Movies like Better Living

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Better Living (1998)
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Better Living (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
Style: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: sex, lawyer, excavation, priest, child abuse, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, survivalist, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, basement, cooking, ex-cop, husband wife relationship, family reunited, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, three sisters, home improvement, irreverence, sister sister relationship, public defender, attempted murder, long lost father, abusive father, jackhammer ...

Most similar movies to Better Living

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, black comedy, realistic and semi serious films with plots about family relations, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, dysfunctional family and couples mostly in Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Better Living: Passed Away (1992), Houseguest (1995), So There (1997), She-Devil (1989), A Severed Head (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Passed Away (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Style: black comedy, laugh out loud, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: funeral, family relations, pregnancy, midlife crisis, dark humor, family problems, couples, single parent, nothing goes right, love and romance, clergy, elderly ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: ireland, europe
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95%
 5.9
 7K
Houseguest (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
Style: humorous, black comedy, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, stupidity, dysfunctional family, mistaken identity, teenage girl, dentist, redemption, boy, reckless driving, impersonation, debt, lawyer ...
Time: 90s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.6
 55
So There (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: daughter, unfaithfulness, family relations, suicide attempt, patriarch, plumber, accountant, cruelty, mafioso, family dinner, brother sister relationship, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.7
 19K
She-Devil (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Style: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, revenge, novelist, mistress, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, divorce, women, breakup, embezzlement, extramarital affair, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 426
A Severed Head (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, ...
Style: sex comedy, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: psychiatrist, samurai sword, infidelity, married couple, dysfunctional marriage, female nudity, friend, husband wife relationship, sex, extramarital affair, mistress, novel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Three for Two (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: THREE FOR TWO presents Lucy with the Great One, Jackie Gleason, combining their comedic talents for the first time, in a trio of comedy-dramas centered on the various aspects of marriage.
Style: dark comedy
Plot: marriage, nightclub, crown, luxury hotel, new year's eve, memory, singing, waiter, argument, father daughter relationship, infidelity, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Pad and How to Use It (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A man, who lives alone in his apartment, finds his ideal woman while going to the symphony. He dates her and brings her to his pad, only to find out she came to the symphony on a ticket she got from a co-worker.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: sad ending, cooking, flirting, misunderstanding, loneliness, first date, depression, best friend, introvert, frustration, shy man, drunkenness ...
Time: year 1966
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Death at a Funeral (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, slapstick, tragicomedy ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, funeral, farce, dark humor, secret, sarcasm, gay, adultery, british, multiple storylines, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
I don't owe a 100 times (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.
Plot: family relations, daughter, father daughter relationship, social satire, mother daughter relationship, police station, neighbor, sexual humor, pregnancy, arranged marriage, mirror, dysfunctional family ...
Place: buenos aires argentina
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45%
 6.3
 16K
Greedy (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, surprise ending, feel good ...
Plot: wealth, greed, millionaire, uncle nephew relationship, bowling, eccentric family, family relations, last will and testament, family gatherings, vandalism, grandfather, parents and children ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Look Who's Talking (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. ...
Style: funny, sentimental, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: pregnancy, babies and infants, baby, babysitting, single parent, couples, initially antagonists, divorce, love, childhood, accountant, fall in love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Rosa's Wedding (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind and take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business
Style: social
Plot: female protagonist, wedding ceremony, grieving widower, sibling relationship, workaholic, midlife crisis, young mother, family reunited, town, mother daughter relationship, seamstress, sister sister relationship ...
Place: valencia spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
When Nature Calls (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When construction worker Greg becomes fed-up with his foreman and the "city life", he takes his wife and kids on a wilderness adventure.
Style: spoof, grindhouse, independent film, parody, cynical ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: youth, satire, family relations, mountain, disorder, escapades, wilderness, showbiz, family life, urban, city life, rural setting ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.1
 6K
Moving (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
Style: entertaining, funny, humorous, slapstick, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: moving, truck, dysfunctional family, kung fu, love affair, road trip, black, classic car, gangster, family relations, on the road, unemployment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is ...
Style: funny, entertaining, laugh out loud, clever, not serious ...
Plot: homeless, dog, dysfunctional family, satire, hobo, thanksgiving, wealth, suicide attempt, homelessness, summer, drowning, hidden treasure ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: You slipped into my life as easily as vermouth into a glass of gin, purrs reclusive singing star Angela Arden. Arden is not only haunted by a secret, she's treated like dirt by her louse of a husband, her snoopy maid, and her petulant daughter. ...
Style: humorous, witty, melancholic, satirical, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: murder, gay, dysfunctional family, transvestism, family relations, artists and showbiz, eccentric family, lifestyle, parents and children, family life, dark humor, love affair ...
Time: 60s, year 2003, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: spain, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Throw Out the Anchor (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat
Style: independent film
Plot: jewish stereotype, corrupt politician, river, hindu, widow, boat, law enforcement, conspiracy, husband wife relationship, lawyer, father daughter relationship, drunkenness ...
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 1K
The Alarmist (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Tommy Hudler decides to become a security systems salesman, and is an instant success. Everything seems to be going great until he discovers there's more to this business and his boss Heinrich than he previously suspected.
Style: humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, cynical ...
Plot: satire, dark humor, workplace, forgery, innocence lost, dishonesty, investigation, screwball, cons and scams, workplace situations, oral sex
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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I Love You to Death (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlor located in Tacoma, Washington, and has been married to Rosalie for years. Rosalie is horrified to discover that Joey is a womanizer and has been cheating on her for a long time. Based on the true story of ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: womanizer, revenge, pizza, attempted murder, dysfunctional family, infidelity, incompetence, stupidity, remorse, hitman, breakup, outlaw ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Cleaver Family Reunion (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Members of a dysfunctional family settle their differences after a series of misadventures during their summer reunion
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, siblings relations, parents and children, eccentric family, family problems, nothing goes right, disorder, african american, black, family relations, silly humor, family gatherings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 543
Never Too Late (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
Style: retro, independent film
Plot: parenthood, small town, mayor, father daughter relationship, expectant father, father in law son in law relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, trying to get pregnant, pregnancy, pregnant wife, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.3
 112K
Movie 43 (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film is composed of multiple comedy shorts presented through an overarching segment titled "The Pitch", in which Charlie Wessler, a mad screenwriter, is attempting to pitch a script to film executive Griffin Schraeder. After revealing ...
Style: parody, funny, not serious, spoof, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: dark humor, irreverence, toilet humor, gross out humor, youth, teenage life, stupidity, society, multiple storylines, dishonesty, escapades, satire ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 1959, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Girl Most Likely (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
Style: humorous, light, melancholic, teen, indie film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, eccentricity, loneliness, secrets, family problems, writers, disorder, parents and children, love and romance, nothing goes right, women, gang bang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Kid Power (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, sincere
Plot: teen rebel, family relations, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, rebellious daughter, divorced parents, babysitter, revenge, prank, parents, children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, road movie, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: interracial romance, road trip, teenager, hip hop, family relations, on the road, eccentric family, nothing goes right, family life, mischievous children, parents and children, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 548
Mom's Day Away (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A frustrated stay-at-home mom takes a weekend away when her family ignores her over Mother's Day.
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: mother's day, husband wife relationship, family relations, relationship vs career, career, mother son relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, relationships, mother daughter relationship, real estate agent, motherhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Lasciami per sempre (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Celebration of an extended family
Style: satirical, entertaining, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Plot: relationship problems, eccentric family, family relations, marital problem, dysfunctional family, birthday party, satire, social satire, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, large family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Around the World in Eighty Ways (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
Plot: vacation, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, retirement home, gay interest, world, wig
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Cemetery Club (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, elderly lovers, aging, elderly, love and romance, lifestyle, dealing with death, human nature, cemetery, female bonding, wedding, female friendship ...
Time: year 1993, 50s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
MetalHeads: The Good, the Bad, and the Evil (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A tragic-comedy that finally offers an accurate representation of the heavy metal lifestyle, Bill Zebub's Metalheads stars Emily Thomas as a hard rock honey who just can't get enough of long hair, ripped jeans, and loud guitars.
Style: independent film
Plot: lottery ticket, bondage, lsd, marijuana, drug trip, slice of life, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, masturbation, sex, paranoia, library, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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