Movies like Palindromes

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Palindromes (2004)
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Palindromes (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, surreal, controversial, cynical, humorous, art house, independent film, dark comedy ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: pregnancy, child abuse, coming of age, abortion, sexual abuse, sexuality, runaway teen, teenage life, suicide, runaway, disability, youth, parents and children, life is a bitch, society, family problems, 13 year old, single parent, psychology, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hitchhiking, loser, extreme, teenager ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century, contemporary
Place: kansas, new jersey, usa, india, wyoming
Keyword: avant-garde, jewish, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about family relations, parents and children, coming of age, dysfunctional family, youth, teenager and family problems mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Palindromes: Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Gummo (1997), Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
 6.6
 38K
Gummo (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Style: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, experimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, white trash, youth, redneck, adolescence, unsettling, coming of age, gay slur, abuse, violence, sister sister relationship, teenager ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, america
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100%
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus.
Style: disturbing, art house, experimental, surreal, controversial ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, dysfunctional family, dogme 95, abusive father, dogma, surrealism, misfit, skating, extreme, male nudity, eccentricity ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 74K
Happiness (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Style: black comedy, cynical, independent film, dark comedy, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, pedophilia, rape, unhappiness, depression, therapist, obsession, relationships, loneliness, alienation, pedophile, sexual abuse ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Storytelling (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
Style: black comedy, bleak, dark comedy, controversial, disturbing ...
Plot: high school, dark humor, high school football, strong sexual content, celebrity, maid, writers, filmmaking, family problems, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, homosexual ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, colombia, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
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Dark Horse (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. Aware that his family doesn't think highly of him, he tries to spark a relationship with ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, semi serious, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: toy store, dark humor, lifestyle, nothing goes right, love and romance, looking for love, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, disorder, collector, family life, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
American Girl (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A pregnant teenager is determined to leave her trailer park home with the hope of living a happy family life.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, twisted, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnant teenager, parents and children, family problems, family gatherings, teenage life, dark humor, youth, single parent, coming of age, human nature, siblings relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
50%
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Skipped Parts (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, sex, virginity, friendship, high school, sexual awakening, single parent, youth, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, parents and children ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 90s
Place: wyoming, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.4
 547K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Right Way (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Amy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy ...
Style: realistic, surreal, touching, controversial, independent film ...
Plot: materialism, unwanted pregnancy, lifestyle, family relations, drug abuse, mental illness, parents and children, single parent, life is a bitch, society, couples, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style: teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage pregnancy, stoner, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, youth, high school life, shopping mall, sex scene, loss of virginity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.7
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Saved! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenage Mary Cummings, who has "been Born Again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore with her Fundamentalist Christian friends Hilary Faye and Veronica, the three of whom ...
Style: touching, independent film, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, coming of age, gay, youth, friendship, pregnant girl, satire, teenager, atheism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, xian, baltimore, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 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 ⇓
35%
Another Happy Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Style: semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: wedding, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, ex husband ex wife relationship, wedding ceremony, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.9
 11K
Wiener-Dog (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted ...
Style: disturbing, semi serious, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: dog, dachshund, veterinarian, satire, human animal relationship, lifestyle, animal human communication, pet dog, sarcasm, multiple storylines, animal, society ...
Time: year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 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 ⇓
34%
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Kept and Dreamless (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Florence, a young irresponsible mother and her precocious daughter, Eugenia, have an unusual relationship. The roles between the two are reversed. Florence is totally inept at caring for a daughter, whereas Eugenia, only 10 years old, shows maturity ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: drug use, pregnant woman, abortion, dysfunctional family, youth, pregnancy, family relations, precocious child, single parent, child as adult, drug dealer, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing ...
Plot: child abuse, pedophile, rape, sex, child molester, sexual abuse, child rape, coming of age, police, psychologist, child molestation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2004
Place: tennessee, indiana, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The feature film debut by artist Miranda July about a various comic situations and plots that intertwine. One story line is about a father who is ending his marriage and the other story is of a video artist (possibly autobiographical of Miranda ...
Style: touching, disturbing, realistic, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: artist, childhood, coming of age, art, depression, unlikely friendships, complex characters, art gallery, neighbor, struggle, shyness, divorce ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
1, 2, 3, Freeze (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home ...
Style: sexy, experimental, controversial, non-linear, surreal ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, milf, interracial relations, theft, first love, poverty, unemployment, teacher student relationship, children, death of boyfriend, mother daughter relationship, fear ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, independent film, absurd ...
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, mental illness, family problems, twins, brother sister incest, female protagonist, thanksgiving, eccentric family, secrets, family life, sexual fantasy ...
Time: year 1997, 80s, 90s, year 1983
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Thumbsucker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Style: emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, addiction, youth, teenager, depression, debate, teenage life, self discovery, lifestyle, drug, mental illness ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: oregon, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style: depressing, talky, sincere, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: divorce, coming of age, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, infidelity, teenager, adultery, marriage, boy, crumbling marriage, childhood, adolescence ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2005, near future, 2000s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.3
 8K
She Hate Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, sex comedy, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: lesbian, workplace, investigation, sperm bank, sexuality, workplace situations, couple relations, rise and fall, male prostitution, couples, false accusation, unemployment ...
Time: year 2004
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.0
 9K
Polyester (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's ...
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot: misfit, dysfunctional family, abortion, alcoholism, loser, satire, lgbtq, transvestite, playboy, camp, freak, fetish ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.8
 12K
Wetlands (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the ...
Style: touching, sexy, erotic, controversial, intense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, misfit, hospital, masturbation, brothel, sex, teenage life, sexuality, rebellion, father daughter relationship, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Manny & Lo (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.
Style: humorous, road movie, feel good, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, kidnapping, teenage pregnancy, police, pregnancy, robbery, dream, adoption, girl power, child, hostage, on the road ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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