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Being Human (1994)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, intense, non-linear, serious, spiritual, philosophical, mystical, light, thought provoking ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
renaissance, existentialism, desert, beach, happiness, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, melancholy, language barrier, reflection, cynicism, voice over narration, reincarnation, multiple storylines, life & death, life philosophy, social differences, society, medieval, caveman, sea, village, slavery, crusader, slave ...
Time:
medieval times, prehistoric times, 17th century, middle ages, year 1994, prehistory, stone age ...
Place:
italy, europe, africa, scotland, new york, rome italy
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Most similar movies to Being Human
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about dialogue, bittersweet, storytelling, life philosophy, family relations, mentor and runaway mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Being Human: Local Hero (1983), House of D (2004), Dead Poets Society (1989), Housekeeping (1987), Unstrung Heroes (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Style:
witty, sweet, humorous, touching, talky ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
small town, village life, husband wife relationship, fish out of water, culture clash, american abroad, melancholy, social commentary, oil, therapist, rabbit, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
scotland, houston texas, texas
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, light, period piece, intense ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, friendship, troublemaker, storytelling, haunted by the past, parents and children, teenage life, mentally challenged, love and romance, misfit, youth ...
Time:
70s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, paris france, france, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Style:
philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
teacher, suicide, poetry, coming of age, poet, mentor, teenager, literature, teachers and students, friendship, philosophy, dedicated educator ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1959
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style:
sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, self discovery, friendship, eccentricity, depression, flood, female protagonist, aunt niece relationship, grief ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 70s
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, youth, family drama, eccentricity, cancer, uncle nephew relationship, children, child hero, social justice, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
Style:
sentimental, compassionate, surreal, stylized, parody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doctor, redemption, dark humor, life philosophy, depression, family drama, hospital, alter ego, introspection, parents and children, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
60%
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:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, captivating, art house
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, sex scene, intimacy, family relations, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family problems, women, life turned upside down, escapades, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
Style:
sincere, depressing, sexy, emotional, dark comedy ...
Plot:
weatherman, midlife crisis, family drama, dysfunctional family, hopes, relationship vs career, family problems, father son relationship, solitude, character study, father, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, parenting, life philosophy, single father, beach, single parent, family drama, life & death, parenthood, child care, absent mother, character change ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
52%
38K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, scenic, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
road trip, travel, journey, pilgrimage, death of son, spiritual journey, dead son, self discovery, redemption, on the road, grief, wanderlust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, france, iberian peninsula, basque country, europe ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering ...
Style:
road movie, scenic, thought provoking, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, male pubic hair, vandalism, free spirit, nudity, bare chested male, male nudity, bus, life, stranger, friends ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
chicago, tennessee, new jersey, california
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply ...
Style:
emotional, intense, surreal, dark comedy, humorous ...
Plot:
cemetery, dysfunctional family, disability, vengeance, children, moral ambiguity, segregation, british, justice, existentialism, siblings relations, brutality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, ireland, australia ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Style:
sentimental, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, bittersweet, family gatherings, hospital, cancer, depression, fortune teller, priest, birthday, architect, old people ...
Time:
80s
Place:
malibu california, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all ...
Style:
dark comedy, clever, offbeat, black comedy, cult classic ...
Plot:
writers, transgender, lgbtq, single mother, dysfunctional family, wrestling, coming of age, passion, writer's life, lgbt, magic realism, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place:
bolivia, new york
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fan, new love, optimism, department store, midlife crisis, hairdresser, widow, happiness, fate, parent child relationship, unfulfillment, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Style:
sentimental, touching, intense, compassionate, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, adult
Plot:
interracial relations, racism, culture clash, miscegenation, african american, social commentary, interracial marriage, widower, doctor, prejudice, liberal, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, america, usa, hawaii
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In Momma's Man an adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house. An odd premise, but executed with skill and tenderness.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, mumblecore, sincere ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, family problems, introspection, love and romance, family relations, family life, eccentric family, unfulfillment, parents and children, pregnancy, relationship problems, living together ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot:
child's point of view, coming of age, dysfunctional family, society, small town, young heroes, lifestyle, family life, family problems, understanding, obsession, youth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia, germany
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, black comedy, independent film ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, cheerleader, childhood, character study, redemption, family relations, nursing, parents and children, siblings relations, sibling relationship ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather ...
Style:
touching, road movie, tragicomedy, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
holocaust, closeted homosexual, on the road, culture clash, journey, self discovery, collector, road trip, prejudice, judaism, dog, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, europe, odessa ukraine, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
39%
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, emotional, sweet, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, direction and purpose, father son relationship, justice, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, happy ending, redemption, tragedy, cancer, actor's life, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A dramatic comedy where a the relationship of a teacher and married principal goes much worse than that of their children.
Style:
realistic, independent film, semi serious, thought provoking, surreal ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, alzheimer's disease, marriage, solar eclipse, suburbs, single parent, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couple relations, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, berlin germany, california
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections ...
Style:
feel good, sexy, emotional, independent film, witty ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, teenage boy, audition, eccentric family, character study, warden, deception, family life, family problems, prison, nothing goes right, family relations ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, serious, tear jerker ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, misfit, friendship, disability, boy, bully, loneliness, youth, social misfits, illness, school bully, hot dog ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio, columbus ohio
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and ...
Style:
independent film, touching, emotional, black comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
adoption, culture clash, dysfunctional family, transgender, hospital, interracial love relationship, food, racial issues, blaxploitation, wine, american history, family relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, los angeles, california
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
Style:
dark comedy, clever, black comedy, sexy, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
high school, teacher, writers, single father, loneliness, life & death, father son relationship, grief, family drama, caught masturbating, suicide, life philosophy ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, nebraska, seattle
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for ...
Style:
talky, touching, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the road, father son relationship, family relations, parents and children, self discovery, love and romance, husband wife relationship, escapades, food, vegetable, senior citizen, aging ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Style:
philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, thought provoking ...
Plot:
murder, adultery, infidelity, mistress, philosophy, existentialism, guilt, justice, uncle niece relationship, blackmail, moral dilemma, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, canada
Similarity:
34%
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:
sexy, emotional, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
treasure hunt, mental illness, father daughter relationship, family relations, musician, hopes, obsession, child as adult, eccentricity, estrangement, obsessive quest, escapades ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, southern california, new jersey
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, intellectual, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, friendship, character study, alienation, fish out of water, melancholy, unlikely couple, actor, hotel room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, yale university, america ...
Similarity:
33%
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