Movies like Nancy, Please
If you like "Nancy, Please" you are looking for realistic, serious and psychological movies about / with university, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, book, roommate, career and relocation themes of Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Nancy, Please (2012)
271
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
NANCY, PLEASE tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. There's just one snag: as Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that something has been left behind. A seemingly inconsequential object, but one Paul feels is of great importance to his dissertation and, therefore, to his future: a battered, personally annotated hardcover copy of 'Little Dorrit' by Charles Dickens. He will have to retrieve it from his former roommate - the obstinate Nancy. As he becomes increasingly consumed with the retrieval of 'Little Dorrit', Paul's relationship and career unravel.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, mumblecore, captivating, tense, sincere
Plot:
university, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, book, roommate, career, relocation, society, college, dark humor, youth, misfit, student life, social misfits, lifestyle, gift, waitress, moving, self destructing, thesis, novel, baseball bat, self destruction
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, connecticut
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Nancy, Please
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and psychological films with plots about society, youth, friendship, family relations, love and romance, couples and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Nancy, Please: Violent Blue (2011), Joy (2010), Virgin (2003), 3 Backyards (2010), The Memory Thief (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks ...
Style:
serious, realistic, cynical, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
female nudity, obsession, murder, dishonesty, sexual relations, losing-it hero, captivity, confined, danger, disorder, mute or deaf, social misfits ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
95%
372
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, life is a bitch, teenage life, redemption, shoplifting, mistaken identity, society, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
90%
621
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style:
realistic, touching, erotic, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
suburbs, society, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, dull life, human nature, multiple storylines, one day, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
82%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles tollbooth clerk becomes obsessed with the Holocaust after meeting a survivor.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
holocaust, mental illness, losing-it hero, obsession, haunted by the past, dull life, society, life is a bitch, elderly, parents and children, anti semitism, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
81%
659
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, power relations, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, hopes, society, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
77%
582
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, haunted by the past, adolescence vs adulthood, society, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
city life, immigrant, self discovery, friendship, restaurant, diner, family relations, social misfits, workplace romance, workplace, lonely, unfulfilled love ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
66%
Movie in collections
234
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, unfulfillment, friendship, university, college, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, weapons, coming of age, life turned upside down, on the road, down on your luck, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
63%
498
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenager in Echo Park deals with the loss of his mother and his attraction to a girl not considered "cool" by his friends.
Style:
realistic, sincere, captivating, light, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage love, youth, high school, couples, teenage life, social relations, friendship, society, self discovery, poverty, homeless ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Style:
talky, realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
friendship, college, youth, friends, power relations, college life, betrayal, teachers and students, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, student, mishap ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Moyher's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of gambling paradise Las Vegas. Benny aces his studies, being a mathematical genius, but the one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating
Plot:
gambling, bookies, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, couples, culture clash, college life, follow your dream, youth, fall in love, buddies ...
Place:
usa, nevada, arizona, las vegas, new york
Similarity:
58%
752
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, understanding, friendship, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend, sex
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, britain
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style:
mumblecore, realistic, captivating, light, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, party, love, girlfriend, society, hipster, human relationship, lifestyle, urban ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A week in the life of a young drug addict.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, mumblecore ...
Plot:
drug addiction, addiction, downfall, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, lifestyle, drug dealing, hopes, fired from the job, drug use, going straight, prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, prostitute, women, female protagonist, couples, society, sex, female nudity, doctor patient relationship, sex therapy, psychotherapy, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
music, haunted by the past, deportation, musician's life, introspection, life is a bitch, estrangement, society, drug, young love, musician, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
54%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot:
fall in love, diner, small town, hopes, unfulfillment, bittersweet, society, introspection, love and romance, love affair, working class, waitress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, youth, car accident, grief, accidental death, society, love, dealing with death, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A software developer becomes a billionaire and is distracted by fame, greed and power, then must save his invention and company from a hostile takeover.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
relationship vs career, rivalry, redemption, rise to the top, materialism, infidelity, lifestyle, ambition, business, company, financier, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
city life, couples, society, immigrant, redemption, friendship, youth, love, love story, family relations, age difference, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
starting over, support group, hopes, alcohol abuse, mysterious stranger, college, friendship, society, rise to the top, lifestyle change, changing lives, alcoholic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
50%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, love and romance, society, pregnancy, youth, hopes, coming of age, road not taken, small town, wooing, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
On one evening in a decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the innocence of youth and family unravels. Five parallel coming-of-age stories dramatize the stages of grief. A youthful mother in a custody battle over her children, finds ...
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, sincere, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, life is a bitch, social misfits, misfit, youth, addiction, custody, society, bittersweet, homosexual ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
49%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
hollywood, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, hopes, writers, aspiring actress, rivalry, society, down on your luck, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING is based on filmmaker Todd Verow’s experiences at Rhode Island School of Design. After being accepted into a prestigious New England art school, sexy small-town JOE and townie mastermind JENNIFER quickly join ...
Style:
serious, realistic, independent film, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gay, art school, college, male pubic hair, dangerous attraction, self discovery, lifestyle, youth, friendship, student life, social misfits, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rhode island
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two lovers travel from town to town playing a dark game of deceit that soon spirals out of control, threatening their very relationship.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, hidden identity, manipulation, couples, dishonesty, juggling, con artists, deception, society, love and romance, crumbling relationship, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, visually stunning, psychological ...
Plot:
couple relations, immigrant, trying to get pregnant, society, couples, lifestyle, afrofuturism, african, female protagonist, parents and children, changing lives, cultural difference ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, africa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
school shooting, losing-it hero, social relations, haunted by the past, youth, bullying, high school, loneliness, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, murder ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, iowa
Similarity:
46%
Related movie lists
