Movies like Abe

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Abe (2019)
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Abe (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. But the 12-year-old kid from Brooklyn who loves food and cooking, prefers, well, Abe. Just Abe.
Style: light, inspirational, touching, feel good, sweet, entertaining, culinary, realistic, dramatic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: cooking and food, food, jewish mother, boy, cookery, family dinner, boyhood, teenager, family relations, mentor, teenage boy, family problems, family conflict, brawl, marital argument, religious differences, hobby, youth, chef, coming of age, cooking, fasting, bar mitzvah, teenage protagonist, summer camp ...
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, food, parents and children, cooking, chef, restaurant and youth mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Abe: Le Chef (2012), Chef (2014), Today's Special (2009), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), No Reservations (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Le Chef (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
Style: light, sentimental, funny, sweet, touching ...
Plot: cooking, chef, wine, restaurant, food, mentor, creativity, love, culture clash, underdog, fight scenes, partner ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Chef (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, road movie, touching, culinary ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: cooking, chef, food, cooking and food, road trip, happy ending, father son relationship, parent child relationship, starting over, restaurant owner, business, divorce ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, future, y2k, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, florida, usa, new orleans ...
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52%
Today's Special (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Young Manhattan chef Samir rediscovers his heritage and passion for life through the enchanting art of cooking Indian food.
Style: feel good, humorous, culinary, light, entertaining ...
Plot: cooking and food, chef, food, cooking, family relations, restaurant, self discovery, workplace, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, cookery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, indiana
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50%
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: restaurant, cooking, cooking and food, food, chef, culture clash, interracial relations, prejudice, beautiful scenery, interracial romance, small town, immigrant ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, india, mumbai india, south of france, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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No Reservations (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, restaurant, chef, love, love story, cooking and food, opposites attract, fall in love, initially antagonists, guardian, love and romance, food ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Way Way Back (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Style: touching, realistic, teen, independent film, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: summer, teenager, vacation, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, dysfunctional family, boy, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Intern (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Style: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot: workplace, mentor, friendship, elderly, office, life philosophy, unlikely friendships, prejudice, fashion, workplace situations, intern, internet ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, san francisco, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Love's Kitchen (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, lifestyle, fall in love, starting over, love affair, english countryside, wine, gourmet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Best Things in the World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, gay, lgbt, gay interest, father son relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Tortilla Soup (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: food, cooking, eccentricity, secrets, family life, eccentric family, looking for love, parents and children, relationship vs career, women, love, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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18 Meals (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, culinary ...
Plot: cooking and food, food, couples, love and romance, couple relations, bittersweet, uninvited guest, restaurant, cookery, cooking, wine, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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48%
Bread of Happiness (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
Style: atmospheric, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: restaurant, food, hobby, marriage, love, family relations, cooking, revelation, bittersweet, family problems, hospitality, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
All the Wilderness (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a charismatic new friend and a quirky young woman begin to draw him out of his shell.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, teenage life, teenage boy, family relations, coming of age, self discovery, single parent, youth, therapist, mother son relationship, problem, boyhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Cook Up a Storm (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Cantonese street cook and his chief rival, a French-trained Michelin-starred chef, discover they have a lot in common as they prepare for a world-famous culinary competition. An international culinary competition becomes a battleground between ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, exciting, humorous, smart
Plot: food, cooking competition, chef, cooking and food, contests and competitions, rivalry, cookery, cook-off, father son relationship, against the odds, rise to the top, culinary arts ...
Place: hong kong, china
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47%
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Cinnamon (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maria is a girl who loves to cook and lives with his grandmother, Doña Tere, in Mexico City's downtown. Doña Tere has a traditional Mexican restaurant called "El Molcajete". After the death of her daughter, Doña Tere abandoned his ...
Style: psychological, satirical, captivating, entertaining, disturbing ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: food, restaurant, grandmother granddaughter relationship, chef, cooking and food, culture, family problems, satire, cookery, restaurant owner, family business, youth ...
Place: mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Angus (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: friendship, coming of age, bullying, teenager, high school, prank, public humiliation, teenage life, misfit, teenage love, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mother, I Love You (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: kids in trouble, childhood, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, family relations, single parent, youth, parents and children, bittersweet, mother and son, boy, financial problem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: latvia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Time Stands Still (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, rough, serious
Plot: family problems, family relations, rebellion, teenage life, high school, youth, coming of age, family life, high school life, teenager, socialism, boy ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Soul Kitchen (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: SOUL KITCHEN film centers on a likable but hopelessly disorganized restauranteur, Zinos, whose cafe is second home to a motley crew of lovable eccentrics. When his girlfriend Nadine up and moves to Shanghai, a love-sick Zinos decides to fly after ...
Style: talky, feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot: restaurant, chef, cooking, workplace, lifestyle, food, brother brother relationship, loneliness, family relations, life is a bitch, workplace problem, family business ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Chef of South Polar (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic
Plot: food, friendship, isolation, lifestyle, workplace situations, buddies, workplace, forces of nature, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, cookery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: antarctica
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46%
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Abel (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When 9-year-old Abel assumes his absent father's role as man of the house, he garners his family's respect, and life resumes a comfortable rhythm -- until a man arrives at the house, claiming he's the long-lost patriarch
Style: atmospheric, humorous, light, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, family relations, coming of age, child as adult, family problems, parents and children, friendship, boy, latinos, family conflict, innocence lost ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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46%
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The Ramen Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: cooking, restaurant, food, culture clash, american abroad, mentor, interracial romance, chef, cooking and food, language barrier, writers, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Tru Confessions (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Trudy Walker hated her life. She thought it was totally messed up until she found out about a contest that could change everything..
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, heartfelt ...
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, parents and children, ambition, follow your dream, family relations, estrangement, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, teenage boy, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Soul Food (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy ...
Style: tear jerker, sentimental, touching, hood, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: black, food, hip hop, thanksgiving, black romance, women, sisters, black history, african american, family relations, black cast, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, africa, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.2
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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 ⇓
46%
A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Style: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, obsessive quest, coming of age, teenage boy, road trip, friends, escapades, sexual content, friendship between boys, bird, wildlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Angels Sing (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, friendship, coming of age, holiday, mysterious character, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Bottle Shock (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out ...
Style: feel good, light, factual, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: wine, vineyard, beautiful scenery, friendship, family business, ambition, escapades, intern, contests and competitions, workplace, love affair, winery ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, california, usa, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Jasmine Vine in Seethamma's Courtyard (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Brothers Peddodu and Chinnodu are unemployed and do not get along well due to their contrasting natures. They have problems marrying the women they love before an accident changes their lives.
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: family relations, sibling relationship, fall in love, love and romance, family drama, parents and children, village life, siblings relations, wedding, brother, village, telugu
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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