Misfit movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant misfit movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, weird, serious, touching, psychological and cult classic films and TV shows about / with misfit, teenager, friendship, coming of age, youth, friends, social misfits, teenage boy, flashback and father son relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
misfit
TOP 10 movies tagged as misfit: The Invisible Boy (2014), Spider (2002), The Invention of Lying (2009), The New Guy (2002), Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Forrest Gump (1994), Valhalla Rising (2009), Garage (2007), Hesher (2010), Everything Sucks! (2018).
Best films
New films
The Holdovers (2023) | 8.0 | |
Army of Thieves (2021) | 6.4 | |
Hazbin Hotel (2019) | 7.8 | |
Lazare (2020) | 7.0 | |
Onward (2020) | 7.4 |
List of misfit movies
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids
Plot:
young heroes, misfit, teenager, invisibility, invisible man, school, boy, teenage boy, youth, society, small town, superhuman powers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
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41K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style:
psychological, surreal, disturbing, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot:
mental illness, schizophrenia, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, paranoia, misfit, insanity, psychopath, mental patient, murder, twists and turns, surrealism ...
Time:
2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, britain, africa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
Style:
philosophical, funny, humorous, romantic, satirical ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
atheism, society, alternate reality, rags to riches, love and romance, misfit, truth, love triangle, satire, life after death, life philosophy, existentialism ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 13th century, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten lucky -- after purposely getting expelled, he takes lessons in 'badass cool' from a convict and enrolls at a new school. But can he keep up the ruse?
Style:
feel good, funny, teen, hilarious, parody ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
teenager, high school, bullying, friendship, starting over, stereotypes, high school life, cheerleader, teenage love, misfit, cheerleading, youth ...
Time:
y2k, 2000s
Place:
austin texas, texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.
Style:
dark comedy, disturbing, realistic, depressing, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, dysfunctional family, misfit, humiliation, teenager, youth, school, social outcast, female protagonist, childhood, high school ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, near future, year 1995
Place:
new jersey, seattle, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Follows Andy, who needs to hook up with a hottie, pronto, because he hasn't had sex in... well, forever - and his luck isn't the only thing that's hard. His equally horny teenage roommates also need it superbad, and with the help of ...
Style:
spoof, humorous, parody, funny, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virginity, buddies, absurdism, stupidity, teenage life, youth, misfit, looking for sex, disorder, making love, satire, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant ?
2.2M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
life & death, philosophy, life philosophy, mentally challenged, destiny, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, storytelling, life, journey ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., vietnam, china, alabama ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of ...
Style:
surreal, bleak, art house, disturbing, brutal ...
Plot:
viking, danger, warrior, norse mythology, medieval, lone wolves, death, mute, misfit, new world, violent, vengeance ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, year 2009, ancient times, 10th century
Place:
jerusalem, europe, scotland, holy land
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tragicomedy set in the world of gas stations in rural Ireland, where over-diligent employee of the garage searches for intimacy during the course of a life-changing summer.
Style:
realistic, psychological, melancholic, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
small town, society, friendship, social relations, misfit, angst, village, loneliness, friends, coming of age, village life, teenage life ...
Place:
ireland, europe
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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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54K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Style:
bleak, realistic, independent film, serious, touching ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
youth, grief, antisocial behavior, loner, depression, arson, life is a bitch, trauma, family problems, family drama, rebelliousness, coming of age ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
It's 1996 in a town called Boring, Oregon, where high school misfits in the AV and drama clubs brave the ups and downs of teenage emotions in the VHS era.
Style:
touching, humorous, stylized, cult classic, colorful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, teenager, relationships, interracial friendship, coming of age, high school, school, misfit, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, road trip, lesbian ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
oregon
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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, emotional, touching, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, disability, friendship, boy, bully, loneliness, misfit, youth, social misfits, illness, fight, best friend ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, talky, not serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
bookstore, weirdo, workplace, workplace situations, friendship, misfit, best friend, workplace problem, uptight character, store, drunkenness, farce ...
Time:
near future, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
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146K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Chuck is an American action-comedy/spy-drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an ...
Style:
light, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
geek, double life, cia, secret agent, espionage, enemy, peril, spy, lifestyle change, misfit, dishonesty, undercover ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Is relevant ?
20K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, suspense, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Plot:
rat, dangerous animal, vengeance, workplace, loner, psychopath, misfit, greed, brutality, obsession, loneliness, boss and employee ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Is relevant ?
722K
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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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
Is relevant ?
126K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style:
black comedy, thought provoking, independent film, melancholic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, age difference, friendship, adolescence, graduation, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, blues, teen angst, best friend, youth ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, los angeles
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19K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Harassed by bullies because of his mild autism, teen Ben (Greg Timmermans) finds refuge in an online computer game, which leads him to his virtual dream girl, Scarlite (Laura Verlinden). Together, the odd couple seeks revenge against Ben's ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, serious, stylized, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
autism, bullying, asperger's syndrome, communication problem, escape from reality, internet, mental illness, computer, suicide, computer game, antisocial behavior, imaginary friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, brussels belgium
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
marijuana, coming of age, hip hop, misfit, dysfunctional family, first love, depression, high school, friendship, weed, drug, stoner ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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194K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
Style:
bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing, hood ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
racism, rebel, ghetto, poverty, skinhead, youth, police brutality, police, friendship, rebellion, drug, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
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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, 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
Is relevant ?
31K
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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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.
Style:
inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
american football, adoption, life, african american, human spirit, family drama, christian, interracial relations, football, rising to stardom, racism, interracial adoption ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee, america, boston, mississippi ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, controversial, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder of a prostitute, mentally unstable, macabre, murderer, brutality, sex crime, alcoholic, loser, misfit, loner ...
Time:
70s, year 2019, 20th century, year 1974, year 1970
Place:
hamburg germany, germany, northern germany, west germany, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nate moves to L.A. to track down Cristabel, the woman he's been in love with since childhood, only to discover that his plan to woo her only has one hurdle to overcome: what to do with June, Cristabel's ever-present, not-so-hot best ...
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, touching, disgusting ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
dream girl, misfit, best friend, love and romance, looking for love, cons and scams, unfulfilled love, blonde, rivalry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, transformation, teenager ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, feel good, touching, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, funeral, eccentricity, existentialism, misfit, alienation, old age, depression, couples ...
Time:
year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa
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23K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An American, Leopold Kessler, goes to post-war Germany in 1945 to work as a railroad conductor for the Zentropa Rail Line instead of going into the Army because he feels its a more valuable thing to do for the state of the world. He meets Katharina ...
Style:
art house, surreal, bleak, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
train, world war two, assassination, betrayal, idealism, suicide, against humanity, misfit, terrorism, employee, danger, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, post world war two
Place:
germany, nebraska, frankfurt germany, munich germany, europe
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2.3M
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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