Movies like Grown Ups 2008

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Grown Ups (2008)
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Grown Ups (2008)
Original name: Les Grandes personnes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, forcing them into an unusual cohabitation.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, art house
Plot: single parent, coming of age, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, youth, parents and children, love and romance, couples, summer, disorder, father daughter relationship, island, librarian, viking, birthday, holiday, parent child relationship, lost treasure, shyness, treasure hunt, metal detector, female director
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe
Keyword: sweden

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and touching films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, coming of age, love and romance, teenage life and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Grown Ups: As Cool as I Am (2013), The Amazing Catfish (2013), June in January (2014), Easy! (2011), Rolling Family (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
The Amazing Catfish (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young Claudia works in a supermarket where she promotes various types of products. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with severe appendicitis and meets Martha, a patient, laying in the bed next to hers.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: aids, friendship, single parent, supportive parent, life is a bitch, parents and children, adoption, family relations, youth, coming of age, children, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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100%
June in January (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A newly engaged bride dreamed of her wedding day with her late mother for her entire life, and is looking forward to planning every perfect detail to honor her mom's memory. But her special day is nearly ruined by her intimidating future ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, sexual ...
Plot: wedding, couples, parents and children, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance, youth, wedding planning, nothing goes right, holiday, unlikely couple, family gatherings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Easy! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bruno Beltrame makes a living of sorts. He wanted to be a great writer but he is content to write the books of others. He also gives private lessons to students who are not serious. Among his pupils is fifteen-year-old Luca, more quick-witted and ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot: teenage life, rebellion, life turned upside down, disorder, family relations, troublemaker, rebelliousness, youth, parents and children, professor, coming of age, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Rolling Family (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style: road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: gender, family relations, family problems, siblings relations, on the road, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, family in crisis, eccentric family, dysfunctional family ...
Place: argentina, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, disorder, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, coming of age, scientist, daughter, social relations, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her ...
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot: self discovery, elderly, introspection, disorder, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, siblings relations, pregnancy, couples, humour, heart disease ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, couples, wooing, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: siblings relations, dysfunctional family, teenage love, teenage life, family life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, eccentric family, love and romance, family problems, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Nicostratos the Pelican (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelican and decides to leave the bird at home. Pelican helps the boy find his father again and ...
Style: touching, feel good, sentimental, humorous, sad ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: human animal relationship, father son relationship, love and romance, island, teenage life, parents and children, hopes, human spirit, social relations, sea, greek island, pelican ...
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
Family Resemblances (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Teen's Confessions (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
Style: humorous, touching, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage love, parents and children, coming of age, family relations, high school life, youth, sister sister relationship, friendship, adolescence, love and romance, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Growing Op (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, light, mystic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lifestyle, family relations, teenage life, eccentric family, parents and children, stoner, cheerleader, social relations, teenage love, marijuana, brother sister relationship, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 708
Humble Pie (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people waiting to dash his dreams. Through it all, Tracy remains irrepressibly upbeat, convinced he's ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, whimsical
Plot: optimism, follow your dream, rise to the top, physical appearance, family relations, parents and children, humble, social misfits, youth, love and romance, society, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Quitters (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, independent film
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, youth, family life, disorder, social relations, high school life, innocence lost, girl man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Tricks (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, brother sister relationship, family relations, parents and children, small town, siblings relations, teaching the ways of the world, single parent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, magic realism, traumatic childhood ...
Place: poland, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Everybody's Doing It (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program. Making matters worse, a "good girl" collects abstinence pledges from students and blows the whistle on Angela and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, buddies, couples, peer pressure, school, sexual relations ...
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100%
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Kick'n Rush (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, youth, buddies, society, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Place: europe, denmark
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100%
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Quints (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jamie Grover (Kimberly J. Brown) is an only child who has always wanted out from the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish is finally granted when she finds out her mother is pregnant, but when she turns out to have quints, Jamie's ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: baby, family relations, family life, life turned upside down, child as adult, youth, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kisses for Everyone (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancers disrupts their commitments: boys lose the course and girls, their work. But together they learn ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sentimental, touching, manga ...
Plot: looking for love, friendship, youth, dancer's life, medical school, pregnancy, cabaret, health, family relations, school, coming of age, prostitute ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Two Shots Fired (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story: One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a sixteen-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, disturbing, humorous, offbeat
Plot: friendship, family relations, teenage life, youth, parents and children, dark humor, boy, siblings relations, friends, urban, house, gun
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Just Peck (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At 104 pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the coolest guy at American High. Peck’s teachers make him feel like an idiot, his classmates make him feel like a geek and his home life is just as bad, with ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: high school, friendship, parents and children, high school life, teenage love, disorder, family relations, ambition, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Summer of Flying Fish (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Manena is the headstrong adolescent daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacation to one thing : the invasion of his artificial lagoon by carps. While he employs increasingly radical methods, Manena has her first romantic ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, parents and children, family relations, countryside, teenage life, siblings relations, youth, fish, landowner, animal abuse, coming of age, bourgeoisie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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American Chai (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, teenage life, parents and children, youth, society, friendship, misfit, hopes, nothing goes right ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Pieces of Me (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crazy father old before his time, a tyrannical, sick mother, a sister who disappeared four years ago and me, Erell, who films everything, all the time... A fine family portrait. I live in the same town I've always lived in. You're born ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: youth, teenage life, parents and children, coming of age, family life, bittersweet, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, illness, sister sister relationship, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Seeking Temporary Wife (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Frederik is a happy man; he has a girlfriend he loves, a business running smoothely and he is going to be a father. But his happiness proves false. At a party, his girlfriend declares that she will leave him for her true love. Frederik is ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, touching, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: adoption, pregnancy, couples, love, parents and children, divorce, frustration, betrayal, disorder, love and romance, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Ketchup Effect (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager's reputation is destroyed when she falls asleep drunk at a party and some boys take provocative photos of her.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, high school, social relations, friendship, teenage life, first sex, sexual relations, coming of age, party, reconciliation, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, europe
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100%
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Sixten (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 78 min.
Story: 13 year old Sixten really wants his father to meet someone he can marry. Without telling his father, he and his friends write an ad for the personal sections.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: european, single parent, disorder, family relations, dishonesty, youth, love and romance, hidden identity, coming of age, teenage life, looking for love, mistaken identity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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