Movies like Birds of America
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Birds of America (2008)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny, offbeat
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, parents and children, couples, vengeance, family problems, estrangement, family gatherings, family life, teenage life, introspection, lifestyle, couple relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, hunting, sex crime, single parent, family in crisis, siblings relations, eccentric family, sex, dog, money ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Birds of America
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, couples, husband wife relationship and family life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Birds of America: Strange Relations (2001), Igby Goes Down (2002), The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008), Two Weeks (2006), Thumbsucker (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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semi serious, emotional, touching, humorous, realistic
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adoption, terminal illness, self discovery, uncover truth, introspection, hopes, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, working class, family life, transplant ...
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new york, usa, europe, england, liverpool
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
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A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
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depressing, cynical, humorous, thought provoking, talky ...
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teens, teen drama
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mental illness, coming of age, dysfunctional family, addiction, depression, existentialism, dark humor, youth, teenage life, eccentric family, character study, eccentricity ...
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21st century
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california, chicago illinois, new jersey, washington d.c., connecticut ...
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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:
humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
homecoming, hopes, couples, dysfunctional family, family problems, family life, eccentric family, couple relations, family relations, estrangement, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
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27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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introspection, eccentric family, family life, estrangement, family problems, single parent, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, dying, terminal illness ...
Place:
usa, north carolina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
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emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, youth, addiction, teenager, depression, psychologist, self discovery, lifestyle, teenage life, drugs, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, new york, manhattan new york city
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26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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 ...
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coming of age, friendship, parents and children, social relations, americana, social differences, love and romance, save the day, youth, working class, father son relationship, family relations ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
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25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
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realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, family life, siblings relations, couple relations, human nature, youth, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, phoenix arizona
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
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realistic, semi serious, psychological, humorous, offbeat ...
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genius, dysfunctional family, family relations, prodigy, couples, family problems, couple relations, youth, lifestyle, society, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
21st century
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24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.
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sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, cheating, dysfunctional family, small town, adultery, thanksgiving, family relations, self destructing, betrayal, mistrust, family life ...
Place:
connecticut, usa
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23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, ...
Style:
humorous, emotional, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, art, small town, eccentricity, painting, jealousy, love and romance, eccentric family, meet the parents, newlyweds, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago illinois, usa, southern usa
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23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new ...
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humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
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midlife crisis, dog, single parent, writers, introspection, couple relations, family life, parents and children, couples, family relations, family problems, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
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realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
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dysfunctional family, family life, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, youth, single parent, love and romance, parents and children, child as adult, midlife crisis ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, clever, offbeat
Plot:
mathematics, coming of age, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, parents and children, teenage love, family in crisis, youth, society, estrangement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, budapest, hungary, cleveland ohio
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
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talky, cynical, depressing, stylized, melancholic ...
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dysfunctional family, wedding, nude, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, secrets, greed, character study, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, long island, vermont, harvard university
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22%
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.
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realistic, emotional, touching, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot:
youth, dysfunctional family, unlikely criminals, young heroes, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, estrangement, family problems, heist, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
Style:
touching, sexy, ironic, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
christmas, family relations, eccentric family, character study, introspection, siblings relations, writers, disorder, adolescence vs adulthood, couple relations, friendship, female friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois
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22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When an uncle is charged with murder, the event reverberates throughout a poor Arkansas family, including a struggling musician and his wife, her mother, her sister, and his father.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, psychological
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father son relationship, homecoming, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, jealousy, family gatherings, family problems, murder, destiny, parents and children ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Failing to make it on his own, 27-year-old Jim moves back in with his parents and deals with crippling family obligations.
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touching, emotional, stylized, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, coma, single parent, homecoming, alienation, introspection, writers, family problems, couple relations, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
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indiana, new jersey, usa, new orleans, texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
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touching, emotional, melancholic, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, estrangement, parents and children, eccentric family, family life, siblings relations, dealing with death, death, depression ...
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90s
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
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21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities.
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sexy, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Audience:
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infidelity, friendship, sex, looking for sex, singleness, sexual relations, love affair, dishonesty, womanizer, couples, introspection, love and romance ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Norway
Duration: 109 min.
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Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
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usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
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Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A veterinarian is called to examine a woman who thinks she is a dog.
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humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
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mental illness, dysfunctional family, family problems, couples, family relations, misfit, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, disorder, suburban life, suburbs ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, offbeat
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girls' night
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family relations, mental illness, family problems, family life, homecoming, parents and children, siblings relations, daydreamer, aging, elderly, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
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usa, california, pittsburgh
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