Movies like Maps to the Stars

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Maps to the Stars (2014)
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Maps to the Stars (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Style: surreal, stylized, disturbing, cynical, independent film, emotional, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, hollywood, mental illness, aspiring actor, child star, obsession, actress, satire, threesome, haunted by the past, fire, menage a trois, incest, false memory, nudity, suicide, sex, relationships, rehabilitation, therapy, parents and children, family problems, actor's life, desire for fame, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, canada
Keyword: vulgarity, reading, gangsters, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, humorous and semi serious films with plots about family relations, drinking, husband wife relationship, kiss, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Maps to the Stars: Running with Scissors (2006), Ingrid Goes West (2017), Beau Is Afraid (2023), August: Osage County (2013), Life During Wartime (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Running with Scissors (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style: intense, disturbing, stylized, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, mental illness, adoption, therapist, writers, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, lesbian, parents and children, marital problem ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2006
Place: new york, seattle, massachusetts
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Ingrid Goes West (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.
Style: thought provoking, dark comedy, humorous, rom com, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: social media, obsessed fan, instagram, harassment, obsession, stalker, borderline personality disorder, love interest, pursuit, mental disorder, secret, charlatan ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, venice california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Finland, Canada
Duration: 179 min.
Story: An anxious man learns of the death of his mother under mysterious circumstances and upon traveling home makes an alarming discovery about his past. During his journey, he runs into various crazy supernatural threats.
Style: independent film, atmospheric, psychological horror, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, fear, anxiety, therapist, death of mother, domineering mother, psychosis, shame, guilt, mental illness, entrepreneur ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style: touching, melancholic, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, suicide, cancer, family secret, mother daughter relationship, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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 ⇓
48%
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Ellie Parker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ellie Parker, an aspiring actress from Australia, lives a hectic Hollywood lifestyle, perpetually trying to land the role that will elevate her career. Living with her lothario musician boyfriend, Justin, Ellie is far from happy, finding support ...
Style: semi serious, neurotic, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, friendship, actor's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, nude, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, nightclub, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Shrink (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
Style: realistic, psychological, depressing, emotional, serious ...
Plot: suicide, mental illness, therapist, psychiatrist, hollywood, character study, loneliness, life philosophy, widower, suicide attempt, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.7
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Savage Grace (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, controversial, talky, emotional ...
Plot: incest, mother son incest, gay, murder, mother son relationship, adultery, sexual relations, older woman younger man, incestuous relationship, dysfunctional family, unhappy marriage, sex scene ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: europe, london, new york, spain, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
47%
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, disturbing, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenager, adolescence, family relations, teenage life, eccentric family, social differences, parents and children, self discovery, single parent, sex aid ...
Time: 70s, year 1998, year 1976, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Style: dark comedy, stylized, melancholic, disturbing, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: sex, college, virginity, drug, drug abuse, youth, lesbian, suicide, virgin, gay, love triangle, party ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, italy, dublin ireland, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Chumscrubber (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, kidnapping, youth, suburbs, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, friendship, mistaken identity, high school, teenager, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tells the comedic tale of Eddie Mannix, a fixer who worked for the Hollywood studios in the 1950s. The story finds him at work when a star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming.
Style: humorous, black comedy, talky, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, movie star, showbiz, kidnapping, actor, dark humor, journalist, chinese restaurant, screenwriter, film industry, ransom ...
Time: 50s, year 2016, 1950s, 2010s, year 2015 ...
Place: los angeles, greece, usa, california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.1
 39K
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 ⇓
47%
 6.4
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Don't Tell (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: incest, nightmare, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family relations, sexual abuse, self discovery, introspection, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, melancholic, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, estrangement, eccentric family, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, dealing with death, bookstore, snow ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.3
 87K
Young Adult (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
Style: dark comedy, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: mental illness, high school, small town, emotional breakdown, alcoholic, narcissism, divorce, hometown, borderline personality disorder, thirtysomething life, depression, old love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Just Before I Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for ...
Style: emotional, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: suicide attempt, gay, loneliness, midlife crisis, closeted homosexual, suicide, relationships, guilt, brutality, family relations, redemption, justice ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Inherent Vice (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Style: surreal, neo noir, psychedelic, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: private investigator, investigation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, drug trade, private detective, obsession, investigator, stoner, hippie, paranoia, betrayal, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 2010s, year 2014, 90s ...
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style: melancholic, stylized, emotional, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: age difference, self discovery, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, starting over, love and romance, family life, love affair, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york, usa
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46%
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Adaptation. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Style: satirical, absurd, black comedy, mind bending, dark comedy ...
Plot: twins, filmmaking, depression, writer's block, writers, imagination, mentally unstable, loser, existentialism, obsession, siblings relations, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, new york, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 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 ⇓
23%
 6.2
 6K
I Smile Back (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: mental illness, female nudity, female orgasm, addiction, slut, violence against women, unfaithful wife, slutty attitude, sex with friend's wife, whore, slutty wife, horny woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, art house, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: surrealism, loneliness, multiple storylines, dark humor, existentialism, insanity, poetry, religions or cults, human nature, worldwide chaos, nordic, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
I Love Your Work (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, mindfuck, gloomy ...
Plot: obsession, self defense, actor's life, showbiz, couples, desire for fame, lifestyle, losing-it hero, rise and fall, ambition, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Style: humorous, witty, independent film, hilarious, southern gothic ...
Plot: suicide, loneliness, investigation, murder, death, dysfunctional family, drinking, eccentricity, greed, storytelling, theatre director, countryside ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, texas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, biting, cynical, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, adolescence, teenager, high school, coming of age, sexual harassment, false accusation, school, dysfunctional family, sex, stereotypes ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, stylized, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, male pubic hair, grandmother grandson relationship, telekinesis, pedophilia, exhibitionist, dressmaker, dark humor, male nudity, domestic abuse, maid ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.5
 22K
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 ⇓
45%
Man About Town (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, cynical, romantic drama ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, infidelity, dishonesty, chase, journalism, self discovery, expose, reporter, extortion, talent agent, diary, cheating wife ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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