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On the Edge (2001)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, talky, independent film, cerebral, cult classic, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
mental institution, mentally unstable, borderline personality disorder, human nature, friendship, love and romance, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, mental health, suicide attempt, depression, psychiatric ward, youth, social misfits, rehabilitation, hopes, illness, death of mother, bowling, death of father, life, death, mental patient, runner, madness ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
ireland
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Most similar movies to On the Edge
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and touching films with plots about life is a bitch, friendship, hopes, mental illness, youth, human nature and misfit mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like On the Edge: Waking Madison (2010), Death of a Superhero (2011), Helen (2009), Hut in the Woods (2011), I Am (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, mental disorder, psychiatrist, family relations, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
youth, life is a bitch, hopes, coming of age, human spirit, family problems, family in crisis, terminal illness, dealing with death, child illness, sick child, first love ...
Place:
ireland, usa
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92%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a ...
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psychological, emotional, realistic, depressing, sentimental ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental disorder, family relations, love affair, friendship, parents and children, couples, unfulfillment, psychiatry, self mutilation, psychological disorder, mental health ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The ...
Style:
rough, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
woods, misfit, mentally unstable, leaving home, life is a bitch, friendship, young heroes, mental illness, mental institution, loneliness, mental disorder, psychology ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, emotional, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
mental illness, doctors and patients, rebelliousness, mentally unstable, mental institution, introspection, political unrest, human nature, hopes, state affairs, misfit, psychology ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in small-town rural Georgia, a man returns to his hometown to face the deep-rooted racial tensions of a deep southern town that ages, but never changes.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
interracial relations, homecoming, friendship, disability, family relations, society, hopes, countryside, life is a bitch, love, true love, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
88%
40K
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, heartbreaking, sentimental, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
loneliness, sex, drug addiction, obsession, depression, mental health, suicide, friendship, mental disorder, dead child, loss of wife, suicide attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, mexico, tijuana mexico
Similarity:
87%
420
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style:
touching, serious, psychological, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, friendship, parents and children, solace, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, family life, family problems, estrangement, impossible love, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
87%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors. A legend says that to ...
Style:
uplifting, psychological, emotional, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
mental institution, haunted by the past, uncover truth, human spirit, culture clash, memory loss, life is a bitch, hopes, mentally unstable, conflict, israeli, israeli palestinian conflict ...
Place:
israel, palestine, usa, middle east
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, isolation, human nature, confined, misfit, doctors and patients, society, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Days before his birthday and weeks before his wedding, Tate Bradley, a twenty-five year old, African-American man attempts to commit suicide. He survives the ordeal, but from his actions, it is obvious that "Something is Killing Tate." The ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, touching, cerebral ...
Plot:
african american, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, society, hopes, life is a bitch, interracial relations, relationship problems, curses spells and rituals, suicide attempt, suicide, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, family relations, realism, misfit, youth, social misfits, parents and children, culture clash, society, resilience, single mother, discrimination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a young man working in Rhode Island's state corrections system and his relationship with a convicted murderer who is dying of AIDS and spending his remaining days on hospital detail.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, hospital, redemption, life is a bitch, hopes, one more chance, family relations, estrangement, life sentence, haunted by the past, terminal illness, murderer ...
Place:
rhode island, usa
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a twenty-two year old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life. Gregorio has been in and out of mental hospitals for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, sexual, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
betrayal, love triangle, haunted by the past, couples, destructive relationship, human nature, rivalry, youth, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friendship, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot:
drug addiction, redemption, addiction, introspection, alcoholics anonymous, drug abuse, recovery, yuppie, rehabilitation, drug, drinking, recovering drug addict ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, philadelphia, new jersey, california
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they ...
Style:
disturbing, talky, serious, depressing, psychological ...
Plot:
suicide, friendship, binge drinking, cocaine, female police officer, regret, father son relationship, introspection, haunted by the past, buddies, overdose, death of friend ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
rehabilitation, addiction, drug abuse, youth, parents and children, prostitute, dysfunctional family, teenage life, going straight, friendship, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. ...
Style:
independent film, sentimental, talky, clever, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
disability, friendship, physical disability, deep south, physical therapy, paraplegic, black, animal abuse, black man, girl power, psychopath, feminism ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa, california
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, ...
Style:
sincere, depressing, touching, realistic, indie film ...
Plot:
addiction, rehabilitation, alcoholic, support group, alcohol abuse, teacher, depression, introspection, irresponsible, recovery, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The needy and traumatized Theresa, who was raped when she was fourteen year-old, meets the handsome John on the street after an accident during a performance on the stage of her friend Kim asking for a low-budget hotel. She offers a ride to a nearby ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspense, sexual ...
Plot:
drug abuse, obsession, friendship, love affair, haunted by the past, youth, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, drug dealing, fall in love, addiction, couples ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, touching, dramatic, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, blindness, mentor, blind character, tango, human spirit, human nature, life philosophy, coming of age, thanksgiving, loneliness, preparatory school ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new england, new hampshire, usa, seattle
Similarity:
82%
306
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast but determined to win back the way of life he fought so hard to protect. Set against the stunning ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, independent film
Plot:
hopes, redemption, island, starting over, social misfits, couple relations, human nature, estrangement, family problems, friendship, ocean, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style:
touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
depression, mental illness, happy ending, losing-it hero, midlife crisis, mental disorder, dysfunctional family, psychology, family drama, mental health, coping, cheerleader ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside ...
Style:
independent film, neo noir, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience:
manly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
friendship, small town, dysfunctional family, closeted homosexual, murder, mental illness, homosexual, psychiatric hospital, mental retardation, death threat, domestic violence, father figure ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
arkansas, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Style:
psychological, touching, melancholic, sincere, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
suicide, suicidal, mental institution, coma, female protagonist, terminal illness, hopes, suicide attempt, starting over, doctors and patients, depression, life & death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, ireland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, touching, depressing, meditative ...
Plot:
coma, coming of age, friendship, working class, love and romance, hopes, depression, couple relations, society, youth, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
france, flanders
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, cult classic, depressing ...
Plot:
mental illness, dysfunctional family, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, bullying, boarding school, transformation, life is a bitch, human nature, family problems ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1997
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Noémie and Priscilla, two teenage girls from working class backgrounds, cultivate the same violence, the same contempt of the world. They are a source of serious concern for family and friends, who sense them capable of going to extremes. Noémie ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, tense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
human nature, teenage life, family problems, youth, society, dysfunctional family, death, suicidal thoughts, friendship, rebellion, juvenile delinquency, rebelliousness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
mental disorder, estrangement, family problems, kids in trouble, family relations, human nature, mentally challenged, single parent, misfit, mentally unstable, youth, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
79%
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