Best movies like The Cemetery Club
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies like The Cemetery Club? Contribute your expertise to help others toward tv series and films you've already seen that might similarly enthrall them. Aid in enlarging the circle of people referring videos amongst each other. We encourage your engagement!
Plot Summary:
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Best tv shows and movies like The Cemetery Club (1993):
Similar in 88%
The Lightkeepers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, atmospheric, serious, realistic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 87%
Heavy Petting (2007)
Plot Summary:
Charlie thinks he's met the perfect woman, but in order to be with her, he must first get past her dog. Just when he thinks all is lost, he realizes that he loves the dog too! Now he must do everything he can to keep them both.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sex comedy, independent film
Similar in 79%
Checking Out (2005)
Plot Summary:
A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, sincere, spoof, offbeat, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, parody
Similar in 77%
Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988)
Plot Summary:
It is nearly a generation since we've visited Dobie Gillis, and the middle-aged Dobie is nothing like he was as a youth, having has sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into the predictable adult life, married to the reliable Zelda (who was chasing him all through high-school), and assumed his father's role of running the family variety store. All of a sudden, key industries in the town shut down, putting hundreds out of work and severely threatening the local economy. Dobie, as head of the town council, is looked upon to lead the town out of this desperate crisis. When all seems lost, life-long friend Maynard G. Krebs appears, representing an old acquaintance who has a strange demand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, sitcom, semi serious
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 88%
Weddings and Other Disasters (2010)
Plot Summary:
Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental, realistic
Similar in 81%
Phat Girlz (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two plus-sized ladies meet the men of their dreams in the most unexpected of ways.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, inspirational, feel good, semi serious, black comedy, sentimental, touching, realistic, sexy, unusual plot structure
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 86%
Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 88%
Boynton Beach Club (2005)
Plot Summary:
A handful of men and women of a certain age pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director Susan Seidelman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 82%
V.O.S. (2009)
Plot Summary:
A game between four characters. A comedy about love and friendship. A film about the great lie of story telling that moves between reality and fiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, meta, realistic, witty
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 83%
Romantically Challenged (2010)
Plot Summary:
Romantically Challenged is a comedy television series, which ran on ABC from April 19, 2010 to May 17, 2010. It is set in Pittsburgh and created by Ricky Blitt, who is also the show's head writer. The show stars Alyssa Milano. ABC officially canceled the series on May 16, 2010. Six episodes were produced, but only four aired.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: not serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sitcom
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 82%
Waltzing Anna (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative career turns out to be something very different, thanks to the wacky residents and a beautiful nurse.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 75%
Thirty-Five Something (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three women in their late thirties, one with marital problems, one trying to be perfect, and a spinster, discuss their relationship to men.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 90%
Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
Plot Summary:
A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and difficult than he could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, colorful, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, hot
Similar in 75%
The Foursome (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four old friends reconnect at their 20-year college reunion.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 84%
A New Life (1988)
Plot Summary:
Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, sitcom, semi serious
Similar in 86%
Kotch (1971)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose in life. Jack Lemmon's first film as director stars his old friend Walter Matthau.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 90%
Lola Versus (2012)
Plot Summary:
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film, inspirational, sexy, talky
Similar in 81%
Mutual Appreciation (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend. Film of the "Mumblecore" genre.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, touching, humorous, witty, black and white, independent film, romantic, romantic comedy, clever
Similar in 84%
Postmark Paradise (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town for their ne'er-do-well leader set the story in motion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 84%
Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008)
Plot Summary:
Harris Malden wears his insecurity on his face in a curious disguise for everyone to see. No one in the neighborhood, not even his best friend Paul or his brother Melvin, has the heart to tell him how ridiculous he looks with the thick black line above his lip. Harris Malden fakes his facial hair, and as far as he's concerned, nobody can tell.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, touching, realistic, witty, semi serious
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 89%
6 Month Rule (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizer teaches his clueless friend the rules about being single and avoiding emotional attachment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking
Similar in 83%
Bachelor Days Are Over (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub singer, is obviously the woman of his dreams. What to do? Cancel the wedding and create a scandal but be able to live with a woman he loves truly and loves him in return? Or be a good boy and not disappoint the company but say farewell to happiness. For four days, Arnaud goes to and fro aimlessly between Anna and Léa, between his eccentric sister and his self-centered mother, between hope and depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 88%
Should've Put a Ring On It (2011)
Plot Summary:
Robin Givens, Miguel Nunez, and Bobby Valentino star in this faith-based romantic drama about Thea Johnson, terribly desperate to be married to her longtime boyfriend Jamar. When he takes too long to propose, she decides to propose to him instead. Thea creates an elaborate proposal, but is thwarted by his reluctance. An obsessed ex-boyfriend, married & single friends, and Thea s father & pastor all take part in the tug of war for her heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, independent film, sexual
Similar in 77%
All Together (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Similar in 84%
The Lather Effect (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 90%
Raising Flagg (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic, independent film
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 80%
Hello Lonesome (2010)
Plot Summary:
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 younger neighbor for nostalgic cuddles and comfort. Meanwhile, a young urban sports fanatic meets a girl online and unexpectedly falls in love, though the trials the couple endure prove even more unexpected. Adam Reid's enchanting, compassionate debut weaves together the worlds of six lonely individuals as they negotiate the age-old process of giving and receiving love. It isn't easy, and it never happens the way they expect it, but for these isolated souls, there's an oddball magic in the way they make connections they never imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, psychological, independent film, touching
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 78%
4 Wedding Planners (2011)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after rejecting her boyfriend's marriage proposal and her two half-sisters are running the business into the ground.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 85%
The Golden Girls (1985)
Plot Summary:
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, witty, sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious, hilarious, clever
Similar in 82%
Motherhood (2009)
Plot Summary:
Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, shown in the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, independent film, neurotic