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The Help (2004)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
22-year-old Maria was on her way to becoming a beautician when a family crisis forced her to take a new path, and she now finds herself employed as the maid for the extremely wealthy Ridgeway family. As one of many servants who dote on the demented and dysfunctional family, Maria discovers there's not only a class struggle between the upstairs and the downstairs, but there's an all out war among "The Help."
Style:
sitcom, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, dark comedy
Plot:
intrigue, satire, maid, housekeeper, wealthy family, rich and poor, family relations, cleaning lady, lifestyle, class struggle, domestic drama, female protagonist, coming of age, gossip, social satire, slice of life, eccentric family, small town, rich, family, death of parent, loss of parent
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, captivating, satirical and entertaining films and TV series with plots about satire, lifestyle, slice of life, family relations, social satire, eccentric family and family life mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like The Help: Cracking Up (2004), Hit the Road (2017), Animal Control (2023), Three Busy Debras (2020), The O'Keefes (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Cracking Up is an American television sitcom created by School of Rock writer Mike White, who also served as the series' head writer. It aired on the Fox Network on Monday nights from March to May 2004. The title of the program and the name of ...
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sitcom, satirical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
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satire, student, eccentric family, family relations, family life, mother son relationship, lifestyle, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, fish out of water, deadpan, suburban life ...
Place:
beverly hills, california, los angeles
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Led by parents Ken and Meg, a chaotically dysfunctional family band traverses the country in a cramped tour bus sacrificing privacy, comfort and dignity while in search of fame and fortune.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, relationships, kids and family, humour, family life, wealthy family, eccentric family, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, slice of life, father daughter relationship ...
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28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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A group of local animal control workers' lives are complicated by the fact that animals are simple, but humans are not. Leading the crew is Frank, an opinionated, eccentric animal control officer who may not have gone to college but is still ...
Style:
sitcom, entertaining, satirical, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
animal, human animal relationship, workplace situations, animal human communication, lifestyle, humour, workplace, satire, social satire, public service, small town, mature ...
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27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Debra, Debra, and Debra are three very busy women who are all named Debra. They live in the affluent suburb of Lemoncurd and do lots of interesting activities, which keep them very busy.
Style:
surreal, absurd, entertaining, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
housewife, satire, suburbs, suburban life, lifestyle, slice of life, wealthy family, female protagonist, deadpan, alienation, small town, women
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The O'Keefes is an American television sitcom, that aired on The WB Television Network. It premiered on May 22, 2003 and ended on June 12, 2003.
Style:
sitcom, feel good, semi serious, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
family affairs, home schooling, family relations, changing lives, lifestyle change, social problems, lifestyle, social issues, satire, eccentric family, social satire, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Center of the Universe is a television series on CBS, which ran from October 27, 2004, until January 19, 2005. The sitcom was canceled after just 10 episodes aired. It was set in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.
John Goodman starred as John Barnett, a ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, semi serious, family comedy ...
Plot:
working class, family relations, satire, lifestyle, social issues, male protagonist, humour, heartwarming, blue collar, supportive spouse, eccentric family, family ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
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A completely off-the-wall sitcom about a family matriarch, played by a man, whose favourite activity is meddling in the lives of her children and friends.
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, humorous, feel good, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
satire, male female relationship, family relations, family life, eccentric family, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, lifestyle, slice of life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, kids and family, cross dressing ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 60 min.
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A brilliant combination between a classical sitcom and a sharp satire of certain members of a mid-class Eastern European society. This hilarious comedy reveals the simple day-to-day life, as well as the extraordinary adventures of the most vibrant ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
middle class, satire, city life, social satire, apartment building, social commentary, everyday life, urban setting, slice of life, society, lifestyle, conflict ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
bulgaria, balkan
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Leap of Faith is a half-hour single-camera comedy that aired on NBC in early 2002, right after Friends on NBC's Thursday comedy block at 8:30 PM EST, as part of Must See TV. One of the highest rated shows to be cancelled, the series ended after ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny ...
Plot:
friendship, slice of life, group of friends, thirty something, female protagonist, friends, lifestyle, satire, life, self discovery, starting over, city life
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 22 min.
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A comedy series that is supposed to show the fate of two families that theoretically share only the same surname - Kowalski - Although they live in two completely different worlds and share their education, social and financial status, priorities, ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, sitcom, satirical, light ...
Plot:
rich and poor, humour, mistaken identity, parents and children, family relations, opposites attract, family life, mother son relationship, comedy of errors, husband wife relationship, social satire, lifestyle ...
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23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
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Follow Superwog and best friend Johnny as their misadventures cause Superwog's primitive, highly-strung father stress as he battles to keep his delusional, but loyal wife happy.
Style:
satirical, family comedy, sitcom, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
slice of life, satire, dysfunctional family, family life, social problems, lifestyle, social issues, eccentric family, family relations, parents and children, family problems, father son relationship ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Noah Knows Best is a television series that aired on Nickelodeon. The show premiered on October 7, 2000 and was canceled with five unaired episodes out of thirteen produced, due to low ratings. The show starred Phillip Van Dyke as the title ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, satirical, sitcom ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
sibling rivalry, slice of life, family relations, brother sister relationship, siblings relations, relationships, relationship problems, family problems, satire, social satire, rivalry, lifestyle ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 60 min.
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Sitcom about a family from Belgrade and their daily adventures. Gavrilo is a failing actor, his wife Danijela continues her college studies in her 40s, Jovana their daughter is a revolutionary youtuber and Velibor, their son, is focused on girls, ...
Style:
sitcom, satirical, humorous, family comedy, feel good ...
Plot:
male female relationship, relationships, family life, dysfunctional family, parents, parents and children, family relations, kids and family, lifestyle, satire, daily life, slice of life ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
serbia, belgrade, balkan
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Luis is an American sitcom starring Luis Guzmán that aired on Fox from September to October 2003. Scheduled in the Friday night death slot, the series received low ratings and was canceled after five episodes. The series was the first show of the ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, feel good, semi serious, funny ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male female relationship, relationships, love affair, lifestyle, satire, humour, social satire, fox, city life, slice of life, urban, working class ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Iran
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ironic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, satirical ...
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satire, relationships, family relations, irony, eccentric family, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, lifestyle, kids and family, mother daughter relationship, living together, humour ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Kang's Family; Migrant Wives, Local Husbands (Chinese: 外来媳妇本地郎 is a Cantonese sitcom produced by Guangdong Radio and Television. Filming began on April 18, 2000, and has been broadcast on GRT Pearl River Channel since November 4, ...
Style:
sitcom, funny, ironic, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
culture clash, social satire, joke, humour, irony, satire, family values, slice of life, small town, domestic drama, gender roles, cantonese
Place:
china
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22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium
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Style:
sitcom, dark comedy, black comedy, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Style:
sitcom, family comedy, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
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21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
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Hasmukh operates a small IT Consulting company "Shree Ganesh Computers Limited Inc" in Queens, NY. Staffed by a disinterested and lazy cast of characters, his business flounders. His home life is not much better. His wife Dimple, a ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
family life, social satire, family relations, social problems, relationships, male female relationship, lifestyle, marital problem, husband wife relationship, business, family problems, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
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Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, funny, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
humour, male protagonist, satire, slice of life, lifestyle, social satire, bookies, profanity, bartender, scotsman, senior citizen, storekeeper ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland
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21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 35 min.
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Meet the Lewises: your average, everyday Manchester family who belong to an ultra-religious order. Oh, and they reckon the world's going to end in the next 10 years.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, entertaining, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
religion, family relations, relationships, lifestyle, kids and family, society, religious, faith, eccentric family, belief in god, life, satire ...
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21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Style:
dark comedy, funny, feel good, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
female protagonist, absurd humor, surrealism, absurdism, woman, humour, self discovery, lifestyle, social problems, female comedian, slice of life, depression ...
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21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
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Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
black, family relations, exodus, black sitcom, male female relationship, kids and family, humour, parents and children, comedian, lifestyle, eccentric family, satire ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Duration: 35 min.
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Budimir and Zlatko are two partners advocates. Apart from being business partners they also share a family connection. Budimir was married to Zlatko's late sister and is now living with his daughter Mia and his mother-in-law Dika, Zlatko's ...
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family comedy, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, satirical ...
Plot:
living together, eccentric family, family problems, family life, escapades, relationship problems, family relations, advocate, lifestyle, relationships, satire, cohabitation ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
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British sitcom adapted from the Israeli sitcom Little Mom. It follows the ups and downs of life, friendship and family for three women living in Hull - self-described actress Toni, her sister Paula and best friend Rana.
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sitcom, satirical, feel good, funny, semi serious ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, friendship, sister sister relationship, lifestyle, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, girlfriend, slice of life, family life, satire, female protagonist, mother, motherhood ...
Place:
northern england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 20 min.
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A family comedy about an angry old man, his good-for-nothing son Praful and daughter-in-law Hansa, widowed daughter-in-law Jayshree, and grandchildren Jackie and Chakki, who are the smartest ones of all.
Style:
sitcom, family comedy, captivating, humorous, satirical ...
Plot:
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Place:
india, mumbai india
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law, all without a ...
Style:
sitcom, satirical, captivating, semi serious, funny ...
Plot:
african american, black family, house, family relations, black man, black people, family life, eccentric family, humour, everyday life, lifestyle, satire ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 10 min.
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The series follows the lives of Juha "Juhis" Koski and Tommi Mäkinen-Renwall as neighbours. The men drift too far in their everyday challenges that lead to excessive outcomes. Unwillingly, Tommi and Juhis often find themselves in awkward ...
Style:
buddy comedy, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, neighbor, girl next door, lifestyle, social satire, neighbor neighbor relationship, male friendship, deadpan, slice of life, humiliation, young adult, midlife crisis ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Uptight, try-hard dad Neil Hackett's decision to buy a lodge in the Lake District proves disastrous when he discovers he is living next door to the uber successful, effortlessly superior Dillons.
Style:
sitcom, satirical, feel good, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
social satire, satire, family life, family relations, relationships, male female relationship, marital problem, new neighbor, husband wife relationship, married couple, neighbor, couples ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
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Marcella is an aspiring actress recovering from a relationship break up. Despite her optimistic attempts, and with help from her friends, therapist and driving instructor, she is unable to get her life back on track.
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
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satire, actress, lifestyle, aspiring actress, breakup, female protagonist, social problems, ambitious woman, thirtysomething life, slice of life, relationship vs career, coping ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
20%
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