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Demolition (2015)
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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, psychological, philosophical, touching, emotional, road movie, thought provoking, enigmatic, depressing, bleak ...
Plot:
death of wife, grief, depression, death, existentialism, self discovery, psychology, father in law son in law relationship, car accident, destruction, widower, mental illness, friendship, catastrophe, gangsters, twists and turns, lawyer, doctors, dark humor, loneliness, lgbt, life, hitman, obsession, art ...
Place:
new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, talky, thought provoking and weird films with plots about loneliness, life philosophy, depression, life, dialogue, storytelling and mentor mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Demolition: Lost in Translation (2003), While We're Young (2014), Love Liza (2002), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), God Said, 'Ha!' (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.
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touching, thought provoking, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Country: USA
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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.
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Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Duration: 93 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) is a retired Romanian engineer, spending his time in the company of his cats and booze. When he starts feeling unusually ill, he first seeks painkillers from his neighbors. It soon becomes apparent that Lazarescu is ...
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Country: USA
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Story:
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