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Patrick Melrose (2018)
35K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the Patrick Molrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Style:
ironic, suspense, captivating, surreal, psychological, entertaining, dark, anime, therapeutic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
father son relationship, child abuse, childhood trauma, drug addiction, depression, mental illness, dialogue, traumatic childhood, violence, loneliness, millionaire, dysfunctional family, alcohol abuse, family relations, family problems, incest, lifestyle, nude, misfit, husband wife relationship, destiny, addiction, friends, society, flashback ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 90s, 80s, 60s, 1960s, 1990s
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Most similar movies to Patrick Melrose
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, suspense and realistic films and TV series with plots about family relations, mental illness, dysfunctional family, family problems, drug, psychological drama and addiction mostly in Drama, History and Crime genres. Some movies like Patrick Melrose: I Know This Much Is True (2020), The Virtues (2019), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Dopesick (2021), Addicted (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th century America.
Style:
sad, psychological, touching, social, suspense ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, male male relationship, brotherhood, mysterious past, loss of child, life is a bitch, breast cancer, stepfather stepson relationship, twin brother, child abuse, schizophrenic, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
70s, 2020s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, connecticut
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
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Joseph falls into despair when his nine-year-old son Shea leaves for Australia with his ex Debbie. Sufffering the hangover from hell, he walks away from his present life and boards a boat bound for Ireland to confront memories from his childhood.
Style:
suspense, captivating
Plot:
family reunited, loneliness, dysfunctional family, confronting the past, family tragedy, brother sister relationship, relationship problems, life is a bitch, tragic past, childhood memory, haunted by the past, family life ...
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, drug, junkie, loneliness, mental illness, depression, dream, subculture ...
Time:
year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
britain, america, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, spectacular ...
Plot:
addiction, medical, sick, crime investigation, drug, crisis, health, drug addiction, lawyer, opium, investigation, corporation ...
Time:
2020s, 20th century, 80s, 2010s, 90s ...
Place:
america, virginia, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Story about drug and alcohol addict rich girl Yana. Meeting psychologist Ilya changes her life.
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, suspense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
drug addict, love triangle, eternal youth, clinic, drug addiction, addiction, friends, rich and poor, rehabilitation, recovery, supportive parent, psychotherapy ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style:
touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
depression, mental illness, happy ending, losing-it hero, midlife crisis, mental disorder, dysfunctional family, psychology, family drama, mental health, coping, cheerleader ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
56K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
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Story:
Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, atmospheric, serious, costume drama ...
Plot:
medicine, hospital, doctor, addiction, workplace situations, surgeon, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, nun, medical, realism, society ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, year 2014, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
usa, new york, america
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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In a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s, a young girl discovers an astonishing talent for chess while struggling with addiction.
Style:
period piece, psychological, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
chess, genius, addiction, coming of age, female protagonist, prodigy, child prodigy, competition, champion, girl power, adoptive mother, girl ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
europe, usa, kentucky, las vegas, paris france ...
Similarity:
57%
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100K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Style:
sexy, captivating, cynical, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
youth, teenage life, high school, sexual relations, underage drinking, drug, friends, friendship, high school life, crush, looking for sex, party ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, canada
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, ...
Style:
witty, stylized, captivating, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
lawyer, workplace situations, family relations, hotshot lawyer, legal, criminal lawyer, dark humor, dishonesty, moral dilemma, money, organized crime, lawyer client relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, syria, north america
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A family reunion aboard a ship becomes a turning point in the life of 39-year-old engineer Markus. When his son Adam (4) gets a little cut after going to the bathroom with his grandmother Renate, Markus recalls for the first time what his mother did ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, serious, psychological
Plot:
sexual abuse, rape, parent child relationship, domestic violence, family secret, childhood trauma, dysfunctional family, mental illness, repressed memory, psychotherapy, child abuse, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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The sudden death of her husband upends and transforms every relationship in Leigh Shaw’s life. It also forces her to realize there was a lot about her husband that she didn’t know.
Style:
emotional, captivating, compassionate, psychological, exciting ...
Plot:
starting over, grief, young widow, recovery, family secret, husband wife relationship, changing lives, new life, lifestyle, death of husband, secrets, family relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
syria
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Kaseifu no Mita is a 2011 Japanese television drama series. The story revolves around a family who is grieving over their mother's recent suicide. They hired Mita as a housekeeper to upkeep the house, which has been thrown into disarray. Mita, ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family secret, housewife, family relations, family drama, trauma, grief, family problems, changing lives, husband wife relationship, murder mystery, suicide ...
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27%
584
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
It is not easy to make an appointment with the in-demand 40-year-old Moscow psychotherapist Oleg. To his clients, he seems to be a successful and independent family man, while passions are raging inside him, he himself needs qualified help from a ...
Style:
depressing, sentimental, absurd, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
sex doll, character study, mental illness, psychologist, midlife crisis, psychotherapist, loneliness, social relations, lifestyle, doll, delusion, introvert ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
moscow russia
Similarity:
26%
117K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance.
Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, intellectual, political, smart ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
finance, money, corruption, investor, stock exchange, wall street, twists and turns, wealth, stock market, rivalry, life philosophy, obsession ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot:
drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A Mexican anthology television series which deals with the social problems of Mexican society.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thought provoking, telenovela
Plot:
domestic violence, violence, relationship problems, physical abuse, graphic violence, brutality, female protagonist, social problems, women, parents and children, violent, drug ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Safiye and Gülben are two obsessive sisters who live in a dependent manner with their brother Han who is the only real connection between this family, including their sick father, and the world. Han’s lifelong goal is to keep this family afloat ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, psychological, intense
Plot:
family secret, mental illness, trauma, family drama, obsessive compulsive disorder, confronting the past, love interest, life is a bitch, relationship problems, family life, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story:
Travelling salesman Bunny Munro takes his son around Sussex following the death of his wife Libby. And while Bunny’s grief and his addictions threaten to derail their road trip entirely, a serial killer dressed as the Devil makes his own way down ...
Style:
road movie, dark, crime thriller, dark comedy, tense ...
Plot:
female nudity, father son relationship, road trip, grief, addiction, traveling salesman, mourning, character study, sex addict, serial killer, death of spouse, loneliness ...
Place:
brighton, england
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style:
grim, tense, depressing, talky, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, redemption, actor, family life, alcohol abuse, human nature, actor's life, lifestyle, morphine, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1912, year 1962, 60s ...
Place:
connecticut, ireland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A story about a group of seven London-based students from 1965 to the present day.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, saga ...
Plot:
drug addict, society, group of friends, love and romance, destiny, love affair, friends, social relations, friendship, lifestyle, ethnic diversity, flatmate ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Hizaki Yuko is a child psychologist working at the Childcare Center. At work, her heart goes out to the children at the center. At home, she has to endure the grumblings of her mother, Tamiko, who is the sole caregiver of Seitaro, Yuko's father ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, social problems, family relations, psychological trauma, relationship problems, crime investigation, crime solving, life is a bitch, family problems, psychology, homicide detective, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions during the birth of his twins, William Banks strikes a tentative deal with God. In exchange for a second chance, he vows to kick his addictions and dedicate his life to helping others. Now, along ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, touching ...
Plot:
addiction, belief, hopes, rescue, life is a bitch, going straight, family relations, family life, human nature, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, drug rehab ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story:
Freely adapted from the novel by Swedish writer Kerstin Thorvall.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
neglected wife, dysfunctional marriage, mental illness, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, family problems, mental patient, family life, lifestyle, husband wife relationship, family relations, marital problem ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1959, year 1976, year 1968
Place:
havana cuba
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
TV show
Story:
After a whirlwind romance, Olivia finds herself as the mistress of the imposing Foxworth Hall, where she soon discovers that the fairy tale life she expected has quickly become a nightmare.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, period drama
Plot:
family secret, incest, forbidden love, dysfunctional family, secret, eccentric family, family relations, family problems, husband wife relationship, society, life is a bitch, sex with stepson ...
Time:
1910s, 1950s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, depressing ...
Plot:
child abuse, pedophile, rape, child molester, child rape, child molestation, prostitute, sex, coming of age, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, society ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
indiana, asia, tennessee
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Style:
sexy, poignant, realistic, depressing, black and white ...
Plot:
addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcoholics anonymous, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, dysfunctional marriage, drunkenness, secretary, amor, recovery, love ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa, texas, california, houston texas
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The series revolves around the lives of Ukrainian teenagers in a secondary school class. The teenagers struggle with bullying, including the Blue Whale Challenge, lack of parental support, suicidal behavior, LGBT identity crises-a subject that is ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological
Plot:
teen suicide, secret, father son relationship, gay son, high school, teenage boy, depression, social media, teenage life, coming of age, homosexuality, gay teenager ...
Time:
year 1919
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
25%
854
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tangle is an Australian drama series for the Showcase subscription television channel. It focuses on the tangled lives of two generations of two families. Tangle is filmed in Melbourne and first screened on 1 October 2009. It is written by Fiona ...
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
family relations, family problems, eccentric family, family life, troubled marriage, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, parents and children, marital problem, lifestyle, politician, generation ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
TV show
Story:
Jiang Chen-bo is a loser without prospects for success, until a surprise promotion becomes the catalyst for his entire family's upturn in fortune.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, romantic comedy
Plot:
father son relationship, dysfunctional family, family problems, problem, family relations, changing lives, family drama, relationship problems, misfit, kids and family, lifestyle, poor ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
25%
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