Movies and TV shows like Family 1976

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Family (1976)
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Family (1976)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Family is an American television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980. Creative control of the show was split among executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling and Mike Nichols. A total of 86 episodes were produced.
Style: retro, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot: marriage, family relations, family drama, school, youth, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, couples, family problems, coming of age, graduation, buddies, parent child relationship, brother sister relationship, suburbs, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, tomboy, overalls
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: california, usa, pasadena california
Keyword: oldies

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Most similar movies to Family

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films and TV series with plots about family relations, parents and children, family life, youth, family problems, couples and coming of age mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Family: Brothers and Sisters (2006), Knots Landing (1979), Summerland (2004), Everwood (2002), Our House (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Brothers & Sisters is an American television drama series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Pasadena, California. The series premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006, and aired its final episode on May 8, 2011. It aired, for its ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family drama, parenthood, family relations, family business, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, parents and children, siblings relations, family problems, couple relations, love and romance, jealousy ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, pasadena california
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Knots Landing (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, telenovela
Plot: women, poor, family relations, small town, couple relations, intrigue, love and romance, couples, family life, love affair, power, best friend ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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100%
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Summerland (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Summerland is an American drama television series created by Stephen Tolkin and Lori Loughlin. It is centered on a clothing designer in her 30s, Ava Gregory, raising her niece and nephews after their parents die in a tragic accident. They live in ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: surfing, family relations, love and romance, teenage life, siblings relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, high school, beach, childhood, young adult ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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100%
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Everwood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town life, doctor, small town, father son estrangement, first love, crush, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, friends in love, widower, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Our House (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Our House is an American television drama series that aired on NBC for two seasons from September 11, 1986 to May 8, 1988. The series centers on the Witherspoon family and the challenges they face adjusting to life with three generations living in ...
Style: retro, sitcom, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: single mother, family relations, single parent, family drama, in-laws, youth, family life, parents and children, little girl, mother daughter relationship, boy, dog ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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50%
Lincoln Heights (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lincoln Heights is an American family drama television series about Eddie Sutton, a Mission Vista police officer who moves his family back to his old neighborhood, Lincoln Heights, to start a new life and to help out his old neighborhood. It is a ...
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school student, african american, workplace, family relations, homecoming, love and romance, family values, new job, parents and children, marital problem, siblings relations, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Sound of the Spirit (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Beautiful and precocious Rivka is a twelve-year-old Jewish girl who believes in Jesus. She and her father attend a Messianic Jewish congregation in their community. But when her father suddenly dies, Rivka's life changes forever. She ends up ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, christian film ...
Plot: society, love and romance, family relations, youth, culture clash, coming of age, fall in love, social relations, religions or cults, death of father, religion, christian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Life Goes On (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, contemplative
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, protective parent, misfit, teenage life, family life, parents and children, couples, supportive parent, mentally challenged, couple relations, youth, young lovers ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Family Ties (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: family relations, liberal, culture clash, lifestyle, hippie, parents and children, youth, teenage life, family life, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations, father son relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, ohio, columbus ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Kids of Degrassi Street (1979)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Kids of Degrassi Street is a Canadian children's TV show that aired from 1979 to 1986, and is the first in the Degrassi series, about the lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada. It grew out of four short ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: mischievous children, family relations, school, youth, parents separation, parents and children, society, friendship, friends, elementary school
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: 12-year-old Jessica Jones world is torn apart when she is taken out of her abusive home and placed in to Foster care. Jessica will grapple with her past, present, and future, and meet numerous struggles along the way. Her story is the reality of so ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating
Plot: custody, foster parent, kids in trouble, starting over, family life, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, parents and children, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Eight Is Enough (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: family affairs, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, single parent, remarry, couples, looking for love, parents and children, family life, teenage life, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Family (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Belgium
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Famile is a Flemish television series, which is broadcast on VTM since December 30th, 1991. It's the longest running Belgian soap opera. The storylines take place mostly in and around the city of Mechelen, where the family Van Den Bossche ...
Style: soap opera, emotional, sentimental, serious, saga ...
Plot: family relations, family drama, dysfunctional family, favoritism among siblings, couples, workplace, couple relations, family problems, parents and children, family life, family business
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Paradise Beach (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Paradise Beach is an Australian television series made by Village Roadshow Pictures. It is associated with New World Television for the Nine Network that aired between 1993 and 1994. The series is set around characters living and working on ...
Style: soap opera, serious, sentimental, realistic
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: small town, beach, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, teenage life, family problems, looking for love, small town life, couples ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Gigantic (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A half-hour dramedy that takes a fictional look at the glitzy, chaotic and often hilarious life of being a Hollywood "it" kid. Set in the world of the Hollywood elite packed with A-list parties and privilege, it tells a coming-of-age story ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, hollywood, celebrity, coming of age, starlet, artists and showbiz, teenage life, lifestyle, youth, celebrity culture, parents and children, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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7th Heaven (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 7th Heaven is an American family drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on The WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: child's point of view, family life, suburbs, suburban life, parents and children, society, religion, parenthood, family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, love and romance, disgraced, single parent, youth, family life, friendship, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Bernie Mac Show (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Bernie Mac Show is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sister's three kids: Jordan, Bryana, and Vanessa.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, black, artists and showbiz, parenthood, eccentric family, family life, parents and children, black family, black sitcom, husband wife relationship, marriage, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he ...
Style: emotional, talky, intense, humorous, touching ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family problems, family in crisis, family gatherings, couples, husband wife relationship, mountain, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, equality ...
Time: 60s, year 1963
Place: wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Sons & Daughters (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Family is always unpredictable, so why write a family comedy when you can live dangerously and improvise instead? Like real families, you never know what will happen when you give characters total freedom. Adult siblings Cameron, Sharon and Jenna ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, light ...
Plot: family relations, marriage, family life, family problems, blended family, siblings relations, suburban life, love and romance, single parent, suburbs, couples, large family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Lilies (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, historical drama ...
Plot: post war, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, society, youth, working class, parents and children, bittersweet, poverty, slum, world war one ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Brooklyn Bridge (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s. The premise was partially based on the childhood of executive producer and ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: skirt, family relations, coming of age, jewish family, social relations, social differences, friends, family life, misfit, social misfits, society, youth ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1956
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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A Time to Remember (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An artist and single mother returns to her childhood home to patch things up with her mother who has Alzheimers disease.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot: thanksgiving, family relations, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, single parent, hopes, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, reconciliation, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Cleaner (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions during the birth of his twins, William BanksĀ strikes a tentative deal with God. In exchange for a second chance, he vows to kick his addictions and dedicate his life to helping others. Now, along ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: addiction, belief, rescue, hopes, going straight, life is a bitch, family life, family relations, human nature, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, drug rehab ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Youth (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Juliette, twenty, falls in love. At the same time her father is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Style: emotional, sincere, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: terminal illness, fall in love, love and romance, family relations, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, family in crisis, parents and children, loss of virginity, countryside, twentysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Second Noah (1996)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Second Noah is a television drama that was broadcast in the United States on ABC television from February 5, 1996 to June 8, 1997
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: adoption, large family, family relations, family drama, veterinarian, writers, animal life, disorder, family life, parents and children, interracial adoption
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Crash (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Crash is an American television drama series that tells the story of how the lives of how several very diverse Southern Californians intersect.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, medical drama ...
Plot: racism, social decay, police detective, injustice, family problems, society, law enforcement, life is a bitch, partner, dishonesty, immigrant, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Louder Than Words (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: hospital, child illness, parents and children, human spirit, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, last wish, family relations, hopes, couple relations, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Manito (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Fifteen years ago, their Washington Heights neighborhood was dubbed the crack-cocaine capital of the world, but today it is transforming into one of the most vibrant, Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. While the drug dealers continue ...
Style: bleak, emotional, tense, rough, touching ...
Plot: drug dealing, racism, social decay, family relations, siblings relations, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, college, dogma, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, kids in trouble ...
Time: future
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
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