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, realistic, touching, depressing and weird films and TV shows about / with social misfits, misfit, coming of age, teenager, youth, psychological drama, friendship, depression, teenage girl and loneliness 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: This Is England '86 (2010), Ken Park (2002), Benny & Joon (1993), The Class (2007), Daria (1997), My Mad Fat Diary (2013), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The Future Diary (2011), Twisted (2013), Trainspotting (1996).
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New films
| All Hail (2022) | 5.6 | |
| Reservation Dogs (2021) | 8.3 | |
| Security (2021) | 5.0 | |
| Inu-oh (2021) | 7.1 | |
| Ted K (2021) | 6.0 |
List of social misfits movies
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, teen, sincere, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, teenage love, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 1991, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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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, sexual, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
subculture, skinhead, youth, rebelliousness, social misfits, friendship, friends, life is a bitch, teenage life, sexual relations, adolescence, social problems ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
england, yorkshire, europe
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32K
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, sexual, sexy, art house, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, sex, strong sexual content, explicit sex, underage sex, older woman younger man relationship, youth, incest, teenage sex, nudity, suicide, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, australia
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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:
sweet, feel good, melancholic, cute, compassionate ...
Audience:
date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, social misfits, brother sister relationship, poker, love, mechanic, love story, mental health, siblings living together, misfit, mental disorder, autism ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
usa, seattle, washington state
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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:
bullying, school shooting, youth, humiliation, vengeance, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, teenage life, mistreatment, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
estonia, europe, eastern europe
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29K
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, witty, cynical, adult cartoon, adult animation ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
sarcasm, loner, social misfits, everyday life, teenage life, high school life, antisocial behavior, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, teenage girl, teen angst, school ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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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:
sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
fat girl, teenage life, mental health, teenager, youth, teenage girl, depression, loneliness, teenage love, psychiatric hospital, adolescence, group of friends ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
northern england, england
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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, romantic comedy, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, love, family drama, bipolar disorder, depression, adaptation, character study, social misfits, supportive parent, father son relationship, male female friendship, mental patient ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, peru, usa, pennsylvania, america ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, 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, bleak, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
danger, survival, battles, diary, loner, supernatural, teenage life, social misfits, contests and competitions, predicting the future, foreknowledge, fight ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia
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10K
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, teen, detective ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
social misfits, teenage life, protagonist as suspect, homecoming, parents and children, starting over, haunted by the past, old friend, society, gain trust, murder, suspicion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
765K
Genre: Crime, 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, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, dark humor, counterculture, junkie, life is a bitch, subculture, dialogue, social misfits ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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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:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, tourette's syndrome, dedicated educator, social misfits, teachers and students, school, disability, life philosophy, honest, friendship, father son relationship, understanding ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa, atlanta georgia, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A hedonistic bachelor, falls for an escaped mental patient. Til Schweiger comes up with a slickly-made off-the-wall romantic comedy drama "Barfuss" (Barefoot), his first solo directing effort in nearly a decade. Punchy, ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, humorous, touching, road movie ...
Plot:
social misfits, opposites attract, mental illness, love affair, runaway, psychiatry, fall in love, hopes, couples, illness, destruction, happiness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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8K
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, brother sister incest, incest, rape, youth, teenage life, suicide, homosexual, high school life, teenage love, incest rape, social relations ...
Place:
south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, New Zealand
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, touching, sad, tear jerker, teen ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, fantasy world, classmate, loneliness, magical, imaginary, teenage girl, loss of friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Style:
depressing, sexual, disturbing, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, loneliness, casino, alcoholism, prostitute, alcohol abuse, prostitution, depression, self destructing, tragedy, alcoholic, medical ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, nevada
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, 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, cute, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, boy scout, children, adolescence, first love, camp, youth, island, summer camp, orphan, search party, childhood ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965, 2010s
Place:
new england, rhode island, nebraska, usa, england ...
Is relevant?
2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
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:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
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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, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
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226K
Genre: Horror
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:
psychological horror, dark, tense, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
revenge, high school, prank, bullying, telekinesis, prom, social misfits, female protagonist, cruelty, coming of age, supernatural horror, stephen king ...
Time:
20th century, year 1976, 70s, year 1979, future ...
Place:
maine, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: 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, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
world war two, mathematics, genius, inventor, inventions and discoveries, code, prodigy, code breaking, invention, mathematician, gay interest, computer ...
Time:
1940s, year 2014, 20th century, 1950s, year 1939 ...
Place:
england, london, britain, idaho, los angeles ...
Is relevant?
120K
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:
depressing, emotional, inspirational, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, coming of age, poverty, teacher, sexual abuse, illiteracy, african american, domestic violence, aids, child abuse, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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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, captivating, witty, semi serious ...
Plot:
social misfits, lifestyle, recluse, slice of life, mental health, mature, conspiracy theory, satire, mental illness, socially awkward, surrealism, antisocial behavior ...
Place:
japan, asia
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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, teen, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
bullying, telekinesis, prom, revenge, high school, stephen king, blood, psychic power, supernatural ability, mother daughter relationship, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
32K
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, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
supernatural ability, foster child, supernatural, experiment, genius, teenage life, mysterious character, secret organization, self discovery, teenage love, supernatural power, fish out of water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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:
sexy, suspenseful, erotic, art house, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fetish, peeping tom, gay, gay sex, gay lead character, erotica, lgbt, sadomasochism, anonymous sex, male rape, sex, garbage collector ...
Time:
90s
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
Is relevant?
149K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark, USA, Cayman Islands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Style:
surreal, brutal, sexy, psychedelic, bloody ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
prison, prison life, violence, social misfits, character study, mental illness, male nudity, violent, violence spree, society, fistfight, sadism ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 80s, 70s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, united kingdom, london
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13K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, depressing, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revenge, masked killer, torture, high school, deathtrap, bullying, confined, misfit, social misfits, kidnapped, murder, sadism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
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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, sad, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, love story, freak, love and romance, social misfits, teenage girl, garden, inventor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
florida, usa
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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, sweet, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
popularity, friendship, teenage girl, lgbt, school, girl, family relations, teenager, coming of age, teenage protagonist, teenage life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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