Movies like The House of Yes
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The House of Yes (1997)
9K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend. She's even more shocked to learn that this friend is his fiance. It soon becomes clear that Jackie Kennedy's obsession is nothing compared to her obsession with her brother, as it also becomes clear she isn't the only member of the family with problems..
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, independent film, surreal, absurd, offbeat, dark, cult classic, sexual ...
Plot:
incest, dysfunctional family, dark humor, mental illness, brother sister incest, twins, eccentric family, female protagonist, sexual fantasy, sarcasm, secrets, family life, thanksgiving, love and romance, murder, eccentricity, satire, brother sister relationship, illicit affair, obsession, assassination, erotica, incestuous relationship, parents and children, brother sister sex ...
Time:
80s, year 1997, 90s, 70s, year 1983, year 1971
Place:
virginia, washington d.c.
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and dark comedy films with plots about dark humor, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, storytelling, couples and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like The House of Yes: Spanking the Monkey (1994), Daniel and Ana (2009), Home for the Holidays (1995), That's My Boy (2012), Sitcom (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Bright young student Raymond Aibelli is forced to sidetrack an important medical internship because his mother, Susan, is recovering from a broken leg. When he isn't tasked with the most mundane aspects of Susan's recuperation, Raymond ...
Style:
sexy, independent film, erotic, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, incestuous relationship, sex with mother, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, forbidden love, neglected wife, milf, depression, infidelity, erotica ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
Style:
psychological, touching, erotic, sincere, eros ...
Plot:
incest, brother sister sex, brother sister incest, brother sister relationship, forced sex, shame, forbidden love, female nudity, sex scene, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, kidnapping ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their ...
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humorous, touching, intense, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, christmas, holiday, family life, thanksgiving, weekend, gay, female protagonist, family relations, eccentric family, nothing goes right, family conflict ...
Time:
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Place:
baltimore, turkey
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's ...
Style:
humorous, parody, sex comedy, teen, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
dumb, brother sister sex, stupidity, family relations, parents and children, female pedophile, teacher student relationship, foul language, pedophile, cheating fiancee, meet the parents, disorder ...
Time:
2010s, year 1984, year 2012, 80s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, boston, usa, north america, seattle ...
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited ...
Style:
dark comedy, sexy, sexual, erotic, offbeat ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, incest, mother son incest, fetish, paraplegic, suicide attempt, rat, dysfunctional family, lgbt, forbidden love, lgbtq, oral sex ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, ancient greece
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style:
dark comedy, depressing, cynical, clever, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, mental illness, dark humor, addiction, fall in love, depression, existentialism, youth, teenage life, eccentric family, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, new jersey, washington d.c., manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, controversial, black comedy, suspense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
secretary, manipulation, battle of the sexes, revenge, love, misogynist, relationships, brutality, dark humor, betrayal, businessman, deaf woman ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
usa, indiana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After several years without contact, Martijn visits his sister Daantje, who just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary from her life, and enters her home life with a video camera.
Style:
sexual, erotic, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
found footage, sex with brother, brother sister sex, sex with sister, incest, forbidden sex, incestuous relationship, peeping tom, exhibitionism, illicit affair, making love, children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, sex comedy ...
Plot:
sexualized violence, brother sister sex, dysfunctional family, incest, hotel, football player, first sexual experience, rape, airplane crash, bare butt, prostitute, forbidden love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vienna, new england, austria, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style:
dark comedy, talky, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
sibling relationship, sisters, dysfunctional family, childhood, redemption, betrayal, sister, parenthood, adaptation, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mrs Taggart always celebrates her anniversary with her grown sons. It’s a tradition practised since the death of her husband and she is determined for it to continue. None of her three sons have dared to cross their ruthless domineering mother but ...
Style:
dark comedy, psychotronic, offbeat, sexual, semi serious ...
Plot:
bad mother, manipulation, mother, minefield, gay, hagsploitation, old woman, family relations, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, anniversary, love and romance ...
Time:
60s
Place:
canada, england
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Explores sisters, in their twenties, their parents, and family dysfunctions. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a mole on his face and a lock of hair; then, falling out of ...
Style:
cult classic, dark comedy, surreal, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
mental illness, woman urinating, dysfunctional family, male nudity, feminist, sisters, women, treehouse, obsession, woman peeing, death of sister, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
australia, new zealand
Similarity:
46%
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:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter ...
Style:
sad, independent film, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, tornado, eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, mental illness, family problems, dark humor, couples, storm, helicopter ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
kansas, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
46%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, absurd, clever, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family secret, funeral, family life, eccentric family, death in the family, sarcasm, family feud, parents and children, fall in love, generation gap, lesbian ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
Style:
humorous, satirical, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, farce, dark humor, addiction, satire, nothing goes right, self discovery, disorder, family problems, family life, couple relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minnesota, chicago, california
Similarity:
46%
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:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young merchant marine turns up in an English coastal town looking for a brother he barely knows. When his brother's wife rebukes him he takes up with the Beasley family. However, soon the mother and daughter are chasing and ending up in the ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
age difference, doomed love, elderly lovers, love and romance, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, dysfunctional family, orphan, couple relations, dangerous attraction, obsession, suburban life ...
Time:
year 1996, 50s, 1950s
Similarity:
45%
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12K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, suspenseful, tricky, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, dentist, frame up, drug use, femme fatale, betrayal, dark humor, false accusation, twists and turns, life turned upside down, couples, disorder ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
wisconsin, usa, arizona, france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style:
talky, humorous, witty, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, dark humor, couples, family problems, family relations, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ego clash, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, tokyo
Similarity:
45%
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:
psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, independent film, talky ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pedophile, couple relations, father son relationship, family relations, sisters, character study, dark humor, family problems, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, 21st century
Place:
florida, new jersey, usa, miami, israel ...
Similarity:
44%
189K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up -- and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the ...
Style:
dark comedy, cult classic, funny, black comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, television, dark humor, stalking, friendship, psychopath, kidnapping, satire, stalker, insanity, falling from height, dumb ...
Time:
20th century, medieval times, 90s
Place:
usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Suzanne Stone (Maretto) wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, satirical, dark comedy, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
journalism, femme fatale, satire, female protagonist, erotic fantasy, teenage girl, oral sex, murder, television, cheating wife, adultery, erotic scene ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
new hampshire, usa, california, minnesota, canada
Similarity:
44%
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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, black comedy, independent film, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, dysfunctional family, cancer, funeral, mother daughter relationship, family secret, family in crisis, incestuous relationship, family drama, suicide of father, pills, addiction ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, peru, oklahoma city, southern usa, midwest ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, funny, hilarious, absurd ...
Plot:
terminal illness, dark humor, suicide attempt, euthanasia, buddy, mental patient, suicidal thoughts, silly humor, family relations, family problems, disorder, unsuccessful ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A comedy about an angry married couple, a private investigator, and a walk-in freezer.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, cynical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, private investigator, infidelity, male nudity, halloween, partner, private detective, frame up, murder, hunting, frozen body, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, funny, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
farce, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, eccentric family, death, profanity, blackmail, husband wife relationship, african american, gay father, hallucinogenic drug, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
44%
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, independent film, black comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, dysfunctional family, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, estrangement, family problems, couples, parents and children, family in crisis, family life ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, tokyo
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Style:
cult classic, philosophical, independent film, black comedy, erotic ...
Plot:
writers, making love, poetry, art, poet, sex scene, writer's life, bittersweet, drinking, violence, egocentric man, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, stockholm sweden, new york
Similarity:
44%
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:
44%
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