Movies like Manchester by the Sea
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Manchester by the Sea (2016)
310K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style:
sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional, touching, independent film, compassionate, realistic, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
family drama, sadness, loneliness, depression, loss, suicide attempt, death, nephew, grief, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, adoption, guardian, last will and testament, loss of brother, brother brother relationship, death of father, uncle, death of daughter, house fire, death of brother, relationships, funeral, loss of father, visceral ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
Keyword:
americana, life lessons, challenge
Most similar movies to Manchester by the Sea
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, emotional and sad films with plots about family relations, grief, depression, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, death and psychology mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Manchester by the Sea: Short Term 12 (2013), Ordinary People (1980), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Captain Fantastic (2016), Reign Over Me (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style:
sad, compassionate, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, depression, social worker, adolescence, teenager, suicide attempt, self mutilation, troubled teen, foster child, coming of age, mental illness, self harm ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, compassionate, sentimental, crying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, therapy, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, depression, grief, suicide, coming of age, father son relationship, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, middle east, houston texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style:
melancholic, touching, emotional, depressing, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, disability, self discovery, mental illness, small town, mentally challenged, responsibility, life philosophy, brothers, coming of age, family drama, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, 60s, 70s
Place:
iowa, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, sad, cerebral, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, home schooling, capitalism, family drama, survivalist, precocious child, parenthood, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, suicide, children, funeral ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 90s, near future, 21st century
Place:
washington state, nebraska, oregon, xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style:
touching, depressing, sincere, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
grief, friendship, 9/11, dealing with death, mental illness, friends, tragic event, loss of loved one, loss, alone, mental disorder, buddies ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
316K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style:
non-linear, bleak, sincere, emotional, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, redemption, desert, woman urinating, deaf girl, mexican border, society, guilt, parenthood, depression, tragic event, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
366K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Style:
melancholic, independent film, depressing, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, divorced parents, dysfunctional family, family drama, teenager, youth, domestic abuse, adolescence, divorce, brother sister relationship, stepsister stepsister relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 90s, near future, 2000s ...
Place:
texas, usa, ethiopia, houston texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, friendship, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
Style:
touching, sincere, independent film, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
workplace, adultery, small town, single mother, character study, childhood, introspection, love and romance, hopes, free spirited, parents and children, family secret ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Movies like Fight Club
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?
Style:
serious, touching, psychological, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
redemption, introspection, guilt, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, haunted by the past, boy, car accident, life is a bitch, loss of son, tragic event, depression, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
18K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, bleak, intellectual ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, bus, high school, life philosophy, redemption, character study, investigation, youth, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, teenage life, poem ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
90K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thought provoking, depressing, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
vacation, father daughter relationship, coming of age, depression, hotel, memory, teenage daughter, past, childhood memory, 11 year old girl, memories, bare chested male ...
Time:
90s
Place:
turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
811K
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, suspense, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, friendship, elderly, veteran, racism, prejudice, gunfight, widower, gangster, interracial relations, old man, vigilante ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa, michigan, italy, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time:
year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Movies like Thirteen
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Style:
depressing, touching, sincere, gloomy, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
addiction, heroin, grief, life is a bitch, love and romance, haunted by the past, loss of spouse, drug addiction, best friend, character study, childhood, starting over ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
touching, romantic, psychological, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, alienation, strong sexual content ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
133K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys ...
Style:
road movie, depressing, dark comedy, sad, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, parenthood, wedding, elderly, family life, existentialism, depression, life philosophy, great ending, workplace, philosophy ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, colorado, denver colorado, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Style:
touching, sincere, aesthetic, social, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
poverty, mother daughter relationship, social services, friendship, children, motel, summer, single mother, little girl, childhood, eviction, female friendship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
florida, nebraska, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
35K
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, psychological, heartbreaking, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
divorce, missing child, disappearance, dysfunctional family, search party, dysfunctional marriage, selfishness, anger, broken family, sex scene, parent child relationship, missing person ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2017, 2010s, 90s, year 2015
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Gifted
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Style:
touching, sad, crying, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
grief, loss of child, death in the family, marriage, estrangement, tragedy, support group, memory, redemption, family problems, death of child, death of son ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, bleak, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, human relationship, teen angst, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
314K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, depressing, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, life changing experience, true love, existentialism, life & death, suicide, philosophy, sadness, tragic event ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
319K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, bleak, touching, serious ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
wrestling, loneliness, aging, life is a bitch, fame, father daughter relationship, self destructing, professional wrestling, stripper, ambition, character study, father daughter estrangement ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, iran, bolivia, usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
192K
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style:
dark comedy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure, funny ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
experiment, teacher, friendship, drunkenness, group of friends, alcohol abuse, midlife crisis, drinking, teacher student relationship, marriage, dancing, existential loneliness ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, year 2011, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
copenhagen, denmark, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
Style:
psychological, emotional, talky, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
adultery, imaginary friend, dysfunctional family, character study, human nature, couple relations, jealous spouse, dishonesty, lifestyle, family problems, couples, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
39K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style:
heartbreaking, depressing, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
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Plot:
drug addiction, loneliness, depression, obsession, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, support group, character study, tragedy, mental illness, honest ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
111K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets in Chicago.
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, psychological, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
grief, death of wife, depression, self discovery, death, existentialism, father in law son in law relationship, car accident, destruction, widower, psychology, mental illness ...
Time:
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Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, teachers and students, alcoholic, life philosophy, good deed, disfigurement, death, boy, alcoholism, addiction ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style:
touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
depression, mental illness, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, family drama, psychology, mental disorder, solitude, adaptation, happy ending, family relations, losing-it hero ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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