Movies like Wilson

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Wilson (2017)
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Wilson (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug and obsessed with his past.
Style: entertaining, art house, cult classic, comedy drama
Plot: misfit, loneliness, midlife crisis, friendship, death of father, group therapy, husband wife estrangement, ex husband ex wife relationship, middle aged man, name calling, dog, superhero, sex scene, lonely, parenthood, daughter, ex wife, naivete, dating, adoptive father adopted daughter relationship, father, sex, prison, lawyer, prostitute ...
Time: year 2017
Place: minnesota, portland oregon, st. louis missouri

Most similar movies to Wilson

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, independent film, feel good and touching films with plots about food, eating, friendship, telephone call, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship and kiss mostly in Comedy, Drama and Western genres. Some movies like Wilson: Lucky (2017), Flower (2017), A Man Called Otto (2022), Dodgeball (2015), Triangle of Sadness (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lucky (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Style: psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, sad, captivating ...
Plot: loneliness, philosophy, elderly, aging, old age, father son relationship, small town, ex marine, doctor, friendship, guilt, secret ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 60s, year 1968 ...
Place: europe, kentucky, the philippines, okinawa japan
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100%
 6.0
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Flower (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom's new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. When Bob's mentally unbalanced son, Luke, arrives from rehab to ...
Style: touching, suspense, road movie, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, chase, child molestation, teenager, 17 year old, sexual promiscuity, father son relationship, teenage girl, teenage boy, absent father, father daughter relationship, murder ...
Time: year 2016
Place: paris france, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Man Called Otto (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A cranky retired man strikes up an unlikely friendship with his boisterous new neighbors. A remake of the 2015 Swedish film.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, friendship, neighbor, friend, family relations, new neighbor, male protagonist, life philosophy, relationships, friends, old man, death of wife ...
Time: year 1964, year 1973, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 142
Dodgeball (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Story: An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends - Jeff, Skippy and Tom - whose ups and ...
Style: non-linear, humorous, sexy, psychological, light ...
Plot: friendship, love, friendship between men, unrequited love, midlife crisis, high school teacher, sexual desire, sexism, 40 year old, group of friends, classmate classmate relationship, vulgar ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, France, Turkey, Denmark, USA, Switzerland, Greece
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged captain. What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
Style: dark comedy, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cruise ship, shipwreck, rich, class differences, yacht, cruise, model, fashion model, social satire, stranded on an island, jealousy, disability ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 32K
Red Rocket (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, semi serious, satirical, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: small town, porn star, getting home, ex husband ex wife relationship, car crash, dating, relationship problems, seduction, male female relationship, satire, ex boyfriend, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2016, 2020s, 2010s, year 2001, year 2008
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.6
 31K
Mr. Church (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style: sad, compassionate, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: african american, friendship, cooking, childhood, life, cancer, food, relationships, family bonds, loneliness, idealism, love story ...
Time: 70s, year 1986, year 1980, year 1971, year 1977 ...
Place: usa, boston, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious ...
Style: humorous, psychological, funny, ironic, feel good ...
Plot: slacker, tattoo artist, arrested development, re-education, stoner, fear of commitment, coming of age, nepotism, family relations, dancer, felony, teenage boy ...
Place: new york, hawaii, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Just Before I Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for ...
Style: emotional, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: suicide attempt, gay, loneliness, midlife crisis, closeted homosexual, suicide, relationships, guilt, brutality, family relations, redemption, justice ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.3
 119K
Instant Family (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from ...
Style: feel good, sweet, funny, sincere, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot: adoption, parenting, foster home, foster parent, adoptive father adopted son relationship, adolescence, couples, parents and children, family relations, court hearing, children, anger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.
Style: thought provoking, dark comedy, humorous, rom com, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: social media, obsessed fan, instagram, harassment, obsession, stalker, borderline personality disorder, love interest, pursuit, mental disorder, secret, charlatan ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, venice california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.8
 3K
Unexpected (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, friendship, teachers and students, dedicated educator, society, teenage girl, intergenerational friendship, professor, teacher, teenager, women of color ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Saint Frances (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: At the start of the summer, Bridget has an abortion just as she lands a much-needed job in affluent Evanston, Illinois — nannying a six-year old.
Style: disturbing, touching, sincere, light, humorous ...
Plot: nanny, abortion, pregnancy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, survival, teacher, guilt, female protagonist, feminism, brother sister relationship, lesbian ...
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 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 ⇓
23%
 4.8
 3K
Lemon (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.
Style: humorous, witty, funny, ironic, avant garde
Plot: blindness, dating, 40 year old, acting class, audition, self pity, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, frustration, sister sister relationship, father son relationship, actor, photographer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, milwaukee wisconsin, japan, tibet, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Together Together (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: surrogate mother, couple relations, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wanting a baby, new love, romantic relationship, couples, love and romance, love story, love interest, relationship vs career ...
Place: hawaii, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Boys on the Side (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh ...
Style: road movie, sentimental, touching, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: lesbian, aids, friendship, women, road trip, pregnancy, gay, hiv, lgbtq, female friendship, on the road, female bonding ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, san diego california, tucson arizona, pakistan, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
 23K
Junebug (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, ...
Style: independent film, humorous, emotional, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, dysfunctional family, painting, art, small town, eccentricity, jealousy, eccentric family, love and romance, social differences, meet the parents, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, chicago, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 7.4
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Eighth Grade (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.
Style: touching, light, indie film, thought provoking, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: father daughter relationship, teenager, adolescence, teenage girl, friendship, high school, social media, middle school, teacher, self confidence, insecurity, classmate classmate relationship ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Art School Confidential (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, cynical, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: artist, art school, teenage girl, painting, murder, art, nude model, coming of age, painter, investigation, ambition, serial killer ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Support the Girls (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely--but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction…Double ...
Style: rom com, mumblecore, humorous, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: waitress, sexploitation, job interview, fund raising, girl power, family business, female friendship, friendship, husband wife relationship, attempted robbery, professor, flirting ...
Time: 2010s, year 2007
Place: texas, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.0
 19K
Thunder Road (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Officer Arnaud raises his daughter as a love letter to his late Mom.
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: father daughter relationship, judge, police, lawyer, school, divorce, family relations, friendship, child custody, love and romance, couples, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Humboldt County (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer named Bogart rolling through Los Angeles. He accompanies her to the redwoods of northern California, ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: weed, marijuana, self discovery, medical student, wilderness, family relations, loneliness, fish out of water, addiction, stoner, eccentric family, disorder ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: california, northern california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 6.7
 3K
Match (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when the questions turn personal and the true nature of the interview is ...
Style: captivating, humorous, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, dancer's life, aging, teachers and students, couples, homosexual, couple relations, power relations, gay, dancing, lgbt, friendship ...
Time: 60s, year 1972, year 1986, year 1989, year 1967 ...
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.0
 583
Fat Girls (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fat Girls is an original off-beat comedy feature. It focuses on Rodney Miller, not your typical Texas high school student...he is a theater lover and his ultimate dream is to be on Broadway. Awkward and shy, he doesn't have many people to talk ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, clever ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, eccentric family, teenage life, social misfits, youth, obsession, oral sex, american football, high school student, masturbation ...
Place: texas, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
 2K
Tyrel (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there, it’s clear that (1) he’s the only black guy, and (2) it’s going to be a weekend of heavy drinking. ...
Style: freeze frame
Plot: racism, birthday, nightmare, debauchery, religion, fascism, african american, cold the temperature, rich man, dancing, prejudice, escape attempt ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.4
 12K
Ideal Home (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.
Style: thought provoking, sincere, entertaining, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot: gay, gay adoption, gay love, gay couple, boy, lgbt, lifestyle, father son relationship, friendship, gay relationship, gay interest, lgbtqi ...
Place: santa fe new mexico, albuquerque new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Listen Up Philip (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to ...
Style: independent film, stylized, atmospheric, surreal, psychological ...
Plot: loneliness, writer's life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, arrogance, infidelity, solitude, writer's block, self pity, isolation, suicide, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york state, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Running with Scissors (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style: intense, disturbing, stylized, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, mental illness, adoption, therapist, writers, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, lesbian, parents and children, marital problem ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2006
Place: new york, seattle, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.3
 126K
Ghost World (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style: black comedy, thought provoking, independent film, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, age difference, friendship, adolescence, graduation, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, blues, teen angst, best friend, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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