Best movies like Battling for Baby
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Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends who have since become fierce rivals are forced to make nice when their children marry. But the feud reignites when a bundle of joy arrives, and the feisty grandmothers vie for baby-tending duties when the new mom goes back to work.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Best tv shows and movies like Battling for Baby (1992):
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Dunya & Desie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: multicultural
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Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
Plot Summary:
The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional thoughts of the child. They initially live in an apartment building, and then move into the doting grandmother's house. (Overview from IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
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Baby Comes Home (1980)
Plot Summary:
A family drama directed by Waris Hussein.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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A Brand New Life (1973)
Plot Summary:
After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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An Unexpected Life (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to "An Unexpected Family.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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A Bump Along the Way (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a fun-loving, middle-aged single mom accidentally gets pregnant, her prim teenage daughter is scandalized. But mother and daughter slowly reverse roles as the pregnancy progresses.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, not serious
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Baby Bump(s) (2017)
Plot Summary:
An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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All inclusive (2014)
Plot Summary:
After finding out that her husband cheated on her, Lise and her two daughters Ditte and Sigrid decides to go on vacation to Malta. The two sisters are very different and tries to cheer the mother up in very different ways. All inclusive is a movie about love and figuring out how to be a family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, humorous, captivating
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Fairhaven (2012)
Plot Summary:
Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, humorous, atmospheric, serious, gloomy, independent film
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Mother (1996)
Plot Summary:
After two failed marriages a science fiction writer decides that coming to terms with his mother will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, talky, neurotic, realistic, semi serious, buddy comedy, psychological, funny
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Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
Plot Summary:
An Irish funeral has a wake. A Jewish funeral has sitting shiva. A traditional Chinese funeral is something else entirely. Thats what the estranged siblings of the Chinese-American Xiao family must undergo upon news of their mothers death. The one brother and three sisters dont get along, however they share one thing: hatred for their domineering and manipulative mother, the Dragon Lady.".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, independent film, intercultural, inter cultural
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Hidden Diary (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Talent Given Us (2004)
Plot Summary:
A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, clever, offbeat, independent film
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Pieces of April (2003)
Plot Summary:
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 place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, intense, sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, entertaining, social, multicultural
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Only When I Laugh (1981)
Plot Summary:
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Memories of Me (1988)
Plot Summary:
After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the first movie directed by Henry Winkler, and much of it was filmed inside the MGM Studios in Culver City, California, only a few miles from Hollywood. Lisa, the romantic interest in Abbie's life, also comes for a visit and bonds with Abe, who gets along famously with everyone but his son. Abe begins having memory loss and eventually is diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He and his son grow closer in time and, before it's too late, Abbie tries to get Abe a speaking role in a film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Unexpected (2015)
Plot Summary:
An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, feel good, independent film, humorous, captivating
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Beautiful (2000)
Plot Summary:
Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own daughter! She manages to persuade her best bud to raise the kid as her own (Miss AM can't be a mom), but just when this beauty-queen wannabe thinks her prize is in sight, she's surprised by a come-from-behind competitor. Love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, melancholic, emotional, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, sentimental, road movie
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A Grandpa for Christmas (2007)
Plot Summary:
An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic
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The Alumni Chapter (2011)
Plot Summary:
What happens when you graduate from college, only to find that jobs are practically nonexistent and your best friends aren't what they seem? Four old friends reunite after college graduation. The conversation quickly turns sour, and a series of flashbacks expose the bitter truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, captivating, atmospheric, independent film, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Plot Summary:
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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A Happy Event (2011)
Plot Summary:
She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexy, crying
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Expecting (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, indie film, independent film
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The Best Man Holiday (2013)
Plot Summary:
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, realistic, humorous, light, spiritual, sad, tear jerker, christmas special
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Two Weeks (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, spiritual, tear jerker, semi serious
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She's Having a Baby (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, sweet, emotional, humorous, clever, touching, captivating, retro, realistic
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Plot Summary:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Plot Summary:
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks off regularly to meet a mystery man who may be her ex-husband. The third & youngest daughter is an unmarried nurse aware of her ticking biological clock. The only son chases after his grumpy father who seems to not care a whit about his wife's circumstances. The four are also faced my their mother's dreams to accomplish a few things before she dies - to visit a beach she had visited in the past, to see her youngest married, and to visit Paris. She also wants to be embalmed and be honored with a 21 gun salute. Thus the whole group has to set off in the quest to fulfill their mother's wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, black comedy, sentimental, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, erotic
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Parenthood (1989)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, funny, emotional, light, talky, philosophical, sweet, romantic comedy
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Ornaments (2008)
Plot Summary:
Religion, alcohol and politics are three things best avoided at holidays - but it's something this group of friends haven't learned. In this dark comedy, six friends have reunited for what may be their last holiday together.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, christmas horror, independent film, realistic, sexual, dark comedy, sexy
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