Movies and TV shows like Kidding

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Kidding (2018)
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Kidding (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, is an icon of children's TV. But when his family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, touching, spiritual, sitcom, cult classic, comedy drama, crying, parody
Plot: tv host, family relations, divorce, hate, car accident, parents and children, anger, weed, life philosophy, sensuality, stoner, diploma, social satire, death, loss of son, mourning, trauma, female nudity, sex scene, cancer, homosexual, skating, breakup, neurosis, breakdown ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, humorous and sentimental films and TV series with plots about family relations, parents and children, family life, couples, friendship, couple relations and siblings relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Kidding: Better Things (2016), I am Bartu (2018), The Big C (2010), Outnumbered (2007), Men of a Certain Age (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Better Things (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Sam Fox is a single, working actor with no filter trying to raise her three daughters – Max, Frankie and Duke – in Los Angeles. She is mom, dad, referee and the cops.
Style: sincere, light, humorous, sitcom, touching ...
Plot: single mother, dating, family relations, mother daughter relationship, family values, female protagonist, lgbtq, parents and children, family life, motherhood, mischievous children, relationship vs career ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
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I am Bartu (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a barely famous person
Style: psychological, captivating, humorous
Plot: actor's life, aspiration, blind ambition, actor, money problems, social problems, ambition, desire for fame, family problems, financial problem, direction and purpose
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100%
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The Big C (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, sincere, crying ...
Plot: teacher, fighting illness, terminal illness, dying, cancer, couples, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, marriage, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
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26%
 8.1
 12K
Outnumbered (2007)
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, parents and children, couples, parenthood, everyday life, adhd, youth, family relations, sketch, women ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Men of a Certain Age (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 942 min.
TV show
Story: 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, family relations, bonding, family life, parenthood, old friend, salesman, age difference, marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Fairly Legal (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: Kate Reed is a firm believer that justice can always be found--even if it's not always in the courtroom. Once a lawyer at her family's esteemed San Francisco firm, Kate's frustration with the legal system led her to a new career as a ...
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: female lawyer, lawyer, legal, law firm, family relations, workplace situations, parents and children, career change, power relations, workplace, starting over, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.8
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Divorce (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A couple goes through a long, drawn-out divorce.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: divorce, relationships, marriage, marital separation, husband wife relationship, love and romance, family problems, marriage crisis, male female relationship, crumbling marriage, family drama, family relations ...
Place: new york
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22%
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State of Grace (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: State of Grace is an American comedy-drama series that ran for two seasons on the Fox Network's Fox Family channel during 2001 and 2002.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, retro ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, jewish family, family relations, youth, family life, child protagonist, teenager, best friend, protective parent, friends, coming of age ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Enlightened (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 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, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: self discovery, starting over, workplace situations, coping, midlife crisis, sanity, family relations, ex couple relations, optimism, depression, ex husband, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Righteous Gemstones (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a world-famous televangelist family with a history of deviance, greed and, yes, charitable work, all in the name of Jesus.
Style: dark comedy, sitcom, funny, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: religion, greed, family relations, cover-up, religious fanaticism, patriarch, society, parents and children, secrets, religious, religious fanatic, stoner ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, 2020s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Married (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Married is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between the arguments about their ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: marriage, couple relations, marital problem, couples, friendship, family life, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, save the day, marital crisis, marriage crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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On Our Own (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: On Our Own is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 13, 1994 until April 14, 1995. The series stars Ralph Louis Harris and six real life siblings: Jazz, Jocqui, Jake, Jojo, Jurnee, and Jussie Smollett. The series was created and ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: black, urban, family relations, orphan, fighting the system, society, siblings relations, family life, brother sister relationship, gender disguise, brother brother relationship, car accident ...
Time: 90s
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21%
 5.3
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Family Doctor (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: A young widowed doctor tries to rebuild his life and take care of his three children and his teenage nephew. In the house also live his father and the cleaning lady, which marks the rhythm of the day to day life of this family. His sister-in-law, ...
Style: humorous, emotional, semi serious, touching, feel good ...
Plot: medical, family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, doctors and patients, couple relations, hopes, family life, couples, society, youth, best friend ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Life Sentence (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: When Stella finds out her terminal cancer is cured, she's going to have to learn to live with all the choices she's made when she decided to "live like she was dying".
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: cancer, changing lives, adaptation, lifestyle change, healing, husband wife relationship, friendship, new life, life turned upside down, relationships, love and romance, life ...
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21%
 5.8
 2K
All of Us (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: All of Us is an American sitcom that premiered on the now-defunct UPN network in the United States on September 16, 2003, where it aired for its first three seasons. On October 1, 2006, the show moved to The CW, a new network formed by the merger of ...
Style: sitcom, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, divorce, reporter, family life, couple relations, buddies, parents and children, black, african american, black sitcom, american culture, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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21%
 6.8
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Stepmom (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside ...
Style: sentimental, sad, inspirational, touching, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: divorce, terminal illness, women, autumn, cancer, step parent, friendship, custody, parents and children, remarry, adoption, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Venice the Series (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light. The series has been broadcast since 2009, and is ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, gender, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, strong female presence, lesbian love, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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20%
 8.7
 148K
Six Feet Under (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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: emotional, surreal, captivating, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot: funeral home, gay, dealing with death, gays and lesbians, dark humor, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, depression, hopes, family drama, lgbt, self discovery ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, syria
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20%
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Sweet As Honey (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: “Sweet As Honey” tells the story of an unconventional family which is constantly breaking-up and reuniting by the hour, day and episode, and presents a whole cast of eccentric figures. The main characters are a father and daughter who portray ...
Style: cynical, talky, humorous, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, couple relations, eccentric family, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family, dark humor, sexual content, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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20%
Alexa & Katie (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Lifelong best friends Alexa and Katie are eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school. The pals confront a crisis that leaves them feeling like outsiders at a time when what seems to matter most is fitting in.
Style: uplifting, children's program, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Audience: kids
Plot: supportive friend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, friendship, girlfriend, family relations, teenage life, friends, understanding, teenager, coping, schoolgirl ...
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40%
Isn't It Delicious (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, terminal illness, bittersweet, husband wife relationship, one night stand, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
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20%
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Empty Nest (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Empty Nest is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from 1988 to 1995. The series was created as a spin-off of The Golden Girls by creator and producer Susan Harris. For its first three seasons, Empty Nest was one of the year's top 10 ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: doctor, family relations, supportive parent, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, father daughter relationship, coworker relationship, nurse, hospital, medical, singleness ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: florida, miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 37K
The Professor (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Richard, a world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak, and a touch ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, touching, independent film, comedy drama ...
Plot: instructor, death, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, cancer, college professor, family relations, society, dinner party, mentor, friendship, dishonesty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Titus (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Titus is an American dark comedy sitcom that debuted on Fox in 2000. The series was created by its star, Christopher Titus, Jack Kenny, and Brian Hargrove. This sitcom was based on Christopher's stand-up comedy act, more specifically his ...
Style: humorous, tragicomedy, cynical, not serious, witty ...
Plot: comedian, dysfunctional family, childhood, suicide, mechanic, family problems, siblings relations, dark humor, parents and children, workplace romance, suburban life, father son relationship ...
Time: y2k, 90s
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19%
Puberty Blues (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey's iconic novel, Puberty Blues tells the story of two girls, Debbie and Sue, of innocence lost and experience gained against the backdrop of Australia in the 1970s.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: coming of age, best friend, youth, parents and children, family relations, teenage life, surfing, teenager, society, couples, high school, surf ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1977
Place: australia, sydney australia
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19%
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Mind the Gap (2004)
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: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Sultan of My Heart (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey, Russia
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Mahmud brings Anna to his palace to teach his children French. The Russian ambassador also sends him there with the pressure to 'spy on his country'.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, emotional, tense ...
Plot: sultan, female teacher, society, love and romance, strong female character, parent child relationship, espionage, palace intrigue, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, love triangle ...
Time: 18th century, 1800s, 19th century
Place: turkey, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
One Mississippi (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: This semi-autobiographical dark comedy starring Tig Notaro follows her as she returns to her hometown after the sudden death of her mother. Still reeling from her own declining health problems, Tig struggles to find her footing with the loss of the ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, tragicomedy, touching ...
Plot: lgbt, terminal illness, life philosophy, lesbian, courage, tragedy, lifestyle, illness, hospital, buddies, patient, hopes ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Dear My Friends (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family.
Style: humorous, sincere, captivating, psychological, dorama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, friendship, family relations, mother son relationship, best friend, elderly woman, life, elderly, life philosophy, society, lifestyle, elderly man ...
Place: korea, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Family Affairs (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Focuses on the lives of residents in the fictional London suburb of Charnham.
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, captivating, sincere
Plot: family relations, parents and children, friendship, family drama, love and romance, rivalry, mother daughter relationship, couples, father son relationship, coming of age, hopes, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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