Movies like Borderline Normal
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Borderline Normal (2001)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A family goes through a divorce.
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, erotic, independent film
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, family drama, sibling rivalry, brother brother relationship, domineering mother, group therapy, teenage life, divorced parents, female nudity, female orgasm, bare butt, sex scene, making love, woman urinating, woman peeing, first sex, family relations, petting, first sexual experience, panties, no panties, female sitting on a toilet, groping, breast fondling ...
Place:
detroit
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, teenage life, parents and children, youth and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Borderline Normal: The Favourite Game (2003), Baby Blues (2012), Punch (2002), Refuge (2012), Confessions of a Go-Go Girl (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
As a kid, Leo thought he possessed, like a magician, the secret power to make things happen. As a young man, he certainly knows how to make things happen with women. But as his best friend Krantz would say to him, "Why do you always ask ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, erotic
Plot:
dysfunctional family, flashback, summer camp, road trip, self discovery, wooing, womanizer, cheating wife, adultery, children, abusive father, schoolgirl ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and because she feels she has someone to love; someone who can love her in return. Everything changes when ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, teenage life, immaturity, family problems, couples, babies and infants, hopes, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, youth, mother child relationship, birth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
92%
488
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ariel is a troubled girl with more than the usual teenage problems. When her emotion and temper get the best of her, she is drawn into a world where she can take out her anger with her fists. In the tradition of 'Girlfight' comes a wildly ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, captivating, serious, rough ...
Plot:
female nudity, boxing, tough girl, teenage life, lifestyle, athlete's life, family relations, hopes, rivalry, anger, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
north america, canada, vancouver
Similarity:
91%
609
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After their parents abandon the family, a young woman works to take care of her younger siblings.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family in crisis, teenage life, dysfunctional family, youth, family problems, life is a bitch, siblings relations, family relations, college dropout, mentally challenged, amphetamine, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jane McCoy, a recent college graduate, much to her parent's dismay, decides to scrap her plans for law school to pursue an acting career full-time. Struggling to make ends meet, she meets a confident and persuasive friend who shows her the way ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, touching
Plot:
pole dancer, nightclub, go go dancer, introspection, friends, downfall, dancer's life, dancer, youth, college graduate, father daughter estrangement, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
76%
279
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage life, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, society, prodigy, political unrest, siblings, brother, brothers, family relations, gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of their lives, wreaking havoc in the process.
Style:
serious, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sex scene, family relations, love triangle, couples, family problems, gender, sexual relations, parents and children, loneliness, gay, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy, disturbing
Plot:
children, youth, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, teenage life, family in crisis, unfulfillment, misfit, mute or deaf, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
59%
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370
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A coming of age drama about two young brothers whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves. While Danny loses himself in music, sex and drugs, his younger brother Jack transforms a life ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, humorous
Plot:
brother brother relationship, youth, kids in trouble, death of mother, teenage life, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, death in the family, teenage boy, coming of age, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
58%
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, realistic, touching, southern gothic, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, downfall, siblings relations, family life, family problems, family in crisis, life is a bitch, male nudity, siblings, mental retardation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Shot on digital , HD and 8 mm. Filmed through both sides of North America. 'Vicious Circle' pushes the limits of what can be accomplished on a bike. Featuring the first ever 65 foot 'Double Road Gap' , some of the gnarliest ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, lifestyle, false accusation, teenage life, family relations, society, destructive relationship, youth, love and romance, chess, interracial relations, skater ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
57%
22K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, bleak, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, depression, father daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, divorce, mother daughter relationship, suicide, attempted rape, three sisters, psychology, character study ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, family secret, sibling rivalry, family drama, conflict, parents and children, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An erotic melodrama about the public and private lives of sex workers. Josie Hunter (aka Blake Pickett) co-starred in the role of Erica, a single mother who works a stripper, and sometimes as a prostitute to support her daughter. But when the threat ...
Style:
erotic, independent film, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, making love, lesbian sex, prostitution, stripper, masturbation, voyeurism, sex, lesbianism, sleaze, college, sex scene ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, dysfunctional family, family problems, on the road, youth, family relations, escapades, self discovery, obsessive quest, death in the family, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage life, sex scene, sexual attraction, attempted rape, coming of age, female nudity, self discovery, rebellion, youth, estrangement, street kid, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
native american, getting home, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, family relations, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, native, indigenous people, family drama, estranged brother, sibling rivalry ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two brothers on different life paths, a gay waiter with a crush on an eligible bachelor and a drug addict in a twisted dependent relationships with his girlfriend, reunite to mourn the death of their mother.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, brother brother relationship, addiction, family relations, family problems, death in the family, estrangement, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, sexual attraction, death of mother, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
horse, father daughter reunion, youth, teenage life, parents and children, family life, family problems, family relations, single parent, love and romance, dysfunctional family, estrangement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, psychological, serious, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
borderline personality disorder, dysfunctional family, missing person, survival, high school, teenage life, youth, family problems, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, feminist ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, gain trust, dysfunctional family, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and family.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
summer vacation, family relations, farmer, teenage life, family problems, estrangement, youth, parents and children, friendship, elderly, adolescence vs adulthood, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The estranged daughter of a small town minister is forced to return to the strict, religious home of her youth where she must confront the troubled relationships that caused her to leave four years before
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, serious
Plot:
clergy, estrangement, society, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, small town, family problems, homecoming, religions or cults, christian, teen social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This is the story of Alice Fuller (Amy Shelton-White) struggling to come to terms with her past in order to embrace her future. Shot almost entirely in and around Estes Park, Colorado, the film follows Alice as she is forced to spend one final week ...
Style:
scenic, sincere, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family drama, dysfunctional family, hiking, mother daughter relationship, wildlife, fight, dealing with the past, acceptance, female protagonist, hung over, food, family relations ...
Similarity:
41%
621
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style:
realistic, touching, erotic, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
332
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Five stories blend with love, sex, the emptiness of being unloved, passion and desire: Carlos and Susana go to some uncle´s apartment to make love. Meanwhile, Benito, an 80-year-old, performs a serenade to his wife. His neighbor Adela is told that ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, erotic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
couple relations, looking for love, couples, love and romance, sexual relations, love story, sex scene, making love, battle of the sexes, woman on top, female nudity, black bra ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, sex scene, making love, depression, friendship, loneliness, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Contemporary story of a couple whose marriage has gone astray, partly due to the infidelity of both partners and also the fact that their eldest son was killed in a car accident 8 years before.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
road trip, family problems, introspection, human nature, dysfunctional family, elderly, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, hopes, on the road, married couple, comedian ...
Place:
connecticut, minneapolis minnesota, los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Catherine is a teenager going through adolescence just as her parents are getting a divorce. Her social life is no better as bullies and boys add to the pressure of growing up in the chaotic '90s.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
parent child relationship, teenage girl, divorce, relationship problems, mother daughter relationship, family relations, teenage protagonist, adolescence, grownups, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, teenager ...
Similarity:
38%
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