Movies like Trust 1990
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Trust (1990)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
Style:
independent film, dark comedy, surreal, cult classic, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, black comedy ...
Plot:
age difference, love and romance, dysfunctional family, dark humor, coming of age, bittersweet, unwanted pregnancy, existentialism, redemption, factory, heart attack, time travel, women, drifter, atmosphere, troubled youth, young adult, young heroes, asexual, age-gap relationship, pregnancy, family relations, couples, self discovery, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, 80s, 20th century
Place:
long island, usa, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about dysfunctional family, family relations, storytelling, dark humor, dialogue, mentor and life philosophy mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Trust: Buffalo '66 (1998), The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Happiness (1998), Harold and Maude (1971), Surviving Desire (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Style:
black comedy, psychological, dark comedy, art house, depressing ...
Plot:
alienation, prison, kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, dysfunctional family, bowling, older man teenage girl relationship, relationships, dark humor, haunted by the past, gambling, blackmail ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
new york state, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...
Style:
independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, art house, talky ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
mechanic, ex convict, accidental death, redemption, friendship, greed, high school, drinking, literature, obsession, prison, depression ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, new york state, long island, usa, harvard university ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Style:
black comedy, controversial, cynical, depressing, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, rape, pedophilia, pedophile, dark humor, satire, therapist, depression, suburbs, unsettling, unhappiness, social satire ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is ...
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black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, feel good, inspirational ...
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teens, date night
Plot:
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Place:
california, san francisco, bay area, usa
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the two become lovers.
Style:
retro, art house, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
Style:
art house, erotic, humorous, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot:
amnesia, redemption, memory loss, identity, nun, caper, memory, sexual abuse, underworld, philosophy, couples, nosy ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, new york state
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
Style:
witty, melancholic, semi serious, black comedy, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, female protagonist, runaway, woman in danger, greed, crumbling marriage, family problems, self discovery, professional killer, marriage, professional, adultery ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Iris (Kati Outinen) has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother (Elina Salo) and stepfather (Esko Nikkari). One weekend, wearing ...
Style:
serious, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, harsh ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, dark comedy, parody, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot:
clown, murder, false accusation, murder mystery, rescue, addiction, drinking, nothing goes right, disorder, alcoholic, recovery, killer clown ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Similarity:
100%
40K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, comedy drama ...
Plot:
writers, multiple storylines, photograph, photography, smoking, dark humor, photographer, melancholy, friendship, redemption, summer, philosophy ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, year 1990
Place:
new york, america, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style:
black comedy, thought provoking, teen, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, age difference, graduation, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, teen angst, blues, best friend, high school student ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, los angeles
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, talky, witty, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, florida, maryland, pennsylvania, pittsburgh ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: France, Germany, Poland, Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
cult classic, philosophical, independent film, black comedy, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new jersey, usa, stockholm sweden, new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, twisted, biting ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, cult classic, dark comedy, talky, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, stylized, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
witty, humorous, talky, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, coming of age, father son relationship, infidelity, boy, adultery, marriage, drinking, cat, underage drinking, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 2005, 80s, 2000s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The feature film debut by artist Miranda July about a various comic situations and plots that intertwine. One story line is about a father who is ending his marriage and the other story is of a video artist (possibly autobiographical of Miranda ...
Style:
touching, disturbing, emotional, philosophical, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
22%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, witty ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
22%
948
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:
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Plot:
friends, misfit, buddies, society, fall in love, social misfits, love and romance, lifestyle, city life, suburbs, insecurity, mental breakdown ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, biting, erotic, sexual, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
louisiana, canada, los angeles, las vegas, palm springs california ...
Similarity:
21%
736
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, touching ...
Plot:
culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, family life, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
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:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Country: UK, Germany, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
london
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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