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Black Pond (2011)
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Black Pond (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Thompson family is accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Six months later, family friend Tim visits freelance therapist Dr. Eric Sacks and the story finds it's way to the press. The facts are bent and the details spun as the Thompsons become known to the public as 'The Family of Killers'.
Style: humorous, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, clever, offbeat, realistic, witty ...
Plot: family relations, false accusation, uncover truth, eccentric family, dark humor, disorder, family gatherings, murder, death, stranger, husband wife relationship, family dinner, love, dog, father daughter relationship, interracial relations, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, swimming pool, funeral, reporter, drawing, painting, interview, british ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about dark humor, family relations, murder, disorder, husband wife relationship, death and family problems mostly in Comedy, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Black Pond: The Anniversary (1968), Trial and Error (1962), Daddy Cool: Join the Fun (2009), Three and Out (2008), Durval Records (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Anniversary (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mrs Taggart always celebrates her anniversary with her grown sons. It’s a tradition practised since the death of her husband and she is determined for it to continue. None of her three sons have dared to cross their ruthless domineering mother but ...
Style: dark comedy, psychotronic, offbeat, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: bad mother, manipulation, mother, hagsploitation, gay, old woman, family relations, dysfunctional family, anniversary, family gatherings, single parent, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: canada, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Trial and Error (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall (Sellers) is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle (Attenborough) who is accused of murdering his wife (Beryl Reid). Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall ...
Style: black comedy, black and white, semi serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, law, bird, legal, murder, murder trial, satire, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Daddy Cool: Join the Fun (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: So, what can happen at a funeral? Even, if it's the funeral of Daddy Cool Douglas Lazarus? It's in Goa, tears, sad speeches, melancholia... right? Wrong! When... The coffin makers deliver the wrong body, all hell breaks loose in this witty ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating, realistic
Plot: family relations, nothing goes right, family gatherings, disorder, funeral, love, woman in a bikini, death, beach, death of father, bollywood, exercising ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Three and Out (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.
Style: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever ...
Plot: friendship, terminal illness, teenage life, cons and scams, writer's life, friends, dark humor, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, kinky sex, unfulfillment, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Durval Records (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Durval and his mother Carmita live at the back of "Durval Discos", a record store they own in São Paulo, specializing in vinyl records. They lead a boring and unattractive life, until the day Durval hires a maid, Celia, to help his mother ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, surreal, offbeat ...
Plot: dark humor, eccentric family, comedy of errors, farce, life turned upside down, single parent, family problems, missing child, disorder, family relations, crime gone awry, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.5
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Mr. Kaplan (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Uruguay, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: aging, investigation, amateur detective, partner, rivalry, old age, judaism, holocaust, voice over narration, cigarette smoking, jail, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, germany, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Last Days of Emma Blank (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman living in a large country home drives her servants to mutiny with her outrageous demands as she waits for death to come for her.
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous, slasher ...
Plot: family relations, estate, farce, dysfunctional family, family problems, lifestyle, parents and children, terminal illness, eccentric family, power relations, dark humor, master and servant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Cul-De-Sac (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the ...
Style: neo noir, black and white, art house, dark comedy, psychotronic ...
Plot: gangster, female nudity, home invasion, infidelity, adultery, castle, hostage, coward, isolation, nudity, homophobic slur, death ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Rancid Aluminum (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, sad, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, family business, going straight, hitman, down on your luck, cons and scams, love affair, drug abuse, dishonesty, betrayal, buddies, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london, germany, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Permanent Vacation (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A camping trip results in some twisted family memories in this off-the-wall black comedy. Hoping for one last family vacation before his children leave the nest, laid-back dad Eric Bury (Frank Harper) takes his brood to a trailer park teeming with ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, erotic, offbeat ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, dark humor, family problems, disorder, nothing goes right, imaginary kingdom, wish come true, insanity, husband wife relationship, family vacation, making love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Divorcing Jack (1998)
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the ...
Style: dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: ira, nun, death, european, anglo irish relations, murder, political corruption, cynic, on the run, uncover truth, couple relations, media ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Novocaine (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, suspenseful, tricky, humorous ...
Plot: dentist, murder, femme fatale, drug use, betrayal, false accusation, dark humor, twists and turns, life turned upside down, frame up, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals ...
Time: year 2001
Place: wisconsin, arizona, usa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 5.5
 937
Out Cold (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A comedy about an angry married couple, a private investigator, and a walk-in freezer.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: male pubic hair, private investigator, infidelity, halloween, partner, private detective, murder, frame up, male nudity, frozen body, hunting, love triangle ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
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69%
 6.6
 2K
Montenegro (1981)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she ...
Style: dark comedy, sexy, cult classic, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: mad woman, immigrant, male nudity, sexuality, erotica, dark humor, nudity, death, insanity, adultery, storytelling, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: balkan, europe, stockholm sweden, former yugoslavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.7
 937
Gravehopping (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Slovenia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Pero is a professional funeral speaker in a small Slovenian town. His unique gift is to make every funeral that extra bit special. Pero just can't help turning his eulogies into witty personal confessions that bring the grieving crowd to tears ...
Style: semi serious, bleak, humorous, slapstick, realistic ...
Plot: funeral, dysfunctional family, sadomasochism, family problems, family relations, eccentric family, social relations, village, village life, death, sexual content, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Intimate Relations (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young merchant marine turns up in an English coastal town looking for a brother he barely knows. When his brother's wife rebukes him he takes up with the Beasley family. However, soon the mother and daughter are chasing and ending up in the ...
Style: erotic, realistic, semi serious, biting, disturbing ...
Plot: age difference, elderly lovers, love and romance, older woman younger man relationship, doomed love, age-gap relationship, dysfunctional family, infidelity, dangerous attraction, obsession, couple relations, orphan ...
Time: year 1996, 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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The Maid (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance ...
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, psychological, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: master and servant, maid, self discovery, social differences, workplace, power relations, unfulfillment, society, dark humor, disorder, family relations, satire ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: chile, latin america, santiago chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: obsession, serial killer, murder, friendship, violence, imagination, investigation, family relations, writers, couple relations, darkness, poet ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Twister (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter ...
Style: sad, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, tornado, family relations, couples, family problems, dark humor, eccentric family, family gatherings, family life, mental illness, storm, dinner ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: kansas, usa
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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 ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Getting Away with Murder (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.
Style: humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Plot: murder, vigilantism, dark humor, neighbor neighbor relationship, false accusation, investigation, college, uncover truth, racism, college professor, disorder, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Simmons are playing the brothers' father and uncle, respectively, while Caan is one of the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, contemplative ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, last wish, family problems, ex athlete, self discovery, introspection, terminal illness, friendship, death, society, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 5.7
 785
Next Door (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
Style: slapstick, cynical, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: feud, neighbor, prank, professor, terror, disorder, family relations, dark humor, couples, contests and competitions, human nature, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style: humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, working class, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, family problems, couples, estrangement, death in the family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Death at a Funeral (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New ...
Style: funny, black comedy, dark comedy, talky, melancholic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: eccentric family, death, dysfunctional family, family relations, black, family gatherings, death in the family, male nudity, silly humor, dishonesty, gay father, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides ...
Style: semi serious, cynical, witty, christmas horror, realistic ...
Plot: estate, dark humor, master and servant, obsession, murder, human nature, manipulation, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, riddles and clues, nightmare, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, england, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Revenge for Jolly! (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Harry (Brian Petsos) is having a very, very bad day. He returns home from an all-night drinking binge with his cousin Cecil (Oscar Issac), to discover that his little dog Jolly...Harry's one true love and the source of light in his dark, ...
Style: humorous, tense, psychological, captivating, road movie ...
Plot: revenge, partner, dark humor, murderous pair, farce, murder, sociopath, violence, satire, rage, strong violent content, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Can you really get away with murder? Welcome to the world of Katrina, a 19-year-old single mum who's planning to do just that. Katrina lives in a world of petty crime, fast cars, manicures and blow-jobs. A master manipulator of men living at ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspense, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: family relations, murder, dark humor, suburbs, teenage life, family feud, attempted murder, single parent, youth, intrigue, parents and children, femme fatale ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Mr. Stink (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: This family comedy based on David Walliam's best-selling book tells the story of Chloe, who sees Mr. Stink every day, but has never spoken to him. Before she knows it, Chloe has an unusual friend hiding in her garden shed. As it turns out that ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, offbeat
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: friendship, parents and children, intergenerational friendship, youth, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, conservative, christmas, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Blood and Ties (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, murder, uncover truth, investigation, moral dilemma, danger, hidden identity, woman in danger, parents and children, single parent, reporter, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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