism, weight loss, women, self esteem, introspection, fat woman, strong female presence, twentysomething life, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
46%
132K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office ...
Style:
humorous, mockumentary, sitcom, dark comedy, feel good ...
Plot:
workplace, everyday life, office, coworker, boss and employee, job, employer employee relationship, workplace problem, boss, storytelling, humour, sketch ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, england, seattle
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Partly-improvised sitcom looking at the trials and tribulations of bringing up three young children - a regal five-year-old girl with a talent for interrogation, a seven-year-old boy who could fib for Britain and an 11-year-old who is gearing up for ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
precocious child, couple relations, family life, couples, parenthood, parents and children, everyday life, family relations, youth, sketch, adhd, household ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, realistic, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
recovering alcoholic, dysfunctional family, alcoholics anonymous, teenage pregnancy, starting over, support group, dysfunctional relationship, troubled past, single mother, waitress, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Emily Owens, M.D. is an American medical drama television series created by Jennie Snyder Urman. It was picked up by The CW on May 11, 2012, It premiered on The CW on October 16, 2012, and aired on Tuesdays at 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central. On ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
hospital, medical, medicine, doctor, workplace, workplace romance, love and romance, intern, lifestyle, workplace situations, surgery, treatment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colorado, usa, seattle
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, sitcom ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, family life, coming of age, jewish family, family business, parents and children, teenage life, disorder, society, youth, self destructing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Nina is a dedicated, career driven corporate attorney who has a very public nervous breakdown after getting passed up for an expected promotion and now finds herself working as a public defender. Her personal and professional worlds are turned ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
workplace, lawyer, courtroom, workplace situations, life turned upside down, disorder, power relations, female protagonist, public defender, love and romance, fish out of water, nervous breakdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, humorous, sentimental, sitcom ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teacher, teachers and students, rivalry, youth, teenage life, everyday life, social problems, society, idealism, struggle, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Comedy about an inept American placed in charge of sales at his company's London branch. He has no experience with British culture, knows nothing about sales, and has only one employee, Dave. Each episode begins with a scene of Margaret ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, farce, salesman, workplace situations, misfit, manager, office, boss and employee, workplace, holiday ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
45%
9K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 430 min.
TV show
Story:
Amanda Vaughn, once the ultimate high school "mean girl," is forced to return home in disgrace after her marriage ends in scandal. As Amanda and her teenage kids try to adjust to their new lives, the ladies from her past alternate between ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
strong female presence, rivalry, starting over, hypocrisy, family relations, social relations, hopes, intrigue, homecoming, haunted by the past, gossip and rumors, mean girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, dallas texas
Similarity:
45%
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