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The House of Yes (1997)
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The House of Yes (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend. She's even more shocked to learn that this friend is his fiance. It soon becomes clear that Jackie Kennedy's obsession is nothing compared to her obsession with her brother, as it also becomes clear she isn't the only member of the family with problems..
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, independent film, surreal, absurd, offbeat, dark, cult classic, psychological ...
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, mental illness, family problems, twins, brother sister incest, female protagonist, thanksgiving, eccentric family, secrets, family life, sexual fantasy, love and romance, satire, murder, eccentricity, dark humor, obsession, assassination, erotica, incestuous relationship, parents and children, women, bdsm, illness ...
Time: year 1997, 80s, 90s, year 1983
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
Keyword: retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and dark comedy films with plots about family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, eccentric family, couples and siblings relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The House of Yes: Spanking the Monkey (1994), Home for the Holidays (1995), That's My Boy (2012), Igby Goes Down (2002), The Savages (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Bright young student Raymond Aibelli is forced to sidetrack an important medical internship because his mother, Susan, is recovering from a broken leg. When he isn't tasked with the most mundane aspects of Susan's recuperation, Raymond ...
Style: erotic, independent film, dark comedy, sexy, disturbing ...
Plot: incest, mother son incest, incestuous relationship, sex with mother, sexually frustrated woman, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, neglected wife, milf, infidelity, depression, adultery ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
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Home for the Holidays (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their ...
Style: touching, humorous, intense, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, christmas, holiday, thanksgiving, gay, weekend, family relations, female protagonist, eccentric family, family life, nothing goes right, family conflict ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: baltimore, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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That's My Boy (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's ...
Style: humorous, sex comedy, parody, hilarious, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: female pedophile, brother sister sex, family relations, parents and children, incest, dumb, teacher student relationship, deadbeat dad, cheating fiancee, male nudity, pedophile, meet the parents ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 1984, 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 35K
Igby Goes Down (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style: dark comedy, depressing, cynical, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, coming of age, addiction, depression, existentialism, youth, dark humor, teenage life, eccentric family, eccentricity, character study ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, chicago, new jersey, washington d.c., new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, redemption, character study, family relations, childhood, parents and children, nursing, siblings relations, cheerleader ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Company of Men (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, controversial, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: secretary, battle of the sexes, betrayal, misogynist, love, relationships, greed, rivalry, dark humor, brutality, friends, mind game ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Sweetie (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Explores sisters, in their twenties, their parents, and family dysfunctions. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a mole on his face and a lock of hair; then, falling out of ...
Style: cult classic, dark comedy, surreal, psychological, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, feminist, mental illness, male nudity, sisters, women, obsession, treehouse, woman peeing, siblings, feminism, voyeurism ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Twister (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter ...
Style: sad, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, tornado, family relations, couples, family problems, dark humor, eccentric family, family gatherings, family life, mental illness, storm, dinner ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.9
 468
Raising Genius (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: genius, mathematics, dysfunctional family, family relations, prodigy, couples, family problems, youth, couple relations, lifestyle, society, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.0
 458
Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: siblings relations, dysfunctional family, teenage love, teenage life, family life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, eccentric family, love and romance, family problems, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
Style: humorous, satirical, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, farce, dark humor, addiction, satire, nothing goes right, self discovery, disorder, family problems, family life, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Little Sister (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After several years without contact, Martijn visits his sister Daantje, who just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary from her life, and enters her home life with a video camera.
Style: erotic, sexual, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: incest, found footage, sex with brother, brother sister sex, sex with sister, forbidden sex, children, love and romance, sex scene, making love, erotica, family affairs ...
Time: 90s
Place: amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 9K
Eulogy (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family secret, funeral, eccentric family, death in the family, lesbian, family life, family feud, parents and children, fall in love, generation gap, loss of grandfather ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Intimate Relations (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young merchant marine turns up in an English coastal town looking for a brother he barely knows. When his brother's wife rebukes him he takes up with the Beasley family. However, soon the mother and daughter are chasing and ending up in the ...
Style: erotic, realistic, semi serious, biting, disturbing ...
Plot: age difference, elderly lovers, love and romance, older woman younger man relationship, doomed love, age-gap relationship, dysfunctional family, infidelity, dangerous attraction, obsession, couple relations, orphan ...
Time: year 1996, 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Happy Tears (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, family relations, homecoming, family life, parents and children, family problems, aging, elderly, siblings relations, daydreamer, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
Style: black comedy, humorous, offbeat, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Plot: hotel, incest, dysfunctional family, rape, brother sister sex, first sexual experience, prostitute, bare butt, airplane crash, lesbian, writers, cheerleader ...
Time: 80s
Place: vienna, new hampshire, europe, austria, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Life During Wartime (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, psychological, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, father son relationship, loneliness, family relations, character study, sisters, family problems, couple relations, pedophile, parents and children, haunted by the past, family life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: florida, new jersey, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Death at a Funeral (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New ...
Style: funny, black comedy, dark comedy, talky, melancholic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: eccentric family, death, dysfunctional family, family relations, black, family gatherings, death in the family, male nudity, silly humor, dishonesty, gay father, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.1
 5K
Mental (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
Style: humorous, black comedy, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eccentric family, dysfunctional family, mental illness, hitchhiker, nanny, satire, suburbs, family life, youth, siblings relations, strong female presence, dark humor ...
Time: y2k, year 2012, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
God Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style: talky, witty, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cancer, dark humor, human nature, artists and showbiz, couple relations, ego clash, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, lifestyle, family problems, family relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, working class, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, family problems, couples, estrangement, death in the family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Henry Fool (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Style: independent film, cult classic, philosophical, dark comedy, talky ...
Plot: writers, poetry, art, poet, suicide, writer's life, bittersweet, drinking, violence, drifter, rap, sex scene ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new jersey, usa, new york, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Birds of America (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, family problems, couples, youth, vengeance, family gatherings, parents and children, couple relations, introspection, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Bark! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A veterinarian is called to examine a woman who thinks she is a dog.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, couples, family problems, family relations, misfit, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, disorder, suburban life, suburbs ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, realistic, depressing, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, bullying, dysfunctional family, misfit, humiliation, teenager, youth, school, social outcast, female protagonist, childhood, high school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, near future, year 1995
Place: new jersey, seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Miss Firecracker (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi pins all her hopes on winning the local beauty pageant.
Style: humorous, talky, light, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, small town, underdog, contests and competitions, love and romance, human nature, family problems, couples, fall in love, youth, looking for love, family life ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Family Resemblances (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Pornographers (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, psychedelic, erotic, mind bending ...
Plot: filmmaking, perversion, prostitution, adult film industry, sexuality, female robot, film industry, sex, family relations, sexual perversion, dark humor, porn ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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