Movies like Inside Out 1986
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Inside Out (1986)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
Style:
humorous, realistic, gloomy, semi serious
Plot:
gambling, prostitute, agoraphobia, addiction, life is a bitch, self discovery, bookies, vengeance, betrayal, best friend, delivery, gambling debt, business partner, profanity, telephone, telephone call
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, life is a bitch, self discovery, family relations, dishonesty and profanity mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Inside Out: Maze (2000), Instant Karma (1990), Lay the Favorite (2012), Saint John of Las Vegas (2009), Money Kings (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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885
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnancy, introspection, love and romance, lifestyle, moral dilemma, self discovery, friends, family relations, couples, fall in love, love affair, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, africa, usa
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95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The writer of a bad TV series begins to rethink his life when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful actress.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
car accident, surrealism, dating, misunderstanding, screenwriter, hollywood, celebrity, nude, strong sexual content, showbiz, love and romance, introspection ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere
Plot:
gambling, bet, prodigy, bookies, unlikely partners, career change, cons and scams, partners, dishonesty, gambler, mathematics, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, road movie, offbeat
Plot:
gambling, self discovery, on the road, going straight, hopes, starting over, love and romance, life is a bitch, escapades, dishonesty, promotion, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
friendship, mental illness, amusement park, misfit, self discovery, best friends, social misfits, betrayal, buddies, life is a bitch, missing person, down on your luck ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Movies similar to Indecent Proposal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, bookies, gangsters, loser, bet, life is a bitch, dishonesty, down on your luck, disorder, moral dilemma, unlikely criminals, unlikely partners ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
470
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Dukes,a Doo Wop group, were on top of the world at 17, now are struggling for survival in 2008. Their manager is desperately trying to get them work but is met with failure at every turn. Finally pushed to the extreme , they pull a heist only a ...
Style:
witty, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
Plot:
unlikely criminals, self discovery, heist, life is a bitch, gambling, down on your luck, music band, singer, fight
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
331
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
Style:
talky, semi serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
marriage, mental disorder, suburban life, pregnancy, relationship vs career, suburbs, midlife crisis, breakup, dysfunctional family, couple relations, infidelity, human nature ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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811
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ex-con Neal Skinner (Pierce Brosnan) seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens (Tom Skerritt) for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
heist, vengeance, criminal's revenge, injustice, vigilantism, law enforcement, rivalry, going straight, criminal heroes, master criminal, dishonesty, frame up ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style:
melancholic, romantic, sweet, intense, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, fall in love, love story, happy ending, friendship, unlikely friendships, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, love ...
Time:
1940s, 70s
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, new york, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Films like Poetic Justice
420
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couples, self discovery, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, midlife crisis, terminal illness, doctor, exploitation, wooing, family relations, mysterious character, immigrants ...
Time:
80s
Place:
portugal, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Unlucky in love, strangled at work, and tormented at home, Joel Slater is desperately searching for a way to juggle his life. But sometimes, the secret to happiness begins with letting go.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot:
introspection, love and romance, starting over, therapy, love triangle, industry, depression, dream, secret, pets
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
introspection, fall in love, family relations, brother brother relationship, american abroad, nightclub, self discovery, depression, lgbt, interracial relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, usa, asia, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling ...
Style:
talky, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
youth, bookies, gangsters, gambling, parents and children, custody, couples, opposites attract, love and romance, dishonesty, unlikely partners, mischievous children ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. When she finally captures his interest, she lies and tells him she's 16. But what will Michael do when he discovers the truth?
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
age difference, youth, innocence lost, musician's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, switching roles, self discovery, rock, fall in love, teenage life, pretense ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, emotional, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, self discovery, lifestyle, fish out of water, life turned upside down, looking for love, misfit, disorder, daydreamer, singleness, love triangle, unrequited love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
124
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Steve Moore is sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An abusive and often intoxicated man, John rules the household, and though his attacks on Steve result in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, humorous
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, troubled youth, on the run, downfall, dysfunctional family, teenage life, estrangement, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, youth, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Story:
A young hooker must find the money to send her roommate to Tibet in order to fulfill his dreams. She discovers plans for an illegal steroid deal going down between her pimp and a coke addict. Her and the girls, a new male friend, and her ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
heist, prostitute, teenage life, disorder, dishonesty, nothing goes right, love and romance, drug dealing, dominatrix, love, hidden identity, drug bust ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.
Style:
road movie, gothic, sentimental, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
goth, gay, music band, self discovery, friendship, on the road, gay lead character, on the run, artists and showbiz, betrayal, misfit, lifestyle ...
Place:
usa, ohio, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After four years in prison, Bobby is released into a world he no longer recognizes. His exgirlfriend Penny is abusing drugs. Their daughter is in foster care. Bobby's sister is in the process of rebuilding her life after a bad relationship.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological
Plot:
love, convict, couples, hopes, vengeance, prostitute, starting over, destiny, infidelity, addiction, drug abuse, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Films like Leaving Las Vegas
688
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since "Vertigo" is a middle-aged, moderately successful actress. Oliver/Matthew is either a homeless man or a ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, thought provoking, gloomy ...
Plot:
diner, self discovery, life is a bitch, love and romance, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, society, unfulfillment, couple relations, estrangement, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot:
age-gap relationship, chorus girl, gambling, addiction, hotel, fall in love, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, ambition, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
las vegas, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and her father.
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parents and children, twentysomething life, love affair, sexual relations, strong sexual content, infidelity, starting over, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, coming of age, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A harrowing journey down the dark spiral of drug addiction. As Stephen Jameson's carefully constructed life slowly falls apart, his belief system is shattered when he discovers that he's no longer the functioning addict that he once was.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, atmospheric
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, drug addict, pills, couples, society, introspection, drug addiction, drug use, drug overdose, drugs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his attractive corporate counterpart. Based on Max Barry's novel.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, romantic ...
Plot:
boss and employee, ambition, workplace, power relations, workplace situations, dishonesty, betrayal, inventions and discoveries, advertising agency, fall in love, coming of age, advertising ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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731
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being severly injured in a horse-riding accident,the family patriarch Bertram lies in a hospital bed plotting revenge against Mel, the four legged "enemy" he blames for putting him there. So when his eldest daughter Kate comes to ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever, offbeat
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, riding accident, family problems, vengeance, family in crisis, pregnancy, family life, homecoming, hospital, parents and children, horse ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A between-the-sheets peek at Black Love and Sexuality
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
couples, teenage life, sexual relations, love and romance, youth, society, lifestyle, twentysomething life, city life, teenage love, battle of the sexes, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, gloomy, emotional
Plot:
drug addiction, heroin, sibling relationship, family relations, family life, addiction, drug abuse, siblings relations, unemployment, against the odds, hopes, rehabilitation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrants, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
Style:
sad, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
sex, hospital, bittersweet, redemption, unfulfillment, prostitute, youth, social misfits, drug dealing, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, going straight ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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