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Empty Nest (2008)
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Original name: El nido vacío
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
Style:
touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
couples, couple relations, college, family relations, parents and children, family life, love and romance, midlife crisis, family problems, elderly, lifestyle, leaving home, artists and showbiz, husband wife relationship, campus, separation, writer's life, unfulfillment, children, aging, crumbling marriage, family
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
latin america, argentina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, family relations, love and romance, parents and children, couple relations, family problems and unfulfillment mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Empty Nest: Rolling Family (2004), Balls (2010), Marine Life (2000), Cleopatra (2003), Finding Joy (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, family problems, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, on the road, couples, love and romance, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, youth ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, eastern europe
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, youth, parents and children, midlife crisis, child as adult ...
Time:
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674
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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100%
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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:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style:
talky, humorous, witty, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, dark humor, couples, family problems, family relations, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ego clash, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, california, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
divorce, friendship, bittersweet, skinny dipping, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, love and romance, introspection, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new england
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:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
mental illness, dysfunctional family, couples, family problems, family relations, misfit, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, disorder, suburbs, suburban life ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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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:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina, France, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, haunted by the past, love and romance, friends, parents and children, friendship, hopes, youth, father son relationship, jewess, holocaust ...
Place:
europe, latin america, israel, poland, argentina ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
profanity, love and romance, friendship, unlikely partners, introspection, farce, lifestyle, family life, couples, eccentric family, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, light, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, parents and children, family problems, hopes, youth, lawyer, father son relationship, teacher, husband wife relationship, teenager, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
argentina
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100%
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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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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 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:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, couple relations, best friend, lifestyle, love and romance, babies and infants, coming of age, family problems, teenage life, siblings relations, crumbling marriage ...
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100%
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
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100%
803
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, sincere, realistic, clever, touching ...
Plot:
couples, family in crisis, destiny, family life, love and romance, family relations, social worker, unemployment, human nature, society, starting over, parents and children ...
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, parents and children, ego clash, family life, rivalry, family problems, strong female presence, family gatherings, estate, estrangement, siblings relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe, paris france
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
filmmaking, valet, screenwriter, writers, struggling actor, estrangement, midlife crisis, hollywood, artists and showbiz, elderly lovers, single parent, elderly ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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cynical, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Plot:
midlife crisis, family relations, couples, couple relations, dark humor, family problems, unfulfillment, parents and children, suburbs, dysfunctional family, coming of age, money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Frederik is a happy man; he has a girlfriend he loves, a business running smoothely and he is going to be a father. But his happiness proves false. At a party, his girlfriend declares that she will leave him for her true love. Frederik is ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, captivating, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
adoption, pregnancy, couples, love, parents and children, divorce, betrayal, frustration, disorder, nothing goes right, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
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100%
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