Movies like Strange Weather

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Strange Weather (2016)
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Strange Weather (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Style: road movie, depressing, serious, sad, suspenseful, lyrical
Audience: toddlers
Plot: death of son, investigation, depression, death of child, grieving mother, revenge, murderer, death, murder, murder investigation, justice, murder mystery, vengeance, mother and son, danger, life & death, violent death, dying young, grieving, sex scene, sex, dog, lesbian, food, friendship ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, birmingham alabama, georgia ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about drink, drinking, husband wife relationship, telephone call, death, cigarette smoking and food mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Strange Weather: Along the Way (2007), Around the Bend (2004), Thirteen (2003), Redwood Highway (2013), The Spitfire Grill (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Along the Way (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, gloomy, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: best friend, college, friendship, friends, youth, hopes, redemption, buddies, coming of age, showbiz, partner, doctor ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
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95%
Around the Bend (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, death, road trip, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, aging, van ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
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71%
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Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style: tense, teen, realistic, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, teenager, peer pressure, friendship, addiction, dysfunctional family, teenage protagonist, underage drinking, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Redwood Highway (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, estrangement, escapades, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, hopes, redemption, parents and children, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pacific ocean, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style: christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friendship, bittersweet, self discovery, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, food, christian, abortion ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
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62%
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About Alex (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A circle of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to console a suicidal member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences ...
Style: independent film, inspirational, atmospheric, surreal, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, suicide attempt, depression, relationships, suicide, friends, group of friends, life philosophy, writer's block, anxiety, introspection, college graduate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Where Is Kyra? (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
Style: captivating, suspense, bleak, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: black american, name calling, poverty, husband wife relationship, police detective, mother daughter relationship, street life, lie, ex husband ex wife relationship, illness, african american, theft ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of... something else. Encouraged by her best friend, Carol, Beth reluctantly accepts the romantic ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, friends, small town, drinking, stoner, road trip, highway, salesman, self discovery, desert, friendship, deaf man ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: arizona, usa, las vegas, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Jerome (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: factory, on the road, desert, petty theft, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, self discovery, society, hopes, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Little Accidents (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together—a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy—in a web of secrets.
Style: suspense, sad, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot: small town, teenage boy, extramarital affair, adultery, coming of age, solace, marital problem, investigation, tragic event, disappearance, husband wife relationship, secret ...
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54%
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style: sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: family drama, sadness, loneliness, depression, loss, suicide attempt, death, nephew, grief, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, adoption ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Beautiful Boy (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Style: realistic, bleak, emotional, psychological, social ...
Plot: mass murder, school shooting, college, grief, couples, murder, death, haunted by the past, family problems, psychology, sociology, school massacre ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Leo (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, sincere ...
Plot: released from prison, infidelity, prison, going straight, life is a bitch, family problems, love affair, prison life, confined, husband wife relationship, hot and sexy, pregnancy ...
Time: 60s
Place: mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Reign Over Me (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style: touching, depressing, sincere, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: grief, friendship, 9/11, dealing with death, mental illness, friends, tragic event, loss of loved one, loss, alone, mental disorder, buddies ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
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48%
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 ...
Plot: farm, betrayal, retirement home, homecoming, parents and children, danger, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, family problems, grudge, country, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a ...
Style: melancholic, psychological, serious, sentimental, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: redemption, secrets, actor's life, funeral, alcoholic, artists and showbiz, teenage life, haunted by the past, destiny, older woman teenage boy sex, personal growth, youth ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Cake (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style: heartbreaking, depressing, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drug addiction, loneliness, depression, obsession, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, support group, character study, tragedy, mental illness, honest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, tijuana mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Pieces of a Woman (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the Ioss of her baby.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: loss of child, couples, birth, midwife, pregnancy, grief, grieving, dog, mother in law son in law relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, death ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Being Flynn (2012)
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: homeless, father son relationship, absent father, homeless shelter, writer's life, poet, writers, estrangement, family relations, life is a bitch, social misfits, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Winter Solstice (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Style: sentimental, realistic, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, starting over, small town life, love and romance, couple relations, brother brother relationship, suburbs, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single parent ...
Time: year 2004
Place: florida, new jersey, usa
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44%
What They Had (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
Style: sentimental, captivating, sincere, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, memory loss, mother daughter relationship, drinking, lie, blizzard, self discovery, introspection, drinking alcohol, family drama, illness, dementia ...
Place: chicago, sacramento california, florida, california, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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James White (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style: sad, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, mother son relationship, gay, drinking, friendship, promise, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, drinking alcohol, new life, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, year 1983, year 2013
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Goat (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.
Style: disturbing, captivating, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, college, dormitory, college campus, bare breasts, bare chested male, sibling relationship, death of friend, sexism, false accusation, party, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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43%
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So B. It (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
Style: sad
Plot: mother daughter relationship, cross country, coming of age, young girl, mental disorder, mentally challenged person, foster parent, bank, lake, baby girl, mail, bus driver ...
Place: reno nevada
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42%
12 and Holding (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
One Night in Miami... (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, suspense, sad, political
Plot: black history, racism, black, plantation, african american, fight for justice, racial injustice, injustice, inequality, friendship between men, women, victory ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1965, year 1963, year 1964
Place: miami, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.5
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All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Morvern Callar (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use ...
Style: disturbing, talky, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, suicide, christmas, friendship, writers, life philosophy, supermarket, road trip, friends, couple relations, best friend, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2002, 90s
Place: scotland, spain, ibiza, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style: philosophical, meditative, bleak, depressing, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: philosophy, infidelity, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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