Films like Ode to Joy
Charlie suffers from a serious disease that causes acute narcolepsy whenever he is happy. Although he develops a variety of techniques to deny himself pleasure and deal with his sleep issues, they’re put to the test when he falls in love.
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After Everything
Film · 2018 · also comedy and dramaWhen Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned compl...
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In the Land of Women
Film · 2007 · also comedy and dramaAfter a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the...
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Friends with Kids
Film · 2012 · also comedy and dramaIn the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time...
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Hello I Must Be Going
Film · 2012 · also comedy and dramaAn affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce.
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Barefoot
Film · 2014 · also comedy and dramaThe "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his br...
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Tortilla Soup
Film · 2001 · also comedy and dramaA Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
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Venus
Film · 2006 · also comedy and dramaMaurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl...
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Love & Sex
Film · 2000 · also comedy and dramaWhen her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the...
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Blue Valentine
Film · 2010 · also drama and romanceDean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition an...
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Great Expectations
Film · 1998 · also comedy and dramaLoosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals...
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