Movies Similar to To Set Our House in Order

Grill(2023)

Tara is denied electricity bill support by Social Services, who tells her to simply get a free grill instead - a task that leads Tara into uncomfortable situations. Inspired by true events, "Grill" offers a satirical look at how a rich country in Scandinavia deals with poverty.

9.5

Old Man(1979)

A man in his 30s visits a Soviet school to try to hook up with a young teacher there, and meets one of her students, whom he enlists to help introduce him to his romantic interest. While he waits for the student to free up, he observes the absurd Soviet culture, most evident within the school system, especially among the younger children.

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Wuhan Driver(2021)

At the onset of the pandemic, a Chinese Uber driver in New York struggles to make ends meet as he picks up various passengers on a long and dreary night.

0.0

Blank Canvas(2017)

Two disparate strangers, a Gen Xer and a Millennial, form an unlikely bond on a rooftop after both experiencing traumatic situations.

0.0

Jemima + Johnny(1966)

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.

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On the Path(2015)

A road in the middle of nowhere. A car. A bike. Two lonely people looking for the same thing. They meet.

2.0

The Atomic Adventure(2019)

Algeria desert, 1961. France just detonated an atomic bomb. A patrol of seven soldiers is sent to ground zero to take samples and measure the current radioactivity. The more they advance, the more they perceive that they are entering a dangerous uncharted territory: the future…

5.8

Bad Boy Buck(2022)

After a one-night stand with another man, a married farmer attempts to hide the affair from his family as the truth drives him to breaking point.

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My Pretty Pony(2017)

The story follows an elderly man on his deathbed who gives his young grandson a pocket watch and warns the boy against the dangers of letting time slip away.

6.8

Paradigm(2016)

Innocence, sex and lust converge to tell the story of Guille, a teenager who seeks himself through others.

4.0

Nightstand(2015)

An unsettling portrait of a destructive three night affair between two men - one is gay, lost and adolescent, the other is married to a woman and middle-aged. Set in the heart of Soho, a fracturing queer landscape, Nightstand is a whirlwind of repressed yearnings and urban loneliness.

5.0

The Light Before the Sun(2024)

A famous self-help guru returns from a book tour to a house suddenly filled with an estranged friend. The two friends then spiral into a drug-induced contemplation of the human condition.

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Momma Jenny & the Brooks Boys(2016)

After witnessing the murder of her husband and oldest son at the hands of a Confederate home guard unit, Jenny Brooks trains her remaining sons to avenge their family.

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Carousel(2017)

Carousel is a story of love, loss and the hope for redemption when a criminal escapes death and gets a second chance at life in more than one way.

10.0

True(2004)

While he's receiving an enigmatic phone call from his girlfriend Francine, Thomas remembers the milestones of their relationship, from the very moment they met in a really strange way. A segment of “Paris, je t'aime” (2006).

6.8

Spring(2017)

Amanda struggles to keep something inside as she spends the day taking pictures of her best friend.

4.0

The Good Teacher(2020)

The Good Teacher is a film about the lives of school teachers in a low-income urban area and the challenges they face while trying to provide a quality education to students. Dominique Daily is a first year school teacher who gives up his football career after an injury to teach Math at Louis Jones high school while struggling to cope with his short-lived life long dream of being a football star.

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Intended Parents(2021)

'Intended Parents' is a short film about a Black millennial couple, seeking to expand their family through surrogacy. With one partner identifying as a transgender woman, the couple (Alexandra Grey as "Robyn" and Lawrence Locke as "Anthony") find themselves continously educating or being imprisoned by outdated traditions and opinions from loved ones. While the film explores the intersections of love, gender, surrogacy, acceptance, and desperation; the powerful couple aims to deflate multiple negative stigmas as they prepare for the life-alternating roller coaster of fertility and surrogacy.

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Chasin'(2021)

Two men connect more than just sexually, when a Scruff hook-up has them meeting in a park in the middle of a hot summer's night.

1.0

White Man(1994)

A white-collar South Korean man discovers a severed human finger and keeps it.

5.5