Movies like The Skeleton Twins

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The Skeleton Twins (2014)
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The Skeleton Twins (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.
Style: depressing, melancholic, psychological, dark comedy, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic, indie film, stylized ...
Plot: estrangement, adultery, suicide attempt, siblings, depression, dysfunctional family, gay, lgbt, infidelity, siblings relations, suicide, mental illness, brother sister relationship, twins, loneliness, character study, gay brother, introspection, family problems, gay interest, scuba diving, mental disorder, parenthood, lgbtq, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: britain, usa, los angeles, new york, california
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, emotional and sentimental films with plots about family relations, couples, depression, dysfunctional family, love, love and romance and family problems mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Skeleton Twins: Nasty Baby (2015), The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), The Prince of Tides (1991), Beginners (2010), Shrink (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nasty Baby (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Nasty Baby centers around a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, interracial couple, gay couple, friendship, illegal immigrant, couples, couple relations, best friend, gender, society, love and romance, latinx lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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100%
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
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.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, melancholic, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, estrangement, eccentric family, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, dealing with death, bookstore, snow ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Prince of Tides (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
Style: psychological, touching, emotional, sad, therapeutic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, psychiatrist, psychiatry, love, haunted by the past, rape, sexual abuse, women, memory, suicide attempt, love story, transformation ...
Time: 90s
Place: south carolina, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.2
 95K
Beginners (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Style: touching, sad, sentimental, sincere, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, grief, homosexuality, gay father, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, self discovery, lgbt, dog, bittersweet, lgbtq ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 1950s, year 1978, 2000s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 6.6
 19K
Shrink (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
Style: realistic, psychological, depressing, emotional, serious ...
Plot: suicide, mental illness, therapist, psychiatrist, hollywood, character study, loneliness, life philosophy, widower, suicide attempt, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Playing by Heart (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.4
 223K
Garden State (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sweet, independent film, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: depression, self discovery, coming of age, funeral, melancholy, friendship, psychiatrist, cat, family relations, drug, dysfunctional family, small town ...
Time: year 2004, near future, medieval times, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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A Girl Thing (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 237 min.
Story: A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to one star per hour. Hour one deals with a woman not capable of having a relationship. Hour Two is ...
Style: psychological, sincere, talky, erotic, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, sexy woman, introspection, family problems, dishonesty, love and romance, mentally unstable, lgbtq, lgbt, lesbian sex, therapist, lesbian relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 2K
Dorian Blues (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out ...
Style: semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, coming of age, lgbtq, self discovery, teenage life, youth, friendship, introspection, parents and children, father son relationship ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, emotional, intense ...
Plot: suicide, mental institution, suicidal, coma, mental illness, psychiatrist, terminal illness, suicide attempt, female protagonist, depression, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.6
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50/50 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style: touching, sentimental, tragicomedy, depressing, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, friendship, chemotherapy, relationships, weed, meaning of life, doctor, patient, coming of age, best friend, life ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, iran, washington state, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
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The Reception (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The complex relationship between a wealthy French woman and her best friend a, gay black American, is thrown into turmoil when her estranged daughter comes to visit them with her new husband for the weekend in upstate New York. Through a series of ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot: wedding, family relations, family gatherings, homecoming, parents and children, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, couples, estrangement, family life, unfulfillment, gay african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.1
 811
Petunia (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of a family whose growth is stunted... a family that learns how to love themselves while loving each other (a little too much).
Style: semi serious, realistic, tense, captivating, touching ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, gay, family relations, family problems, eccentric family, siblings relations, disorder, dark humor, dishonesty, gender, parents and children, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style: romantic, touching, offbeat, depressing, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, bipolar disorder, love, family drama, depression, life philosophy, adaptation, supportive parent, male female friendship, father son relationship, happy ending, social misfits ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, peru, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting ...
Style: touching, independent film, sexy, witty, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian relationship, gender, lgbt, lesbian love, gay, biological father, infidelity, father son relationship, adultery, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, southern california, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Benny & Joon (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Style: touching, melancholic, sweet, feel good, compassionate ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, brother sister relationship, social misfits, love, love story, misfit, mechanic, disability, love and romance, mental health, dysfunctional family, schizophrenia ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, seattle, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.5
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The Hours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style: depressing, psychological, intellectual, touching, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, introspection, poet, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 90s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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39%
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The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, redemption, character study, family relations, childhood, parents and children, nursing, siblings relations, cheerleader ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style: touching, sentimental, independent film, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, depression, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, psychiatric ward, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, anxiety, suicidal, psychiatrist ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Lazy Eye (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Passions re-ignite and secrets revealed when a graphic designer reconnects with the great, lost love of his life for a weekend tryst at a house in the desert near Joshua Tree.
Style: lgbt cinema, humorous, sincere, light, psychological ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay couple, infidelity, gay subtext, unrequited love, lgbtq, lgbt, gay lead character, friendship, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, mojave desert
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Alex Strangelove (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex ...
Style: teen, humorous, psychological, lgbt cinema, crying ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lgbt, gay, homosexuality, gay interest, first gay sexual experience, sexual confusion, male homosexuality, gay lead character, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, high school, lgbtq, gay love ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.3
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Interiors (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, ...
Style: realistic, psychological, bleak, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: depression, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, mental illness, family relations, divorce, character study, psychology, family drama, parenthood, life philosophy, family gatherings ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style: realistic, talky, melancholic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, dishonesty, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Committed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is discouraged when she discovers that Carl already has a new girlfriend, the lovely Carmen. Familiarizing ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, independent film, melancholic, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: adultery, obsession, breakup, desert, obsessive quest, love triangle, ambition, self discovery, human nature, crumbling marriage, couples, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, austin texas, usa, el paso texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.3
 1K
Testosterone (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dean has been stumped for some time in his attempt to produce a follow-up to "I was a Teenage Speed Freak," his incredibly successful graphic novel. His fans expect great things from him and his editor, Louise, is hounding him. Instead of ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: gay, breakup, lgbt, obsession, obsessive quest, life turned upside down, gender, love and romance, dark humor, siblings relations, infidelity, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: buenos aires argentina, argentina, latin america, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.3
 251K
The Descendants (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, sad, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: infidelity, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, teenage daughter, dying mother, bittersweet, family relations, cheating wife, greed, parenthood, family drama, estate ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Crazy Kind of Love (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, independent film, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love, family relations, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children, siblings relations, parents separation, friendship, infidelity, sex scene, girl, free spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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