Movies like Doing Time on Maple Drive

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Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)
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Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dysfunctional family drama. Absent father, alcoholic brother Tim (Jim Carrey) try to cope with life. Fox movie of the week.
Style: cult classic, realistic, talky, gloomy, semi serious, crying, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, alcoholic, happy ending, glbt, recovery, gender, gay interest, slice of life, substance abuse, family relations, dysfunctional family, suburbs, gay son, youth, college, alcohol abuse, parents and children, family life, love and romance, student life, couples, gays and lesbians, family problems ...
Time: 90s
Place: yale university

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Most similar movies to Doing Time on Maple Drive

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sincere films with plots about family relations, gay, parents and children, couples, gays and lesbians, lgbt and love and romance mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Doing Time on Maple Drive: Making Love (1982), All You Need (2001), In the Gloaming (1997), Our Sons (1991), Poster Boy (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Making Love (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, gay husband, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, extramarital affair, gay bar, infidelity, gender, homosexuality, love triangle, gays and lesbians, bookstore ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
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All You Need (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, touching, talky
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, human nature, couple relations, society ...
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In the Gloaming (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, gay, lgbt, family relations, terminal illness, hiv, bereavement, lgbtq, childhood, cancer, dying, gay son ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york state
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39%
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Our Sons (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Poster Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: With the help of a hot, slightly older new acquaintance (Noseworthy), the closeted son (Newton) of a conservative U.S. Senator (Lerner) puts a shocking spin on his dad's re-election campaign.
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, politics, college, republican, campaign, love and romance, parents and children, sexual relations, lgbtq, election, political campaign ...
Place: north carolina, usa
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Ritual (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A young man drops out of college to fix his family when he senses something is terribly wrong at home.
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, youth, crumbling marriage, domestic disturbance, life is a bitch, redemption, family life, curses spells and rituals, social decay, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: malibu california, bahamas
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33%
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Boys Life 2 (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Compilation of four short films about homoerotic situations involving young men. In "Trevor", by Peggy Rajski, a teenager faces homophobia and falls in love for the first time. Tom DeCerchio directed "Nunzio's Second ...
Style: independent film, anthology, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, lgbtq, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, best friend, high school life, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: iowa, usa
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32%
Time to Leave (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, serious, talky ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, tumor, homosexuality, breast feeding, grandparent grandchild relationship, photographer, lgbtq, gay interest, family relations, father son relationship, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2005
Place: paris france, france
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32%
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Naked As We Came (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Love, loss and hope are tumultuously explored amidst a tranquil backdrop and asks us all the question: What is your dream?
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: gay, gay interest, broken family, sick mother, reconciliation, gay sex, family relations, gay lead character, lgbtq, death of mother, dead mother, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
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32%
The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, family problems, couples, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Twilight of the Golds (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She must decide whether to keep the child, or to have an ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, talky, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, lgbtq, glbt, baby, genetics, acceptance, abortion, pregnancy, family relations, gay son, gay brother, unrequited love ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: middle east
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30%
A Delicate Balance (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate ...
Style: independent film, tense, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, friendship, best friend, family problems, uninvited guest, couples, alcohol abuse, suburbs, family life, family in crisis, suburban life ...
Time: 70s
Place: connecticut, usa
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29%
Fathers and Sons (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, love and romance, elderly, gender, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san diego california, miami, los angeles
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28%
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Wild Iris (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: parents and children, dysfunctional family, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, introspection, lifestyle ...
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28%
Do You Take This Man (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a gay couple's impending wedding hits a snag, the grooms must rely on their friends and family to see them through.
Style: psychological, touching, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, lgbt, gay interest, childhood friend, marriage, lgbtq, homosexual, dishonesty, love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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An Early Frost (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, lgbtq, gay interest, bondage, quarantine, hiv positive, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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The Weekend (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the one-year anniversary of the death of John's brother, the handsome and charismatic Tony, who ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: lgbt, glbt, loss of lover, aids, gay interest, mourning, couples, family relations, estrangement, family problems, haunted by the past, terminal illness ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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27%
A Change of Heart (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Beneath Jim Marshall's veneer as the all-American father and husband, lies a long suppressed desire that is about to ruin his idyllic family. When Elaine Marshall (Jean Smart) catches her husband and his lover in a hotel room, her anger quickly ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: gender, love, unfaithful husband, breakup, love affair, family in crisis, teenage life, infidelity, family life, suburban life, dysfunctional family, suburbs ...
Time: 90s
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27%
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Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust, and Liberation (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the ...
Style: anthology, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, lgbtq, sexuality, male nudity, gay interest, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, campus ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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27%
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Jack (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, father son relationship, family life, teenage love, parents and children, self discovery, couples, family problems, teenage life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
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1985 (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, hiv, christmas, family relations, mother son relationship, stand up comedian, gay interest, gay slur, homosexual ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: texas, dallas texas
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Loggerheads (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly ...
Style: serious, psychological, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, self discovery, couple relations, society, family life, parents and children, haunted by the past, gay relationship, hiv positive, birth mother, sea turtle ...
Time: year 2005, 60s, 90s, 20th century, year 2001 ...
Place: north carolina, appalachia, usa
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26%
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Style: talky, tense, sincere, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: estate, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, plantation, frigidity, alcoholic, male homosexuality, estrangement, sexual dysfunction, family relations, family problems, couples ...
Place: usa, new orleans, mississippi
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26%
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A Perfect Son (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man's terminal illness reunites him with his estranged brother.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, death in the family, haunted by the past, aids, lgbt, gay interest, brother brother relationship, death of father ...
Time: 90s
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26%
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Sebastian (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this thoughtful Scandinavian drama, a teenage boy wrestles with his sexuality and learns that most of his deepest fears were unfounded. Sebastian is almost 17 when he figures out that he is a homosexual. Though he lives with wonderful, stable ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, touching, gay cinema ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbtq, boys love, glbt, lgbtqi, coming of age, gay subtext, fall in love, best friend, couples, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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The New Twenty (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Five best friends in their late 20's discover new truths about themselves and the friendships they thought would last forever.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: lgbt, gay interest, friendship, hiv, gay, college, best friend, young lovers, male homosexuality, friends, wall street, couples ...
Time: 1920s, year 2006
Place: new york, usa
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25%
Don't Tell Anyone (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, touching ...
Plot: gender, cocaine, college, coming of age, lgbt, skinny dipping, drug abuse, society, youth, racism, latinx lgbt, gay ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, peru, usa, florida
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25%
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Red Doors (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Wongs struggle to cope with life, love, and family dysfunction in the suburbs of New York.
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, family life, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, culture clash, single parent, human nature, youth, suburbs, family in crisis, lgbtq ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
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25%
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Ice Men (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: For the first time since taking possession of the family cabin, Vaughn has invited his best friends up for a winter weekend of hunting and drinking. But the arrival of unexpected visitors turns a simple getaway into two days of life-changing turmoil.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, tense, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, gay, introspection, youth, betrayal, parents and children, teenage life, estrangement, lgbt, bad father, lgbtq, home invasion ...
Place: canada, ontario canada
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24%
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Normal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, serious, sexy ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, transgender, gender bending, family drama, depression, sexuality, society, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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