Movies like September
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September (1987)
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.
Style:
talky, independent film, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, philosophical, psychological, clever, light ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, adultery, friendship, couples, depression, unrequited love, dialogue, love triangle, mother daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, family problems, friends, siblings relations, human nature, couple relations, family gatherings, love, betrayal, murder, guilt, marriage, teacher, female friendship, thunderstorm ...
Time:
20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
usa, vermont
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Most similar movies to September
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and psychological films with plots about family relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, couple relations and human nature mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like September: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Interiors (1978), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), 25th Hour (2002), Another Woman (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
22K
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:
dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, depression, father daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, divorce, mother daughter relationship, suicide, attempted rape, three sisters, psychology, character study ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Style:
philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, thought provoking ...
Plot:
murder, adultery, infidelity, mistress, philosophy, existentialism, guilt, justice, uncle niece relationship, blackmail, moral dilemma, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
191K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The filmed adaptation from David Benioff's novel of the same name. Set in New York, a convicted drug dealer named Monty has one day left of freedom before he is sent to prison. Anger, blame, frustration, betrayal, guilt and loneliness are ...
Style:
bleak, cerebral, clever, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, drug lord, organized crime, drug dealer, drug, melancholy, 9/11, freedom, redemption, paranoia, hopes, profanity ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, meditative, talky, depressing ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, writers, eavesdropping, philosophy, depression, psychology, human nature, self discovery, melancholy, psychoanalysis, dysfunctional family, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style:
talky, realistic, philosophical, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, marital separation, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, black comedy ...
Plot:
aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, writers, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, writer's life, parents and children, extramarital affair ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate ...
Style:
independent film, tense, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, alcohol abuse, dysfunctional family, introspection, guest, family relations, best friend, family secret, family home, existential crisis, father daughter conflict, infidelity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
connecticut, usa, new england
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style:
psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, working class, loneliness, oral sex, character study, single parent, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style:
grim, tense, depressing, talky, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, redemption, actor, family life, alcohol abuse, human nature, actor's life, lifestyle, morphine, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1912, year 1962, 60s ...
Place:
connecticut, ireland
Similarity:
21%
18
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Scorn takes a look into the trials and tribulations of a group of people dealing with relationships, love, pain and friendship during the course of one year.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
bittersweet, love, family problems, introspection, couples, couple relations, human nature, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, urban, abuse, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, atmospheric, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
elderly, american football, dysfunctional family, family relations, mental illness, american dream, estrangement, parents and children, parent child relationship, family problems, family in crisis, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, single mother, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, youth, family problems, couples, estrangement, terminal illness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
georgia, new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style:
serious, realistic, clever, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
infidelity, introspection, life turned upside down, love affair, love triangle, dishonesty, journalism, crumbling marriage, couple relations, destructive relationship, obsession, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, france, greece, athens greece
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, emotional, talky
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, lifestyle, social decay, couple relations, society, human nature, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings, family life ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
grief, women, youth, friendship, dysfunctional family, housekeeper, child hero, black, sex crime, adolescence, racism, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
jamaica, baltimore, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
asthma, parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
13K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style:
independent film, intense, art house, black and white, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sex, divorce, prostitute, feminism, feminist, drinking, male nudity, depression, marriage, extramarital affair, cheating ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
Style:
independent film, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, women, friendship, chase, dysfunctional family, nervous breakdown, lgbt, lgbtq, depression, forbidden love, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 70s
Place:
boston, new jersey, san francisco, california, england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.
Style:
independent film, talky, realistic, serious, clever ...
Plot:
friendship, pregnancy, family problems, couples, friends, thirtysomething life, lifestyle, unfulfillment, gender, human nature, love and romance, journalism ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
lgbt, female bonding, housekeeper, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, hopes, human nature, couple relations, society, master and servant, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A television drama that revolves around a family that runs a pharmaceutical company.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, dramatic ...
Plot:
family business, pharmaceutical company, family relations, workplace, family problems, parents and children, love, rivalry, couples, ethical dilemma, family drama, morality ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's teenage kids, who are going through their own journeys of ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, profanity, bittersweet, love and romance, society, power relations, couples, computers and web, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, young lovers, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
18%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, young lovers, coming of age, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, womanizer, youth, society, couples, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2000
Place:
nebraska, europe, usa, england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, realistic, witty, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
elderly, family relations, love story, daughter, family holiday, passion, marriage, summer, alienation, husband and wife, lake, couples ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new england, new hampshire, maine
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, pregnancy, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, marriage, love, rivalry, realism, compromise ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, family secret, sibling rivalry, family drama, conflict, parents and children, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation center, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, addiction, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story follows Abby, a thirty-something artist living in Rhode Island caring for her husband William after he's tragically injured in a bar fight. As she attempts to coax him back to health, James, her childhood sweetheart and unrequited ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological, indie film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
renewed love, lovers reunited, love triangle, moral dilemma, life turned upside down, couples, friendship, wounded, choice, disorder, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, rhode island
Similarity:
18%
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