Movies like The Dark Side of Love 2012
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The Dark Side of Love (2012)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two brothers on different life paths, a gay waiter with a crush on an eligible bachelor and a drug addict in a twisted dependent relationships with his girlfriend, reunite to mourn the death of their mother.
Style:
psychological, realistic, sentimental, serious, captivating, touching, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
gay, addiction, family relations, family problems, estrangement, death in the family, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gender, siblings relations, eligible bachelor, dealing with death, drugs, fight, cheating wife, lgbt, depression, female nudity, sex scene, death, prostitution, gay sex ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and gloomy films with plots about family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children, dealing with death and family in crisis mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Dark Side of Love: About Cherry (2012), A Perfect Son (2000), Cook County (2008), Twelve Thirty (2010), Wetlands (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
porn industry, dysfunctional family, adult filmmaking, porn actress, lesbian, female protagonist, woman in danger, jealousy, life is a bitch, family problems, lesbian sex, sexual activity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man's terminal illness reunites him with his estranged brother.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, death in the family, haunted by the past, lgbt, gay interest, brother brother relationship, death of father, aids ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, drug abuse, parents and children, homecoming, small town, adolescence vs adulthood, released from prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of their lives, wreaking havoc in the process.
Style:
serious, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sex scene, family relations, love triangle, couples, family problems, gender, parents and children, sexual relations, loneliness, gay, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
On a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships, in the middle of a drought and while the land is parching, a drama will disrupt the life of the Santerre family. Confronted to each other they will have to learn to forgive.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
death in the family, family problems, parents and children, family business, estrangement, family relations, life is a bitch, down on your luck, voyeurism, forgiveness, gay, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Jenkins) fights a zero sum ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, sad
Plot:
terminal illness, mercy killing, cancer, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, siblings relations, estrangement, estranged family member, death in the family, disease, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, family life, haunted by the past, mental illness, human nature, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, couples, estrangement, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Friends and family gather around the death bed of Gavin, where they assist in the dying man's suicide. But though Gavin's pain has been laid to rest, the grief felt by everyone there has only begun, and Walking on Water compassionately ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, terminal illness, lgbt, family problems, couples, tragic love, dysfunctional family, death in the family, youth, love and romance, introspection, addiction ...
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In the small Central California town where they grew up, two estranged gay brothers struggle to reconnect after the recent death of their father.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, gay interest, coming out, death of father, gay slur, gay sex, gay brother, gay relationship, outdoor sex, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, family relations, childhood, lgbtq, bereavement, bittersweet, resentment, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the one-year anniversary of the death of John's brother, the handsome and charismatic Tony, who ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
lgbt, aids, loss of lover, gay interest, mourning, parents and children, love affair, family in crisis, breakup, terminal illness, midlife crisis, haunted by the past ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
gay, aids, estrangement, hospital, family relations, parents and children, friendship, family problems, small town, gays and lesbians, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arkansas, usa, san diego california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the ...
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, terminal illness, family problems, couples, gays and lesbians, human nature, life is a bitch, gender, euthanasia, aids, unfulfillment, couple relations ...
Place:
new york, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
death, introspection, self discovery, family problems, parents and children, parent child relationship, dealing with death, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, parents and children, downfall, life is a bitch, family in crisis, family life, family problems, mental retardation, suicide, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
1910s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, coming out, family problems, haunted by the past, introspection, hopes, aging, bittersweet, death in the family, gender, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
One summer morning, 12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene wake at dawn to pick peas and perhaps shoot a wild duck on their family's Montana farm. In a nearby pasture, Arnold's gun fires accidentally. His brother ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
farm, coming of age, youth, boy, hunting, grief, depression, death of brother, guilt, family relations, dysfunctional family, death in the family ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, entertaining
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
cheerleader, family problems, ambition, follow your dream, family relations, prodigy, hopes, youth, athlete's life, desire for fame, siblings relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style:
realistic, touching, disturbing, bleak, serious
Plot:
gay, prostitute, male prostitute, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, life is a bitch, misfit, drug abuse, youth, social misfits, urban ghetto ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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, family problems, drug abuse, parents and children, doctors and patients, mental institution, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, family relations, power relations, addiction ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
death in the family, hopes, introspection, last wish, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, siblings relations, brother brother relationship, journey, river, nature ...
Time:
21st century
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about him. Gradually, as it becomes clear that there are many holes in their recollections about Cory, they ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family problems, drug abuse, death in the family, dysfunctional family, estrangement, social relations, hopes, life is a bitch, introspection, family in crisis, father daughter relationship, overdose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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, uplifting ...
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, family problems, estrangement, hopes, aging, dysfunctional family, love, african american, women, asthma, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
adult virgin, introspection, social decay, daydreamer, society, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, life is a bitch, small town, contamination, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, dysfunctional family, gain trust, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, bittersweet, coming of age, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, hopes, family relations, estrangement, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, family secret, car accident, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, youth, car accident, death of wife, accidental death, grief, love, society, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The movie follows Joe (Dallesandro), a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, surreal, controversial, campy ...
Plot:
welfare, pregnancy, masturbation, male nudity, male prostitute, drug addict, drugs, infidelity, gay, exploitation, art, coming of age ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
AN ORDINARY FAMILY is a humorous drama about one family, two brothers and a really big problem. Thomas Biederman is blindsided when his estranged brother, Seth, shows up unannounced to the annual family vacation… with his boyfriend.
Style:
humorous, emotional, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
gay, family relations, estrangement, family problems, family gatherings, gender, society, coming out, family vacation, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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21%
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