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The Husband (2013)
170
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A darkly comic drama about a man left to care for his infant son when his wife is imprisoned for cheating on him with a minor.
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, semi serious, dark, controversial, psychological, tense, bleak, tragicomedy, intense ...
Plot:
dark humor, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, under the surface, babies and infants, infidelity, marital crisis, single father, self destructing, shame, guilt, character study, domestic drama, obsession, child abuse, isolation, parenting, humiliation, reputation, awkwardness, revenge, custody, bittersweet, satire ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to The Husband
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, dark comedy and satirical films with plots about satire, character study, family problems, urban, family relations, dark humor and obsession mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Husband: Wedding Belles (2007), Elsewhere (2019), Lawrence & Holloman (2013), Voluntary Divorce (2015), Sensitive Floor (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.
Style:
dark, disturbing, satirical, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
dark humor, revenge, silly humor, female protagonist, love affair, vengeance, tragic love, life is a bitch, satire, women, adult humor, domestic drama ...
Place:
edinburgh scotland
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man does everything in his power to keep ownership of a seaside cottage he built with his late wife.
Style:
satirical, captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
bereavement, mourning, loss, grief, satire, dysfunctional family, loss of wife, relationship problems, family problems, obsession, memory, character study ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lawrence is an optimistic suit salesman for whom everything always goes right-until he takes the suicidal credit collector Holloman under his wing, and everything starts to go wrong. Very wrong.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, suicidal thoughts, odd couple, dark humor, misfit, male female relationship, mishap, relationships, problem, accountant, opposites attract, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A family conflict ends in a catastrophe - the husband leaves the house in his slippers. But this decision leads him to absolutely incredible events, temptations and challenges. 2015
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
family conflict, relationships, satire, divorce, marital crisis, relationship problems, husband wife conflict, escapades, husband wife relationship, family problems, marriage crisis, changing lives ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After an unexpected incident happens for a middle-aged man's wife's corpse, he gets very depressed, anxious and violent.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, dark, bleak ...
Plot:
jealousy, funeral, mourning, grief, obsession, anxiety, irony, depression, guilt, domestic drama, family conflict, shame ...
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
61%
185
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young couple buys a rotten house with the intention of turning it into their dream home. But the more the renovations progress, the more their life turns into a nightmare. Bungalow is a comedy-drama about the financial, social and sexual anxieties ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, thrilling, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
renovation, satire, money problems, young couple, love affair, male female relationship, relationship problems, family relations, lifestyle, marital problem, married couple, relationships ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky ...
Style:
thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
panic attack, mental illness, anxiety, female protagonist, panic, lifestyle, social problems, satire, male female relationship, problem, relationships, intimate ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Do Maeng-su, a weak and timid citizen is a debtor who owes a lot. He gets a fake divorce to protect his beloved wife from the scary private moneylenders, and immediately, ironically, he wins a large sum of the lottery.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, tragicomedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
debt, money, needing money, money falling through the air, family problems, relationship problems, money problems, life is a bitch, relationships, problem, family relations, male female relationship ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three married couples undergoing therapy are summoned by their female psychologist to a meeting. The psychologist won’t be attending the reunion herself, but she will give to them instructions about what they must do. Thus, to the sound of a horn ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, tension, comedy drama ...
Plot:
group therapy, couples therapy, couples, satire, marriage, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationship problems, psychotherapy, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Radio Personality, Michael Washington, known as "DJ Mike" makes fun of people's lives with prank phone calls on his radio show, JAB STAB. His jokes make his show #1 of all morning talk show in the state. However, behind the scenes of ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
radio announcer, radio station, radio, problem, relationship vs career, relationship problems, radio dj, satire, survival, moral dilemma, risk, danger ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Professor Seetha's life takes an ugly turn when a criminology student begins spying on her and eventually ends up unravelling some of her dark secrets.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, crime drama, intense ...
Plot:
revenge, tragic event, family tragedy, mother son relationship, relationship problems, rape and revenge, family problems, relationships, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, secret past ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding.
Style:
emotional, semi serious, satirical, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
wedding, unrequited love, son, family drama, family relations, couple relations, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, parents and children, relationships, brother brother relationship, family problems, brothers ...
Similarity:
46%
671
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
The Paxsons are a broken family working together - and against each other - in the most quintessentially American business, the business of guns.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
family business, family relations, family problems, parents and children, workplace, siblings relations, homecoming, power struggle, family feud, legacy, moral ambiguity, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Celal Tan is a well-respected constitutional law professor who lives in a provincial city has two children from his first marriage. Many years after the death of his first wife, he married a woman much younger than him, a university student, whose ...
Style:
psychological, tragicomedy, thrilling, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
crisis, family drama, moral dilemma, secrets, cover up, male female relationship, social problems, family problems, problem, relationships, family relations, secret ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away ...
Style:
psychological, meta, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, bipolar disorder, creative process, creative block, character study, paranoia, mental illness, filmmaking, family relations, social problems, family problems, relationships ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An amoral man manhandles his wife and falls into the claws of a wheeler dealer.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot:
corruption, wedding, couple relations, family life, estrangement, family relations, single parent, family in crisis, marriage, family drama, moral ambiguity, manipulation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When salary man Jun gets home, he finds his wife bleeding from her mouth and lying on the floor. He is shocked by the scene, but it turns out the blood is just ketchup and she is pretending to be dead. Without telling him why, she pretends to be ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, semi serious, satirical, dark comedy ...
Plot:
relationship problems, satire, husband wife relationship, japanese wife, marriage, eccentric family, married couple, male female relationship, wife, family relations, lifestyle, marital problem ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Matt, a well known writer and director, suffers a traumatic experience, that leads to him being deathly afraid to go outside. Therefore he decides to attempt to write, direct, and star in a feature film, all from his apartment.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, satirical, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, traumatic memory, confined space, psychological trauma, agoraphobia, filmmaking, social isolation, traumatic experience, satire, post traumatic stress, director, isolated place ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A prophetic young dishwasher with brain-damage and a homeless prostitute are brought together through obscene circumstances and embark on a perverse journey through the gutter.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, satirical, independent film ...
Plot:
drug abuse, satire, prostitute, addiction, character study, homelessness, prostitution, in love, perversion, love affair, relationship problems, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.
Style:
absurd, thrilling, psychological, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
life, satire, life is a bitch, problem, social commentary, irony, political satire, national identity, political corruption, confined, existential crisis, jail cell ...
Place:
croatia, balkan
Similarity:
40%
341
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia, Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
GarcÃa has managed to accomplish his wedding promise to his wife, Amalia: buy her a wretched farm outside the city, which is far from his wife's dream. But life turns unexpectedly as he arrives home and finds Amalia missing.
Style:
captivating, satirical, thrilling, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
disappearance, investigation, missing person, family problems, puzzle, mysterious disappearance, uncover truth, secret, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, private investigation, satire ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story follows Hassan who suffers from a psychological condition, while he has a very strong relationship with his sick mother, who is the center of his life, as he takes care of her.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, mental illness, family drama, psychological manipulation, family relations, psychology, lifestyle, relationships, political unrest, satire, family problems, care ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.
Style:
controversial, art house, independent film, intense, tense ...
Plot:
heroin, addiction, drug trade, satire, moral ambiguity, hypocrisy, conflict of interest, character study, ethical dilemma, corruption, betrayal, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
france, amsterdam
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After devoting his life to publish philosophy, history and psychoanalysis, the editor Mario Zavadikner, discontented with the social and intellectual reality, decides to shoot himself at the office of his publishing house. An unexpected presence ...
Style:
tension, dark, dark comedy, thought provoking, black comedy ...
Plot:
writers, literary, book editor, suicide, suicide attempt, existential crisis, character study, publishing house, desperation, moral dilemma, philosophy, office ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
And in The Morning They Woke Up
Style:
humorous, captivating, psychological, black comedy
Plot:
hung over, satire, surrealism, multiple storylines, wedding night, alcohol abuse, flashback sequence, alcoholism, character study, male bonding, dark humor, regret ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, light, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
working class, tragedy, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, mafia, loss of child, murder, friendship, grief, poverty ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
italy, sicily
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial ...
Style:
tragicomedy, bleak, melancholic, art house, dark comedy ...
Plot:
humiliation, mishap, career change, character study, factory, infidelity, satire, betrayal, small town, bureaucracy, bittersweet, loss ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Adult dreamer Tristan still lives under his mother's thumb. After she has a health scare, he realizes how much he wants her gone... permanently.
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, dark comedy, dark ...
Plot:
murder, satire, son, mother, matricide, family problems, social problems, family relations, mental illness, mental disorder, parents and children, mentally unstable ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
![RSO [Registered Sex Offender] (2008)](/img/movie/thumb/50/6352.jpg)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
There may be one thing worse than being a sex offender sent to prison: Being a sex offender released from prison. RSO tells the story of one offender's unlikely rehabilitation.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, mumblecore, controversial ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, hopes, life is a bitch, society, dark humor, down on your luck, fictional reality show, existentialism, taboo subject, branding iron, character study, parole ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The wife of a prominent psychiatrist can't find her marriage certificate one day. This "jiehunzheng" is all important. Without it, the family officially has never existed, including the daughter. The couple go on a wild goose chase ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, semi serious, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, bureaucracy, family relations, relationships, problem, father daughter relationship, family problems, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, marital problem, social commentary ...
Similarity:
34%
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