Films like High Hopes
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.
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A Dog Year
Film · 2009 · also comedy and dramaJon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kenne...
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Film · 2002 · also comedy and dramaIn a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother...
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The Trip to Italy
Film · 2014 · also comedy and dramaYears after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
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Night and the City
Film · 1950 · also dramaLondoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her...
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Chloe and Theo
Film · 2015 · also comedy and dramaA young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to p...
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Don't Think Twice
Film · 2016 · also comedy and dramaAn improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
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The Braid
Film · 2023 · also comedy and dramaIndia. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he h...
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My Mother's Wedding
Film · 2025 · also comedy and dramaThree sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the futur...
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The House on Carroll Street
Film · 1988 · also dramaA reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she over...
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This Happy Breed
Film · 1944 · also dramaA chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
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