20 best movies like Polyester (1981)

List of the best movies like Polyester (1981): Julien Donkey-Boy, The Grass Harp, Trust, Beginners, Extracurricular Activities, The Dictator, Hair, Wilson, Scotland, PA, The Opposite of Sex.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, would-be wrestler brother Chris, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed German father.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:47

After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, comedy, detective
CountryUSA

The outrageous life of Reagan Collins, a model high school student with a "killer" after-school job that involves arranging “accidents” for his classmates' parents. When seasoned police detective Cliff Dawkins starts putting the pieces together, it's a battle of wits to see if Reagan can keep business booming.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

    The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, military
    CountryWest Germany, USA
    Duration02:01

    "Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug and obsessed with his past.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration00:55

    Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks..

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryAustralia, USA

    A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration01:35

    A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception of the world and no idea how to live in it.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

    Aspiring New York City artist, John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, eight months pregnant with their first child, John is forced to navigate the crazy world he left behind.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryJapan, USA
    Duration02:09

    A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryIceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
    Duration01:53

    When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:28

    David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

      Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this black comedy.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

      An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountrySweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France
      Duration01:41

      An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration01:29

      A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
      Duration01:30

      In New York in 1995 Dr. Richard Jacks is a creator of perfumes. Thus he spends his days inventing new colorful and well smelling potions and certainly caring for his girlfriend Sarah Carver. But when he discovers that his greatgrandfather, called Dr. Jekyll, was a scientist with revoluntionary discoveries, he tries to follow the footsteps of his ancestor and creates more and more delicate potions until one of them converts him into a spectacular superwoman: Helen Hyde. Knowing that Richard has no clue of her existence Helen enforces a professional career at the back of her "creator".

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      When the notorious Diaper Mafia take hostage the Tromaville School for the Very Special, only the Toxic Avenger and his morbidly obese sidekick Lardass can save Tromaville.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Bright young student Raymond Aibelli is forced to sidetrack an important medical internship because his mother, Susan, is recovering from a broken leg. When he isn't tasked with the most mundane aspects of Susan's recuperation, Raymond finds distraction in a neighborhood girl, Toni Peck. But, as Susan begins relying on her son for both physical and emotional needs, Raymond starts developing disturbing and unwanted new yearnings.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.

      Markimdb: 3.4
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      When a family visits Grandma's house on Christmas Eve, they leave their dog at home alone. And when burglars try to take the presents from under the tree, the dog must use every trick it knows to stop them.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryNetherlands
      Duration01:27

      Fred lives on his own. His wife is dead, his son has left. He leans on the church, busses, meat-and-two-veg. Then Leo appears. Leo is a tramp. Fred lets Leo move in with him. An absurdist feature debut with a laugh and a tear in stuffy Netherlands.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must cope with a dangerously jealous fiancée, an exploitive future father-in-law and a group of buddies with an outrageous business plan!

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:29

      The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael try to unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them about life, as their family unit teeters on the edge of a collapse.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:36

      Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:30

      After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA, South Korea, China

      In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean. The three boys, from the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, then meet three girls who rock their world.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:36

      Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:23

      A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountrySweden
      Duration02:04

      Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA

      Billy Jackson is not having a good Christmas. He got a basketball for Christmas and just cannot make a jump shot. His Uncle David is coming to town to open a Valu-Mall, which will put his Dad's store out of business. When he tells his little sister Sarah that there is no Santa she makes a wish that it would be Christmas every day. Billy now has to relive Christmas Day over and over again.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryAustralia

      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 rest of his family embrace his new found lifestyle.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
      Duration01:34

      While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.




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