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Highland Park (2013)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their jobs.
Style:
realistic, humorous, educational, light, captivating, dark comedy, satirical, sentimental, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
lottery, hopes, gambling, dedicated educator, teachers and students, society, high school, social relations, disorder, idealism, life turned upside down, desperation, social commentary, friendship, satire, moral dilemma, small town, irony, frustration, community, deadpan, slice of life, bittersweet, retiring, union ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, detroit
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, captivating and semi serious films with plots about society, disorder, friendship, friends, bittersweet, hopes and life turned upside down mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Highland Park: Cupid's Arrow (2010), Chalk (2006), Funny Bunny (2015), Fancypants (2011), Hollidaysburg (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An innocent college couple unknowingly become involved in their Professor's illicit research into the manipulation of love and his recreation of the elusive "Cupid's Arrow".
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, friends, youth, homecoming, thanksgiving, college, society, woman, coming of age, small town, small town life ...
Time:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
friendship, desert, moral dilemma, best friend, bittersweet, couples, dark humor, buddies, death of mother, young adult, couple relations, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, college, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, unfulfillment, estrangement, society, best friend, dull life, friends, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
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436
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, nightlife, family relations, parents and children, follow your dream, ambition, hollywood, hopes, filmmaking, fall in love, love and romance, womanizer ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
19%
313
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, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, family problems, family life, parents and children, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, innocence lost, high school life, girl man relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
celebration, society, disorder, nothing goes right, religions or cults, lifestyle, celebrity culture, faith, satire, social commentary, provincial life, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
19%
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss...
Style:
humorous, contemplative, semi serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Modesto and Manuel are brothers whose lives change by wining the lottery.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, situational comedy ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, culture clash, rise to the top, society, family relations, silly humor, life turned upside down, hopes, couples, disorder, brothers, lottery ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
dominican republic
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ritchie is the epitome of everything wrong with modern man: a pompous, foul-mouthed idiot, driven only to get the latest girl of the week Something changes after his first real relationship that includes Ritchie's two favorite things: frequent ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating, light hearted ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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18%
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
hollywood, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, overnight success, partner, buddies, odd couple, lifestyle, once in a lifetime opportunity, showbiz, celebrity culture, working class ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 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:
18%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Singapore
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
lottery, friendship, satire, greed, escapades, friends, lottery winner, winner, money, moral dilemma, betrayal, gambling ...
Place:
singapore
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 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: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, palm springs california, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Kari, a wannabe rocker. After the jackpot, the couple agrees to carry on with their lives as before, without telling anyone about the stroke of luck. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, biting ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, stylized, cynical, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
beijing china, asia, china
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 14 year old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, freeze frame ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, youth, coming of age, odd couple, friends, college life, prodigy, disorder, fish out of water, silly humor, society, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., harvard university
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
restaurant, miraculous event, cooking and food, life turned upside down, religions or cults, overnight success, hopes, small town, jesus christ, jesus, religion, social relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa, mexico
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
Style:
semi serious, stylized, humorous, realistic, sad
Plot:
youth, social differences, dishonesty, teachers and students, discrimination, hidden identity, religions or cults, family problems, society, disorder, death in the family, arab ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
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