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Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
16K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental, gloomy, emotional, christian film, hot, iconic
Plot:
homeless, bullying, male friendship, homelessness, addiction, male bonding, biopic, suicide, abuse, haunted by the past, tragic hero, human nature, life is a bitch, suicide attempt, alcoholic, alcohol abuse, male nudity, illicit affair, funeral, drug abuse, psychology, friendship between men, physical disability, fighting the system, society ...
Time:
90s, 21st century, contemporary, 1990s
Place:
england
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Most similar movies to Stuart: A Life Backwards
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and touching films with plots about life is a bitch, addiction, drug addiction, drug, alcohol abuse, drinking and drugs/alcohol mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Stuart: A Life Backwards: The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Ironweed (1987), Drunks (1995), Being Flynn (2012), My Name Is Bill W. (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
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disturbing, depressing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug use, drug, heroin addict, drug addict, heroin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of pet, life philosophy, couple relations ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery ...
Style:
touching, intense, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
homeless, alcohol abuse, redemption, halloween, mental disorder, female nudity, alcoholic, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, talky, spiritual, serious ...
Plot:
alcoholic, drug addiction, addiction, alcohol abuse, drug, drinking, recovery, support group, redemption, self discovery, drug abuse, drug addict ...
Time:
90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, new jersey, los angeles
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During his twenties, a young man works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
father son relationship, homeless, absent father, homeless shelter, writer's life, suicide, anal rape, poet, writers, estrangement, family relations, social misfits ...
Time:
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usa, boston, massachusetts, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
addiction, recovery, rehabilitation, coping, alcoholics anonymous, support group, family problems, self discovery, human spirit, hopes, against the odds, friendship ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1929
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in ...
Style:
sexy, depressing, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
alcoholism, male nudity, depression, dysfunctional family, addiction, drinking, alcoholic, greed, introspection, human nature, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time:
1930s, year 1984, 20th century, 70s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs, and starts a steady decline. The only hope is the cousin of one of his drinking partners, can she pull him through it ?
Style:
intense, serious, realistic, bleak, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug abuse, nightlife, writers, redemption, addiction, drug, life is a bitch, starting over, downfall, supportive spouse, friendship, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
18K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, ...
Style:
sincere, depressing, touching, realistic, indie film ...
Plot:
addiction, rehabilitation, alcoholic, support group, alcohol abuse, teacher, depression, introspection, irresponsible, recovery, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot:
drug addiction, redemption, addiction, introspection, alcoholics anonymous, drug abuse, recovery, yuppie, rehabilitation, drug, drinking, recovering drug addict ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, philadelphia, new jersey, california
Similarity:
30%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rehabilitation, addiction, drug abuse, youth, parents and children, prostitute, dysfunctional family, teenage life, going straight, friendship, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Homeless woman Yvonne Caldwell is a woman with good reason to be bitter: she has lost everything except her two beloved dogs, Bebe and Man-Man. With her one friend, Wes, Caldwell lives the daily struggle of being homeless in Los Angeles until a ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
homeless, homelessness, friendship, homeless woman, police officer, dog, human animal relationship, life is a bitch, kindness, black woman, cancer, alcoholic ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
La leggenda del santo bevitore (literally "The legend of the holy drinker") is a 1988 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi. It tells the story of a drunken homeless man (played by Rutger Hauer) in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a ...
Style:
neorealism, spiritual, anamorphic, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
homeless man, classical music, spirit, loser, drinking, alcoholic, dancing, time travel, homeless, drug, night, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot:
drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, morphine, urban decay, doctor, mental disorder, drug addiction, civil war, hopelessness, world war one, loneliness, hardship ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1917
Place:
russia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style:
depressing, touching, gloomy, sad, melancholic ...
Plot:
suicide, drug addict, suicide attempt, depression, addiction, emptiness, hopes, drug addiction, character study, complex characters, old friend, job interview ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
oslo norway, scandinavia, europe, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, change of luck, society, alcohol abuse, youth, hopes, confronting the past, troubled past, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, friendship, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.
Style:
sexual, erotic, absurd, disturbing, powerful ...
Plot:
poet, alcoholic, passion, ex husband ex wife relationship, arrest, addiction, prostitute, teenage life, self mutilation, suicide attempt, binge drinking, drunkenness ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style:
realistic, touching, disturbing, bleak, serious
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay interest, male pubic hair, male prostitute, gay sex, drug addict, prostitute, life is a bitch, misfit, drug abuse, junkie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, montreal
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Martin Sheen plays an alcoholic father who loses his family.
Style:
spiritual, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
alcoholic, drinking, recovery, substance abuse, family relations, alcohol abuse, downfall, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, family problems, couples ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intelectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
Style:
serious, surreal, sincere, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
dysfunctional family, self destructing, alcohol abuse, family relations, life is a bitch, alcoholic father, redemption, family problems, addiction, parents and children, father son relationship, alcoholic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a touching and comical adventure dealing with friendship, heroism and love.
Style:
thought provoking, contemplative, humorous, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, dealing with death, male bonding, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, wilderness, best friend, friends, one last chance, unfulfillment, introspection, hopes ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
wales, europe, england
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Gails agoraphobia keeps her inside where she escapes into romance novels. She shares a house with her Nan, recently back from the hospital. Gradually, they both try to reach out to each other to break their isolation. Rob plunges further into his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
isolation, addiction, drug abuse, countryside, social decay, family problems, life is a bitch, society, mental illness, confined, crumbling marriage, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, captivating, bleak
Plot:
uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, community, male nudity, social relations, mentally challenged, female nudity, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, drug, junkie, loneliness, mental illness, depression, dream, subculture ...
Time:
year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
britain, america, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A film between fiction and reality, highlighting questions about group dynamics and established hierarchies. A group of people meet for their high school reunion 20 years later. One of them talks about her being bullied and outcast and soon the ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
bullying, life is a bitch, human nature, adulthood, haunted by the past, social relations, misfit, breaking point, disorder, childhood trauma, party, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
29%
792
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Kyle Peoples never wanted to be the man he has become in his 30s, an accountant stuck in a dead end job, with a lover who is more successful than he and a family that doesn't get him at all. So when a night of partying leads to a new family of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
addiction, mistaken identity, couples, drug abuse, society, life is a bitch, friendship, gay, lgbt, male nudity, male rape, gay subtext ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.
Style:
touching, psychological, harsh, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, road trip, dysfunctional family, male nudity, addiction, loneliness, family drama, complex characters, family life, love and romance, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, london, england, europe, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Style:
sexy, poignant, realistic, depressing, black and white ...
Plot:
addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcoholics anonymous, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, dysfunctional marriage, drunkenness, secretary, amor, recovery, love ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa, texas, california, houston texas
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Like many Native families, Lena Mahikan grew up in the cycle of abuse. Her father, a residential school survivor, was an alcoholic until he killed himself when Lena was 10. Her mother, only 14 years her senior, turned to the slots. By the time Lena ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
small town, haunted by the past, native american, single parent, life is a bitch, society, social misfits, danger, youth, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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29%
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