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August: Osage County (2013)
99K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style:
touching, melancholic, black comedy, independent film, depressing, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, dysfunctional family, cancer, funeral, mother daughter relationship, family secret, family in crisis, incestuous relationship, family drama, pills, suicide of father, addiction, death of husband, marriage, drug use, husband wife relationship, poet, humiliation, father son relationship, false accusation, suicide by drowning, vegetarian, suicide of husband, dark humor, incest ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
oklahoma, peru, oklahoma city, southern usa, midwest, usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, dramatic and touching films with plots about dysfunctional family, storytelling, dialogue, relationships, family relations, mentor and family mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like August: Osage County: This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Carnage (2011), Terms of Endearment (1983), Eulogy (2004), Crimes of the Heart (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, infidelity, family drama, family gatherings, childhood home, homecoming, children, family relations, loneliness, family home, brother sister relationship, extramarital affair ...
Time:
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Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
93%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Poland, Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, black comedy, ironic, tense, dark comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style:
sentimental, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, death, adultery, husband wife relationship, single mother, mother daughter relationship, grief, hospital, death of daughter ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s ...
Place:
nebraska, houston texas, texas, new york, louisiana ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, absurd, clever, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family secret, funeral, family life, eccentric family, death in the family, sarcasm, family feud, parents and children, fall in love, generation gap, lesbian ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
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chick flick, girls' night
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, feel good, melancholic, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, honest, obsessive quest, escapades, coming of age, suicide attempt, journey ...
Time:
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Place:
california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, north america ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, mumblecore, f word
Plot:
sex between cousins, cousins incest, cousin cousin relationship, brother sister relationship, skinny dipping, family secret, overheard conversation, brother sister incest, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, brother brother conflict, dark secret, sister sister relationship ...
Place:
new york state, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, melancholic, atmospheric, sad ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
lie, masseuse, wedding, grief, female protagonist, terminal illness, women, lovers, dialogue, life, death, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s
Place:
china, usa, new york, japan, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An uptight, conservative, businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, connecticut
Similarity:
100%
57K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs ...
Style:
touching, realistic, intense, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
It tells the story of a struggling man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, intense, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
relationships, family secret, salesman, half brother half sister relationship, family bonds, inheritance, funeral, family relations, single mother, siblings relations, drinking problem, family life ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
80K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
75%
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, seattle, massachusetts, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Style:
touching, emotional, intense, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, michigan, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, long island, vermont, harvard university
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, guilt, loneliness, family relations, coma, family life, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, single parent, society, parents and children ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of ...
Style:
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Audience:
family friendly, date night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, eccentricity, dark humor, eccentric family, writers, sex, forbidden love, incest, dalmatian, satire, parents and children, uptight character ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, seattle
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style:
dark comedy, depressing, cynical, clever, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, new jersey, washington d.c., manhattan new york city, new york ...
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27%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Place:
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27%
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
26%
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, inspirational, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
suicide attempt, gay, relationships, brutality, loneliness, midlife crisis, suicide, closeted homosexual, down syndrome, guilt, dark humor, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, massachusetts
Similarity:
26%
213K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
philosophical, satirical, cerebral, clever, absurd ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
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