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Steel Magnolias (2012)
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Steel Magnolias (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, captivating, semi serious, crying
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, parents and children, love affair, family problems, social relations, female friendship, mother daughter relationship, black history, wedding, hairdresser, women, hair, black, small town, friends, family relations, best friend, society, strong female presence, gender, battle of the sexes, small town life, unfulfillment, christmas, dog ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
Keyword: black women

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about friends, friendship, family relations, couples, love and romance, women and couple relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Steel Magnolias: Changing Hearts (2002), A Madea Christmas (2013), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Mary and Rhoda (2000), Angie (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Steel Magnolias (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, friendship, small town, best friend, family relations, southern belle, wedding, strong female character, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, diabetic ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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40%
Changing Hearts (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on Daniel Wright's award-winning play "Colored Eggs", is a drama/comedy about life, loss and love among an eccentric group of characters whose lives intersect under less than ideal circumstances.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, love, looking for love, couple relations, terminal illness, dealing with death, best friend, hopes, hospital, cancer, girl, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Madea Christmas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
Style: christmas special, sincere, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, family relations, madea, parents and children, family life, black, xmas, christmas season, friendship, society, nothing goes right ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: friendship, small town, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, small town life, cannibalism, female bonding, midlife crisis, female protagonist, discrimination, lesbian love ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
34%
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Angie (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This ...
Style: intense, touching, sentimental, entertaining, anamorphic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: pregnancy, self discovery, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, human nature, women, working class, female protagonist, eccentricity, twists and turns, girl ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
32%
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined ...
Style: touching, sexy, melancholic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: divorce, friendship, black romance, women, betrayal, black, female protagonist, adultery, african american woman, love story, infidelity, best friend ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Crooklyn (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, stylized, light ...
Plot: coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, black, african american, family relations, school, child's point of view, parents and children, black people ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The film is about the difficulty of maintaining a solid relationship in modern times. Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, friendship, black, crumbling marriage, introspection, couple relations, family problems, couples, battle of the sexes, intrigue, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: colorado, indiana, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end ...
Style: sexy, romantic, romantic comedy, touching, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, friendship, black woman, women, black, couples, self discovery, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, unlikely couple, looking for love ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: jamaica, caribbean, indiana, bay area, africa ...
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Dirty Laundry (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, black comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, small town, couples, lifestyle, single parent, misfit, love and romance, parents and children, homecoming, fish out of water, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship
Style: realistic, humorous, talky, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Where the Heart Is (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, ...
Style: feel good, touching, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: pregnancy, starting over, small town, coming of age, teenage pregnancy, single parent, friendship, youth, love and romance, power of love, family relations, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, tennessee, california, usa, mississippi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
With This Ring (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After attending their friend Elise's (Sudano) wedding to Nate (Bishop) on New Year's Eve, Trista (Hall), a career-­driven talent agent, Viviane (Scott), a successful gossip columnist, and Amaya (Cooper), a struggling actress, make a pact ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, looking for love, friendship, love affair, unfulfillment, showbiz, black, job, movie business, african american, black american, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Friends with Kids (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, toddlers
Plot: friendship, best friends in love, sex, relationships, love and romance, best friend, relationship problems, breast feeding, pregnancy, parenthood, love story, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Living Out Loud (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair ...
Style: realistic, clever, touching, romantic drama, surreal ...
Plot: masseur, infidelity, divorce, marriage, massage, brooklyn bridge, loneliness, female protagonist, elevator operator, relationships, strong female presence, couples ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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24%
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The Brothers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style: romantic, light, melancholic, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, african american, relationships, black, marriage, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, hip hop, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Now and Then (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style: feel good, emotional, touching, teen, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, women, female friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, childhood, youth, teenager, teenage life, children, friends ...
Time: 90s, 70s, year 1991, year 1970, year 1995 ...
Place: usa, indiana
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24%
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.
Style: sexy, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, looking for love, parents and children, family life, teenage life, lifestyle, society, family in crisis, mother daughter relationship, loneliness, women, family relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: starting over, parents and children, gambling, love affair, teenage life, opposites attract, small town, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, small town life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Crazy Kind of Love (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, independent film, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love, family relations, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children, siblings relations, parents separation, friendship, infidelity, sex scene, girl, free spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: racism, civil rights, african american, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, children, interracial relations, haunted by the past, family relations, black, teenager ...
Time: year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: south carolina, indiana, africa, usa
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23%
An American Reunion (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The reality of life slams into the proverbial wall when a group of necessitous best friends and ex-lovers are reunited at a milestone reunion, igniting an already passionate and combustible past.
Style: captivating, touching, humorous, realistic, serious ...
Plot: friendship, best friend, homecoming, friends, couples, introspection, couple relations, old love, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A study in culture bridging, including ... a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the "dream" of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related social ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, infidelity, gambling, immigrant, strong female presence, family problems, couples, family relations, gays and lesbians, couple relations, gender, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1989, 1940s
Place: new york, china, asia, usa, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Women (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into ...
Style: entertaining, witty, humorous, light, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: infidelity, women, betrayal, divorce, friendship, transformation, fashion, family problems, lesbian, society, fashion show, female friendship ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Old Settler (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Story: The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds. An earnest but ...
Style: sincere, touching, captivating
Plot: identity crisis, lost love, female friendship, unhappy marriage, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, racial prejudice, age-gap relationship, may december romance, golddigger, black man, loneliness ...
Time: 1940s
Place: harlem, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Friends with Money (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
Style: sexy, melancholic, stylized, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, shopping, midlife crisis, maid, money problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment, master and servant, power relations, looking for love, women ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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