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Trying (2020)
15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can’t have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they’re ready to be parents?
Style:
realistic, light, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, sitcom, harsh, cynical
Plot:
infertility, children, family life, parenthood, parenting, new life, husband wife relationship, responsibility, bureaucracy, parents and children, irresponsible, long term relationship, domestic drama, adoption, family drama, british humour, apple
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Most similar movies to Trying
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, sitcom and semi serious films and TV series with plots about family relations, parents and children, family life, couples, british humour, couple relations and husband wife relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Trying: Breeders (2020), Outnumbered (2007), Gavin & Stacey (2007), Roger & Val Have Just Got In (2010), In with the Flynns (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Breeders exposes the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.
Style:
funny, humorous, ironic, sweet, light ...
Plot:
parenthood, children, parent grown child relationship, family relations, husband wife relationship, parents and children, father, mother, father son relationship, school, long term relationship, family affairs ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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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 ...
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Plot:
precocious child, couple relations, family life, couples, parenthood, parents and children, everyday life, family relations, youth, sketch, adhd, household ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
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Story:
Gavin is an ordinary boy from Billericay, Essex. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Barry Island, South Wales. They’ve spoken on the phone every day at work for months but they’ve never actually met… until now.
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, couple relations, separation, family life, couples, honeymoon, lifestyle, buddies, marriage, dating, newlyweds, pub ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, wales, europe
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46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
Roger & Val Have Just Got In is a British sitcom that stars Dawn French and Alfred Molina playing married couple Roger and Val Stevenson. The show premiered on BBC Two on 6 August 2010 and six episodes were broadcast for the first series. The ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Plot:
couple relations, married couple, working class, family relations, everyday life, rivalry, long term relationship, bittersweet, couples, realism, verbal byplay, british humour ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In with the Flynns is a British sitcom created by Caryn Mandabach, produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions, and broadcast by the BBC. The first series began broadcast on 8 June 2011 for six episodes on BBC One and in high definition on BBC One HD in ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
Plot:
family life, family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, supportive parent, everyday life, love, rivalry, friendship, couples, couple relations, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manchester, england, europe
Similarity:
44%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sara and Nicola are expecting their second son. Through the late Mattia Torre's sharp look, all the joys and sorrows of being a parent in the modern day Italy are unraveled in an absolutely brilliant and witty way.
Style:
light, semi serious, captivating, realistic, funny ...
Plot:
parenthood, child, parents, children, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, motherhood, family relations, family life, middle class, father, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Pete versus Life is a Channel 4 sitcom created by George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler-Moore. It stars Rafe Spall and the first episode was aired on 6 August 2010. It was recommissioned for a second series after averaging 1.6 million viewers and a young ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, surreal, light ...
Plot:
media, journalist, lifestyle, soccer, disorder, life, teenage life, everyday life, sportscaster, commentator, society, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A story set in a blue collar world, about love, romance, family, and babies. When a man returns from his travels abroad he is shocked to discover that his ex-girlfriend and love of his life is carrying another man's baby.
Style:
light, humorous, entertaining, captivating, romantic
Plot:
parents and children, family life, male female relationship, family relations, romantic relationship, love story, couple relations, relationships, love affair, eccentric family, love and romance, unplanned pregnancy ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Life Begins is a British television drama first broadcast on ITV between February 2004 and October 2006, starring Caroline Quentin and Alexander Armstrong, Anne Reid and Frank Finlay.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating, sitcom
Plot:
love triangle, changing lives, starting over, job seeking, couples, workplace situations, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, summer vacation, marital problem, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Life of Riley is a British comedy television series, shown on BBC One and BBC HD. The show stars Caroline Quentin and Neil Dudgeon, who are recently married, and is set around their dysfunctional family. The show also features the couple's four ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, parents and children, couple relations, couples, husband wife relationship, marriage, baby, children, newlyweds ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Notes from the Underbelly is an American sitcom that debuted on ABC as a midseason replacement. The series is based upon the novel of the same name by Risa Green, and is produced by Eric and Kim Tannenbaum for Warner Bros. Television. The title is a ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot:
couple relations, pregnancy, family life, friendship, friends, couples, family relations, babies and infants, youth, parents and children, rivalry, pregnant woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
406
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Starlings is a British comedy-drama written by Steve Edge and Matt King who also play the roles of Fergie and Uncle Loz. It is one of the few new television comedy series that has been commissioned and aired on Sky1.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, comedy drama ...
Plot:
grandfather, family life, family relations, couples, family problems, parents and children, couple relations, dysfunctional family, elderly man, working class, british, family conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
42%
276
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Honest is a British comedy-drama series that aired on ITV in 2008. The series is a remake of the New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune, written by James Griffin and Rachel Lang, that first aired in 2005.
The programme stars Amanda Redman as Lindsay ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, comedy drama ...
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, family life, teenage life, going straight, dishonesty, juvenile delinquency, cons and scams, petty criminal, single parent, prison sentence, motherhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Tyler Perry's House of Payne is an American comedy-drama television series created and produced by playwright, director, and producer Tyler Perry. The show revolved around a multi-generational family living under one roof in Atlanta led by ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot:
family relations, working class, social relations, family life, parents and children, suburbs, youth, elderly, african american protagonist, black, urban, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
elderly lovers, old love, middle aged, marriage, lesbian, lovers reunited, family relations, elderly, love, teacher, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.
Style:
funny, sitcom, entertaining, light, not serious ...
Plot:
family life, children, mother, parents, working mom, parenthood, fatherhood, husband wife relationship, problem solving, kids and family, women, family relations ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
Bittersweet comedy about a 61-year-old former model trying to cope with life in London.
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, clever ...
Plot:
aging, family relations, self discovery, art gallery, parents and children, dark humor, couples, rivalry, society, friendship, model, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series written by David Renwick. The show ran for six series, including seven Christmas specials, two Comic Relief specials, over an eleven-year period, from early 1990 to late 2000. The latter Comic ...
Style:
sitcom, funny, laugh out loud, dark comedy, surreal ...
Plot:
misery, sketch, cooking show, young heroes, dark humor, retirement, oldtimer, family relations, couples, retired, disorder, suffering ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Time is not standing still for the teammates of soccer team 'Eendracht Vooruit'. Erik (Tom Van Landuyt), the team captain, tries to keep them together since a lot of the player getting children. In particular, Jean-Marc who's having ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, comedy drama ...
Plot:
friendship, sport team, soccer, friends, couple relations, buddies, couples, lifestyle, family problems, children, fatherhood, family life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Ludwik and Natalia Boski navigate the chaos of raising three children while also managing their busy careers.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, feel good, light, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
parenting, kids and family, parents and children, children, house, eccentric family, family relations, family life, humour, mother son relationship, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Rosemary, Jane and Emily try to juggle motherhood, work, friendships and love lives in an overly complicated modern world.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sitcom, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
parenthood, motherhood, friendship, family life, family relations, love and romance, single parent, best friend, parents and children, humour, strong female presence, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
41%
606
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.
Style:
humorous, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
looking for love, dating, lovers apart, lifestyle, couple relations, working class, singleness, escapades, friendship, friends, love, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Keith Barret, a taxi driver, is estranged from his wife, Marion, and children, Rhys and Alun. Although it's clear the separation is having a devastating effect on him, he's determined - to the point of near insanity - to remain positive.
Style:
mockumentary, semi serious, sincere, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
taxi driver, introspection, optimism, family relations, hopes, workplace situations, dark humor, parents and children, workplace, taxi, monologue, british humour ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The Cooper family share a small house, and absolutely no DNA. Mum Tess wanted to save as many kids as she could from the sort of childhood she had. So, along with her husband Toby, she now divides just about enough money and nowhere near enough time ...
Style:
feel good, sitcom, satirical, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, money, adoption, family life, foster child, lifestyle, satire, kids and family, foster home, relationships, parenting, house ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional ...
Style:
witty, clever, sincere, cynical, humorous ...
Plot:
doctor, village life, hospital, treatment, loner, doctors and patients, teacher, surgery, responsibility, antisocial behavior, manners, medicine ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, cornwall, london, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Free Agents is a romantic black comedy starring Stephen Mangan, Sharon Horgan and Anthony Head. Originally a pilot for Channel 4 in November 2007, the series began on 13 February 2009. It spawned a short lived US remake, which was cancelled after ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, talky ...
Plot:
workplace situations, love and romance, workplace romance, couples, talent agent, verbal byplay, singleness, platonic, dark humor, workplace, office, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Fortysomething is a 2003 British comedy-drama series, starring and directed by Hugh Laurie as Paul Slippery, a doctor facing a mid-life crisis. His wife Estelle is starting a new career as a headhunter. His three sons, Rory, a student at the ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, hilarious, humorous, dark comedy
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, midlife crisis, couple relations, father son relationship, family life, depression, career, middle aged, family problems, frustration, husband wife relationship, marital problem ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Father Figure is a British comedy television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 September 2013. In Ireland the series first aired on RTÉ Two in September 2013. The six-part series was written by Jason Byrne and directed by Nick Wood.
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, funny, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
family life, fatherhood, father son relationship, family relations, parents and children, father and son, brother brother relationship, life, father, kids and family, everyday life, children ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A blue-collar couple in Atlantic City tries to raise four kids – three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses.
Style:
feel good, sitcom, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
family life, husband wife relationship, couples, parents and children, parenthood, relationships, humour, kids and family, male female relationship, family relations, lifestyle, parenting ...
Place:
atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Style:
sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
store, family relations, workplace situations, workplace, parents and children, family business, friendship, cooking show, salesman, photograph, customer, storekeeper ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england
Similarity:
40%
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