Movies like Matterhorn

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Matterhorn (2013)
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Matterhorn (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Fred lives on his own. His wife is dead, his son has left. He leans on the church, busses, meat-and-two-veg. Then Leo appears. Leo is a tramp. Fred lets Leo move in with him. An absurdist feature debut with a laugh and a tear in stuffy Netherlands.
Style: atmospheric, humorous, tragicomedy, semi serious, offbeat, emotional, realistic, gloomy, queer cinema, tragic
Plot: mentally challenged, friendship, loneliness, obsession, society, social relations, father figure, religion, lgbt, father, lgbtq, gay, personal growth, father son relationship, widower, grief, small town, empathy, village, misfit, homeless, village life, unfulfillment, dull life, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: holland, netherlands
Keyword: dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about society, social relations, friendship, lgbt, small town, family relations and unfulfillment mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Matterhorn: The Northerners (1992), The Sale of Paradise (2012), The Priest's Children (2013), C.O.G. (2013), Norman (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Northerners (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy, slasher, art house ...
Plot: butcher, teenager, surrealism, hippie, neighbor, suburbs, neglect, couples, family relations, estrangement, social relations, dull life ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: netherlands, europe, holland
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100%
The Sale of Paradise (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Many immigrants, when they arrived in Spain, thought they had found paradise, soon thwarted all their dreams of prosperity. Many of them then decided to return to their land, but not so simple. In a pension match various immigrants end up ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, surreal, realistic, light ...
Plot: friendship, social misfits, misfit, immigrant, social relations, friends, society, hotel, haunted by the past, widower, love, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madrid, spain, mexico
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The Priest's Children (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, tragicomedy, suspense ...
Plot: satire, priest, pregnancy, mediterranean, clergy, religions or cults, unwanted pregnancy, village life, society, dishonesty, disorder, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, balkan, croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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C.O.G. (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyone who crosses his path.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, feel good, indie film ...
Plot: friendship, atheist, religion, christian, lgbt, gay, self discovery, fish out of water, misfit, workplace, teaching the ways of the world, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Norman (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
Style: emotional, tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, terminal illness, misfit, coping, dishonesty, family problems, teenage life, social relations, teenage love, life is a bitch, introvert, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Home for Christmas (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Adapted from a series of short stories by Norwegian author Levi Henriksen, Bent Hamers Home for Christmas weaves together the lives of people struggling to find their way home on a Christmas Eve, beneath the colors of the Northern Lights. The plot ...
Style: touching, semi serious, emotional, humorous, non-linear ...
Plot: christmas, friendship, hopes, small town, human nature, unfulfillment, loneliness, multiple storylines, xmas, christmas season, lgbt, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Fairhaven (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, funeral, small town, homecoming, introspection, estrangement, social relations, unfulfillment, death of father, student athlete, high school friends, village ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Brother White (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Synopsis James White (White) is one of dozens of associate pastors at a mega church in Southern California under the tutelage of television evangelist Johnny Kingman (Wise). He always longed to have his own church and jumps at the opportunity to ...
Style: uplifting, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: christian, church, pastor, save the day, human spirit, clergy, society, hopes, fish out of water, religions or cults, social relations, faith ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Say Uncle (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young artist (Peter Paige), desperate to replace the relationship he had with his recently relocated godson, is targeted by a neighborhood mom (Kathy Najimy) as a potential threat to the community.
Style: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot: gender, godparent, false accusation, coming of age, gay, suburban life, lifestyle, suburbs, small town life, small town, lgbt, glbt ...
Time: 21st century
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The Best Two Years (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two pairs of Mormon missionaries from America live in a beaten-up apartment in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Their personalities are distinctly different. Elder Johnson is the District Leader and oversees their efforts. His companion, the vain Elder ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, disturbing ...
Plot: mormon, missionary, religions or cults, clergy, society, mission, social problems, relationship problems, lifestyle, life philosophy, relationships, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, netherlands, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Skeleton in the Closet (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Manuel goes back to his hometown for his parents’ wedding anniversary, but he actually wants to ask money to move to Denmark with his boyfriend. Last time he saw his family, he came out of the closet. Since then, their relationship became tense. ...
Style: touching, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, closeted homosexual, homosexual, gay couple, youth, society, couple relations, gay love, gay relationship, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Sum of Us (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "The Sum of Us" is an Aussie story about a father and a son both searching for love and sharing an unconventional bond. Harry, the father, is the caring and open-minded "mate" that borders on annoyance. His son Jeff ...
Style: feel good, touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, father son relationship, lgbt, gays and lesbians, single father, lgbtq, looking for love, loneliness, gay interest, love and romance, widower, gay lead character ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Beautiful (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own daughter! She manages to persuade her best bud to raise the kid as her own (Miss AM can't be a ...
Style: humorous, light, melancholic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: beauty pageant, friendship, pregnancy, family problems, blind ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, family relations, single parent, ambition, parents and children, child illness ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Man of No Importance (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, psychological, realistic
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Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 84 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
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Duration: 99 min.
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Plot: obsession, geek, prejudice, crimes of passion, mental illness, family problems, society, crumbling marriage, satire, family drama, loneliness, lgbt ...
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Viper's Nest (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, sexy, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
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Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Alumni Chapter (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
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Plot: friendship, college, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, unfulfillment, estrangement, society, best friend, friends, dull life, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
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The Mass Is Ended (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Onetime campus radical Nanni Moretti renounces his past to become a priest. Returning to his home village, Moretti is appalled at the lack of religious reverence amongst the townsfolk. Unable to communicate with any of his old friends, who've ...
Style: spiritual, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: priest, love letter, spirit, circus, church, innocence lost, society, clergy, idealism, solace, religions or cults, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Last Weekend (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, eccentric family, parents and children, siblings relations, dark humor, family gatherings, gay, friendship, dysfunctional family, lgbtq, lgbt, family relations ...
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22%
The Perfect Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Seventy-Two Days (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story: A rebellious teenage girl wrestles with the true nature of miracles when her father begins to believe in a religious hoax which she has secretly created.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, profound ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
House of Angels (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into tow on a big black motorcycle with her androgenic boyfriend Zack, wearing ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever
Plot: summer, motorcycle, inheritance, free spirit, village, lgbt, small town, gay, countryside, nordic, transgender, european ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Marc Hall, a young man living in Quebec, registers his prom date as per his Catholic school's rules. He is denied his request, because his prom date is a boy. Marc Hall is an openly gay teenager in a very conservative Catholic school. This film ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prom, gay, gay teenager, lgbt, fighting the system, against the odds, teenage love, teenage life, society, youth, lifestyle, working class ...
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows ...
Style: road movie, cult classic, entertaining, sweet, light ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Don Peyote (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
Style: semi serious, surreal, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: obsession, losing-it hero, disorder, friendship, conspiracy theory, wedding preparations and rituals, drug, stoner, profanity, life turned upside down, unfulfillment, end of the world
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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