Movies like Mental 2012

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Mental (2012)
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Mental (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
Style: humorous, black comedy, light, captivating, entertaining, funny, anamorphic, hilarious, rom com, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eccentric family, dysfunctional family, mental illness, hitchhiker, nanny, suburbs, satire, family life, youth, siblings relations, dark humor, teenage life, strong female presence, teenager, psychopath, autism, babysitting, family relations, anti conformity, dog, shark, female nudity, adultery, teenage girl, neighbor ...
Time: year 2012, y2k, 21st century, contemporary
Place: australia
Keyword: australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, eccentric family, family life and siblings relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Mental: Muriel's Wedding (1994), Igby Goes Down (2002), Soft Fruit (1999), Two-Bit Waltz (2014), Little Miss Sunshine (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Muriel's Wedding (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Muriel’s Wedding is P.J. Hogan’s film debut. A humorous emancipation story of an unemployed woman who evolves from a dreamer into a self sustaining successful woman. An amusing comedy that’s funny, silly, angry and serious.
Style: light, funny, humorous, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: wedding, friendship, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, dignity, women, small town, coming of age, leaving home, parenthood, happy ending, honest ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: australia, sydney australia, bali, ethiopia
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100%
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Igby Goes Down (2002)
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: dark comedy, depressing, cynical, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, coming of age, addiction, depression, existentialism, youth, dark humor, teenage life, eccentric family, eccentricity, character study ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, chicago, new jersey, washington d.c., new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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Soft Fruit (1999)
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, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, working class, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, family problems, couples, estrangement, death in the family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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37%
 5.0
 458
Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
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, sentimental, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: siblings relations, dysfunctional family, teenage love, teenage life, family life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, eccentric family, love and romance, family problems, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Way Way Back (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Style: touching, realistic, teen, independent film, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: summer, teenager, vacation, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, dysfunctional family, boy, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Birds of America (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, family problems, couples, youth, vengeance, family gatherings, parents and children, couple relations, introspection, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The House of Yes (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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 ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, independent film, absurd ...
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, mental illness, family problems, twins, brother sister incest, female protagonist, thanksgiving, eccentric family, secrets, family life, sexual fantasy ...
Time: year 1997, 80s, 90s, year 1983
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 3.4
 574
Bad Parents (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: soccer, family relations, eccentric family, obsession, parents and children, rivalry, sport team, youth, satire, athlete and trainer, ambition, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, realistic, depressing, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, bullying, dysfunctional family, misfit, humiliation, teenager, youth, school, social outcast, female protagonist, childhood, high school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, near future, year 1995
Place: new jersey, seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Family Weekend (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Style: not serious, humorous, independent film, light, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: parents and children, eccentric family, family problems, unsupportive parent, family relations, confinement indoors, punishment, negligence, suburbs, teenage life, danger, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 3.9
 468
Raising Genius (2004)
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: semi serious, psychological, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: genius, mathematics, dysfunctional family, family relations, prodigy, couples, family problems, youth, couple relations, lifestyle, society, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
United States of Tara (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama created by Diablo Cody, which began airing on Showtime in 2009. The series follows the life of Tara, a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder.
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot: mental illness, split personality, dissociative identity disorder, dysfunctional family, family drama, gay, housewife, lgbt, self discovery, family relations, jealousy, eccentric family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Accidents Happen (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, haunted by the past, teenage life, parents and children, social relations, dark humor, teenage boy, suburbs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.7
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Sweetie (1989)
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, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, feminist, mental illness, male nudity, sisters, women, obsession, treehouse, woman peeing, siblings, feminism, voyeurism ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Please Stand By (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollywood. On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy follows the guiding spirit of Mr. Spock on ...
Style: road movie, sentimental, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot: autism, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, pet dog, manuscript, asperger's syndrome, on the road, contest, writers, road trip, self discovery, police officer ...
Place: usa, los angeles, san francisco, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.9
 749
Bark! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A veterinarian is called to examine a woman who thinks she is a dog.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, couples, family problems, family relations, misfit, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, disorder, suburban life, suburbs ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Another Happy Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Style: semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: wedding, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, ex husband ex wife relationship, wedding ceremony, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.2
 2K
Happy Tears (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, family relations, homecoming, family life, parents and children, family problems, aging, elderly, siblings relations, daydreamer, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, couple relations, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Death at a Funeral (2010)
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: funny, black comedy, dark comedy, talky, melancholic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: eccentric family, death, dysfunctional family, family relations, black, family gatherings, death in the family, male nudity, silly humor, dishonesty, gay father, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Last Weekend (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, eccentric family, parents and children, siblings relations, dark humor, family gatherings, gay, friendship, dysfunctional family, lgbtq, lgbt, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Twister (1989)
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, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, tornado, family relations, couples, family problems, dark humor, eccentric family, family gatherings, family life, mental illness, storm, dinner ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
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, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, chicago
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22%
Spinning Boris (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
Style: clever, realistic, political, talky, witty ...
Plot: politics, campaign, head of state, ambition, idealism, leadership, rise to the top, political unrest, culture clash, political intrigue, political conspiracy, society ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.2
 274
Quitters (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, independent film
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, youth, family life, disorder, social relations, high school life, innocence lost, girl man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
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: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Defying Gravity (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, family problems, youth, on the run, misfit, social misfits, society, dysfunctional family, dealing with death, mute or deaf, college dropout ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, madea, black, black man, black history, life changing, black cast ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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