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Weakness (2010)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, light, feel good, melancholic, existential, contemplative, sexual
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, love and romance, society, couples, high school, suburbs, suburban life, older man younger woman romance, male teacher female student affair, grief, loneliness, midlife crisis, loss of spouse, character study, identity crisis, mourning, small town life, autism, mature, isolation, slice of life, regret, intimate, moral ambiguity, school ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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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 couples, love and romance, suburban life, society, family relations, intimate and bittersweet mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Weakness: California Dreaming (2007), Worst. Prom. Ever. (2011), Man of the Year (2002), Detector (2000), Homeland (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Unforeseen obstacles stand in the way of a family planning to take a road trip in an RV.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, friends, couples, love and romance, disorder, suburbs, isolation, suburban life, playing footsie, youth, teen romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, nebraska
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Clark has planned the perfect prom for his girlfriend Sharon. His plans are hijacked when Sharon invites her two best girlfriends, Neve and Heather, and their dates along on the perfect evening, but things only get worse. When all three are deserted ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, prom, memory loss, love and romance, danger, womanizer, save the day, nothing goes right, teenager, alcohol abuse, couples, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bill is the guest of honor as the "Man of the Year". A very successful head of a large energy firm, he is a man with many dark secrets. His best friend, Stuart, hosts the party at his ritzy ultra modern Hollywood Hills home. During the ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky, biting ...
Plot:
hollywood, lifestyle, dishonesty, nightlife, showbiz, filmmaking, friendship, infidelity, love and romance, couples, bookies, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Daniel Jul is a 28 year old psychiatrist, still living with his mom. He and his friend Ronny have one thing in common, they like searching for metallic objects in the ground. One day they find a jewel with the name "Janne" imprinted. This ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, cult classic, realistic
Plot:
private detective, love and romance, self discovery, false identity, friendship between men, cancer, psychologist, countryside, couples, terminal illness, flutist, hippie ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and ...
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, reflective ...
Plot:
self discovery, fish out of water, immigrant, win over, society, disorder, personal growth, homeland, identity, culture clash, diaspora, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
france, africa, algeria
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When his wife pressures him to have another child, Tom Black retreats from his marriage and takes a stab at living alone. But in light of his crumbling personal life and a mountain of on-the-job problems, what he had before seems halfway decent.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
self discovery, couples, hopes, ultimatum, crumbling marriage, redemption, character study, personal growth, midlife crisis, bittersweet, slice of life, fatherhood ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
21%
736
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, touching ...
Plot:
culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, family life, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A dramatic comedy where a the relationship of a teacher and married principal goes much worse than that of their children.
Style:
realistic, independent film, semi serious, thought provoking, surreal ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, alzheimer's disease, marriage, solar eclipse, suburbs, single parent, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couple relations, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, berlin germany, california
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style:
realistic, clever, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, aging, dealing with death, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, filmmaking, nostalgia, character study, introspection, regret, memory, retirement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, sarajevo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, clergy, family life, dull life, family problems, society, aging, human nature, juvenile delinquency, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
256
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Karsten (35) is at a standstill. He has been since his wife died four years ago. He thinks he's fine, until he meets what could be the love of his life - but isn't she all what he despises in a woman?
Style:
psychological, romantic, captivating, thrilling, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, loneliness, grief, midlife crisis, couples, fall in love, relationships, love story, male female relationship, couple relations, love and romance, relationship problems ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, midlife crisis, love affair, nightlife, love and romance, human nature, couples, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse, lifestyle, adultery, jealousy ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, friends, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, naked man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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, light ...
Plot:
bittersweet, family relations, fall in love, parents and children, society, love and romance, workplace situations, workplace, father son relationship, optimism, humanism, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young woman is forced to return to her hometown to take care of her ailing father and, in turn, finds herself living a life she never imagined for herself.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, introspection, friendship, terminal illness, parents and children, drastic change of life, youth, student life, self discovery, bowling, small town, society ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
hopes, lifestyle, follow your dream, friendship, city life, on the road, friends, couples, tough heroes, society, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, madrid
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Diary of a Tired Black Man is a simple story about the complex relationships between black men and black women.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, black comedy ...
Plot:
interracial relations, opposites attract, looking for love, social differences, couples, love and romance, society, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, african american, divorce, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Family is always unpredictable, so why write a family comedy when you can live dangerously and improvise instead? Like real families, you never know what will happen when you give characters total freedom. Adult siblings Cameron, Sharon and Jenna ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, feel good ...
Plot:
family problems, family relations, marriage, family life, blended family, suburbs, love and romance, siblings relations, suburban life, single parent, couples, large family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
Style:
sincere, semi serious, humorous, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
single parent, parents and children, family relations, homecoming, unfulfillment, baseball, love, fatherhood, relationships, second chance, redemption, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Cleveland. 1973. Marv, the owner of an old neighborhood Jewish deli, must stay open 24 hours to cater to a new generation of clientèle, but straight-laced neighborhood do-gooders want to close him down. Meanwhile inside, hippies, bikers and crusty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
working class, love and romance, workplace, couples, boss and employee, power relations, culture clash, save the day, fish out of water, family relations, immigrant, nothing goes right ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, couple relations, best friend, lifestyle, love and romance, babies and infants, coming of age, family problems, teenage life, siblings relations, crumbling marriage ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, wooing, family relations, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, estrangement, unfulfillment, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A stage play about a young lady in her 20's who keeps dating the wrong men, her friends and family try to make her see what she's doing wrong but she learns on her own that that the man she really needed was right in front of her the whole ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, young lovers, couples, society, youth, suburbs, midlife crisis, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, christian, looking for love, friendship, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alessandro, a forty-year-old widower pediatrician, lives with his teenage son, leading a monotonous and insipid existence. After a call from an old friend in Brazil, the man has his tired stability tested.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
father son relationship, friendship, caper, friends, single father, money, cons and scams, satire, father and son, escapades, humour, single parent ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The siblings Hannah and Andrew haven't seen each other in three years. While Hannah is going through a prolonged episode where she can't leave her house, her brother has just landed back in LA and sets off to Pasadena on foot. He goes on a ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, existential
Plot:
isolation, anxiety, loneliness, character study, sibling relationship, mental health, intimacy, intimate, slice of life, minimalism, awkwardness, trauma ...
Place:
los angeles, pasadena california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The coincidence cross fates of five characters in a hotel room in New York. A newlyweds couples discussing, a touring magician requesting the services of a prostitute, a voyeur photographer that is silent witness to the fight of a couple on the ...
Style:
anthology, existential, tense, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
hotel room, loneliness, character study, urban, cross dressing, intimate, identity crisis, prostitution, suicide, sexuality, voyeurism, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot:
infidelity, gay interest, self discovery, life turned upside down, couples, couple relations, disorder, brothers, siblings, family drama, family conflict, sexual frustration ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running scheme that goes awry. When things start getting messy, they rue the day they agreed to the venture; ...
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, heroin, partner, going straight, drug dealing, social misfits, human nature, youth, buddies, redemption, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s, year 1992, 90s, year 1975
Place:
detroit, michigan, canada, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After losing his wife and three kids, all Kyle wants is to mourn in peace. Unfortunately, his family insists on helping him.
Style:
sincere, semi serious, humorous, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
family drama, isolation, funeral, family conflict, dysfunctional family, depression, death, mourning, grief, sadness, aftermath, bereavement ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A big new home, a lovely wife and a new job seem to steer Henrik firmly towards the middle age and a bourgeois lifestyle. There is, however, a substantial amount of boyish prankster still in him - sometimes a little bit too much. Director Martin ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, dark comedy
Plot:
thirty something, couples, couple relations, pregnancy, self discovery, thirtysomething life, adolescence vs adulthood, man child, midlife crisis, machismo, identity crisis, responsibility ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
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