Movies like The Farewell

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The Farewell (2019)
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The Farewell (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
Style: sentimental, humorous, atmospheric, melancholic, sad, funny, feel good, depressing, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: lie, masseuse, grief, wedding, female protagonist, terminal illness, women, life, dialogue, grandmother granddaughter relationship, strong female lead, death, lovers, family relations, moving, dysfunctional family, culture, woman, existentialism, disability, language barrier, grandmother, coming of age, transformation, lung cancer ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: china, usa, new york, japan, manhattan new york city
Keyword: chinese, american, matriarch, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, touching, feel good and crying films with plots about father son relationship, husband wife relationship, telephone call, food, family relations, mother daughter relationship and apology mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Farewell: Terms of Endearment (1983), Mr. Church (2016), The Savages (2007), The King of Staten Island (2020), Eighth Grade (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Terms of Endearment (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style: tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, single mother, husband wife relationship, grief, adultery, terminal illness, death of daughter, relationships, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s ...
Place: texas, houston texas, new york, nebraska, louisiana ...
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Mr. Church (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style: sad, compassionate, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: african american, friendship, cooking, childhood, life, cancer, food, relationships, family bonds, loneliness, idealism, love story ...
Time: 70s, year 1986, year 1980, year 1971, year 1977 ...
Place: usa, boston, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, redemption, character study, family relations, childhood, parents and children, nursing, siblings relations, cheerleader ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The King of Staten Island (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious ...
Style: humorous, psychological, funny, ironic, feel good ...
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Place: new york, hawaii, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Eighth Grade (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.
Style: touching, light, indie film, thought provoking, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: father daughter relationship, teenager, adolescence, teenage girl, friendship, high school, social media, middle school, teacher, self confidence, insecurity, classmate classmate relationship ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 7.3
 119K
Instant Family (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from ...
Style: feel good, sweet, funny, sincere, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot: adoption, parenting, foster home, foster parent, adoptive father adopted son relationship, adolescence, couples, parents and children, family relations, court hearing, children, anger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 7.2
 108K
St. Vincent (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Style: realistic, feel good, witty, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, coming of age, youth, bullying, teacher, neighbor, storytelling, redemption, happy ending, character study, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 2010s, y2k, year 2014, year 1965, year 1946 ...
Place: new york, peru, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style: touching, melancholic, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, suicide, cancer, family secret, mother daughter relationship, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Roommates (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: hospital, roommate, orphan, funeral, grandfather grandson relationship, father son relationship, widower, father daughter relationship, single father, boy, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 60s
Place: columbus ohio, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.3
 14K
The Meddler (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
Style: romantic, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: wedding, loss of father, friendship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, party, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, friend, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead ...
Time: year 1969
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⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.5
 8K
Miss Stevens (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A high school English teacher becomes a weekend chaperone for three students at a drama competition.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Please Stand By (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollywood. On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy follows the guiding spirit of Mr. Spock on ...
Style: road movie, sentimental, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, toddlers, teen drama, adult
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Place: usa, los angeles, san francisco, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 7.0
 19K
Thunder Road (2018)
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Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Place: usa, milwaukee wisconsin, japan, tibet, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Duration: 101 min.
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Style: disturbing, touching, sincere, light, humorous ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Give Me Liberty (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.
Style: sincere, captivating, humorous, light, psychological ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: sentimental, light, emotional, intense, period piece ...
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Place: new york, paris france, europe, france, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Introducing the Dwights (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
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Time: year 2007
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⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 28K
Calendar Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot: charity, small town, female nudity, women, leukemia, female empowerment, elderly, life philosophy, model, human spirit, friendship, family drama ...
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Place: england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 3K
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: captivating, humorous, feel good, light, independent film ...
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Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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A Man Called Otto (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A cranky retired man strikes up an unlikely friendship with his boisterous new neighbors. A remake of the 2015 Swedish film.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: adult
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Time: year 1964, year 1973, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Pieces of April (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her ...
Style: realistic, emotional, intense, talky, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
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Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Running with Scissors (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style: intense, disturbing, stylized, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, mental illness, adoption, therapist, writers, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, lesbian, parents and children, marital problem ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2006
Place: new york, seattle, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.9
 8K
Baaria (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual ...
Style: atmospheric, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
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Time: 1940s, 1930s, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place: sicily, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 7.6
 342K
50/50 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style: touching, sentimental, tragicomedy, depressing, sad ...
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Time: year 2011, 2010s, near future, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Automatic Hate (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Davis Green's (Joseph Cross) alluring young cousin Alexis (Adelaide Clemens) appears on his doorstep one night, he discovers that a side of his family has been kept secret from him. Against his father’s wishes, Davis travels to rural, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, mumblecore
Plot: sex between cousins, cousins incest, cousin cousin relationship, family secret, overheard conversation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, dark secret, sister sister relationship, female nudity, male protagonist, brother brother conflict, open ending ...
Place: new york state, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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