Movies and TV shows like Shameless
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Shameless (2011)
329K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.
Style:
sexy, emotional, offbeat, entertaining, biting, dark comedy, realistic, humorous, sensual, funny ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, gay teenager, bipolar disorder, gay, teenage life, family problems, siblings relations, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, drinking problem, dark humor, alcoholic father, parents and children, family relations, sex scene, teenage sex, alcoholic, poverty, lesbian love, poor family, homosexual, alcohol abuse, mental illness, gay relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
chicago, usa, idaho
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Most similar movies to Shameless
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, sitcom, realistic and semi serious films and TV series with plots about family relations, sex scene, coming of age, parents and children, gay, teenager and male nudity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Shameless: Skins (2011), Casual (2015), Skins (2007), Weeds (2005), Hung (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
6K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A wild ride through the lives of a group of high school friends stumbling through the mine field of adolescence... and stepping on most of the mines as they go.
Style:
sexy, sexual, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage sexuality, teenage sex, troubled teen, teen drug use, love and romance, teenager, high school, friendship, youth, teenage life, social relations, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, baltimore
Similarity:
100%
20K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad ...
Style:
humorous, emotional, realistic, sensual, erotic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, alcoholic father, family problems, white trash, working class, gay teenager, social misfits, alcohol abuse, gay, single father, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, northern england, manchester, europe
Similarity:
73%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
A dysfunctional family tries to help each other navigate the modern dating scene. Recent divorcee Tara and her bachelor brother coach each other through the crazy world of dating (on-line and off), while living under the same roof again for the ...
Style:
thought provoking, erotic, sensual, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
sexual relations, lesbian, mistress, mother daughter relationship, bachelor, family problems, teenager, workplace problem, cancer, relationship problems, money problems, nudity ...
Similarity:
100%
100K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Style:
sexy, captivating, cynical, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
youth, teenage life, high school, sexual relations, underage drinking, drug, friends, friendship, high school life, crush, looking for sex, party ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, canada
Similarity:
74%
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122K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan. The central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling cannabis to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Over the ...
Style:
humorous, sexy, sensual, witty, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
single mother, marijuana, dysfunctional family, drug dealing, drug dealer, dark humor, family life, single parent, eccentric family, smuggling, sexual activity, widow ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
83%
24K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ray Drecker's situation couldn't be much tougher. The former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach is divorced and struggling to provide for his kids when ...
Style:
sexual, humorous, erotic, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gigolo, housewife, hot and sexy, sexual relations, lifestyle change, middle aged, adolescence, male escort, male nudity, prostitution, family life, lifestyle ...
Time:
y2k, 21st century
Place:
michigan, detroit, usa
Similarity:
92%
393K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, coming of age, teenage sexuality, lgbt teen, youth, classmate, sex education, teenage life, couples, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.
Style:
sexy, erotic, witty, cynical, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
womanizer, lifestyle, dark humor, writer's life, writers, lust, addiction, sexual relations, female nudity, nudity, sex scene, alcoholism ...
Time:
y2k, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york, canada
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, ...
Style:
sexy, cynical, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
satire, greed, profanity, dark humor, single parent, father son relationship, african american, workplace situations, power relations, flirting, ethics, ambitious ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A family of small-time criminals try to go straight after the father is sent to prison.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, light
Plot:
crime family, single parent, petty criminal, juvenile delinquency, family relations, pretense, going straight, cons and scams, code, dishonesty, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
9K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Soap is an American sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 into 1981. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was ...
Style:
parody, sitcom, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
family relations, love affair, couples, family problems, infidelity, siblings relations, couple relations, eccentric family, butler, sex, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa, connecticut
Similarity:
100%
112K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.
Style:
exciting, witty, cynical, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural ability, youth, time travel, superhuman powers, superhero, supernatural power, teenage life, swearing, friends, danger, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, england, canada
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama created by Diablo Cody, which began airing on Showtime in 2009. The series follows the life of Tara, a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder.
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
mental illness, split personality, dissociative identity disorder, gay lead character, family drama, dysfunctional family, gay, self discovery, mental health, lgbt, family relations, jealousy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, kansas
Similarity:
86%
241K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone who tries to help ...
Style:
funny, dark comedy, sitcom, raunchy comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
sister sister relationship, female friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sexual humor, female protagonist, sexuality, dark humor, promiscuity, women, single woman, bisexual, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the ...
Style:
sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, gay, sexuality, roommate, homosexual, depression, gay relationship, lgbt, closeted homosexual, gay lead character, low self esteem, suicide attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, indiana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation of the world famous series "Shameless"
Style:
captivating, humorous, sincere, entertaining
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, family relations, rivalry, friendship, love, family problems, adaptation, love affair, male female relationship, ambition, happy ending, youth ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, sitcom ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, family life, coming of age, jewish family, family business, parents and children, teenage life, disorder, society, youth, self destructing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Parenthood is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Katims. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the same title, Parenthood tells of the Braverman clan which consists of an older couple, their four children and their families.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family drama, teenage pregnancy, autism, large family, parenthood, family life, responsibility, family relations, couple relations, marital problem, adolescence, social relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A contemporary take on a seemingly perfect Catholic family, whose lives take an unexpected turn when surprising truths are revealed. Instead of ruining their family, the honesty triggers a new, messier chapter where everyone stops pretending to be ...
Style:
sitcom, light, feel good, visually appealing, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
gay teenager, teenager, high school, lgbtq, gay, lgbt, family relations, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, lgbtqi ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a world-famous televangelist family with a history of deviance, greed and, yes, charitable work, all in the name of Jesus.
Style:
dark comedy, sitcom, funny, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
greed, religion, gay, wealth, family relations, religious fanaticism, cover-up, patriarch, parents and children, society, secrets, religious ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Outrageous Fortune is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, which ran from 12 July 2005 to 9 November 2010 on TV3. The series followed the lives of the career criminal West family after the matriarch, Cheryl, decided the family should go ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
lawyer, dysfunctional family, criminal, family life, going straight, convict, criminal heroes, right and wrong, doubts and hesitations, manipulation, porn, house arrest ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
new zealand, oceania
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as ...
Style:
captivating, surreal, sexual, dramatic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
funeral home, gay, dealing with death, hopes, dark humor, death, sibling relationship, depression, dysfunctional family, gays and lesbians, family drama, male male relationship ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, syria
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
youth, dysfunctional family, young heroes, life is a bitch, unlikely criminals, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, heist, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying sexual orientation form an after-school club a as a discrete way to share their feelings and experiences.
Style:
witty, sexual, semi serious, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, gay teenager, lgbtq, gay, closeted homosexual, gay interest, sexual orientation, gay relationship, lesbian, gay lead character, gay athlete, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
idaho, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
A pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as our heroine Veronica Sawyer deals with a very different but equally vicious group of Heathers. Based on the 1988 cult classic film.
Style:
ironic, dark, cynical, anthology, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
violence, dark humor, sociopath, high school, bullying, satire, irreverence, mean girl, suicide, adolescence, social misfits, teenager ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A dual coming-of-age comedy exploring the impact of internet porn and social media, Mrs. Fletcher follows empty nest divorcée Eve Fletcher — as she reinvents her life to find the happiness and sexual fulfillment that’s eluded her, and her ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, humorous, social, sitcom ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
midlife crisis, sexual fantasy, porn, older woman younger man relationship, single mother, coming of age, older woman younger man sex, female sexuality, social relations, youth, adaptation, relationships ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
6K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.
Style:
erotic, sensual, semi serious, emotional, cynical ...
Plot:
motherhood, single mother, parenthood, sex, young girl, family problems, society, new life, blended family, religious differences, poverty, class differences ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Victor is a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, saga, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, high school, lgbtq, gay lead character, closeted gay, gay teenager, homosexual, gay relationship, gay interest, closeted homosexual, homosexuality ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, humorous, queer cinema ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
first sexual experience, sexual attraction, high school student, sexuality, relationships, schoolboy, gay, sexual awakening, teenage sex, lgbtq, high school, masturbation ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.
Style:
ironic, cynical, dark comedy, twisted, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
beauty pageant, teenager, overweight, teenage girl, classmate classmate relationship, weight loss, eating disorder, high school, revenge, bullying, lawyer, fat girl ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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