Movies like Rat

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Rat (2000)
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Rat (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, biting, suspense
Plot: rat, friendship, adventurer, self discovery, fish out of water, family life, dysfunctional family, society, disorder, eccentric family, husband wife relationship, secret, family relations, chase, christmas present, village, friends, parents and children, village life, couples, family problems, suburbs, single parent, family in crisis, suburban life ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
Keyword: cruelty to animal

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, husband wife relationship, couples and youth mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Rat: Passed Away (1992), Strange Relations (2001), Once Upon a Christmas (2000), Jack Frost (1998), The Daytrippers (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Passed Away (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Style: black comedy, laugh out loud, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: funeral, family relations, pregnancy, midlife crisis, dark humor, family problems, couples, single parent, nothing goes right, love and romance, clergy, elderly ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Strange Relations (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
Style: semi serious, emotional, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: adoption, terminal illness, self discovery, uncover truth, hopes, introspection, family problems, parents and children, working class, dysfunctional family, family life, mother son relationship ...
Place: new york, europe, england, usa, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Once Upon a Christmas (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Can Santa's daughter turn naughty to nice and save Christmas?
Style: touching, uplifting, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, family life, heroic mission, eccentric family, save the day, mischievous children, family problems, disorder, parents and children, one last chance, dysfunctional family, family gatherings ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Jack Frost (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A father, who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
Style: christmas special, sad, christmas classics, tear jerker, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, snowman, holiday, winter, magic, snow, boy, childhood, christmas season, xmas, reincarnation, loss of father ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, antarctic, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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The Daytrippers (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station ...
Style: independent film, hilarious, talky, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, adultery, family relations, infidelity, love, thanksgiving, night, bickering, drunkenness, chance meeting, on the road ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Happy Christmas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
Style: mumblecore, ironic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: christmas, family relations, eccentric family, character study, introspection, siblings relations, writers, couple relations, disorder, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, xmas ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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House Arrest (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: divorce, childhood, family relations, family problems, parents and children, family life, love, hostage, kidnapping, couples, bullying, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: hawaii, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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So Happy Together (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, cynical, realistic, witty
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, uninvited guest, eccentric family, family life, siblings relations, family problems, couple relations, family gatherings, interracial relations, couples, father son relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 90s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 ⇓
86%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Blue Umbrella (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young Biniya lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in the mountainous and snowy region of Himachal Pradesh in India along with her widowed mom and wrestler brother. She entertains various tourists, and while doing so with some tourists from ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: generosity, obsession, village, family relations, parents and children, family life, dishonesty, wrestling, compassion, friendship, husband wife relationship, trust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Some Girls (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: christmas, college, coming of age, male nudity, teenager, eccentric family, love, holiday, older woman younger man relationship, teenage sex, teen angst, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Santa Clause (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns ...
Style: feel good, touching, christmas classics, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, adult
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, childhood, christmas season, father son relationship, toys, divorce, child custody, thanksgiving, xmas, snow ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Wide Awake (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A feel-good comedy about the laughter, excitement and fun that come with being a kid! Joshua is a thoughtful 10-year-old looking for some simple answers to life's eternal questions. The problem is that no one - including his concerned parents ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, light, humorous, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, boys' school, religion, life philosophy, existentialism, society, death in the family, human spirit, teenage life, baseball, happy ending ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: philadelphia, usa, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, dog, single parent, writers, introspection, couple relations, family life, parents and children, family problems, family relations, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Family Resemblances (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 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 ⇓
82%
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Opal Dream (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Pobby & Dingan are invisible. They live in an opal town in Australia and are friends with Kellyanne, the 9 year-old daughter of an opal miner. The film tells the story of the bizarre and inexplicable disappearance of Pobby & Dingan, ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sad
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: imaginary friend, family relations, friendship, imaginary character, self discovery, hopes, siblings relations, culture clash, best friend, single parent, mischievous children, introspection ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.4
 6K
Prancer (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in ...
Style: touching, christmas classics, entertaining, sad, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, single father, reindeer, santa claus, farm, father daughter relationship, snow, widower, animal, xmas ...
Time: year 1989
Place: michigan
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81%
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Junebug (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, ...
Style: independent film, humorous, emotional, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, dysfunctional family, painting, art, small town, eccentricity, jealousy, eccentric family, love and romance, social differences, meet the parents, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, chicago, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 6.5
 846
Uncle Nino (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, indie film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family gatherings, family life, family relations, fish out of water, parents and children, optimism, couples, society, uncle, youth, family reunited, friendship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 7.0
 2K
Orphans (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply ...
Style: emotional, intense, surreal, dark comedy, touching ...
Plot: disability, dysfunctional family, moral ambiguity, children, british, existentialism, justice, segregation, siblings relations, depression, brutality, death in the family ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Gold (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten years in order to reconnect with his daughter and ex-wife but unwittingly finds himself responsible for almost destroying all their lives.
Style: tragicomedy, sentimental, humorous, witty, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, redemption, contests and competitions, power relations, homecoming, hopes, life is a bitch, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Toto the Hero (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he ...
Style: touching, epic, sad, cult classic, inspirational ...
Plot: coming of age, hide and seek, neighbor neighbor relationship, death of sister, child, youth, children, jazz, train, time travel, adolescence, inspiration ...
Time: year 1991, future, 90s
Place: france, germany, europe, dover england, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
A Man of No Importance (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, psychological, realistic
Plot: homosexuality, gay, unrequited love, working class, self discovery, small town, bus, poetry, gay slur, lgbt, friendship, lgbtq ...
Time: year 1994, 60s, year 1963
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style: humorous, light, talky, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: politics, coming of age, friendship, infidelity, self discovery, single parent, teenage love, cheerleader, teenage boy, male nudity, fall in love, misfit ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, year 1977, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, milwaukee wisconsin, massachusetts, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Season's Beatings (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, family relations, midlife crisis, new year, christmas spirit, holiday, restaurant, pregnancy, estrangement, couples, family problems, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, europe, russia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 3.8
 2K
Gordy (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.
Style: light, feel good, humorous, touching, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: pig, on the road, talking animal, kids and family, farm, rescue, danger, heroic mission, youth, animal, death, meme ...
Place: st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.4
 692
The Debut (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot: culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, nightlife, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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