Movies like Love Liza
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Love Liza (2002)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.
Style:
bleak, emotional, psychological, touching, meditative, road movie, thought provoking, clever, enigmatic, depressing ...
Plot:
mother-in-law, suicide, addiction, mental illness, road trip, character study, life is a bitch, losing-it hero, disorder, social misfits, solace, sadness, family problems, nothing goes right, death in the family, depression, husband wife relationship, mental breakdown, death of wife, death, melancholy, nude, catastrophe, drugs, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, alabama, new orleans
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Most similar movies to Love Liza
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, melancholic, thought provoking and realistic films with plots about depression, loneliness, redemption, dialogue, relationships, storytelling and brutality mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Love Liza: Synecdoche, New York (2008), Demolition (2015), Igby Goes Down (2002), Shrink (2009), Happiness (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, depressing, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
depression, existentialism, twists and turns, theater, magic realism, schizophrenic, obsession, writers, writer's life, death, philosophy, mental illness ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets in Chicago.
Style:
melancholic, psychological, philosophical, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
death of wife, grief, depression, death, existentialism, self discovery, psychology, father in law son in law relationship, car accident, destruction, widower, mental illness ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style:
depressing, cynical, humorous, thought provoking, talky ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, coming of age, dysfunctional family, addiction, depression, existentialism, dark humor, youth, teenage life, eccentric family, character study, eccentricity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, chicago illinois, new jersey, washington d.c., connecticut ...
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
Style:
realistic, psychological, depressing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
suicide, mental illness, psychiatrist, hollywood, drugs, therapist, character study, psychology, loneliness, life philosophy, suicide attempt, widower ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Style:
controversial, depressing, bleak, art house, cynical ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pedophilia, rape, dark humor, depression, obsession, relationships, loneliness, multiple storylines, sexual abuse, suburbs, phone sex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, emotional, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, depression, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, character study, redemption, family relations, childhood, nursing, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
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25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with ...
Style:
talky, gloomy, art house, entertaining, thought provoking ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, drugs, suburbs, drug addiction, addiction, small town, self discovery, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, alcoholic, transformation, loner ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
Style:
realistic, sincere, emotional, depressing, semi serious ...
Plot:
weatherman, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, introspection, relationship vs career, father son relationship, family problems, solitude, character study, hopes, father, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Based on a play by David Rabe, Hurlyburly is about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes, whose dysfunctional personal lives are more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.
Style:
talky, captivating, cynical, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
hollywood, drug abuse, addiction, insanity, drugs, marijuana, showbiz, buddies, love triangle, friendship, destiny, sarcasm ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, writers, eccentricity, complex characters, character study, family relations, homecoming, unlikely friendships, family problems, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey, michigan, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies similar to Young Adult
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.
Style:
touching, thought provoking, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Plot:
slacker, loneliness, midlife crisis, twists and turns, everyday life, naivete, loser, parents and children, character change, immature, existentialism, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, new orleans
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22%
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:
disturbing, psychological, melancholic, talky, stylized ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, father son relationship, loneliness, family relations, character study, family problems, couple relations, pedophile, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, relationships ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
florida, new jersey, israel, california, usa ...
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, bleak, meditative, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
philosophy, infidelity, multiple storylines, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greece
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21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ...
Style:
emotional, depressing, psychological, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
narcissism, depression, suicide, mental illness, riches to rags, psychology, tragedy, character study, relationships, family relations, introspection, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, new york, california, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A suicidal man who can't kill himself agrees to finance his terminally ill neighbor's bucket list of fantasies if, at the end, the neighbor will kill him.
Style:
feel good, sad, cerebral, dramatic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
drugs, suicide, drug addiction, bowling, fish, hospital, death, male nudity, redemption, road trip, brutality, gangsters ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, feel good, thought provoking ...
Plot:
depression, bittersweet, widow, family relations, musician, homeless, guilt, parenthood, redemption, dysfunctional family, destiny, hospital ...
Time:
80s
Place:
baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Buck is a man-child who has lived his existence in a life of kindergarten collages and lollipops. Buck remembers his old childhood friend Chuck, with whom he feels a need to reconnect with after having invited him to his mother's funeral. Buck ...
Style:
psychological, stylized, cynical, humorous, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, gay, stalking, friendship, dark humor, childhood friend, mentally unstable, sexuality, love triangle, unrequited love, man child, death of mother ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This is the story of Spalding Gray and his attempt to write a novel. It is a first person account about writing and living, and dealing with success while trying to be successful.
Style:
clever, witty, talky, bleak, affectionate ...
Plot:
twists and turns, melancholy, writers, catastrophe, drugs, genetics, dark hero, greed, life & death, dark humor, psychiatry, sexualized violence ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Style:
talky, realistic, witty, bleak, stylized ...
Plot:
life & death, college, friendship, bittersweet, bullying, brutality, catastrophe, working class, british, character study, multiple storylines, loneliness ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
london, new jersey, tokyo, europe, england
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style:
satirical, disturbing, meditative, melancholic, cynical ...
Plot:
dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, crumbling marriage, self discovery, society, filmmaking, love and romance, rise and fall, couple relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style:
depressing, psychological, touching, compassionate, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
loneliness, depression, drug addiction, obsession, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, support group, drugs, mental illness, tragedy, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, tijuana mexico, mexico
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style:
surreal, bleak, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suburbs, suicide, kidnapping, youth, dark humor, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, mistaken identity, friendship, teenager, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
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19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, bleak, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
depression, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, mental illness, family relations, divorce, character study, psychology, life philosophy, parenthood, family gatherings, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
small town, depression, therapy, psychologist, starting over, psychology, mental illness, friendship, character study, life philosophy, loneliness, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
phoenix arizona, west virginia, china
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Style:
emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, youth, addiction, teenager, depression, psychologist, self discovery, lifestyle, teenage life, drugs, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, new york, manhattan new york city
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19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tram driver Lauri looses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money from the social welfare system, they hardly try to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sexy, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
unemployment, isolation, working class, waitress, character study, childhood, crime gone awry, mentor, deadpan, runaway, catastrophe, relationships ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain, california, europe, finland
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19%
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, emotional, melancholic, stylized, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, suicide, family secret, mother daughter relationship, cancer, drugs, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, california, midwest, usa
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Down-on-his-luck gambler Bill (George Segal) links up with free spirit Charlie (Elliott Gould) at first to have some fun, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most of his ...
Style:
talky, cynical, witty, clever, gloomy ...
Plot:
gambling, transvestism, friendship, loneliness, female nudity, fight, stripper, depression, dark humor, culture clash, crime gone awry, character study ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, las vegas, los angeles, usa
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) is a retired Romanian engineer, spending his time in the company of his cats and booze. When he starts feeling unusually ill, he first seeks painkillers from his neighbors. It soon becomes apparent that Lazarescu is ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, bleak, meditative, sad ...
Plot:
hospital, paramedic, doctors and patients, character study, ambulance, nurse, self discovery, medical, surgery, public health, health situation, fighting illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, canada, eastern europe, bucharest, europe ...
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19%
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:
talky, stylized, humorous, sexy, allegory ...
Plot:
writers, art, suicide, writer's life, suburbs, bittersweet, violence, poetry, obsession, brutality, dark hero, life & death ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey, usa, stockholm sweden, new york
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19%
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