Movies like Perfection

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Perfection (2012)
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Perfection (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kristabelle, still living with her Mother cuts herself to feel alive. Her Mother, addicted to plastic surgery also cuts herself trying to maintain her youth. Through the help of a pot smoking young lover, a newly sober British stand up comic and Chinese medicine they all find that love can be more than skin deep.
Plot: illness, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, plastic surgery, bare chested male, cut, cutting, female director

Most similar movies to Perfection

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and independent film films with plots about mental illness, illness, family relations, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, mental disorder and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Perfection: Painful Secrets (2000), A Light Beneath Their Feet (2015), The House of Yes (1997), Welcome to Me (2014), Crazy People (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Painful Secrets (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dawn isn't like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her pain goes far deeper, and to deal with her emotional overload she physically cuts herself. The problem of adolescent girls committing ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, sad, teen ...
Plot: mental illness, self mutilation, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, self harm, psychiatrist, bullying, physical abuse, female friendship, depression, trouble, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
A Light Beneath Their Feet (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A high school senior must choose between enrolling at the college of her dreams and remaining at home to take care of her bipolar mother.
Plot: mental illness, psychology, illness, medication, high school, psychiatrist, stepmother, interracial marriage, caretaker, dysfunctional family, prom, pharmacy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The House of Yes (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend. She's even more shocked to learn that this friend is his fiance. It soon becomes clear that Jackie Kennedy's ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, independent film, absurd ...
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, mental illness, family problems, twins, brother sister incest, female protagonist, thanksgiving, eccentric family, secrets, family life, sexual fantasy ...
Time: year 1997, 80s, 90s, year 1983
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 5.9
 20K
Welcome to Me (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Style: humorous, black comedy, disturbing, talky, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mental illness, depression, obsession, borderline personality disorder, loneliness, mental disorder, storytelling, life turned upside down, media, mental health, satire, friendship ...
Time: year 1989, year 1971, year 1996, year 1991, 21st century
Place: usa, palm springs california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Movie in collections
 6.0
 5K
Crazy People (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
Style: funny, satirical, black comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: advertising, mental illness, marketing, advertising agency, advertising executive, mental institution, business, insanity, office work, talk show host, mental disorder, illness ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.5
 156
Elizabeth Blue (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.
Plot: mental illness, mind control, mental health, illness, schizophrenia, mental institution, train, panic, therapy, mentally unstable woman, flowers, hallucination ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Unstrung Heroes (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, youth, mental illness, terminal illness, eccentricity, family drama, insanity, cancer, child hero, social justice, children ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
How to Kill Mom (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother Rosalinda's life.
Style: satirical, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: mother daughter relationship, family problems, sister, sisters, relationship problems, mother and daughter, family conflict, dysfunctional family, sick mother, mother daughter conflict, illness, sister sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Take My Advice:  The Ann and Abby Story (1999)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Biography of feuding advice columnist twins, Ann Landers and Abby Van Buren, starts with their early lives in Sioux City, Iowa when they were known as Esther and Pauline through their double wedding and follows them into their columnist successes. ...
Plot: twins, sibling relationship, double wedding, beauty salon, cemetery, high school reunion, plastic surgery, dance, loss of mother, vietnam war, award ceremony, wedding ceremony ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.3
 87K
Young Adult (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
Style: dark comedy, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: mental illness, high school, small town, emotional breakdown, alcoholic, narcissism, divorce, hometown, borderline personality disorder, thirtysomething life, depression, old love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
After Everything (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned completely upside down. But as their love blossoms amidst the chaos of his ...
Style: touching, light, sweet, sentimental, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: illness, love, cancer, couple relations, couples, male female friendship, road not taken, friends, youth, bucket list, threat, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.3
 2K
Twister (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter ...
Style: sad, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, tornado, family relations, couples, family problems, dark humor, eccentric family, family gatherings, family life, mental illness, storm, dinner ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Paper Spiders (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: coming of age, paranoid schizophrenia, mother and daughter, mental illness, mental health, grownups, paranoid, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.6
 1K
Some Voices (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Schizophrenic Ray tries to adjust to the outside world after being released from an institution.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, erotic, mysterious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, hallucination, brother brother relationship, love and romance, couples, family relations, misfit, mental disorder, fall in love, restaurant, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, couple relations, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
King of California (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Charlie gets released from an insane asylum and moves in with Miranda, the young daughter he left behind. Charlie believes that there is treasure hidden beneath the local Costco, so he puts together a plan to unearth the loot. By convincing Miranda ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: treasure hunt, mental illness, father daughter relationship, insanity, family relations, obsession, child as adult, musician, treasure, eccentricity, obsessive quest, escapades ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Another Happy Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Style: semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: wedding, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, ex husband ex wife relationship, wedding ceremony, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 19K
Shrink (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
Style: realistic, psychological, depressing, emotional, serious ...
Plot: suicide, mental illness, therapist, psychiatrist, hollywood, character study, loneliness, life philosophy, widower, suicide attempt, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 5K
Mental (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
Style: humorous, black comedy, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eccentric family, dysfunctional family, mental illness, hitchhiker, nanny, satire, suburbs, family life, youth, siblings relations, strong female presence, dark humor ...
Time: y2k, year 2012, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental health, mental disorder, ptsd, suicidal, illness, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.5
 22K
Thumbsucker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Style: emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, addiction, youth, teenager, depression, debate, teenage life, self discovery, lifestyle, drug, mental illness ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: oregon, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Sharing the Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eating disorder, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, teenage daughter, bulimia, family relations, family life, parent child relationship, starvation, obsession, physical appearance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Inside the Rain (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Facing expulsion from college over a misunderstanding, a bipolar student indulges his misery at a strip club where he befriends a gorgeous, intelligent, outrageous woman and they hatch a madcap scheme to prove his innocence.
Plot: mental illness, illness, time jump, escort, adhd, friend, suicide attempt, party, father son relationship, strip club, sex scene, bipolar disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Crazy About Paris (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: mental illness, disability, escape, disabled person, obstacle, handicapped
Place: africa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.3
 17K
Are You Here (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ...
Style: light, funny, intense, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, existentialism, eccentricity, family drama, mental illness, family relations, homecoming, road trip, childhood friend, womanizer, relationships, friends ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa, virginia, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 8.0
 766
Good Riddance (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in a small rural town in the Quebec Laurentians, Michelle lives in an isolated house with her mentally-challenged brother Guy and her 13 year old daughter Manon. Together the three of them survive by running a small firewood business and ...
Plot: mental illness, illness, parent child relationship, pregnancy, brother sister relationship, accidental death, coming of age, lower class, runaway, precociousness, autumn, death of brother ...
Place: quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 8.0
 278
Eunice (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Moments in four different years in the lives of the Harper family beginning with 1955 as a hopeful Eunice prepares to go to a party, and her brother Phillip, a recent college graduate, departs for New York In 1963, a married Eunice and her husband ...
Plot: loss of mother, marriage, mother daughter relationship, divorce, porch swing
Time: 1950s, year 1978, year 1963, year 1955, year 1973 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.9
 749
Bark! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A veterinarian is called to examine a woman who thinks she is a dog.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, couples, family problems, family relations, misfit, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, disorder, suburban life, suburbs ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.3
 7K
Mad Love (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental ...
Style: romantic, touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, high school, love, bipolar disorder, on the road, mental institution, manic depression, obsessive love, coming of age, teenage love, hitchhiking, psychology ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: seattle, latin america, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style: humorous, touching, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mother daughter relationship, addiction, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drug, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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