Movies like Unstrung Heroes
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Unstrung Heroes (1995)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd Weiser
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, light, atmospheric, thought provoking, enigmatic, depressing, heartbreaking, melancholic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, coming of age, jewish, youth, mental illness, terminal illness, cancer, insanity, eccentricity, catastrophe, twists and turns, children, loneliness, life, schizophrenia, depression, death, crazy, beautiful scenery, hospital, gunfight, fantasy world, destiny, corruption, runaway ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962, 1960s
Place:
los angeles
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Most similar movies to Unstrung Heroes
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, touching and melancholic films with plots about dialogue, mentor, storytelling, catastrophe, runaway, culture clash and family relations mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Unstrung Heroes: Men Don't Leave (1990), God Said, 'Ha!' (1998), Housekeeping (1987), Lost in Yonkers (1993), Crooklyn (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, feel good, thought provoking ...
Plot:
depression, bittersweet, widow, family relations, musician, homeless, guilt, parenthood, redemption, dysfunctional family, destiny, hospital ...
Time:
80s
Place:
baltimore, usa
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style:
talky, touching, humorous, witty, cerebral ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dark humor, cancer, obsession, parenthood, dysfunctional family, depression, redemption, relationships, mentor, existentialism, life, honest ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, tokyo, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style:
sad, realistic, atmospheric, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, coming of age, suicide, orphan, self discovery, friendship, bdsm, eccentricity, crime gone awry, childhood, moral ambiguity, complex characters ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sexy, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, grandmother, aunt, race issues, childhood, redemption, violent, corruption, mentor, crime gone awry, vengeance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, stylized, light ...
Plot:
coming of age, parenthood, dysfunctional family, poverty, family relations, child's point of view, parents and children, black people, couple relations, single parent, family problems, school ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, tokyo, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, feel good, uplifting ...
Plot:
father son relationship, aging, doctors, hospital, family bonds, parents and children, hopes, family life, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, redemption, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, san francisco, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, feel good, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, children, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, redemption, hospital, single father, betrayal, farce, monster, child abduction, middle school ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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:
humorous, allegory, gloomy, affectionate, visually appealing ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, working class, nude, male nudity, australian, satire, suspense, car, cathartic, twists and turns, parenthood, assassination ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, erotic, poignant, visually appealing ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, bittersweet, family gatherings, cancer, depression, hospital, unlikely friendships, fantasy world, existentialism, mental illness, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
malibu california, new jersey, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi pins all her hopes on winning the local beauty pageant.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, talky, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, small town, underdog, contests and competitions, love and romance, human nature, youth, family problems, couples, cons and scams, looking for love, parents and children ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mississippi, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Movies like The Way Way Back
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style:
talky, realistic, sentimental, touching, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
divorce, friendship, bittersweet, desert island, parenthood, runaway, character study, vacation, love, multiple storylines, life, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
Style:
feel good, touching, unusual plot structure, poignant, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
vengeance, adaptation, catastrophe, hospital, brutality, police investigation, cancer, coming of age, irish, parenthood, death, college ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, light, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, direction and purpose, father son relationship, justice, tragedy, dysfunctional family, redemption, happy ending, midlife crisis, actor's life, thirtysomething life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After two failed marriages a science fiction writer decides that coming to terms with his mother will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with her.
Style:
talky, clever, humorous, witty, poignant ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, mother, mother son relationship, eccentricity, divorce, sibling rivalry, brother brother relationship, moral ambiguity, vengeance, violent, women, writers ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and ...
Style:
touching, emotional, absurd, reflective, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
culture clash, adoption, dysfunctional family, hospital, transsexual, brutality, brothers, hip hop, bdsm, cancer, adultery, catastrophe ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Movies like This Is Where I Leave You
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A dramatic comedy where a the relationship of a teacher and married principal goes much worse than that of their children.
Style:
realistic, satirical, bleak, allegory, visually appealing ...
Plot:
suburbs, dysfunctional family, nude, art, sexualized violence, addiction, first contact, stereotypes, poetry, bittersweet, superhero, melancholy ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style:
touching, humorous, emotional, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family gatherings, infidelity, homecoming, death of father, children, jewish, family relations, loneliness, life & death, last wish, eccentric family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sexy, light, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, coming of age, women, teen angst, mother, love, teenager, bittersweet, small town, friendship, nude, interracial romance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of ...
Style:
humorous, intense, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
showbiz, comedian, ambition, actor's life, desire for fame, aging, family life, talent agent, rise and fall, rise to the top, loneliness, mentor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who ...
Style:
feel good, touching, realistic, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, manly
Plot:
self discovery, biracial, family relations, betrayal, loneliness, secrets, justice, interracial relations, racism, family problems, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
arkansas, chicago illinois, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a comedic boil as the wildly dysfunctional Slocumbs squabble and fight their way to the funeral.
Style:
touching, humorous, light, intense, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, death, eccentric family, family problems, introspection, family in crisis, parents and children, self discovery, gangsters, african american, life & death, infidelity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style:
touching, humorous, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, addiction, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drugs, family problems ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
Style:
realistic, sincere, emotional, depressing, semi serious ...
Plot:
weatherman, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, introspection, relationship vs career, father son relationship, family problems, solitude, character study, hopes, father, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, emotional, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
bathhouse, father son relationship, tradition, parents and children, life philosophy, society, human nature, family relations, small town, disability, bittersweet, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, beijing china, tokyo, asia, tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.
Style:
touching, thought provoking, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Plot:
slacker, loneliness, midlife crisis, twists and turns, everyday life, naivete, loser, parents and children, character change, immature, existentialism, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Films like Stuck in Love.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, feel good, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
single father, adoption, redemption, hopes, teacher, time, life & death, identity, happy ending, first contact, fight scenes, hospital ...
Time:
80s, 19th century, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
virginia, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts his exploits and chance encounters while playing a minor role in the film 'The Killing Fields'. At the same time, he gives a background to the events occurring in ...
Style:
talky, humorous, heartbreaking, thought provoking, breathtaking ...
Plot:
distopia, culture clash, greed, art, transformation, adaptation, runaway, catastrophe, philosophy, artist, childhood, genocide ...
Place:
usa, new york, cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style:
feel good, touching, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, asthma, friendship, loneliness, on the road, starting over, human nature, self discovery, family problems, single parent, love and romance, mother ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa, south carolina, santa fe new mexico, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't ...
Style:
road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, native americans, self discovery, friendship, on the road, adolescence, life, escapades, obsessive quest, haunted by the past, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
idaho, india, arizona, phoenix arizona, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Style:
light, road movie, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, overprotective mother, salesman, mother son relationship, twists and turns, travel, family relations, single parent, parents and children, parent child relationship, protective parent, jewish ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, new jersey, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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