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Happy Here and Now (2002)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When an unhappy young woman disappears, her worried sister desperately searches the internet for a clue to her missing sibling's whereabouts.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, offbeat, neo noir, realistic, contemplative, stylized ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, woman in danger, amateur detective, riddles and clues, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, dishonesty, rivalry, voyeurism, blues, danger, computers and web, firefighter, computer, fire, disappearance, nightclub, brother sister relationship, woman, widow, ex cia agent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, radio station, exterminator ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new orleans, usa
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Most similar movies to Happy Here and Now
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, investigation, deadly and family relations mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Happy Here and Now: The Girl in the Park (2007), Purpose (2002), Waking Madison (2010), Small World (2010), My Gal Sunday (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
missing person, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, loss of child, obsession, haunted by the past, loss of daughter, social misfits, isolation, family relations, misfit, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A software developer becomes a billionaire and is distracted by fame, greed and power, then must save his invention and company from a hostile takeover.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
relationship vs career, rivalry, redemption, rise to the top, materialism, infidelity, lifestyle, ambition, business, company, financier, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, mental disorder, psychiatrist, family relations, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, memory loss, investigation, haunted by the past, flashback, family relations, society, family life, amateur detective, friendship, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It was love at first sight for beautiful young lawyer Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien-Parker (Rachel Blanchard) and Henry Parker (Cameron Mathison), retiring White House Secretary of State, when Sunday's dad Danny (Jack Wagner), ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, rescue, danger, rivalry, fighting crime, uncover truth, murder, confined, hitman, couple relations, race against time, blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
L.A. private detective is hired to investigate the disappearance of an alluring woman's brother. Surrounded by double-crossing deals and dangerous relation, Rybeck will have to plunge headfirst into his deadliest case ever.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
danger, investigation, chase, escapades, private investigator, die hard, infidelity, dishonesty, deception, gunfight, conspiracy, sadistic psychopath ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
24%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two brothers are forced to confront a terrible crime that was hidden in their past.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, rough, serious, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, false accusation, haunted by the past, murder, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal, injustice, life is a bitch, family relations, dedicated lawyer, clergy ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A brilliant story with an unexpected twist. A father uses the serial number on a hand gun in an attempt to track down his daughter's killer. The truth he uncovers is an unsettling reminder of the dangers of keeping handguns. Stars the legendary ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, haunted by the past, escapades, on the road, loss of daughter, world war two veteran, violent content, chases and races, dealing with death, obsessive quest, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Secrets, murders and lies... all in the name of family. In the middle of nowhere sits the Armadillo Café.The once popular, but now desolate, café is run by a strange family led a troubled, booze-addled mother (Betty Buckley) and a disturbed family ...
Style:
tense, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mind game, psychopath, family problems, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, family relations, missing person, woman in danger, danger, mysterious character, diner, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A law student is seduced by a beautiful woman he doesn't know, and after a one night stand with her, his roommate warns him to be careful because he suspects she may have other motives. Years later, she returns and hires him as her lawyer to ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, lawyer, couples, power relations, haunted by the past, college, rivalry, orphan, protagonist as suspect, witnessing a crime, dangerous attraction, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A mother's dementia reignites a past of crime and lust, forcing her daughter to make difficult decisions.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
aging, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mentally unstable, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, love affair, love and romance, elderly, family drama, dementia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
125
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a smoke-filled dive in Buffalo, NY, David Marx tells us his tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder - leading him to an uncertain fate "underneath Niagara Falls." David tells us how his beautiful redheaded ex-girlfriend, Jennifer ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
missing person, femme fatale, amateur detective, murder, ransom demand, uncover truth, investigation, betrayal, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rivalry, friends, buddies, criminal's revenge, urban ghetto life, society, dishonesty, cons and scams, black, african american, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
21%
249
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A silent film about Louis Armstrong as a young boy and how he acquired his first cornet.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
follow your dream, musician's life, prodigy, self discovery, social relations, small town, jazz, hopes, artists and showbiz, music, rivalry, society ...
Time:
1900s
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she ...
Style:
independent film, suspense, neo noir, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
widow, drifter, murder, mountain, collision, underdog, small town, intrigue, isolation, haunted by the past, woman in danger, confined ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles, Dr. Sarah Hathaway hired private eyes trying to find her missing son, the painter Thomas, who ran away from their home ten years ago after a quarrel with her. She finds a clue in a catalog of a panting exhibition in San Petersburg ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
missing person, amateur detective, investigation, mind game, uncover truth, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, private detective, obsessive quest, missing child, riddles and clues ...
Place:
usa, russia, los angeles, st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
woman in danger, prostitute, priest, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, society, clergy, illegal prostitution, sin, catholic priest, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, weapons, coming of age, life turned upside down, on the road, down on your luck, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawyer named Chollet, a friend of her husband who generously helps her to clear the debts she has ...
Style:
realistic, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
dishonesty, missing person, twists and turns, couples, friends, law enforcement, femme fatale, infidelity, friendship, manipulation, police, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappearance.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
missing person, lovers, uncover truth, riddles and clues, dangerous attraction, mental institution, danger, life is a bitch, photojournalist, mentally unstable, sanity, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their ...
Style:
mind bending, serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful ...
Plot:
missing person, missing son, survival, grief, family relations, kidnapping, college, teenage life, siblings relations, school, private detective, investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
maine, colorado, usa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel, where a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) and a corrupter of innocence battle over the fate ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
culture clash, society, prostitute, rivalry, nihilism, sexuality, seduction, brothel, repression, forbidden love, fall in love, masochism ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Innocent, sexy Allyson leaves her boyfriend Peter to go to acting classes in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles she rents a room in an apartment building from the grumpy Mr. Merry next to the resident working girl, Bridget. During the day Allyson struggles ...
Style:
sexy, tense, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
bdsm, sexual perversion, innocence, dominatrix, friendship, fetish, lgbt, voyeurism, prostitute, woman in danger, small town life, small town ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days working his dead-end job and figuring out his complex feelings for his girlfriend ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
sexual relations, couple relations, introspection, single parent, family relations, couples, parents and children, mother son relationship, existentialism, sexual content, nudity, cause and meaning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
This off-beat drama about man's search for meaning amidst the ache of despair chronicles Finn, an introspective English teacher entering a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy, as he sets afoot selling encyclopedias to the town locals.
Style:
serious, contemplative, atmospheric, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, hopes, haunted by the past, estrangement, single parent, small town life, profanity, cause and meaning, family business, midlife crisis, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new hampshire
Similarity:
19%
608
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly physically and mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands ...
Style:
tense, mind bending, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
stepmother, girl, family relations, mistaken identity, hidden identity, betrayal, danger, switching roles, dishonesty, disorder, power relations, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 50s
Similarity:
19%
81
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A reporter doing a story on taxidermy discovers an odd older couple that he becomes convinced are ex-Nazi's. The chief item leading to this belief is an odd puppet theater the couple operate in their basement that re-creates the Nazi era using ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, mind bending, scary, tense ...
Plot:
third reich, taxidermist, taxidermy, old woman, old man, atrocity, juvenile delinquent, farm, danger, mummy, journalism, on the run ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, europe, new england, germany
Similarity:
19%
143
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 184 min.
Story:
From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This ground-breaking stage production, directed by ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
tragic hero, rivalry, haunted by the past, vengeance, ghost, murder, royal family, dishonesty, state affairs, betrayal, parents and children, shakespeare ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
19%
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