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Bastard Brood (1996)
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Original name: Enfants de salaud
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have much in common. However, they all have the same father, a scammer named Julius.
Style:
mind bending, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy
Plot:
half brother half sister relationship, murder, family relations, serial killer, dark humor, love triangle, feminism, parents and children, love and romance, couples, opposites attract, sexual content, siblings relations, courtroom, cons and scams, violent content, assassin, singer, singing, father daughter relationship, feminist, mother daughter relationship, dismemberment, auto mechanic, blood ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, brussels, paris france, brussels belgium, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and witty films with plots about family relations, love and romance, couples, parents and children, family problems, dark humor and dysfunctional family mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Bastard Brood: Face the Music (1993), So Happy Together (2009), Family Resemblances (1996), Tomorrow's Another Day (2000), Next Door (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot:
power of love, singer, love triangle, friendship, breakup, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, friends, family relations, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, cynical, realistic, witty
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, siblings relations, family life, eccentric family, uninvited guest, interracial relations, couple relations, family gatherings, family problems, couples, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 90s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style:
talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, human nature, couple relations, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment, couples, friends, cellist, paranoia, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
74%
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894
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
Style:
slapstick, biting, cynical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
neighbor, feud, terror, professor, prank, dark humor, disorder, couples, family relations, contests and competitions, rivalry, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jane White's only ambition is to appear on a popular talk show.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, obsessive quest, family relations, mentally unstable, parents and children, female protagonist, transvestism, couples, media, mentally challenged, serial killer, love and romance ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The youngest son of a legendary Hollywood producer, a Robert Evans type, accepts a bribe from his father to document his death.
Style:
semi serious, cynical, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, eccentric family, family problems, lifestyle, love and romance, parents and children, hollywood, narcissism, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, corpse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tony is a homosexual law student who quits his studies. With a van and a handful of cash, he hits the road hoping to become a salesman. This, however, turns out to be harder than he expected.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
homosexual, lgbt, gay subtext, law student, male homosexuality, violent content, gender, buddies, youth, dishonesty, gays and lesbians, unlikely partners ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
60%
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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 ...
Style:
semi serious, stylized, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage love, dysfunctional family, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
profanity, love and romance, friendship, unlikely partners, introspection, farce, lifestyle, family life, couples, eccentric family, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
50%
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, humorous, witty, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, dark humor, couples, family problems, family relations, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ego clash, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, tokyo
Similarity:
49%
502
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
Style:
sexy, humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
gender, master and servant, battle of the sexes, love triangle, power relations, odd couple, love and romance, doctors and patients, couples, hospital, society, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.
Style:
cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
dark humor, friendship, redemption, love, artist, circus, law firm, murder, family problems, couples, false accusation, breakup ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
332
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sandrine and Alice are two sisters who, in their thirties, decide the time has come to attempt a reconciliation with their mother.
Style:
cynical, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, parents and children, unlikely criminals, estrangement, confined, obsessive quest, dark humor, separation, single mother, selfishness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A sinister tale of genius gone wrong, The Young Poisoner's Handbook chronicles a young man's descent into madness against the absurd backdrop of suburban English life. Hugh O'Conor plays Graham Young, a schoolboy from the London ...
Style:
dark comedy, disturbing, witty, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, murder, true crime, psychology, stepmother, killer, dysfunctional family, pub, death by poison, poison, mental institution, past ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 90s, 60s
Place:
london
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A dark comedy which follows two brothers who are in love with the same woman.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, mumblecore ...
Plot:
love triangle, estrangement, betrayal, love and romance, siblings relations, family relations, dark humor, brother vs brother, sibling rivalry, incest, love affair, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style:
semi serious, witty, touching, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estranged father is on his deathbed, so Sawa asks Hazuki and Koharu to visit him and take one last photo ...
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
dark humor, family relations, youth, parents and children, siblings relations, father, absent father, father son relationship, travel, family problems, family reunited, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain ...
Style:
dark comedy, contemplative, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
satire, dull life, family relations, dark humor, dealing with death, race against time, introspection, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, terminal illness, family life, doctor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, siblings relations, friendship, nothing goes right, uninvited guest, couples, disorder, love triangle, infidelity, midlife crisis, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
Four stories, all related to fatherhood, are presented: A father tries to stimulate his son by bringing him to his workplace with disastrous consequences. Richard Brunn and his wife, who run a design hotel, suffer a strained relationship as his ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, clever, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
group therapy, suicide attempt, family relations, family problems, human nature, parents and children, dark humor, disability, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, bittersweet, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
39%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, youth, parents and children, midlife crisis, child as adult ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two sibling doctors take on a young diabetic patient and both fall for the girl’s lovely mother, who tends bar at a local watering hole, testing their fraternal bonds and professional relationship.
Style:
realistic, sincere, semi serious, touching, exciting
Plot:
love triangle, family problems, power relations, doctors and patients, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, love and romance, mother daughter relationship, doctor, brother brother relationship, medicine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", set in rural New England.
Style:
humorous, talky, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, love and romance, estate, parents and children, accident, anton chekhov, summer, siblings relations, actress, director, chess, eagle ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
hospital, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, terminal illness, against the odds, life is a bitch, workplace, introspection, fall in love, family problems, dark humor ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Style:
cult classic, humorous, independent film, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot:
small town, radio, vigilantism, trucker, bigamy, truck driver, couples, family relations, social relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, media ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, tokyo, california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young merchant marine turns up in an English coastal town looking for a brother he barely knows. When his brother's wife rebukes him he takes up with the Beasley family. However, soon the mother and daughter are chasing and ending up in the ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
age difference, doomed love, elderly lovers, love and romance, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, dysfunctional family, orphan, couple relations, dangerous attraction, obsession, suburban life ...
Time:
year 1996, 50s, 1950s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, humorous, dark comedy
Plot:
domineering mother, social differences, love affair, family relations, couples, culture clash, fish out of water, homecoming, parents and children, misfit, society, feminism ...
Time:
50s
Place:
iceland, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two men jump out from behind some cacti and beat a man over the head with a rock. They then take the body to the dead man's hut, and sit with his body for the night while they talk, complain and dance. Later at the police station, two women ...
Style:
cynical, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
murder, police station, love triangle, betrayal, dark humor, corpse, widow, dealing with death, unlikely partners, couples, radio, baseball ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
35%
676
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, art house
Plot:
single parent, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, youth, love and romance, teenage love, parents and children, couples, summer, disorder, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
34%
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