Highest-Rated Movies about 'Suburban Life', Sort by Popularity

The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002), The Swimmer (1968), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Strangers When We Meet (1960), No Down Payment (1957), Big Time Adolescence (2019) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Suburban Life movies.

#1. The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)

Storyline: David Hurst (Campbell Scott) is a mild-mannered dentist who shares a practice with his wife, Dana (Hope Davis). Concerned about Dana's recent sullen moods, David begins to suspect that she is cheating on him. As David becomes deeply unsettled by the possibility of Dana's infidelity, he begins having extended conversations with Slater (Denis Leary), a surly patient who dispenses plenty of blunt advice. Can Dana and David reconcile and save their marriage, or are they destined to separate?

Plot Keywords: dentist, husband, wife, patient, pretty woman, brooding, emotional ...

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#2. The Swimmer (1968)

Storyline: Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim across the whole valley. As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: advertising executive, old flame, babysitter, friend, housewife, bleak, dreamy ...

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#3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

Storyline: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.

Plot Keywords: father, wife, son, daughter, cousin, neighbor, hysterical ...

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#4. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)

Storyline: Seventh-grade is no fun. Especially for Dawn Weiner when everyone at school calls you 'Dog-Face' or 'Wiener-Dog.' Not to mention if your older brother is 'King of the Nerds' and your younger sister is a cutesy ballerina who gets you in trouble but is your parents' favorite. And that's just the beginning--her life seems to be falling apart when she faces rejection from the older guy in her brother's band that she has a crush on, her parents want to tear down her 'Special People's Club' clubhouse, and her sister is abducted....

Plot Keywords: teen girl, older brother, younger sister, guitarist, thug, mother, hilarious ...

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#5. The Virgin Suicides (1999)

Storyline: A man about forty years of age tells the story from when he was a teenager in upscale suburban Detroit of his and three of his friends' fascination with the mysterious and doomed Lisbon sisters. In 1974, the sisters were seventeen year old Therese, sixteen year old Mary, fifteen year old Bonnie, fourteen year old Lux, and thirteen year old Cecilia. Their fascination still remains as they try to piece together the entire story. The sisters were mysteries if only because of having a strict and overprotective upbringing by their father, who taught math at the girls' private co-ed school, and overly devout Catholic mother, who largely dictated the household rules. The story focuses primarily on two incidents and the resulting situations on the girls' lives. The first was an action by Cecilia to deal with her emotions over her life. And the second was the relationship between Lux - the sister who pushed the boundaries of the household rules most overtly in doing what most teenagers want to...

Plot Keywords: sister, teen girl, teenager, father, religious person, emotional, dark ...

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#6. Strangers When We Meet (1960)

Storyline: The awarded architect Larry Coe lives a boring marriage with his wife Eve Coe and their two young sons in the suburb. Larry is designing and constructing an unique house to the successful writer Roger Altar (Ernie Kovacs) on the top of a hill. Margaret 'Maggie' Gault is a sexy blond sexually neglected by her husband Ken Gault that lives in the same neighborhood and they have a young son. When Larry meets Maggie at the bus stop of the school bus, he unsuccessfully hits on her. But soon they encounter each other again and they have a love affair. They fall in love with each other, but when their despicable neighbor Felix Anders discovers their affair, they have to decide between loyalty and respect to their families or love.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: architect, wife, lover, neighbor, author, melodramatic, brooding ...

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#7. No Down Payment (1957)

Storyline: The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>

Plot Keywords: housewife, used car salesman, sexpot, veteran, alcoholic, husband, dark ...

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#9. Radiant City (2006)

Storyline: Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that ineffectually tries to create the more organically grown older communities. Interspersed with the comments of various experts about the nature of suburbia, we follow the lives of various inhabitants of this pervasive urban sprawl and hear their thoughts. However at the end, there is a twist that plays on the falseness of the world in they live.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

Plot Keywords: expert, mother, father, son, daughter, suburbanite, gripping ...

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#10. The 'Burbs (1989)

Storyline: This story takes place in a typical American neighborhood, when some new neighbors come to live in the house next to Ray Peterson. These new people are really strange; nobody has ever seen them, their house is a real mess, and during the night you can hear weird noises from their basement. The only thing they know is their name: Klopeks. One day Walter (an old man of the neighborhood) suddenly disappears and everyone starts to suspect the Klopeks...

Plot Keywords: suburbanite, wife, neighbor, vietnam vet, doctor, teen boy, hilarious ...

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#11. The Ugly Dachshund (1966)

Storyline: Fran Garrison's all in a tizzy because her prize Dachshund, Danke, is having pups, and she has hopes of one of the pups becoming a champion. But at the vet's, her husband Mark is talked into letting Danke wet nurse a Great Dane pup that's been abandoned by his mother. And Mark wants to keep the Great Dane. But Brutus has this problem: he thinks he's a dachshund and he's too big to be a lapdog. But when Fran ridicules Brutus one too many times, Mark's got a plan to prove to everyone (and Fran) that a great Dane can be far more than just an ugly dachshund.—Kathy Li

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, veterinarian, neighbor, dog, lighthearted, family home ...

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#12. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

Storyline: John and Jane Smith are a normal married couple, living a normal life in a normal suburb, working normal jobs...well, if you can call secretly being assassins "normal". But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret, until they are surprised to find each other as targets! But on their quest to kill each other, they learn a lot more about each other than they ever did in five (or six) years of marriage.

Plot Keywords: assassin, marriage counselor, wife, husband, secret agent, best friend, suspenseful ...

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#13. Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)

Storyline: Jeff, at 30, lives in his mom's basement, unemployed, looking for signs about what to do with his life. He answers a wrong-number call for "Kevin". Later, on a bus, he sees someone wearing a jersey with "Kevin" on the back. Jeff follows him. Meanwhile, Jeff's brother, Pat, a tone-deaf salesman, upsets his wife by buying a Porsche they cannot afford; Pat runs into Jeff soon after and they see Pat's wife with another man. At her job, Jeff and Pat's mom receives e-mails from a secret admirer; she tries to figure out who it is. Misunderstandings, errors, and confrontations abound. A backup on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway brings things to a head.

Plot Keywords: stoner, brother, mother, sister-in-law, amusing, heartwarming, touching ...

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#14. Put the Camera on Me (2003)

Storyline: Before he went on to direct Jawbreaker (1999)Sparkler (1997)Darren Stein grew up making videos. Along with his friend 'Adam Shell' and the other neighborhood kids these young film makers touched on such adult subjects as jealousy, cruelty, and sexuality.—Havan_IronOak@Bigfoot.com

Plot Keywords: director, actor, actress, boy, girl, amusing, engaging ...

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