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Bruno (2000)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, inspirational, independent film, motivational, flamboyance ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems, angel, nun, overweight, convent school, prodigy, society, eccentric family, hopes, harassment, friends, children, genius, police officer, bully, misfit, boy, dream, catholic ...
Time:
90s
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Most similar movies to Bruno
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, dysfunctional family, family problems, coming of age and family life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Bruno: The Way Way Back (2013), The Best Thief in the World (2004), Daddy Longlegs (2009), Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014), Raising Genius (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Style:
touching, teen, sexy, sweet, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
summer, teenager, coming of age, vacation, friendship, shyness, loneliness, teenage girl, youth, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, childhood ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
youth, dysfunctional family, young heroes, life is a bitch, unlikely criminals, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, heist, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. During these ...
Style:
mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
youth, nothing goes right, dark humor, children, divorce, disorder, parents and children, bittersweet, family relations, thirtysomething life, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family problems, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
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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:
psychological, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
genius, mathematics, cheerleader, dysfunctional family, family relations, prodigy, family problems, couples, couple relations, youth, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, homecoming, hopes, family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, estrangement, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, youth, family drama, eccentricity, cancer, uncle nephew relationship, children, child hero, social justice, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty ...
Style:
touching, cult classic, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, dysfunctional family, family relations, women, minefield, family gatherings, grandparent grandchild relationship, love and romance, human nature, single parent, family problems, couples ...
Time:
80s, year 1996, 90s
Place:
texas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, on the run, youth, misfit, society, social misfits, family problems, dysfunctional family, mute or deaf, dealing with death, college dropout ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, youth, parents and children, midlife crisis, child as adult ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
100%
310
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, life turned upside down, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family problems, disorder, parents and children, manhood, youth, dysfunctional family, dark humor, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Young Claudia works in a supermarket where she promotes various types of products. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with severe appendicitis and meets Martha, a patient, laying in the bed next to hers.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, aids, single parent, supportive parent, life is a bitch, family relations, adoption, parents and children, supermarket, feminism, teenager, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When 10-year-old Joshua (Lurie Poston) decides to join the cheerleading squad at his Catholic school, he faces an uphill battle -- and opposition from his single mom, Andy (Carrie Preston), who struggles to understand her Hollywood musical- and ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheerleader, youth, cheerleading, gender, gender bending, family relations, teenage life, family problems, estrangement, lifestyle, hopes, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, couple relations, best friend, lifestyle, love and romance, babies and infants, coming of age, family problems, teenage life, siblings relations, crumbling marriage ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, epic, scary ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, chess, children, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, redemption, single father, death, hospital, skinhead, middle school, youth ...
Time:
70s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
bay area, california, usa, oakland california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
736
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, touching ...
Plot:
culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, family life, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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, stylized, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage love, dysfunctional family, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
humorous, light, melancholic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
beauty pageant, friendship, pregnancy, lone hero, family problems, underdog, blind ambition, contests and competitions, family relations, single parent, ambition, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, youth, rich and poor, world war one, haunted by the past, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, family life, family relations, friends, hopes ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style:
touching, sentimental, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dysfunctional family, aunt, youth, candy store, grandmother, mental health, bike, family relations, coming of age, brother, family problems, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
lesbian, dysfunctional family, church, parents and children, physical appearance, couples, religions or cults, family problems, society, couple relations, gays and lesbians, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
Style:
road movie, ironic, melancholic, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, parents and children, love and romance, introspection, human nature, lifestyle, obsessive quest, boy, friendship ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s
Place:
oregon, new orleans, california, new jersey, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, first love, teenage life, idealism, society, snitch, teachers and students, high school, parents and children, clergy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, society, nothing goes right, misfit, youth, hopes ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, introspection, fish out of water, culture clash, teenage life, society, youth, hopes, immigrant, social relations, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place:
usa, vietnam, israel
Similarity:
100%
134
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Comedy - Lifelines examines an extraordinarily stressful day in the life of a dysfunctional suburban family. Mom Nancy, a schoolteacher, is unable to handle the constant barrage of hostility from her three children. Husband Ira is ineffectual in ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
family relations, suburbs, dysfunctional family, family problems, social decay, human nature, society, gays and lesbians, family life, suburban life, family tragedy, family crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
726
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two 12 year olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings
Style:
grindhouse, stylized, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
young love, first love, coming of age, youth, friends, child, children, love, divorce, middle class, best friend, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
313
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, family problems, family life, parents and children, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, innocence lost, high school life, girl man relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, Cuba
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, road movie
Plot:
longing, friendship, youth, forbidden love, coming of age, children, young heroes, against the odds, social differences, parents and children, society, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This film is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's quest ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, clever ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
youth, friendship, coming of age, misfit, family relations, eccentric family, switching roles, self discovery, high school life, teenage life, parents and children, fish out of water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia, israel, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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