Movies like People 2016

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People (2016)
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People (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Six vignettes pit an assortment of characters against each other in everyday situations.
Plot: boxing, hospital, suicide, sadism, masochism, existentialism, therapy, paranoia
Keyword: chinese

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Most similar movies to People

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, touching and humorous films with plots about hospital, suicide, depression, family relations, father son relationship, nurse and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like People: Spike of Bensonhurst (1988), My Suicidal Sweetheart (2005), Boxers Go to Heaven (1967), My Suicide (2009), Shrink (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, ...
Plot: vietnam war, hospital, escape, veteran, nurse, paranoia, highway, vietnam veteran, frustration, nonconformity, homecoming, war veteran ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of ...
Style: independent film, gay cinema
Plot: boxing, lesbian mother, cocaine, gay parent, mafia, lesbian, shoplifting
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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78%
My Suicidal Sweetheart (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A suicidal comedy about two young lovers who get married and escape from a mental institution in search of new ways to die...and the white light.
Style: light, touching, melancholic, captivating, crying
Plot: love at first sight, mental illness, surrealism, hospital, doctor, male female relationship, therapy, group therapy, vegetarian, depression, escape, cure ...
Place: wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Boxers Go to Heaven (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.
Plot: heaven, boxer, boxing, resurrection, cemetery, hospital, alcoholism
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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My Suicide (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A teen coming-of-age romantic dramedy about a media-obsessed geek and the most beautiful and twisted girl in school.
Style: humorous, realistic, touching, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, hopes, teenage love, media, coming of age, obsession, filmmaking, teenage life, high school life, introspection, misfit, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.6
 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
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66%
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The Zoo Gang (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A former boxer known as Old Leather Face opens a nightclub called the Zoo, which does not do a good business. A group of homeless teenagers want to rent the place and start what they hope will be a profitable business, but a gang threatens to shut ...
Style: independent film, teen comedy
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: boxing, teenager, exploitation, scalping, revenge, hospital, teenage boy, pickup truck, coming of age, trailer home, punk band, teenage girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Offset (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Romania, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary.
Style: intercultural
Plot: hospital, business, culture clash
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Julian Po (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
Style: offbeat, realistic, semi serious, psychological, talky ...
Plot: small town, existentialism, suburbs, friends, social relations, dark humor, human nature, society, clergy, misfit, dealing with death, friendship ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some ...
Style: sad, emotional, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: disability, depression, courtroom drama, hospital, legal, suicide, female nudity, euthanasia, health, law, car accident, judge ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Voyeur (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Forty-year-old Sandro (Marcello Mastroianni) is married to Claude (Virna Lisi). Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when ...
Style: independent film
Plot: 007, suicide, sex tape, rape turns to consensual sex, older woman younger man sex, cuckolded husband, auction
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Dream with the Fishes (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A suicidal man who can't kill himself agrees to finance his terminally ill neighbor's bucket list of fantasies if, at the end, the neighbor will kill him.
Style: independent film, grim, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: drug, suicide, drug addiction, hospital, death, drinking, fish, bowling, male nudity, mental health, personal growth, dealing with death ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Period Piece (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: From Critically-Acclaimed Underground Filmmaker Giuseppe Andrews (Trailer Town, Touch Me in the Morning) comes Period Piece, his most ambitious film experiment yet! Featuring talking tater tots, fornicating teddy bears, a smoking dead pig and the ...
Style: existential, controversial, independent film
Plot: charles manson, pistol, absurdism, surrealism, masturbation, suicide, teddy bear, porn magazine
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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O'Hara's Wife (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara (Asner) is devastated when his wife (Hartley) dies suddenly. She returns to "haunt" him, however, (a la "Topper") and her mission is to persuade him to slow down, watch his own health, and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: afterlife, family relations, wife, children, ghost, hospital, cemetery, jail, workaholic, husband wife relationship, life support
Time: year 1982
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.9
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Love Matters (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 113 min.
Story: "Love Matters" is a movie revolving around three main protagonists - 52-year-old Tan Bo Seng, his 17-year-old teenage son Benny and 36-year-old Jeremy, Bo Seng's 'adopted' brother - and their accidental journey in seeking ...
Plot: casanova, husband wife relationship, teenage boy, falling from height, school, suicide, teacher, bank, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, revenge, hospital ...
Place: singapore, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Mumford (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot: therapy, small town, depression, starting over, mental illness, friendship, psychologist, character study, life philosophy, happy ending, loneliness, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: phoenix arizona, china, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 74K
Happiness (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Style: black comedy, cynical, independent film, dark comedy, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, pedophilia, rape, unhappiness, depression, therapist, obsession, relationships, loneliness, alienation, pedophile, sexual abuse ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Two Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Paul Miller (Paul Rudd - Friends, The Cider House Rules) has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, cerebral ...
Plot: suicide, filmmaking, actor's life, introspection, change of heart, lifestyle, life is a bitch, breaking point, showbiz, direction and purpose, death wish, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Terri (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
Style: melancholic, compassionate, mumblecore, clever, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, friendship, coming of age, bullying, small town, loneliness, existentialism, teenage life, character study, eccentricity, overweight child, physical appearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Second Thoughts (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael. A curious triangle develops as Amy gets pregnant by Will and both men vie for her affections
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: love triangle, pregnancy, love and romance, ghost, vengeance, babies and infants, family relations, couples, hospital, wooing, customer, lawyer ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
Style: touching, emotional, intense, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: loneliness, neighbor, depression, terminal illness, religion, faith, existentialism, society, love and romance, dealing with death, catholic, nosy neighbor ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Article 99 (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, thought provoking ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, disability, politics, medicine, psychiatrist, medical, surgery, patient, die hard, intern, war veteran ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Hungry Hearts (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The story focuses on a young, up-and-coming chef who caters a party for four mysterious women only to discover they have a shocking surprise in store for him.
Style: entertaining, captivating, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: chef, dinner party, women, mystery woman, relationships, male female relationship, surprise, food, suicide
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Crazy Family (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts cracking up: Son Masaki is ...
Style: dark comedy, deep, manga, allegory, surprise ending ...
Plot: sexploitation, dysfunctional family, satire, domestic violence, incest, mental breakdown, teenybopper, self mutilation, suicide, paranoia, dog, poison ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Captain Fantastic (2016)
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 ⇓
30%
Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka (Yuki Uchida) wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge ...
Plot: self awareness, introvert, asian, psychology, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, sleeping pill, mental institution, hospital, doctor, comedian, nurse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Tate's Voyage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tate, a young and crooked businessman, thinks he can get rich quick by buying a Russian freighter in the port of Rotterdam. This turns out to be a fiasco because the ship has been arrested, the freight has been sealed by the customs and the crew has ...
Plot: immigrant, harbor, compassion, nurse, hospital, suicide, girlfriend, ship, cargo ship
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
1941 Hong Kong on Fire (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A family suffers at the hands of the Japanese during the occupation of Hong Kong.
Plot: world war two, actress, atrocity, heroism, traitor, prostitution, movie studio, matricide, uxoricide, castration, occupation, masochism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Me and Veronica (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
Style: independent film
Plot: mental illness, suicide, waitress, sister, social worker, welfare, woman, sibling relationship, siblings, alcoholism, drug, rivals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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91.1 (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of 3 different generations living in the same city. Alper, his best friend Soner and his long-time girlfriend Hazan are studying at the same university. Lately the relation between Hazan and Alper do not go well. Soner supports them for ...
Plot: male nudity, hospital, stealing, brothel, accident, disabled person, handicapped, disabled, male pubic hair, car theft, fiancee, theft ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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