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Another Year (2010)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Style:
emotional, touching, meditative, psychological, sincere, contemplative, realistic, visually appealing, inspirational, thought provoking ...
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, midlife crisis, family life, everyday life, jealousy, parents and children, marriage, suffering, insomnia, gardening, character study, desperation, divorce, realism, unfulfilled love, guest, family relations, sweetheart, funeral, depression, death, summer, wine, melancholy ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 90s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
london, england, europe, paris france, ireland, dublin ireland, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, touching and semi serious films with plots about drinking alcohol, drinking, friendship, family relations, loneliness, depression and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Another Year: All or Nothing (2002), Last Orders (2001), Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022), Please Give (2010), Career Girls (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style:
emotional, depressing, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, unwanted pregnancy, loneliness, depression, poverty, injustice, family problems, parents and children, couples, family in crisis ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, florida, algeria ...
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100%
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Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, grief, road trip, memory, life, family relations, male friendship, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london, australia, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
Style:
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Plot:
fashion, haute couture, cleaning lady, widow, fashion model, fashion designer, fashion show, dream, bigger dreams, female protagonist, culture, direction and purpose ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, london, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, depressing, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
midlife crisis, family drama, complex characters, loneliness, infidelity, depression, human nature, parents and children, adultery, teenage life, sarcasm, cancer ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Style:
cult classic, realistic, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
college, life & death, female friendship, graduation, friendship, bittersweet, women, loser, female bonding, angry, meaning of life, railway ...
Time:
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Place:
london, europe, england, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, independent film, intense, talky ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
holiday, road trip, food, dysfunctional family, family drama, cancer, eccentric family, dialogue, reconciliation, parents and children, family feud, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, tokyo ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.
Style:
rom com, touching, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
retirement, senior citizen, dancing, friendship, dating, middle class, trust, mother daughter relationship, marriage, mistress, promise, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
london, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless ...
Style:
depressing, touching, emotional, sad, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
loneliness, stop motion, friendship, social misfits, letter, depression, melancholy, asperger's syndrome, young woman, relationships, solitude, mental illness ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, oceania, persia, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, black comedy, retro, cult classic, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, realism, mission, philosophy, family relations, liberal, couples, yuppie, culture clash, class differences, couple relations, babies and infants ...
Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A middle-aged London factory worker is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone's secrets are exposed.
Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, dark comedy, sincere ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, birth mother, adoption, great ending, family secret, bittersweet, working class, loneliness, black, women, foster child, child care ...
Time:
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Place:
london, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
Style:
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Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, hotel, friends, marriage, grief, machismo, womanizer, casino, time travel, dream, divorce ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, london, long island, england, europe ...
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, inspirational, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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23%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
black comedy, independent film, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california
Similarity:
23%
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Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, paris france, london, france, europe
Similarity:
22%
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Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
existentialism, sexual abuse, nihilism, humiliation, voyeurism, alienation, drifter, character study, sex scene, rape, cruelty, rapist ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, manchester, europe
Similarity:
22%
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, humorous, happy, powerful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, montmartre paris, france, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, independent film, emotional, teen, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, addiction, parents and children, down on your luck, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, witty, sentimental, dark comedy, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, sexy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
denmark, copenhagen, eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, east end london, britain, europe
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, inspirational, realistic, witty, entertaining ...
Audience:
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Plot:
friendship, coming of age, happy ending, bullying, youth, teacher, drinking, neighbor, divorced parents, storytelling, character study, redemption ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, peru, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, bittersweet, depression, small town, grief, melancholy, loner, train, new in town, loss, solitude ...
Time:
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Place:
nebraska, usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, canada ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, california, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey, istanbul turkey, balkan, maghreb ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
Style:
light, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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