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Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot (2007)
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Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
Style: tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, independent film, offbeat
Plot: alcoholic, dyslexia, misfit, social misfits, lifestyle, love and romance, disorder, goofy hero, twentysomething life, stoner, control, dark humor, support group, profanity, couples, sexual content, school, prostitute, loneliness, fishing, sex scene, boat, masturbation, female masturbation, comedian ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan, new york city

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about love and romance, couples, lifestyle, disorder, misfit, friends and family relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot: Spooner (2009), Just Before I Go (2014), The Ape (2005), Frownland (2007), 2 B Perfectly Honest (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Spooner (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Facing eviction from his parent's home on his 30th birthday, a socially awkward guy meets the girl of his dreams and creates his own rules for growing up.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, fall in love, boy meets girl, family relations, couples, workplace, love and romance, lifestyle, race against time, boss and employee, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, southern california
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Just Before I Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for ...
Style: emotional, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: suicide attempt, gay, loneliness, midlife crisis, closeted homosexual, suicide, relationships, guilt, brutality, family relations, redemption, justice ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, massachusetts
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The Ape (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young writer, nearing a mental breakdown caused by his family and boss, moves into an apartment occupied by a walking, talking, foul-mouthed ape in a Hawaiian shirt and Converse High Tops.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: unlikely couple, mentally unstable, fall in love, love and romance, midlife crisis, lifestyle, couples, dark humor, nothing goes right, writer's life, family life, ape ...
Place: usa, new york
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31%
Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, non-linear ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, looking for love, lifestyle, society, misfit, social differences, fall in love, disorder, buddies, love and romance, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Frownland (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A rotten egg lobbed with spazmo aim at the spotless surface of the silver screen, FROWNLAND centers on social misfit and self-labeled "troll from under the bridge" Keith Sontag (Dore Mann). When he's not trying to sell coupons ...
Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: friends, buddies, misfit, society, lifestyle, fall in love, social misfits, love and romance, suburbs, city life, frustration, insecurity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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27%
2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous
Plot: friends, friendship, partner, lifestyle, love and romance, odd couple, self discovery, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Trouble with Bliss (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall) is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and the premature death of ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, thirtysomething life, dull life, couples, disorder, coming of age, unfulfillment, lifestyle, life turned upside down, family relations, unlikely couple, age difference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
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25%
The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story: Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, offbeat
Plot: lifestyle, social differences, farce, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations, misfit, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, fish out of water, celebrity culture, eccentric family ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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25%
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You Wont Miss Me (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Style: mumblecore, psychological, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: alienation, misfit, introspection, mentally unstable, social misfits, unfulfillment, friendship, society, self discovery, love and romance, urban, looking for love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Chance (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 'Chance' is a black comedy about how hard it is to find "the one". Mostly told from the point-of-view of a young, sexually aggressive woman, named Chance, whom according to her: "we're all out there looking for true ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couples, wooing, mother daughter relationship, women, relationships, gays and lesbians, love and romance, twentysomething life, singleness, family relations ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Dinner at Eight (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A wry, insightful comedy of manners in which somewhat dizzy society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat while remaining oblivious to her husband's health and financial problems as well as her ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: couple relations, nothing goes right, dishonesty, love and romance, rivalry, intrigue, couples, disorder, bad attitude, dinner party, high society, greed ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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22%
Slaves of New York (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Style: ironic, sentimental, humorous, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: adaptation, artist, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, society, bittersweet, ambition, love, loneliness, art, fashion ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Bark! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A veterinarian is called to examine a woman who thinks she is a dog.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, couples, family problems, family relations, misfit, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, disorder, suburban life, suburbs ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Tenure (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: college, workplace intrigue, teachers and students, workplace, battle of the sexes, disorder, buddies, rivalry, teenager, teacher, business, fake dating ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, yale university
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Last Day of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss...
Style: humorous, contemplative, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: kidnapping, obnoxious boss, vengeful fired employee, social misfits, mentally unstable, restaurant, friends, misfit, friendship, introspection, disorder, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Confessions of a Womanizer (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ritchie is the epitome of everything wrong with modern man: a pompous, foul-mouthed idiot, driven only to get the latest girl of the week Something changes after his first real relationship that includes Ritchie's two favorite things: frequent ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: womanizer, friendship, couples, prostitute, sexual relations, fall in love, society, disorder, best friend, profanity, love and romance, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Details (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, lifestyle, life turned upside down, family problems, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, under the surface, disorder, couples, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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21%
 7.0
 1K
Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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LOL (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
Style: mumblecore, talky, humorous, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: looking for love, lifestyle, introspection, youth, friendship, computers and web, love and romance, couple relations, human nature, misfit, social network, human relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Here and There (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, clever, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, life is a bitch, lifestyle, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
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20%
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The Sublet (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: WALTER is lonely. He is 71 and has no friends. He lives in a small apartment in Upper West Side in Manhattan and every morning he goes through the same monotonous routine: pills, fiber, canned food, cleaning, TV and the book with all his expenses. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: lifestyle, misfit, life turned upside down, dull life, disorder, social misfits, money, goth, hitman, unlikely partners, friendship, murder
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.1
 17K
Trees Lounge (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with ...
Style: independent film, cult classic, grim, talky, dark comedy ...
Plot: drinking, alcoholic, alcoholism, drug addiction, addiction, drunk, small town, self discovery, coming of age, alcohol abuse, older man younger woman relationship, loner ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.6
 5K
Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, family life, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time: year 2009
Place: usa, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Small Apartments (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, spooky, dark ...
Plot: murder, nothing goes right, misfit, disorder, dark humor, goofy hero, social misfits, lgbt, brother brother relationship, accidental death, brain tumor, tumor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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19%
 4.7
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1999 (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The century is coming to an end, and New York City is freaking out. "1999" takes place at a New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. As a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to ...
Style: neurotic, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: new year's eve, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, love and romance, gays and lesbians, youth, lifestyle, misfit partners, young lovers, artists and showbiz, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Finding Amanda (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, hilarious ...
Plot: niece, rehabilitation, prostitution, gambling, couples, redemption, couple relations, love and romance, obsessive quest, rescue, no bra, uncle niece relationship ...
Time: year 2008
Place: usa, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
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Sunset Strip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at Whisky a Go-Go; he lives in a canyon and plays impromptu duets with a mysterious guitarist he ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, realistic, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: hollywood, musician, desire for fame, ambition, rising to stardom, music band, lifestyle, love triangle, nightlife, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, actor's life ...
Time: 70s, y2k, year 1972
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 3.7
 163
Santorini Blue (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An act of betrayal throws a young couple's marriage into jeopardy in this romantic drama featuring Richard Belzer and Ice-T.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot: couples, betrayal, love and romance, dishonesty, infidelity, greek island, affair, forgiveness, temptation, island life, law and order, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: lifestyle, love and romance, couples, best friend, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, actor's life, singleness, down on your luck, friends, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
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19%
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