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Short Cuts (1993)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Multi-storied, fish-eyed look at American culture with some 22 characters intersecting--profoundly or fleetingly--through each other's lives. Running the emotional gamut from disturbing to humorous, Altman's portrait of the contemporary human condition is nevertheless fascinating. Based on nine stories and a prose poem by Raymond Carver.
Style:
talky, philosophical, sincere, captivating, realistic, sexy, clever, atmospheric, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, redemption, infidelity, suicide, waitress, destruction of property, loss of loved one, fishing, life philosophy, character study, party, family relations, family problems, adulthood, family in crisis, sex, incest, child, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, life is a bitch, introspection, child illness, human nature, buddies ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, thought provoking, melancholic and talky films with plots about storytelling, dialogue, dysfunctional family, mentor, catastrophe, relationships and writers mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Short Cuts: Magnolia (1999), The Chumscrubber (2005), The Door in the Floor (2004), Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The New Age (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
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sexy, controversial, art house, talky, psychological ...
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california, los angeles, usa
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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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
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Country: Canada, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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38%
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Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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