Movies like Gabriel 2014
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Gabriel (2014)
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Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Convinced that reuniting with his old girlfriend will bring his dreams to fruition, Gabriel risks it all in a desperate and increasingly obsessive pursuit.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama, intense, melancholic, mumblecore, grim, tragic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
obsessive love, mental illness, romantic obsession, looking for love, coming of age, teenager, teenage love, mental patient, teenage life, mentally unstable, unrequited love, stalking, desperation, character study, loneliness, mental disorder, male protagonist, moral ambiguity, isolation, anti hero, slow burn, boy, pregnant teenager, teenage pregnancy, choice ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Gabriel
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, intense, psychological and disturbing films with plots about isolation, moral ambiguity, character study, psychological drama, slow burn, coming of age and obsession mostly in Drama, Thriller and Family genres. Some movies like Gabriel: Chance (2020), Young Adult Matters (2020), Beautiful Friend (2023), Delinquent (2016), American Cherry (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
199
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A true story of a teenage love triangle leading to one of the two boys' tragic death - told through the lens of elite youth baseball.
Style:
heartbreaking, captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
family outing, teen drama
Plot:
baseball, high school, bullying, loss of innocence, love triangle, coming of age, teenage angst, first love, grief, baseball player, athlete and trainer, teenage life ...
Place:
columbus ohio
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
homeless teenager, pregnant teenager, troubled teen, poverty, teenager, social problems, life is a bitch, teenage pregnancy, coming of age, teenage life, social misfits, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable and socially isolated young man spirals out of control, determined to find a woman who will stay with him-by force if necessary.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, stalking, control, obsessive love, unsettling, loneliness, character study, paranoia, desperation, possession, threat, manipulation ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Delinquent is the thrilling and dramatic exploration of a teenager's struggle to manage the fall-out of a robbery gone wrong.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
robbery, teenager, teenage protagonist, juvenile delinquency, juvenile delinquent, troubled teen, burglar, adolescence, theft, troubled youth, criminal, teenage life ...
Similarity:
89%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mysterious, troubled boy meets an impressionable girl in their small town. Together they embark on a romance where his love turns into obsession as he tries to protect her from her dysfunctional family -- he makes her a video diary that confesses ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, dramatic, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teen romance, dysfunctional family, coming of age, teenager, love, mental illness, romantic obsession, teenage girl, sex, teenage boy, couples, teenage protagonist ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend, whom he met online but has never met in person, has been living in the same city the whole time and sets out to find her.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, melancholic, ambiguous ending
Plot:
online dating, relationships, true love, dating, privacy invasion, cyberspace, long distance relationship, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, young love, friends, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, France, Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
Style:
tragic ending, period piece, atmospheric, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
boy, character study, neglect, tragedy, psychosis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, childhood trauma, brotherhood, haunting, coming of age, mother son conflict ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An alcoholic spends all his time spying on his neighbor, waiting for the right moment to kill him.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, alcoholic, obsession, alcoholism, death threat, plan, murderer, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, espionage, criminal, character study ...
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An American Drifter discovers a New Zealand Singer and develops and obsession for him.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, emotional, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
obsession, obsessive love, singer, loneliness, drifter, character study, infatuation, unrequited love, female protagonist, isolation, stalking, relationships ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, bullying, hate crime, teenage life, psychological trauma, teenager, criminal, terrorism, changing lives, terrorist attack, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Kevin is obsessed with finding a girl who can help him forget his unpleasant past. However, all his encounters with the opposite sex inevitably go afoul. As the rejections mount, Kevin's futile search for happiness and love becomes ...
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
relationships, lonely, photographer, memory, trauma, obsession, male female relationship, dealing with the past, troubled past, life is a bitch, confronting the past, isolation ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
69%
466
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On the run, Marian returns to her hometown in upstate New York to hide out with her estranged identical twin sister, Vivian. Struggling to put the past behind her, Marian lies about the reason for her return, leaving her sister in the dark until ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
twin sister, getting home, twins, lifestyle change, family problems, sister sister relationship, changing lives, family secret, sisterhood, identity, small town, estrangement ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Creature of habit, Jon Smith, spends his days mindlessly working as a barista in New York City. When night falls, this seeming everyman savagely kills "filthy women" as his social outlet. A chance encounter with Delia, a young prostitute ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, disturbing, indie film, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, character study, violence, loneliness, isolation, psychopath, moral ambiguity, anti hero, alienation, urban, nightlife, social outcast ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
63%
351
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It’s summer and the beginning of the long vacation period for eleven-year-old Martin, who lives on a farm, and, at a loss, observes his family’s disintegration : his mother lives locked-up in her room ; his older brother, who he adores, drowns ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, gay, kids and family, unhappy marriage, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, social problems, parents and children, father son relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Switzerland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she adored. Aïcha longs for him to come back and take her away. When she meets Baz, a man twice her age, it’s love at first sight for her; the real ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, teenager, adolescence, romantic obsession, teenage girl, family conflict, infatuation, obsession, relationships, love, teenage life, teenage love ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, depression, crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, guilty conscience, introspection, traumatic past, character study, guilt, redemption ...
Similarity:
59%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, trauma, amputation, laundry, kidnapping, illness, madness, insanity, character study, shame, identity crisis, delusion ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teenager, trauma, life is a bitch, teenage life, troubled past, tragic past, confronting the past, moral dilemma, self destructing, redemption, desperation, abuse ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
character study, machismo, coming of age, isolation, family problems, grownups, life is a bitch, social problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, social misfits, teenager ...
Similarity:
59%
305
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose. Why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?
Style:
emotional, tense, intense, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, family crisis, grief, loss, trauma, missing person, intimate, family drama, desperation, love ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Drama - Richard Clayton is a maintenance man at the local police station of the small town of Montauk, Arizona. He spends his days keeping the offices clean and the equipment running. He spends his nights drinking and killing the occasional ...
Style:
crime drama, bleak, noir, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, loneliness, small town, isolation, character study, violence, alcoholism, moral ambiguity, serial killer, male protagonist, desperation, criminal psychology ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Inmates at a women's mental asylum stage a theatrical production of Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick.'
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, delusional woman, treatment, cure, theatre group, insanity, women, female protagonist, mentally unstable, role playing, claustrophobia ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
53%
143
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A brother and a sister live on the borderline between awareness of their actions and total unconsciousness, until they commit a sin from which there is no return.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, dark, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, moral ambiguity, sin, siblings, loss of innocence, haunting, guilt, transgression, existential crisis, conscience, youth, isolation ...
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Isolated in his austere penthouse overlooking Central Park, obsessive Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns. His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation ...
Style:
surreal, captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
hallucination, mental disorder, mosquito, surrealism, obsession, body horror, identity crisis, psychopath, mental illness, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, mental breakdown ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Henry Long desperately seeks a cure for the condition that leaves him unable to feel physical pain.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cure, patient, doctors and patients, pain, illness, disease, character study, male protagonist, hospital, ethical dilemma, scientific research, disability ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lauren must prevent fellow students from performing an exorcism on her best friend Chloe.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, intense, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
exorcism, ritual, classmate, high school, possession, school, infidelity, relationship problems, family problems, high school life, girlfriend, romantic obsession ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A haunting, violent tale of a youth lost in an uncaring world, Bullet Collector is visual, nightmarish masterpiece. A shy 14-year-old boy, disconnected from home life and school, and sent to a hellish reform school, eventually lashes out on the ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, visual, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, innocence lost, unsettling, loneliness, coming of age, reform school, alienation, isolation, teenage crush, combat, teenager, teenage life ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
50%
335
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A ride-share driver finds himself transporting the man who is secretly sleeping with his wife.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
infidelity, driver, lovers, betrayal, marital problem, family problems, learning the truth, secrets, jealousy, domestic drama, confrontation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After a serious traumatic accident, a man leaves his old life behind and moves to an isolated cabin to start over. He soon learns of the surroundings of the area and its dangerous past.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
accident, isolation, guilty conscience, loneliness, misplaced guilt, loss of wife, tragic past, new life, grief, loss, mature, character study ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Gabino, a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, unrequited love, teenage life, love and romance, youth, sexual harassment, high school, relationship problems, tragic love, neglect, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
49%
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