Low self esteem movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant low self esteem movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good, entertaining, semi serious and captivating films and TV shows about / with low self esteem, friendship, love and romance, bare chested male, love, father son relationship, jealousy, family relations, gay and male nudity plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as low self esteem: Please Like Me (2013), I Feel Pretty (2018), Sex Ed (2014), School for Scoundrels (2006), My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010), Frankie and Johnny (1991), I-Lived (2015), Like Stars on Earth (2007), Isn't It Romantic (2019), Walking with the Ferryman (2014).

List of low self esteem movies

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 8.5
 20K
Please Like Me (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, sincere, semi serious, sitcom ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, roommate, sexuality, friendship, lgbt, depression, homosexual, suicide attempt, low self esteem, gay relationship, dating, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, indiana
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 5.6
 57K
I Feel Pretty (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A head injury causes a woman to develop an extraordinary amount of confidence and believe she's drop dead gorgeous.
Style: light, captivating, romantic, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: believe in yourself, self confidence, beauty queen, confidence, female protagonist, self esteem, delusion, friendship, cosmetics, fat woman, couple relations, low self esteem ...
Place: new york, usa
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 5.6
 6K
Sex Ed (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Eddie lands his first teaching gig at an inner city middle school and finds his highly pubescent pupils are receiving no form of sexual education. Eddie isn't really equipped to teach them...he's not exactly experienced romantically.
Style: sex comedy, not serious, humorous, sexy, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex education, high school teacher, teenager, caught having sex, female nudity, prostitute, sex talk, teachers and students, looking for sex, workplace situations, low self esteem, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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School for Scoundrels (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young guy short on luck, enrolls in a class to build confidence to help win over the girl of his dreams, which becomes complicated when his teacher has the same agenda.
Style: funny, humorous, absurd, hilarious, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loser, farce, rivalry, teaching the ways of the world, love and romance, teachers and students, cons and scams, low self esteem, high school, gang, traffic policeman, teacher ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: friendship, teacher, elderly, intergenerational friendship, social relations, low self esteem, unsupportive parent, misfit, self discovery, illiteracy, unknown father, single mother ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, belgium
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Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, ex convict, loneliness, dating, love, love story, life philosophy, friendship ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 4.4
 903
I-Lived (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Josh Fosse is a 20something guy whose life is going nowhere. His girl left, his rent is late, and he lacks a real job. He is trying to make it as an app reviewer online and decides to review a self help app called i-Lived for fun. He's signs on ...
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, loneliness, low self esteem, cheating girlfriend, devil, suicide, love and romance, characters in danger, obsessive quest, friends, killings, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and ...
Style: motivational, touching, inspirational, captivating, educational ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dyslexia, teachers and students, teacher, teaching the ways of the world, childhood, self discovery, dedicated educator, young heroes, coming of age, shyness, school, learning disability ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2010s, 21st century
Place: india, middle east, asia, mumbai india
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Isn't It Romantic (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up ...
Style: feel good, romantic, rom com, parody, light ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: love triangle, cliche, cynic, love, gay stereotype, best friend, fat woman, vulgar woman, architect, male objectification, satire, ugly duckling ...
Place: new york
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Walking with the Ferryman (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
Story: An emotional fantasy in which a grieving gay man must open disbelieving eyes to the possibility of supernatural and mythological worlds in order to gain opportunity for reconciliation with a lover lost to apparent suicide.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot: afterlife, spiritualist, male nudity, supernatural, ghost story, supernatural power, gay interest, redemption, psychic, paranormal, suicide, chase ...
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 7.1
 6K
Wanda (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Wanda, after a string of abusive relationships, abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal (Michael Higgins).
Style: independent film, depressing, road movie, existential, serious ...
Plot: low self esteem, feminist, women, female protagonist, poverty, loneliness, drug addiction, social outcast, addiction, affair, girl, sex crime ...
Time: year 1970, 60s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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Nobody Else But You (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's ...
Style: semi serious, erotic, sexy, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: investigation, mysterious death, blonde, small town, suicide, psychiatrist, misogyny, model, nude model, voyeurism, sex, female nudity ...
Time: year 2001, year 2005, year 2000, year 1999, year 2009 ...
Place: france, europe
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 6.1
 177K
The Waterboy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Style: parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night
Plot: football, bullying, college, social outcast, underdog, american football, farce, rags to riches, mentor, ridicule, dumb, foul language ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans, southern usa
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 3.3
 244
Teen Vamp (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An unimpressive, boring high-school geek is bitten and contracts vampirical symptoms, transforming him into a confident coolio.
Style: humorous, scary, suspense, freeze frame, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, high school, cheerleader, male nudity, teenager, supernatural power, teenage boy, transformation, dark humor, research, rivalry, awkward situation ...
Time: 1950s
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 3.8
 184
Spindl (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Story: When on the mountains, so to Špindl. In the snowy Špindlerův Mlýn the sisters Eliška, Katka and Magda go to the women's ride in the full-length winter comedy Špindl. They plan to enjoy relaxation, fun and perhaps a bit of love adventure. ...
Style: romantic
Plot: mountain, fake identity, winter, snow, husband wife relationship, promiscuous woman, painting, chase, pharmacist, older man younger woman relationship, low self esteem, waiter ...
Place: prague
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 3.7
 271
Repo (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Leon and TJ are best friends and repo men. After ten years, with a high school reunion looming, Leon wants out of the repo business. TJ has concocted a hair-brained scheme to steal all the cars they've repoed. When the plan fails, it falls ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: car theft, friendship, friendship between men, friend, stolen money, college student, low self esteem, neighbor neighbor relationship, theft, car thief, diner, police officer ...
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 5.9
 941
Convenience (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Film follows two friends attempting to rob a petrol station, but are so useless that they end up working there all night.
Style: feel good, entertaining, satirical, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: low self esteem, robbery, attempted robbery, heist gone wrong, convenience store robbery, store, burglar, satire, workplace, heist, criminal, irony ...
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Counting Sheep (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Ernesto is unappreciated by those around him, but all of that will change when three, peculiar, new friends appear on the scene. They will do anything to help him get his self-esteem back, even if it leads him to prison... or an early grave.
Style: captivating, semi serious, satirical
Plot: satire, changing lives, male protagonist, drug dealer, lifestyle change, low self esteem, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, new neighbor, escapades, problem, male nudity
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 7.1
 474
Total Dreamer (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: Eliza lived in the interior of Rio de Janeiro with her family, but after getting involved in a mess with her stepfather, she fled to the capital and started to live on the streets of the city. Despite her careless appearance, she draws attention for ...
Style: novela, feel good, captivating, touching, sweet ...
Plot: bet, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, change of heart, aspiring singer, character change, model, talent, love and romance, popularity, low self esteem, stereotypes ...
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 7.6
 7K
Ed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his small hometown of Stuckeyville where he buys the local bowling alley and attempts to win the heart of his high school ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, funny ...
Plot: bowling, small town, homecoming, looking for love, starting over, working class, old love, workplace situations, social relations, couples, old friend, workplace ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.
Style: sad, tragicomedy, social, melancholic, novela ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: forgery, cat, lesbian, writers, lgbt, female protagonist, accomplice, letter, deception, female writer, living alone, fraud ...
Time: future, year 2014, year 1939, year 1994, year 1991
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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 5.5
 485
Lovelife (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: professor, older man younger woman relationship, low self esteem, love, writers, love triangle, friendship, breakup, older woman younger man relationship, couples, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 90s
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 5.1
 11K
The D Train (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: With his 20th reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his ...
Style: humorous, captivating, realistic, light, funny ...
Plot: friendship, high school reunion, gay, lgbt, high school, teenage boy, obsession, party, employer employee relationship, low self esteem, midlife crisis, eavesdropping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 5.6
 13K
Dread (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: fear, torture, violence, cruelty, held captive, college student, psychopath, mind game, childhood trauma, social relations, human nature, nightmare ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.5
 2K
Tiger Orange (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In the small Central California town where they grew up, two estranged gay brothers struggle to reconnect after the recent death of their father.
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, gay interest, gay relationship, gay brother, death of father, gay slur, outdoor sex, gay sex, lgbtq, caught in the act ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. ...
Style: funny, humorous, sex comedy, romantic, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: wedding, public nudity, topless woman, erotic massage, sex scene, nudity, sexual humor, canceled wedding, violent woman, stupidity, pretending to be someone else, farce ...
Time: year 2016
Place: hawaii, oceania
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Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
Style: touching, captivating, sentimental, clever, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, overweight, youth, first sex, mother daughter relationship, culture clash, women, dressmaker, physical appearance, working class, unsupportive parent, society ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
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A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Style: parody, humorous, funny, absurd, not serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: old west, wild west, small town, irreverent, cowboy, stereotypes, profanity, fall in love, satire, newcomer, teaching the ways of the world, notoriety ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, victorian era, 19th century, 1880s
Place: usa, arizona
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 6.9
 36K
Ally McBeal (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama television series, originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997 to May 20, 2002. Created by David E. Kelley, the series stars Calista Flockhart in the title role as a young lawyer working in the ...
Style: sentimental, talky, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lawyer, law firm, roommate, legal, lust, female protagonist, seduction, workplace, workplace romance, friendship, workplace situations, legal action ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.
Style: entertaining, touching, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dog, love and romance, mistaken identity, model, radio, friendship, love story, happy ending, disorder, comedy of errors, women, relationships ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: usa
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