Social misfits movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant social misfits movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, psychological, touching, realistic, depressing and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with social misfits, misfit, coming of age, teenager, youth, friendship, teenage girl, teenage life, adolescence and family relations plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as social misfits: Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The Future Diary (2011), The Class (2007), Benny & Joon (1993), Trainspotting (1996), This Is England '86 (2010), Ken Park (2002), Daria (1997), My Mad Fat Diary (2013), Precious (2009).

List of social misfits movies

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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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: romantic, touching, offbeat, depressing, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, bipolar disorder, love, family drama, depression, life philosophy, adaptation, supportive parent, male female friendship, father son relationship, happy ending, social misfits ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, peru, america ...
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The Future Diary (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Yukiteru Amano (Yuki) is a loner who never really interact with people and prefers writing a diary on his cell phone with his only companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: danger, survival, teenage life, contests and competitions, battles, foreknowledge, supernatural, loner, social misfits, diary, misfit, predicting the future ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
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 7.9
 16K
The Class (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style: serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, bullying, vengeance, humiliation, society, youth, friendship, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, high school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia, europe
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 7.1
 62K
Benny & Joon (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Style: touching, melancholic, sweet, feel good, compassionate ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, brother sister relationship, social misfits, love, love story, misfit, mechanic, disability, love and romance, mental health, dysfunctional family, schizophrenia ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, seattle, washington state
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 8.1
 722K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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This Is England '86 (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: This Is England '86 is a 2010 British drama miniseries written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne, a spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England. Shaun has just finished his final exams and he realizes he is no longer a kid. It's mid ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, disturbing, touching, serious ...
Plot: subculture, skinhead, life is a bitch, youth, friendship, friends, rebelliousness, teenage life, sexual relations, adolescence, couples, student ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: england, yorkshire, europe
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 5.8
 31K
Ken Park (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style: disturbing, art house, sexual, rough, explicit ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, sex, youth, explicit sex, strong sexual content, underage sex, incest, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, nude, nudity, teenage sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 8.1
 27K
Daria (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Daria Morgendorffer lives with her stressed-out, career-fixated parents, Helen and Jake, and her relentlessly cute and popular little sister, Quinn. Daria and her fellow outcast and best friend, Jane Lane, attend Lawndale High School where they are ...
Style: clever, adult cartoon, witty, cynical, adult animation ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: sarcasm, loner, social misfits, high school life, everyday life, antisocial behavior, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, school, lifestyle, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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My Mad Fat Diary (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend ...
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, fat girl, teenage life, youth, loneliness, depression, teenage love, adolescence, high school life, unhappy, first love, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: northern england, england
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 7.3
 116K
Precious (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style: bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: rape, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, teacher, poverty, child abuse, aids, illiteracy, domestic violence, african american, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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 8.8
 2.3M
Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
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 8.0
 845K
Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, time travel, psychology, imaginary friend, insanity, schizophrenia, parallel universe, surrealism, suburbs, time loop, social misfits, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place: virginia, america, los angeles, usa
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Welcome to the N.H.K. (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: N.H.K ni yôkoso! (Welcome to the N.H.K) revolves around the life of Tatsuhiro Satou, a 22 year old hikikomori who hasn't got a job and feels that the world around him is all a "conspiracy" controlled by the "N.H.K". He ...
Style: anime, psychological, semi serious, witty, captivating ...
Plot: lifestyle, social misfits, society, recluse, slice of life, mature, mental illness, socially awkward, antisocial behavior, lifestyle change, adultery, social relations ...
Place: japan, asia
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 7.2
 10K
Twisted (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A one-hour mystery full of twists and turns that follows Danny Desai, a charismatic 16-year-old with a troubled past who returns to his hometown after spending five years in juvenile detention. Immediately branded an outcast, Danny attempts to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, detective, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage life, social misfits, protagonist as suspect, homecoming, parents and children, starting over, haunted by the past, murder, gain trust, society, old friend, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style: emotional, tear jerker, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, magical, fantasy world, loneliness, classmate, school, imaginary, friends ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style: atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, surreal, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: children, coming of age, adolescence, camp, first love, boy scout, orphan, youth, island, search party, summer camp, journey ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965
Place: new england, nebraska, rhode island, usa
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The Imitation Game (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley ...
Style: inspirational, clever, intellectual, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: world war two, mathematics, genius, inventor, inventions and discoveries, code, code breaking, prodigy, mathematician, invention, computer, ambition ...
Time: 1940s, year 2014, 20th century, 1950s, 2010s ...
Place: england, london, britain, idaho, los angeles ...
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Front of the Class (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "Front of the Class" is based on the true story of Brad Cohen -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk -- who, "after being challenged by Tourette's syndrome from a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher
Style: inspirational, touching, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, dedicated educator, tourette's syndrome, school, disability, social misfits, stuttering, honest, friendship, father son relationship, understanding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, atlanta georgia
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 5.8
 148K
Carrie (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: bullying, high school, telekinesis, prom, blood, stephen king, mother daughter relationship, humiliation, supernatural ability, teacher, supernatural, social misfits ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.5
 31K
Kyle XY (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A suburban family that takes in a mysterious teen naive to the world around him. As Kyle begins to show signs of brilliance, solving the mystery of his origin and potential abilities becomes the family's mission.
Style: entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, thrilling ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: supernatural ability, experiment, foster child, supernatural, genius, teenage life, mysterious character, self discovery, teenage love, fish out of water, teaching the ways of the world, secret organization ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa
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 7.4
 205K
Carrie (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Style: tense, gothic, intense, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: prank, bullying, vengeance, telekinesis, cruelty, rage, prom, female protagonist, revenge, abusive mother, high school, social misfits ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s, future, year 1979 ...
Place: maine, usa
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 5.7
 4K
The Phantom (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets an man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, art house, erotic, gloomy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: fetish, gay sex, male nudity, gay, gay erotica, male rape, peeping tom, masturbation, lgbt, sadomasochism, dangerous attraction, homosexual ...
Time: 90s
Place: lisbon portugal, portugal
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Never Have I Ever (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.
Style: funny, light, humorous, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: popularity, school, teenage girl, friendship, social misfits, coming of age, girl, teenage protagonist, teenager, family relations, teenage life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style: gothic, fairy tale, surreal, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, freak, social misfits, love and romance, inventor, love story, teenage girl, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place: florida, usa
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Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sad, thought provoking ...
Plot: teacher, mental illness, friendship, children, inspiration, school, introspection, estrangement, imaginary friend, imaginary, imagination, psychology ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.0
 84K
Kids (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychedelic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, virginity, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, street kid, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, psychology, surrealism, gang, dystopia, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, brutality, sociopath ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1971, year 1995, 70s ...
Place: britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
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 6.4
 18K
Mary Shelley (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, forbidden love, literature, young lovers, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, love and romance, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place: london, scotland, switzerland
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 7.9
 37K
Elfen Lied (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, bleak ...
Audience: kids
Plot: memory loss, childhood trauma, split personality, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, supernatural, decapitation, sadism, experiment gone awry, social misfits, trauma, danger ...
Time: near future, future
Place: japan
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