Support group movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant support group movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, serious and sincere films and TV shows about / with support group, friendship, family relations, hopes, death, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, couples, life is a bitch and profanity plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as support group: Anger Management (2012), Cake (2014), Go On (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Smashed (2012), Loudermilk (2017), Rabbit Hole (2010), Gravity (2010), Fat Friends (2000), Sherrybaby (2006).

List of support group movies

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Anger Management (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie is a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. He has a successful private practice and he performs pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison. Prior to his career as a therapist, he was a major league ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, hilarious ...
Plot: therapist, support group, anger management, sexual humor, rage, anger, silly humor, psychiatrist, disorder, doctors and patients, frustration, irony ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 39K
Cake (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style: heartbreaking, depressing, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drug addiction, loneliness, depression, obsession, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, support group, character study, tragedy, mental illness, honest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, tijuana mexico, mexico
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 21K
Go On (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Ryan King, a recent widower and sports talk radio host ready to get back to work after the loss of his wife. Ryan's alpha-male boss, Stephen, has a different plan in store for Ryan, making him attend grief counseling before returning to the ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, semi serious, realistic, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: group therapy, support group, grief, coping, loss, solace, therapy, therapist, uptight character, life turned upside down, patient, friendship between men ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 18K
Smashed (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, ...
Style: sincere, depressing, touching, realistic, indie film ...
Plot: addiction, alcoholic, rehabilitation, support group, teacher, alcohol abuse, depression, introspection, irresponsible, recovery, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 16K
Loudermilk (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counselor with an extremely bad attitude about, well, everything. He is unapologetically uncensored, and manages to piss off everyone in his life. Although he has his drinking under ...
Style: light, sincere, captivating, sitcom, dark comedy ...
Plot: recovering alcoholic, recovery, abstinence, support group, counselor, drinking problem, social problems, society, social relations, coworker relationship, drunken man, drunkenness ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 51K
Rabbit Hole (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Style: touching, sad, crying, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: grief, loss of child, death in the family, marriage, estrangement, tragedy, support group, memory, redemption, family problems, death of child, death of son ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on a true story, former parole officer Marilyn Gambrell and a colleague set up a pioneer trial-based program in one of America's toughest high schools to help the children of incarcerated parents regain control of their own lives and not ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic
Plot: support group, dedicated educator, human spirit, idealism, against the odds, hopes, society, teenage life, teachers and students, high school, children, child abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, houston texas
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 1K
Gravity (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Gravity is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jill Franklyn and Eric Schaeffer. It premiered on April 23, 2010 on Starz in the United States. On June 30, 2010, Starz reported that Gravity had been canceled.
Style: realistic, tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, spooky ...
Plot: support group, suicide, father daughter relationship, life is a bitch, friendship, starting over, suicidal, mental disorder, human nature, hopes, misfit, plan gone awry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 336
Fat Friends (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Fat Friends was an ITV drama, following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse ...
Style: psychological, touching, humorous, sentimental, hilarious ...
Plot: support group, obesity, family relations, self fulfillment, friendship, weight loss, hopes, society, physical appearance, overweight, bulimia, colleague ...
Time: 21st century
Place: yorkshire, northern england, england, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 12K
Sherrybaby (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a ...
Style: independent film, bleak, depressing, serious, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug abuse, parole officer, prison, ex convict, fondling, addiction, drug addict, mother daughter relationship, support group, orgasm, bare breasts, starting over ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new jersey, delaware, usa
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The Single Moms Club (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: single mother, single parent, support group, racial stereotype, parents and children, social differences, family relations, friendship, friends, society, women, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.8
 516
Starved (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Starved is an FX Network television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders, who met at a "shame-based" support group called Belt ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: eating disorder, mental illness, support group, friendship, physical appearance, stock broker, dark humor, obsession, lifestyle, misfit, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 39K
Mom (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: recovering alcoholic, dysfunctional family, starting over, teenage pregnancy, alcoholics anonymous, support group, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional relationship, family relations, parents and children, troubled past, waitress ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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People of Earth (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham investigates a support group for alien abductees to write about the members' supposed encounters. The more he digs into their oddball claims, the more he realizes there is truth in their stories and possibly ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, ironic, funny, satirical ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: support group, alien abduction, alien contact, journalist, society, screwball, small town, alien invasion, satire, interracial couple, psychopath, existentialism ...
Place: new york state
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 345
Disfigured (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lydia is an overweight sales clerk in a trendy home furnishings store, nearing 30. Though she is a member of a Fat Acceptance Group (a movement dedicated to fighting prejudice against overweight people), she is still struggling with complex feelings ...
Style: realistic, psychological, touching, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: support group, friendship, friends, unlikely couple, looking for love, human nature, misfit, physical appearance, anorexia, obesity, acceptance, real estate agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
Is relevant ?
 5.4
 409
Nine Lives (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: gay, hiv, gay sex, infidelity, support group, lifestyle, lgbt, social relations, couples, youth, love and romance, breakup ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
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Starting Over (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: starting over, support group, dating, hopes, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, infidelity, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: boston, usa, new york
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 6.2
 3K
Narco (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best friend Lenny Bar, Gus decides to undergo therapy sessions and finds out that he can make incredible ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, offbeat
Plot: narcolepsy, dream, support group, follow your dream, ambition, imaginary, mental illness, daydreamer, group therapy, comic book, sleep disorder, disorder ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.
Style: psychological, scary, bloody, twist ending, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: torture, gory, game of death, mind game, violence, serial killer, trap, psychopath, survival, kidnapping, blood, vigilante ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 10K
Grace Is Gone (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.
Style: psychological, touching, realistic, tense, intense ...
Plot: iraq war, road trip, family relations, support group, insomnia, parents and children, truth, patriotism, couple relations, death in the family, on the road, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: iraq, minnesota, florida, chicago, usa
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'Til There Was You (1997)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Style: sentimental, light, sweet, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: loneliness, dating, stereotypes, neighbor, support group, single parent, parent child relationship, unfulfilled love, looking for love, neighbor neighbor relationship, fall in love, chance meeting ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 60s
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Boynton Beach Club (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A handful of men and women of a certain age pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director Susan Seidelman.
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly, support group, friendship, looking for love, couples, fall in love, midlife crisis, love and romance, lifestyle, family problems, single parent, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005
Place: florida, usa
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My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support ...
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rehabilitation, support group, recovery, family problems, friendship, human spirit, self discovery, hopes, drug abuse, coping, against the odds ...
Time: 1930s, year 1929, 1920s
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 19K
Eye for an Eye (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: rape, obsession, murder, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, vigilantism, rape and murder, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: persia, california, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 9K
Little Fish (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: junkie, oral sex, heroin, support group, life is a bitch, starting over, hopes, addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, tragedy, drug dealer ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, vietnam, sydney australia
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Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Genre: Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A worldwide epidemic encourages a bio-tech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
Style: gothic, dark, bloody, horror musical, visual ...
Plot: goth, medical, opera, support group, mercilessness, torture, addiction, rock, violence, powerful corporation, life is a bitch, against humanity ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
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See You in September (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Feeling abandoned by her therapist who's gone on an extended vacation, beautiful Lindsay (Estella Warren) gets help with her fear of commitment from an ad hoc support group formed by other New Yorkers also left high and dry by their shrinks. ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: support group, couple relations, friendship, doctors and patients, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, power relations, group therapy, waiter, therapy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 3K
Fat People (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "GORDOS" is a comedy about life's excesses and deficiencies; about our insecurities, phobias, obsessions, traumas, mistakes, fears, blame, desires, hopes, challenges, concessions, goals, relationships, love, sex, health, family... ...
Style: realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: therapy, obesity, support group, therapist, physical appearance, family relations, social misfits, human nature, group of strangers, parents and children, couple relations, introspection ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain
Is relevant ?
 5.7
 4K
Proxy (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. This horrible event seems to be a blessing in disguise when Esther finds consolation in a support group. ...
Style: scary, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore ...
Plot: revenge, pregnancy, female killer, life is a bitch, support group, gory, mind game, supernatural, home invasion, babies and infants, mental illness, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
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