Movies like Inside I'm Dancing
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Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
17K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Style:
touching, emotional, uplifting, dramatic, sad, compassionate, heartbreaking, independent film, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot:
disability, friendship, cerebral palsy, life, youth, life philosophy, character study, loneliness, human spirit, friends, disabled, mental disorder, bittersweet, disabled person, physical disability, love and romance, young lovers, hopes, life & death, handicapped, hospital, family reunited, drinking, supermarket, independence ...
Time:
year 2004, contemporary
Place:
europe, dublin ireland, ireland
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Most similar movies to Inside I'm Dancing
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, emotional and feel good films with plots about friendship, drinking alcohol, drinking, bittersweet, friends, disability and runaway mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Inside I'm Dancing: Patch Adams (1998), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997), The Intouchables (2011), The Station Agent (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
129K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, uplifting, feel good, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
medical school, hospital, human spirit, doctors and patients, life philosophy, compassion, medical profession, friendship, dealing with death, doctor, happy ending, stereotypes ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s, year 1998, 60s ...
Place:
usa, virginia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the ...
Style:
road movie, depressing, touching, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
road trip, disability, abandoned by father, writers, honest, coming of age, friendship, depression, justice, tragedy, drinking, mentor ...
Place:
seattle, salt lake city utah, idaho, utah, montana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first ...
Style:
road movie, touching, funny, humorous, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, life philosophy, escapades, last wish, friends, odd couple, on the run, gangster, life is a bitch, partner, chase ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, touching, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
friendship, disability, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, friendship between men, disabled person, human relationship, handicapped, interracial friendship, culture clash, caregiver, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, bittersweet, depression, small town, grief, melancholy, loner, train, new in town, loss, solitude ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, canada ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
Style:
touching, sincere, inspirational, uplifting, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, adult
Plot:
wrestling, friendship, down syndrome, raft, follow your dream, escape, disability, boat, mental disorder, coming of age, friend, chase ...
Time:
future, year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
florida, america, north carolina, north america, richmond virginia ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style:
touching, sentimental, surreal, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transvestism, transgender, gay, lgbtq, adoption, homosexual, gay slur, gender bending, coming of age, priest, friendship, ira ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place:
ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, serious, tear jerker ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, misfit, friendship, disability, boy, bully, loneliness, youth, social misfits, illness, school bully, hot dog ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio, columbus ohio
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two ...
Style:
sentimental, road movie, spiritual, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
down syndrome, friendship, disability, intellectual disability, suicide, rain, bittersweet, self discovery, special needs, drinking, love, friendship between men ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
france, belgium, mexico, tokyo
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, melancholic, erotic, cult classic ...
Plot:
virginity, disability, friendship, women, life & death, dying, disease, loneliness, eccentricity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, painter, physical disability ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
london
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as ...
Style:
emotional, touching, talky, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
friendship, disability, paraplegic, sex scene, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human nature, society, hopes, human spirit, physical disability ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
santa monica california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, friendship, mischievous children, boy, coming of age, political unrest, society, obsession, boyhood, friends, little boy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
paralysis, disability, looking for sex, independence, buddies, friendship, road trip, brothel, obsessive quest, self discovery, physical disability, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, spain
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and ...
Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, friendship, teenage life, social differences, parents and children, family relations, social misfits, love and romance, lifestyle, single parent, society ...
Time:
90s, year 2008
Place:
london, europe, england, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing
Plot:
single parent, dog, writers, friendship, writer's life, vacation, redemption, alcohol abuse, family relations, hopes, misfit, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, dramatic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, quadriplegic, musician, dying, life is a bitch, marital infidelity, young woman, character study, disability, family relations, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to ...
Style:
touching, independent film, emotional, teen, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, cancer, adolescence, friendship, terminal illness, teenager, coming of age, dying, leukemia, friends, teenage boy, illness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style:
sentimental, sexy, touching, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, muslim, religion, adoption, friendship, self discovery, youth, koran, generation gap, family relations, teaching the ways of the world, parent child relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place:
paris france, europe, switzerland, middle east, turkey ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Simon Birch tells the story of Joe and Simon's heart-warming journey of friendship. Simon Birch was born with a condition that makes him much smaller than all the other kids in town. Now, due to his condition, Simon thinks God made him this way ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sweet, touching, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, destiny, illegitimate son, friendship, happy ending, disability, small town, voice over narration, child protagonist, bus accident, boy, secret ...
Time:
1950s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1964 ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
19%
567
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bernard "Bern" Lemly (Gregory Hines) is fed up with being in a wheelchair and wants more out of life. Meanwhile, former football player Tony "Ole" Olezniak (Vincent D'Onofrio) is stewing after recently losing his sight. The ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
blindness, blind character, physical disability, hostage, partner, friends, disability, buddies, rescue, human spirit, ambition, misfit ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
Style:
semi serious, touching, emotional, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
adoption, terminal illness, self discovery, uncover truth, mother son relationship, introspection, hopes, family problems, parents and children, working class, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
new york, usa, europe, england, liverpool
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.
Style:
touching, semi serious, psychological, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
junkie, paraplegic, friendship, disability, introspection, cause and meaning, self discovery, suicide, life, loneliness, character study, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, humorous, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, best friend, happy ending, single father, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 60s, year 1967
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, boston
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style:
inspirational, unusual plot structure, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Plot:
disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, paralysis, handicapped, medical, painter, poet, art ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply ...
Style:
emotional, intense, surreal, dark comedy, humorous ...
Plot:
cemetery, dysfunctional family, disability, vengeance, children, moral ambiguity, segregation, british, justice, existentialism, siblings relations, brutality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, ireland, australia ...
Similarity:
18%
2K
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:
friendship, youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems, convent school, nun, overweight, angel, prodigy ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four lost souls decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When they meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family.
Style:
emotional, touching, dark comedy, teen, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
new year, friendship, coping, dark humor, introspection, direction and purpose, unfulfillment, dull life, group of strangers, cause and meaning, suicidal, suicide attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, single parent, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, redemption, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, germany, italy, berlin germany, milan italy
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sentimental, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
friendship, elderly, terminal illness, road trip, journey, unlikely friendships, human spirit, bucket list, life changing, dying, philosophy, motivation ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
cote d'azur, usa, africa, johannesburg south africa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Style:
emotional, touching, meditative, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, midlife crisis, family life, everyday life, jealousy, parents and children, marriage, suffering, gardening, insomnia, character study ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, paris france, ireland ...
Similarity:
17%
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