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A Sinful Life (1989)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her.
Style:
dark comedy, thinking, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
social services, youth, family relations, family life, profanity, adoption, disaster, self discovery, boarding school, society, babies and infants, danger, family problems, custody, single parent, drug abuse, boarding school life, religions or cults, transvestite, daughter, catastrophe
Time:
year 1989, 80s
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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 family relations, youth, family life, couples, parents and children, family problems and society mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like A Sinful Life: Queen of Hearts (1989), Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987), Love Thy Neighbor (1984), Homie Spumoni (2006), White on Rice (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cafe, youth, food, couples, family relations, family conflict, immigrant family, love triangle, haunted by the past, parents and children, urban, eccentric family ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After seven years in boarding school, Morgan Stewart is finally coming home. He discovers it's not the same happy home it used to be....
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Suburbanites Danny and Linda try to overcome their various differences and try to get along after his wife and her husband run off with each other.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental, offbeat ...
Plot:
adultery, suburbs, infidelity, bittersweet, family relations, family problems, couples, family life, suburban life, love affair, love and romance, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
All his life, African-American Renato has been raised in an Italian-American family. Completely unaware that he is Black, his life is upended when his birth parents materialize, causing Renato to examine what he true heritage is.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, comedy drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rob Lawson's perpetual quest for success is interrupted when his estranged daughter shows up pregnant, challenging him to be a father before he becomes a grandfather.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, estrangement, family problems, couples, parents and children, river, pregnancy, unfulfillment, self discovery, moral dilemma, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
couple relations, single parent, couples, betrayal, parents and children, family relations, small town, estrangement, contests and competitions, eccentric family, teaching the ways of the world, small town life ...
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed in this black comedy.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
texas
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A bonded courier transports a bratty teenager on an international flight, but realizes a trap has been set up for them when they reach the U.S.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
youth, teenage life, custody, frame up, good versus evil, family relations, hopes, estrangement, dishonesty, single parent, cons and scams, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, china, hawaii
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, germany, pennsylvania
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The Parent 'Hood is an American sitcom that aired on The WB airing from January 18, 1995 to July 25, 1999. The series starred Robert Townsend and Suzzanne Douglas.
Originally to have been titled Father Knows Nothing, the series was one of the ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
connecticut, usa, new york
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's reduced to stealing from one family member to buy presents for others. It's ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
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Plot:
family relations, friends, family life, parents and children, religions or cults, unlikely couple, buddies, love and romance, single parent, nothing goes right, fish out of water, cons and scams ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, sincere, spoof ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, slapstick comedy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
On a rare evening out, two feisty single moms discover that it's not so easy to hook up with a total stranger anymore.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, light ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
dark humor, redneck, friends, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, ambition, drug abuse, siblings relations, couples, buddies, addiction, desert ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
37%
470
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
For hundreds of years, Africa has existed in a state of despair. Famine, civil wars and rampant disease have left the continent without hope, but for the efforts of Western do-gooders. At first, they arrived with food, bibles and the magic of ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, biting, mockumentary ...
Plot:
satire, celebrity culture, adoption, family relations, disorder, lifestyle, society, culture clash, profanity, babies and infants, orphan, misfit ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Office worker, Adam, quits work to return to his childhood home and settles into the comforts of his parent's backyard. A chance meeting with a friend from his past leads to them making a "Things to Do" list so they can fulfill some ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sexual, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, prom, suicide, friends, solitude, family relations, emotionless, hopes, love and romance, babies and infants, youth, getting home ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rodrigo and Rocco join their families to hold a birthday party for their grandfather. Rodrigo is a regular middle-class teenager, while Rocco is rather more unconventional, indie magazine writer, and has deep conflicts with his father.
Style:
emotional, semi serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
self discovery, youth, bittersweet, on the road, elderly, family relations, human nature, hotel, innocence lost, road trip, coming of age, grief ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Besieged matriarch Sonia tries to make certain her daughter's nuptials come off flawlessly even as events spiral out of control is in this dark comedy helmed by François Dupeyron. With Sonia's wayward eldest son under arrest on drug ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, family life, interracial relations, family problems, dark humor, youth, eccentric family, society, dysfunctional family, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When 10-year-old Joshua (Lurie Poston) decides to join the cheerleading squad at his Catholic school, he faces an uphill battle -- and opposition from his single mom, Andy (Carrie Preston), who struggles to understand her Hollywood musical- and ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheerleader, youth, cheerleading, gender, gender bending, family relations, teenage life, family problems, estrangement, lifestyle, hopes, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california
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35%
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