Movies like The Misfortunates

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The Misfortunates (2009)
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The Misfortunates (2009)
Original name: De helaasheid der dingen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?
Style: sincere, touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, epic, disturbing, comedy drama ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, uncle nephew relationship, family relations, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, eccentric family, coming of age, male bonding, drug addiction, friendship between men, alcoholic, addiction, boy, suicide, large family, parents, dysfunctional family, traumatic childhood, propaganda, fictional biography, alcoholism, boy strangling, bad father, public nudity ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, belgium
Keyword: dutch, belgian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about youth, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, dysfunctional family, family problems and teenage life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like The Misfortunates: With Friends Like These (2007), Lost in Yonkers (1993), Two-Bit Waltz (2014), Popular Music (2004), The Best Things in the World (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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With Friends Like These (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himself a girlfriend and plans to move. Kurt and Blonde Kelly live together with their one-year-old ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: best friend, youth, friendship, friends, homecoming, young adult, nudity, snobbism, social relations, twentysomething life, bittersweet, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels, europe
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95%
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
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: sentimental, touching, psychological, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, aunt, grandmother, bike, mental health, coming of age, candy store, brother, bittersweet, family problems, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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 ⇓
54%
Popular Music (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two boys grow up together in town of Pajala at 60's united by rock-n-roll music.
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, small town, coming of age, follow your dream, teenage sexuality, gay subtext, parent child relationship, music band, youth, rebellion, rebelliousness, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place: himalaya, finland, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Best Things in the World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, gay, lgbt, gay interest, father son relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014)
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: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, hopes, youth, parents and children, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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49%
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Tricks (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, brother sister relationship, family relations, parents and children, small town, siblings relations, teaching the ways of the world, single parent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, magic realism, traumatic childhood ...
Place: poland, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
42%
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Bruno (2000)
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: realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family life, parents and children, family problems, prodigy, society, hopes, eccentric family, friends ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
True Adolescents (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At 34, struggling Seattle musician Sam finds himself broke, jobless and losing touch with the person he wants to become. When his girlfriend kicks him out, he's forced to crash with his Aunt Sharon and is reluctantly enlisted to take her teen ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, mumblecore ...
Plot: youth, lifestyle, buddies, family relations, friends, on the road, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, male nudity, gay interest, wilderness, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Best Thief in the World (2004)
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, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: youth, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, unlikely criminals, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, estrangement, family problems, teenage life, heist, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Motel (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, hotel, friendship between men, human nature, power relations, family problems, life is a bitch, misfit, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, interracial romance ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Two Shots Fired (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story: One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a sixteen-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, disturbing, humorous, offbeat
Plot: friendship, family relations, teenage life, youth, parents and children, dark humor, boy, siblings relations, friends, urban, house, gun
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
 3K
West Is West (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, love and romance, looking for love, family problems, society, siblings relations, teenage life, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: england, pakistan, europe, middle east, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
 699
Kryptonite! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, family problems, family relations, imaginary friend, older sister, escape from reality, bittersweet, superhero, little boy, young boy, tradition ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Debut (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 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, touching, witty ...
Plot: culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, nightlife, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.2
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Manhood (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, life turned upside down, manhood, youth, family problems, disorder, dysfunctional family, parents and children, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Isn't It Delicious (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, terminal illness, bittersweet, husband wife relationship, one night stand, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 16 years old Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school's principal finds out ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: high school, prodigy, self discovery, dysfunctional family, teenage life, youth, human nature, fall in love, parents and children, family life, teenage love, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Happiest Girl in the World (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Netherlands, France, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: youth, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, family life, family relations, moral dilemma, parents and children, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, small town, makeover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Kick'n Rush (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, youth, buddies, society, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.6
 568
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 ⇓
34%
Accidents Happen (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, haunted by the past, teenage life, parents and children, social relations, dark humor, teenage boy, suburbs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Housekeeping (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style: sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
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, children, disorder, nothing goes right, parents and children, bittersweet, family relations, thirtysomething life, family problems, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, custody ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Summer of Flying Fish (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Manena is the headstrong adolescent daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacation to one thing : the invasion of his artificial lagoon by carps. While he employs increasingly radical methods, Manena has her first romantic ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, parents and children, family relations, countryside, teenage life, siblings relations, youth, fish, landowner, animal abuse, coming of age, bourgeoisie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Rolling Family (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style: road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: gender, family relations, family problems, siblings relations, on the road, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, family in crisis, eccentric family, dysfunctional family ...
Place: argentina, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Teen's Confessions (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
Style: humorous, touching, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage love, parents and children, coming of age, family relations, high school life, youth, sister sister relationship, friendship, adolescence, love and romance, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Jack the Bear (1993)
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, scary, epic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, children, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, redemption, chess, single father, death, hospital, youth, middle school, skinhead ...
Time: 70s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: bay area, california, usa, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
So Happy Together (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, cynical, realistic, witty
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, uninvited guest, eccentric family, family life, siblings relations, family problems, couple relations, family gatherings, interracial relations, couples, father son relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 90s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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