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Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
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Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An Irish funeral has a wake. A Jewish funeral has sitting shiva. A traditional Chinese funeral is something else entirely. Thats what the estranged siblings of the Chinese-American Xiao family must undergo upon news of their mothers death. The one brother and three sisters dont get along, however they share one thing: hatred for their domineering and manipulative mother, the Dragon Lady."
Style: humorous, realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, independent film, intercultural, inter cultural
Plot: estrangement, lesbian, dysfunctional family, self discovery, family problems, siblings relations, family relations, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, family gatherings, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, funeral, food, sapphic, secret lover, surprise party, sex, dancing, pregnancy, writers, death, cancer, monk ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: seattle, seattle washington
Keyword: matriarch, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family life and couples mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Dim Sum Funeral: The Inheritance (2001), Isn't It Delicious (2013), Soft Fruit (1999), Two Weeks (2006), Latin Lover (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Inheritance (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than a spacious apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles – from the apartment’s sale to splitting ...
Style: humorous, realistic, serious, emotional
Plot: lesbian couple, family relations, family gatherings, inheritance, family problems, parents and children, estrangement, death in the family, sister sister relationship, strained relationship, death of mother, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 6.6
 568
Soft Fruit (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style: humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, working class, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, family problems, couples, estrangement, death in the family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 6.4
 2K
Two Weeks (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, spiritual ...
Plot: introspection, eccentric family, family life, estrangement, family problems, single parent, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, dying, terminal illness ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 6.0
 1K
Latin Lover (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
Style: touching, tragicomedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, family life, rivalry, ego clash, family problems, strong female presence, village, estate, siblings relations, family gatherings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style: touching, humorous, independent film, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, infidelity, family gatherings, homecoming, childhood home, death of father, children, family relations, loneliness, life & death, last wish ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.3
 160
Marine Life (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, couples, family problems, single parent, love and romance, youth, child as adult, midlife crisis, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Talent Given Us (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, touching ...
Plot: on the road, eccentric family, family relations, elderly, cross country, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, friend, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Fathers & Sons (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, death in the family, siblings relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, father and son, relationship problems, father son reunion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.2
 2K
Happy Tears (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, family relations, homecoming, family life, parents and children, family problems, aging, elderly, siblings relations, daydreamer, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Strange Relations (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
Style: semi serious, emotional, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: adoption, terminal illness, self discovery, uncover truth, hopes, introspection, family problems, parents and children, working class, dysfunctional family, family life, mother son relationship ...
Place: new york, europe, england, usa, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style: emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family business, family relations, save the day, family problems, restaurant, working class, estrangement, parents and children, bank, siblings relations, family in crisis, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.4
 9K
Eulogy (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family secret, funeral, eccentric family, death in the family, lesbian, family life, family feud, parents and children, fall in love, generation gap, loss of grandfather ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.5
 2K
Kingdom Come (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a comedic boil as the wildly dysfunctional Slocumbs squabble and fight their way to the funeral.
Style: touching, humorous, light, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, death, family drama, eccentric family, family problems, introspection, family in crisis, parents and children, self discovery, hip hop, african american, urban ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.4
 695
Constellation (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: interracial relations, family relations, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, hopes, unfulfillment, society, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, interracial romance ...
Time: 1950s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her ...
Style: multicultural, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, woman, sapphic, family relations, lesbian mother, male homosexuality, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Simmons are playing the brothers' father and uncle, respectively, while Caan is one of the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, contemplative ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, last wish, family problems, ex athlete, self discovery, introspection, terminal illness, friendship, death, society, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
What's Cooking? (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, dysfunctional family, food, culture clash, cooking, divorce, family bonds, pregnancy, family problems, family life, family gatherings, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Birds of America (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, family problems, couples, youth, vengeance, family gatherings, parents and children, couple relations, introspection, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
43%
Memories of Me (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: heart attack, father son relationship, hollywood, death of father, flashback, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son estrangement, surgeon, doctor, parent child relationship, bittersweet, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Daytrippers (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station ...
Style: independent film, hilarious, talky, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, adultery, family relations, infidelity, love, thanksgiving, night, bickering, drunkenness, chance meeting, on the road ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Family Tree (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, profound ...
Plot: memory loss, dysfunctional family, family relations, social relations, family problems, family life, parents and children, couple relations, siblings relations, suburban life, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.6
 2K
Okay (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bittersweet comedy with dogma star Paprika Steen in the strong leading role.
Style: semi serious, touching, emotional, humorous, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, infidelity, terminal illness, teenage life, family problems, estrangement, family crisis, adultery, husband wife relationship, dying, teenage rebellion, grandfather granddaughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Family Thing (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who ...
Style: feel good, touching, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, manly
Plot: biracial, self discovery, family drama, family relations, justice, betrayal, loneliness, secrets, interracial relations, racism, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: arkansas, america, chicago, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Rock the Casbah (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, islamic ...
Plot: funeral, family relations, life turned upside down, family gatherings, family problems, death in the family, family life, parents and children, disorder, muslim, arab, housekeeper ...
Place: morocco, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, "Last Summer in the Hamptons" concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances ...
Style: independent film, talky, clever, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, death in the family, matriarchy, theatre group, theatrical troupe, actor, anton chekhov, theatre play, family home, playwright, theatre director, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, melancholic, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, estrangement, eccentric family, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, dealing with death, bookstore, snow ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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