Movies like Brigsby Bear

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Brigsby Bear (2017)
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Brigsby Bear (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
Style: funny, touching, psychological, cult classic, captivating, semi serious, dark, mysterious, experimental, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friends, filmmaking, adaptation, police, parents and children, happy ending, isolation, adult as child, teenager, magical, captive, dysfunctional family, wisdom of life, held captive, mental health, siblings, abduction, bear, party, kidnapping, secret, arrest, friend, news report, stoner ...
Time: year 2017
Keyword: challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, captivating and touching films with plots about friends, friendship, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, teenager and teenage life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Brigsby Bear: This Is the Night (2021), Couch Potatoes (2017), The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), Man in the Chair (2007), Like Father (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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This Is the Night (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1982, as all of Staten Island anticipates the opening of a blockbuster boxing movie, an Italian-American family must confront its greatest challenges.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, weird
Plot: gay, teenage crush, teenage boy, teenager, dysfunctional family, family secret, teenage protagonist, life is a bitch, family problems, teenage life, friends, friend ...
Time: year 1982
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95%
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Couch Potatoes (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: father son relationship, teenager, parents and children, friends, teenage life, family relations, friendship, youth, unlikely friendships, society, disorder, happy ending ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Style: captivating, humorous, sincere, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, relationships, coming of age, love, friendship, society, parents and children, family relations, friends, rivalry ...
Time: year 2017
Place: new york, indiana, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Man in the Chair (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: follow your dream, obsessive quest, friendship, youth, aging, society, lifestyle, family relations, filmmaking, teenage life, parents and children, hollywood ...
Time: year 2007
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Like Father (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a workaholic young executive, is left at the altar, she ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with the last person she ever expected: her estranged and equally workaholic father. The two depart as strangers, but over the course of a few ...
Style: light, sweet, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, workaholic, father daughter reunion, father daughter conflict, parents and children, family relations, father and daughter, breakup, relationships, humour, family reunited, travel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, couples, wooing, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
King of California (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Charlie gets released from an insane asylum and moves in with Miranda, the young daughter he left behind. Charlie believes that there is treasure hidden beneath the local Costco, so he puts together a plan to unearth the loot. By convincing Miranda ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: treasure hunt, mental illness, father daughter relationship, insanity, family relations, obsession, child as adult, musician, treasure, eccentricity, obsessive quest, escapades ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, surreal ...
Plot: heroes, gangster, escapades, danger, parents and children, police, yakuza, escape, filmmaking, asian, moving, samurai ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Unpregnant (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A 17-year old Missouri teen named Veronica discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
Style: road movie, sweet, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage pregnancy, abortion, coming of age, teenager, road trip, teenage girl, pregnant girl, women, friendship, pregnancy, schoolgirl, moral dilemma ...
Time: 2020s
Place: missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Bunny and the Bull (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
Style: surreal, captivating, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: odd couple, friendship, isolation, friends, partner, wilderness, haunted by the past, on the road, buddies, introspection, escapades, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.3
 508
Only Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than ...
Style: psychological, captivating, funny, satirical, disturbing ...
Plot: ex convict, female protagonist, police officer, police, unlikely friendships, satire, opposites attract, thief, women
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.4
 5K
Landline (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, feel good, art house
Audience: chick flick
Plot: teenager, infidelity, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, women, family problems, escapades, family relations, parents and children, life turned upside down, deception ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Tenets of the Maladjusted (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of maladjusted friends reunite and decide to compare their latest experiences and differing tenets.
Style: satirical, captivating, entertaining, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot: satire, group of friends, relationships, male female relationship, escapades, old friends reunited, reunited friends, friends, friendship, female nudity, friend
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Expecting (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, indie film ...
Plot: friends, baby, best friend, life turned upside down, family relations, friendship, pregnancy, woman, father, husband, adoption, weakness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 5.6
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Nowhere (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in the middle of nowhere. Their friends on the outside start to plan their escape.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: politics, society, escape, dictator, political prisoner, isolation, rebelliousness, abduction, kidnapping, friend, night, police ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: italy, latin america, chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, family life, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time: year 2009
Place: usa, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Way Way Back (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Style: touching, realistic, teen, independent film, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: summer, teenager, vacation, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, dysfunctional family, boy, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.5
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Paper Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his ...
Style: touching, tricky, psychological, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: friendship, self discovery, midlife crisis, coming of age, imaginary friend, writers, small town, depression, loneliness, character study, relationships, creativity ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: long island, atlantic ocean, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Eat Wheaties! (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sid Straw leads a dull life until he accidentally stalks famous college friend, Elizabeth Banks, on social media. With each failed attempt to prove he knows her, he rediscovers more of himself and the true meaning of friendship.
Style: funny, semi serious, satirical, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot: celebrity, high school friend, humour, friendship, friends, problem, satire, evidence, college, actress
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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In the Soup (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Style: black and white, dark comedy, indie film, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Plot: filmmaking, poverty, disability, stoner, gangster, ambition, artists and showbiz, writer's life, unlikely partners, friends, cons and scams, friendship ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Wish I Was Here (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic ...
Style: independent film, touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: self discovery, direction and purpose, father son relationship, justice, tragedy, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, happy ending, redemption, cancer, actor's life, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.
Style: touching, mumblecore, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Plot: slacker, brother brother relationship, midlife crisis, brothers, twists and turns, everyday life, parents and children, loser, naivete, character change, immature, existentialism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Let's Stay Friends (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Alessandro, a forty-year-old widower pediatrician, lives with his teenage son, leading a monotonous and insipid existence. After a call from an old friend in Brazil, the man has his tired stability tested.
Style: satirical, feel good, humorous, funny, semi serious ...
Plot: caper, single father, money, humour, friendship, friends, cons and scams, father son relationship, father and son, satire, escapades, single parent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Unicorn Store (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
Style: allegory, humorous, sincere, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dream, misfit, magic, women, family relations, hopes, parents and children, grownups, youth, adaptation, ambition, society ...
Time: 2010s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
This Is the Year (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A nebbish high school senior and his best friends embarks on a road trip to attend the greatest music festival of the year in a last-ditch effort to win over the girl of his dreams.
Style: semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
Plot: road trip, coming of age, teenage protagonist, teenage love, relationship problems, friends, teenage life, love affair, teenager, love interest, adolescence, rock music ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: It’s been more than 10 years since our last appointment at Calvin’s Barbershop. Calvin and his longtime crew, including Eddie, are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary is ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, feel good, inspirational, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: barbershop, black, urban, friends, coworker relationship, father son relationship, customer, african american, family life, business venture, black man, hip hop ...
Place: indiana, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
The Talent Given Us (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, touching ...
Plot: on the road, eccentric family, family relations, elderly, cross country, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, friend, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style: sentimental, touching, psychological, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, aunt, grandmother, bike, mental health, coming of age, candy store, brother, bittersweet, family problems, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Remember the Daze (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school and prepare for the future. Holly, once the new girl in school, does whatever it takes to remain popular. Dawn, who is ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, coming of age, high school prom, hardcase students, juvenile delinquency, underage drinking, love and romance, teenage life, teenage love, junior high school, friends ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.
Style: sincere, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, feel good ...
Plot: weight loss, running, marathon, friends, dream, transformation, female protagonist, escapades, society, direction and purpose, runner, ambitious woman ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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