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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
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Original name: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Style:
sexy, humorous, enigmatic, melancholic, talky, erotic, feel good, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Plot:
farce, infidelity, female protagonist, twists and turns, satire, adultery, mental health, suicide attempt, frustration, couple relations, women, actress, terrorist, male female relationship, feminist, unrequited love, actor, female lawyer, friendship, summer, past, feminism, suicide, mad love, beauty ...
Time:
80s, year 1998, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, latin america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and sexy films with plots about couples, storytelling, women, dialogue, dysfunctional family, couple relations and runaway mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), The Road to Wellville (1994), Gaudi Afternoon (2001), To Return (2006), Law of Desire (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Style:
sexy, erotic, dark comedy, controversial, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, obsession, porn star, sex scene, obsessive love, sensuality, porn actress, female pubic hair, fetish, kidnapping, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, sex ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, surreal, stylized, mind bending ...
Plot:
dark humor, dysfunctional family, male pubic hair, prostitute, grandmother grandson relationship, elevator, exhibitionist, pedophilia, dressmaker, male nudity, domestic abuse, heroin ...
Time:
year 1984, 20th century, 80s
Place:
spain, madrid, germany, iberian peninsula, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
Style:
humorous, talky, witty, hilarious, surreal ...
Plot:
masturbation, eccentricity, male nudity, public nudity, sanitarium, doctor, doctors and patients, competition, countryside, cons and scams, couples, goofy hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 1900s, 19th century, 1890s ...
Place:
michigan, usa, america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An American abroad finds herself falling in with an eccentric group of fellow expatriates in Spain in this comedy. Cassandra (Judy Davis) is a nomadic American who finds herself stranded in Spain, where she's found temporary work translating ...
Style:
semi serious, talky, entertaining, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
kick-butt women, lesbian, eccentricity, dysfunctional family, creativity, amateur detective, betrayal, farce, translator, comedy of errors, eccentric family, family relations ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe, san francisco, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their ...
Style:
black comedy, emotional, touching, visually stunning, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
death, rape, child abuse, twists and turns, lust, adultery, ghost, secret, vengeance, woman urinating, neighbor, women ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, europe ...
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52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When porn director Pablo reluctantly breaks up with his boyfriend, Juan, he encourages him to stay in touch. Juan moves away to live in a lighthouse and eventually writes his ex, but in the interim Pablo has taken up a psychotic new lover, Antonio ...
Style:
sexy, surreal, erotic, homoerotic, stylized ...
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, lgbt, murder, male nudity, movie business, obsession, filmmaking, passion, gay interest, gays and lesbians, love triangle ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, morocco, madrid
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.
Style:
dark comedy, erotic, surreal, social, hispanic ...
Plot:
satire, lgbt, gays and lesbians, drug addiction, nun, religion, forbidden love, heroin addiction, gay, lgbtq, surrealism, catholic church ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
High Heels is a murder mystery comedy centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo and her daughter Rebecca, a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life when she comes to perform a concert. ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, art house, sexual, enigmatic ...
Plot:
murder, transvestism, obsession, who done it, guilt, lgbtq, mother daughter reunion, women, couples, family relations, mother daughter relationship, lgbt ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 70s
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, caribbean ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than ...
Style:
erotic, clever, art house, hispanic, contemplative ...
Plot:
writers, women, obsession, suicide attempt, love and romance, novelist, daily life, surrealism, old woman, parent child relationship, journal, family problems ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, tokyo, madrid
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Paula leaves her mate Pedro, he misses her and looks for comfort with his best friends, Javier and Sonia. Paula is having an affair with Javier. The cuckold Pedro tries to find who is the secret lover of Paula, and hires a private eye. ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, witty, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love and romance, adultery, farce, orgasm, private detective, partner, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, fall in love, gender ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
spain, cuba, argentina
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs ...
Style:
witty, talky, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
sex, infidelity, sadomasochism, depression, lgbtq, couple relations, battle of the sexes, love and romance, couples, dishonesty, human nature, radical ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, quebec, montreal, california
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, clever, feel good ...
Plot:
journalist, record producer, couples, family problems, family relations, journalism, unfulfillment, feminism, crumbling marriage, gender, media, destructive relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
canary islands, spain
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style:
ironic, talky, humorous, witty, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, writers, family relations, love, midlife crisis, atheism, opera, audition, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Almodovar's first film of life in Madrid during the punk era and not one for the squeamish. He covers everything from drugs and sexual violence, to female masochism.
Style:
social, sexual, cult classic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
satire, lesbian, woman peeing, woman urinating, rape, rape and revenge, gays and lesbians, marijuana, gay, homosexual, transvestite, male nudity ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
Similarity:
30%
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:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, lust, sex, nudity, desire, erotica, unfaithful wife, rape, older woman younger man, disability, obsession, strong sexual content ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard ...
Style:
feel good, sexy, dark comedy, emotional, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
cleaning lady, dysfunctional family, dark humor, suicide, family business, new job, police investigation, family relations, workplace, family problems, single parent, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Spain, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sweet, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, love triangle, nude, love story, infidelity, relationships, orgy, crumbling marriage, fall in love, divorce, rickshaw, husband wife estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada, nova scotia, new jersey
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, realistic, semi serious, biting ...
Plot:
feminist, infidelity, mental illness, satire, love triangle, extramarital affair, psychiatrist, adultery, marital problem, housewife, teen violence, abusive parent ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
Style:
dark comedy, clever, black comedy, sexy, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
high school, teacher, writers, single father, loneliness, life & death, father son relationship, grief, family drama, caught masturbating, suicide, life philosophy ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, nebraska, seattle
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner).
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, erotic, sexual, humorous ...
Plot:
kidnapping, viagra, drug, nymphomaniac, farce, lgbt, lgbtq, gender bending, terrorism, father daughter sex, same actor playing two characters simultaneously on screen, homosexual ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
spain, europe, iran, middle east, madrid ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
Style:
sexy, controversial, sexual, depressing, erotic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
college, mate swapping, coming of age, sexual content, relationships, friendship, love triangle, campus, college life, infidelity, friends, sex ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s ...
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined ...
Style:
sexy, touching, sweet, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
divorce, black romance, friendship, african american woman, betrayal, black woman, black, female protagonist, adultery, gay husband, love story, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. MISTRESS AMERICA is a comedy about dream-chasing, ...
Style:
independent film, humorous, depressing, heartbreaking, witty ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, coming of age, hopes, writers, female protagonist, eccentric family, follow your dream, prank, disorder, family relations, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to ...
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, psychedelic, art house, retro ...
Plot:
advertising, surrealism, australian aboriginal, marketing, social decay, infidelity, drug abuse, afterlife, addiction, suburban life, suburbs, dark humor ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mimi is a Sicilian dockworker who loses his job when he votes against the Mafia candidate in what he thinks is a secret ballot. He leaves his wife behind and goes to Turin, where he meets and moves in with Fiore, a street vendor and Communist ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, political, cult classic, realistic ...
Plot:
illicit affair, communist party, infidelity, female nudity, affair, nude girl, anarchist, age-gap relationship, women, woman, mafia, working class ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
sicily, europe, italy, turin italy, southern italy
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
Style:
erotic, sexual, sex comedy, romantic drama, manga ...
Plot:
military, male nudity, feminism, prostitute, satire, nudity, couple relations, love and romance, soldier, couples, military life, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
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:
independent film, satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative ...
Plot:
dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, crumbling marriage, society, self discovery, filmmaking, love and romance, couple relations, starting over, rise and fall ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really launch their company. Then Ronny spots Nick's wife out with another man, and in the process of ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny, slapstick ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, dilemma, marital problem, adultery, relationships, friendship, best friend, proposal, moral dilemma, peeping tom, unfaithfulness, unfaithful ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa, detroit
Similarity:
27%
24K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into ...
Style:
sexy, witty, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
women, infidelity, betrayal, divorce, friendship, transformation, fashion, fashion show, lesbian, woman in labor, female friendship, cheating ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, san francisco
Similarity:
27%
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