Movies like Tully

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Tully (2018)
 6.9
 61K
Tully (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, inspirational, touching, serious, social, sad, art house, sex comedy ...
Plot: motherhood, baby, family relations, depression, female protagonist, mother, nanny, plot twist, marriage, parents and children, autism, newborn baby, split personality, twists and turns, postpartum depression, baby girl, hallucination, pregnancy, parent child relationship, threesome, brother sister relationship, mental breakdown, party, sleeping, kindergarten ...
Time: 80s, 50s, 2010s, year 1977, 1950s, contemporary
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, saudi arabia, manhattan new york city, phoenix arizona, portland oregon

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Most similar movies to Tully

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and melancholic films with plots about family relations, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, kiss, coming of age, father daughter relationship and cell phone mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Tully: Young Adult (2011), Boys on the Side (1995), American Woman (2018), Margot at the Wedding (2007), Unexpected (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 6.3
 85K
Young Adult (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
Style: realistic, talky, depressing, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: mental illness, high school, small town, childhood sweetheart, borderline personality disorder, emotional breakdown, alcoholic, divorce, narcissism, thirtysomething life, depression, arrested development ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, california, new jersey, usa, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Boys on the Side (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh ...
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: lesbian, aids, friendship, road trip, pregnancy, women, gay, lgbtq, african american, violence, lgbt, bittersweet ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, pittsburgh, new york, pakistan, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
American Woman (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, feminist film
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: single mother, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, police investigation, serial killer, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, disorder, love, gladiator, judiciary ...
Time: year 2012
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, cynical, depressing, stylized, melancholic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nude, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, secrets, greed, character study, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, vermont, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.8
 3K
Unexpected (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, friendship, teachers and students, dedicated educator, society, teenage girl, intergenerational friendship, teenager, teacher, young parents, teen social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago illinois, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 81K
Blockers (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When three parents discover their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
Style: ridiculous, funny, entertaining, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: prom, loss of virginity, chase, parent child relationship, friendship, father daughter relationship, couples, lesbian, nubile, sex scene, teenager, nubile girl ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style: touching, emotional, sad, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: relationships, family relations, mother daughter relationship, cancer, love, marriage, dysfunctional family, death, love affair, children, dying young, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: texas, new york, nebraska, usa, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.9
 26K
Georgia Rule (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, sincere, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenager, dysfunctional family, small town, family problems, parents and children, redemption, family relations, honest, secrets, confession, justice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, san francisco, new jersey, california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.4
 299K
Lady Bird (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.
Style: thought provoking, art house, realistic, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, teenager, teenage girl, prom, high school, first love, father daughter relationship, loss of virginity, teen romance, best friend ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, year 2003, 21st century
Place: sacramento california, california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.1
 38K
The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, emotional, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot: midlife crisis, depression, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, character study, redemption, family relations, childhood, nursing, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.3
 110K
Instant Family (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from ...
Style: feel good, funny, sweet, sincere, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, teens
Plot: parenting, adoption, foster home, foster parent, adoptive father adopted son relationship, adolescence, family relations, parents and children, couples, court hearing, children, anger ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Running with Scissors (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style: stylized, intense, disturbing, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, mental illness, therapist, psychology, writers, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, adoption, lesbian, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, massachusetts, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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: tense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: loss of child, birth, midwife, pregnancy, couples, grieving, marriage, mother in law son in law relationship, love, husband wife relationship, infidelity, death ...
Place: boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Style: biting, cynical, stylized, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, lesbian, adolescence, lesbian sex, high school, coming of age, sexual harassment, false accusation, school, dysfunctional family, cheerleading, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Maps to the Stars (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Style: surreal, stylized, disturbing, cynical, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, hollywood, mental illness, aspiring actor, child star, obsession, actress, mother daughter relationship, satire, threesome, haunted by the past, menage a trois ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, canada, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, realistic, depressing ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, love, bipolar disorder, depression, life philosophy, social misfits, supportive parent, gambling, male female friendship, football, psychology, adaptation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia, new jersey, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.4
 12K
Saving Face (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Style: romantic, touching, sexy, humorous, inter cultural ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, coming out, lesbian romance, lgbtq, gay, lesbian sex, gays and lesbians, loneliness, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, new york, usa, shanghai, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.7
 16K
Grandma (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her ...
Style: road movie, depressing, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: abortion, road trip, lesbian, teenager, pregnancy, aging, teenage pregnancy, grandmother granddaughter relationship, writers, friendship, gay, character study ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 7.7
 168K
Another Round (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, unusual plot structure, ironic, semi serious ...
Plot: teacher, friendship, experiment, group of friends, alcohol abuse, drunkenness, dancing, restaurant, marriage, friendship between men, nothing goes right, binge drinking ...
Time: year 2011, year 2013
Place: copenhagen, denmark, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.5
 67K
The Farewell (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, thought provoking, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: grief, wedding, lie, female protagonist, masseuse, women, life, family gatherings, terminal illness, death, isolation, existentialism ...
Place: china, usa, new york, japan, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Nanny Diaries (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, love and romance, family relations, adult child friendship, mischievous children, fall in love, obnoxious boss, parents and children, little boy, fish out of water, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious ...
Style: humorous, funny, psychological, ironic, surreal ...
Plot: slacker, tattoo artist, arrested development, stoner, fear of commitment, re-education, coming of age, divorced man, jealousy, family relations, dancer, video game ...
Place: new york, new york yankees, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
 22K
Thumbsucker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Style: emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, youth, addiction, teenager, depression, psychologist, self discovery, lifestyle, teenage life, drugs, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Style: humorous, disturbing, semi serious, sincere, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenager, adolescence, family relations, eccentric family, teenage life, self discovery, single parent, sex aid, social differences, parents and children ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, tokyo, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.6
 4K
Peep World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family's most intimate secrets.
Style: realistic, talky, humorous, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, siblings relations, family feud, parents and children, eccentric family, family gatherings, writer's life, dark humor, artists and showbiz, sexual dysfunction, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.6
 29K
Mr. Church (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style: sad, sentimental, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot: friendship, childhood, life, food, relationships, african american, family bonds, love story, loneliness, idealism, destiny, love ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1977, year 1986, year 1980 ...
Place: usa, boston, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.0
 10K
Flower (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom's new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. When Bob's mentally unbalanced son, Luke, arrives from rehab to ...
Style: touching, mumblecore, disturbing, psychological, road movie ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: child molestation, murder, chase, friendship, 17 year old, sexual promiscuity, teenager, teenage girl, absent father, teenage boy, father daughter relationship, prison ...
Time: year 2016
Place: paris france, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.1
 52K
Parenthood (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dysfunctional family, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, pregnancy, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, single mother, family relations, little girl, husband wife relationship, little boy ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 8.0
 59K
Mommy (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Style: melancholic, touching, depressing, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: oedipus complex, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, mentally unstable, juvenile delinquent, incest overtones, single mother, violence, teenager, stuttering, youth, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2015, near future, 2010s, year 2010, year 1982 ...
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard ...
Style: feel good, humorous, emotional, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dysfunctional family, cleaning lady, suicide, dark humor, family business, cheerleading, police investigation, family relations, workplace, family problems, single parent, new job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new mexico, california, albuquerque new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%