Movies like Maladies

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Maladies (2012)
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Maladies (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A talented and successful actor retires at a young age due to a perceived mental illness. Now living in a small town with his deranged sister and his best friend, we watch as their Maladies intertwine.
Style: psychological, touching, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense, rough, serious, independent film
Plot: mental illness, siblings relations, family relations, mentally unstable, small town, friendship, actor, writers, mind control, doom, misfit, gender bending, dancing, ship, painter, loneliness, police officer, food, snow, memory loss, beach, restaurant, book, suicide, transvestite ...
Time: 60s, 21st century, 1960s, contemporary
Place: usa, new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about family relations, friendship, parents and children, family problems, telephone call, friends and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Maladies: Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015), About Alex (2014), That Evening Sun (2009), Good Time Max (2007), Being Flynn (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story: One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?
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Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
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About Alex (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: independent film, inspirational, atmospheric, surreal, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
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That Evening Sun (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Style: serious, tense, sentimental, realistic, rough ...
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Good Time Max (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two genius brothers grow up and grow apart as one becomes a successful surgeon and the other pursues a drug-fueled high life.
Style: serious, tense, rough, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: downfall, social differences, prodigy, family problems, family relations, misfit, human nature, drug, brother brother relationship, coming of age, siblings relations, social relations ...
Place: california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, southern gothic, gloomy ...
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Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: mississippi, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
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Place: usa, new york
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Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style: melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: friendship, writers, eccentricity, character study, buddies, writer's life, human nature, secret, reporter, philosophy, drinking, death ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century
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X/Y (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental health, mental disorder, ptsd, suicidal, illness, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Follows the story of the challenging relationship between Billie and her younger schizophrenic sister, Elizabeth Baby. After their mother dies, Billie takes responsibility by moving Baby in with her family, including her husband, their teenage son ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating
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Something's Cooking (2007)
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Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, serious ...
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Waking Madison (2010)
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, psychiatrist, dishonesty, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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21%
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Local Color (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: painter, self discovery, friendship, youth, family relations, parents and children, artists and showbiz, unsupportive parent, art, inspiration, intergenerational friendship, mentor ...
Time: year 2006, year 1991, year 1974, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, new york
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Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gothic ...
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Country: USA
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
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18%
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My Sister's Keeper (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of ...
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Place: new york, usa
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