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Ill Fated (2004)
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Ill Fated (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mark A. Lewis's tragic-comic adventure ILL FATED plunges the viewer into the boxed-in world of Jimmy, a small-town teen who seeks a better life but who sees dead-end signs at every turn out of town. His vague plan to leave and "look into college" is complicated by a revolving door of small-town complications - the demands of his lumpen best friends, his troubled girlfriend, his promiscuous stepmother and cuckolded stepfather. But the biggest complication of all is the return of his womanizing biological dad Earl, who'd fled in Jimmy's infancy after impregnating the wife of a violent convict (also his best friend). Earl's return is a catalyst to disaster, and a palette for director Lewis to paint a hyper-realist picture of small-town dystopia.
Style: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
Plot: prison, incest, cheating wife, violence, murder, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, small town, coming of age, father son estrangement, maturity, school bus, funny accent

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, black comedy, independent film and realistic films with plots about family relations, father son relationship, coming of age, parents and children, brother sister relationship, youth and small town mostly in Comedy, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Ill Fated: The Yen Family (1988), The Art of Crying (2006), The French Guy (2005), The Michelle Apartments (1995), Tricks (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Yen Family (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.
Style: black comedy, independent film
Plot: father son relationship, family conflict, brother sister relationship, parent child relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, harmonica, small business, family relations, newspaper, obsession, adoption ...
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95%
The Art of Crying (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, black comedy ...
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: denmark, europe, scandinavia, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
The French Guy (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A French artist struggling to put the finishing touches on his masterpiece finds his concentration repeatedly broken by the unusual sounds emanating from his neighbor's apartment in this black comedy from Ann Marie Fleming. Immediately ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: murderer, piano, frenchman, cannibalism, blood, violence, painter, murder, gay, young, string quartet, brain surgery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Michelle Apartments (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A black comedy that sees a man on a business trip gets mixed up in the lives of the inhabitants of a low-rent apartment building, including a femme fatale with murder on her mind.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, suspenseful, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: hotel, motel, murder, small town, frame up, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, chaos and mayhem, small town life, intrigue, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Tricks (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, brother sister relationship, family relations, parents and children, small town, siblings relations, teaching the ways of the world, single parent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, magic realism, traumatic childhood ...
Place: poland, europe, eastern europe
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The Marathon Family (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
Style: dark comedy, atmospheric, surreal, parody, cult classic ...
Plot: parents and children, cemetery, badass, moving, family business, murder, crematorium, grave digger, funeral, small town, mafia, pianist ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: balkan, serbia, europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Rich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion hires a hitman to kill him in prison. But another man is killed instead, leaving a widow and three kids. Full of remorse, he tries to help the family, ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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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 ⇓
74%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
Style: psychological, disturbing, satirical, captivating, independent film
Plot: family relations, violence, family problems, brothers, runaway, murderer, satire, brother brother relationship, problem, murder, murder mystery, youth ...
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70%
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The Agent (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Time: year 1994, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Twin Town (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jeremy and Julian Lewis, the "Lewis Twins", are two unruly brothers who terrorise the city of Swansea from the caravan park where they live with their family. When their father, Fatty, is injured while working on a roof for local kingpin ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, independent film, tense, realistic ...
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62%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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60%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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56%
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56%
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55%
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54%
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54%
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54%
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53%
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