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Momma's Man (2008)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In Momma's Man an adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house. An odd premise, but executed with skill and tenderness.
Style:
psychological, emotional, realistic, mumblecore, sincere, captivating, touching, serious, independent film
Plot:
midlife crisis, family problems, introspection, family relations, family life, love and romance, eccentric family, pregnancy, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship problems, living together, humour, father son relationship, underdog, youth, couples, babies and infants, suburbs, elderly lovers, on the run, lifestyle, suburban life, celebrity culture, house ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, love and romance, family life and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Momma's Man: Marine Life (2000), Raising Genius (2004), I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982), To Find a Man (1972), Bad Parents (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
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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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
genius, mathematics, cheerleader, dysfunctional family, family relations, prodigy, family problems, couples, couple relations, youth, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
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:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, friendship, betrayal, life is a bitch, society, youth, innocence lost, love and romance, family problems, couples, boarding school, battles ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.
Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
soccer, obsession, family relations, eccentric family, sport team, youth, parents and children, rivalry, satire, underdog, fish out of water, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An ambitious painter on the verge of a big break confronts his moral decay when his idealist, hell-raising, younger sister comes to stay with him in New York City for the summer.
Style:
mumblecore, humorous, contemplative, emotional, light ...
Plot:
follow your dream, introspection, youth, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, human nature, couples, family relations, relationship vs career, college, coming of age, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems, convent school, nun, overweight, angel, prodigy ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Relative newcomers Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis are directing from a script by Michael McGowan, Sarah Bellwood and Michal Lali Kagan. The story follows tough old Scotsman Rory MacNeil as he travels from his home in the remote island of Vallasay, ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
father son reunion, family relations, treatment, father son relationship, parents and children, family problems, family life, changing lives, lifestyle change, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, skinny dipping ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In order to secure the position of Head of Pediatrics at a top Chicago hospital, a young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina mountains. Clashing against the ways of ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
clinic, starting over, family relations, doctors and patients, lifestyle, friendship, family life, small town, widower, father son relationship, youth, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.
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 ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, homecoming, hopes, family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, estrangement, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
father son relationship, heart attack, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, flashback, surgeon, death of father, father son estrangement, doctor, hollywood, parent child relationship, bittersweet, estrangement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Style:
mumblecore, psychological, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
alienation, misfit, introspection, mentally unstable, unfulfillment, social misfits, society, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, urban, looking for love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style:
emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
family business, save the day, family relations, working class, family problems, restaurant, society, siblings relations, family in crisis, bank, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
23%
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:
midlife crisis, family life, self discovery, introspection, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, couples, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
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:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
looking for love, family gatherings, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, family relations, midlife crisis, youth, unfulfillment, singleness, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, estrangement, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
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 ...
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
couples, couple relations, parents and children, midlife crisis, elderly, college, artists and showbiz, family relations, leaving home, love and romance, family problems, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The youngest son of a legendary Hollywood producer, a Robert Evans type, accepts a bribe from his father to document his death.
Style:
semi serious, cynical, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, eccentric family, family problems, lifestyle, love and romance, parents and children, hollywood, narcissism, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, corpse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, light ...
Plot:
family relations, eccentric family, couples, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, fall in love, friendship, single parent, family problems, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life, pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A stage play about a young lady in her 20's who keeps dating the wrong men, her friends and family try to make her see what she's doing wrong but she learns on her own that that the man she really needed was right in front of her the whole ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, young lovers, couples, society, youth, suburbs, midlife crisis, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, christian, looking for love, friendship, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, clergy, family life, dull life, family problems, society, aging, human nature, juvenile delinquency, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
437
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a passionate but turbulent affair with an emotionally troubled girl results in pregnancy, a struggling writer and his tight-knit family are forced to decide how the story will end.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couples, family problems, parents and children, danger, love and romance, father son relationship, premarital sex, woman on top, sex scene, unwed pregnancy, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, new york, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A New York street hustler specializing in name-brand knock-offs finds his highly profitable game suddenly complicated when his ex-girlfriend shows up toting the son he never knew he had.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
parents and children, cons and scams, family relations, immigrant, city life, social differences, forgery, lifestyle, unfulfillment, father son relationship, african, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, lebanon
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
couple relations, tragic love, family relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, parents and children, unfulfillment, fighting illness, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
20%
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