Movies like The Custodian

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The Custodian (1993)
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The Custodian (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Det. Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his 'straight' life to partner in crime with his co-worker, Det. Church, in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He sides privately with a reporter, Reynolds, and an Internal Affairs lawyer, Ferguson, to expose them to the press. Once they have gathered enough information, all the corrupt police, including the newly recruited Quinlan are arrested. Ferguson then works to get Quinlan a reduced sentence for helping them.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, detective
Plot: husband leaves wife, corruption, police corruption, coffee shop, corrupt, police raid, marital separation, cop, redheaded woman, undercover, rape and murder, internal affairs, tv reporter, legal action, addiction, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, rebellion, fighting the system, legal, rivalry, society, drug dealing, law enforcement, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: sydney australia
Keyword: partners, flat, visit, video

Most similar movies to The Custodian

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and crying films with plots about cigarette smoking, telephone call, apology, husband wife relationship, female nudity, sex and telephone mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Custodian: Brilliant Lies (1996), Heatwave (1982), Proof (1991), Lantana (2001), The Bank (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 364
Brilliant Lies (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: sexual harassment, family relations, sexual abuse, feminism, couples, courtroom, power relations, siblings relations, sexual relations, courtroom drama, workplace situations, false accusation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.4
 416
Heatwave (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman attempts to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity.
Style: neo noir, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: heat wave, christmas, redheaded woman, injustice, against the odds, fighting the system, rivalry, society, state affairs, rebellion, father daughter relationship, party ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.2
 7K
Proof (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
Style: witty, melancholic, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: blind character, blind man, friendship, obsession, disability, photographer, photograph, photography, blindness, loneliness, character study, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: australia, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 7.2
 20K
Lantana (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit ...
Style: emotional, psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: infidelity, therapist, nylons, therapy, adultery, police investigation, divorce, police, sexuality, unfaithfulness, betrayal, jealousy ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Movie in collections
 6.5
 3K
The Bank (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, cynical, clever ...
Plot: business, stock exchange, mathematician, greed, mathematics, finance, economics, computer genius, workplace, ambition, rise to the top, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 70s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
After the Deluge (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 194 min.
Story: Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, touching ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, family life, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, family in crisis, mental illness, haunted by the past, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 6.3
 4K
Phoenix (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
Style: neo noir, detective, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gambling, addiction, redemption, dirty cop, police corruption, betrayal, heist, crime gone awry, casino, cop, police officer, death of protagonist ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.4
 4K
Tim (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to ...
Style: romantic, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, redheaded woman, family relations, unrequited love, autism, women, sibling relationship, age-gap relationship, psychopath, mental disorder, tenderness, social relations ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 381
Lonely Hearts (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, crying, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: age-gap relationship, dating, looking for love, adult virgin, love affair, computers and web, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, lifestyle, hopes, human nature ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.8
 5K
One Good Cop (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When his loyal longtime partner, a widower, is killed in the line of duty and leaves behind three young children, Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton), a dedicated New York City cop and his wife, Rita (Rene Russo), decide to take the kids in. But the lives ...
Style: exciting, emotional, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, orphan, drug dealer, partner, murder, law enforcement, family relations, cop, drug dealing, fighting crime, working undercover, police corruption ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.4
 649
The Crossing (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A single day. To challenge the past. To accept the present. To decide the future. Sam arrives in his home town after 18 months away, hopeful that Meg, the girlfriend he abandoned, will go back with him to the city. His return brings the outside ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, crying
Plot: car accident, small town, love triangle, tragedy, love, self sacrifice, car race, young love, homecoming, romantic rivalry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1965, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Friday night he's too tired. Saturday night too drunk.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, independent film, homoerotic
Plot: strike, australian outback, drug, exodus, male objectification, nudity, beer, workplace, ambition, unfulfillment, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1950s, year 1975, 50s, year 1956
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.0
 629
Native Son (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, biting, gloomy ...
Plot: racism, african american, murder, lawyer, chauffeur, blaxploitation, black history, blindness, courtroom, paranoia, racial issues, black ...
Time: 1940s, year 1986, 1930s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Heavenly Bodies (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A small "Dance-ercize" studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. The conflict boils down to a "Dance Marathon" to settle the score.
Style: independent film
Plot: canuxploitation, dancing, erotica, bike, erotic scene, fight, competition, staircase, soccer coach, female friendship, television studio, woman driver ...
Time: 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Children of the Revolution (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, clever, black comedy, biting ...
Plot: satire, politics, dark humor, farce, violence, murder, insanity, brutality, male nudity, communism, communist, cold war ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: australia, russia, latvia, ussr, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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 107
The Handyman (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles ...
Plot: two brothers, boy, husband wife relationship, friendship between men, sandwich, adultery, golf club, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, singing, telephone call, roommate ...
Time: year 1980
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.2
 279
Body Harm (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, crime spree, person thought dead is alive, law enforcement, obsession, journalism, missing person, serial murder, murderer, murder victim, tragedy, hostage ...
Time: 80s
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.5
 1K
The Nark (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Paris police detective (Richard Berry) plays rough with a prostitute (Nathalie Baye) and her pimp/lover (Philippe Léotard), whom he wants as an informant.
Style: neo noir, anthology, detective, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sex, undercover police officer, undercover agent, prostitution, spy, gangster, nudity, hooker, french algerian war, vice squad, love triangle, male nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, new york, france, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Movie in collections
 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 7.2
 1K
Hollow Reed (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Following the break-up of his marriage after revealing his homosexuality, GP Martin Wyatt loses custody of his son Oliver to his now ex-wife Hannah and her new partner Frank. It is not long, however, until Oliver appears at the house of Martin and ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film
Plot: gay, child abuse, custody battle, lgbt, homosexuality, divorce, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, male nudity, hospital, lawyer, courtroom ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Fourth Wish (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Style: crying, independent film, juvenile
Plot: photograph, family abandonment, husband wife relationship, separation, bare chested male, young boy, tram, care, queen elizabeth ii, blue collar, sadness, only child ...
Place: south australia, australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.2
 48K
Candy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, romantic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heroin, drug abuse, addiction, junkie, drug addict, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, obsession, drug, love story, love, mental illness ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, mindfuck ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, haunted by the past, mysterious character, hopes, youth, small town, rescue, accidental death, death of father, psychiatrist, drowning, hypnosis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Movie in collections
 7.1
 22K
Barfly (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: addiction, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, bartender, poet, writers, misfit, alcoholic, biopic, mentally unstable, drinking, loser ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Thieves Like Us (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes ...
Style: neo noir, road movie, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: on the run, heist, lovers on the run, bank, murder, great depression, criminal, robbery, prison, crime spree, female nudity, thief ...
Time: 1930s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.3
 143
Hitting Home (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: obsession, hit and run, redheaded woman, revenge, vengeance, life is a bitch, rivalry, young boy, law firm, train station, urban setting, breaking the law ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, new york, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Better Than Sex (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a one-night stand a couple is faced with the terrifying possibility of what they really want.
Style: sexy, erotic, witty, humorous, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sex, loneliness, looking for love, opposites attract, lifestyle, fall in love, battle of the sexes, youth, unlikely couple, couples, love affair, sexual relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, england, europe, australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.1
 762
Windrider (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A rock star falls for a rich man's son who competitively board-sails the coast of Western Australia.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, melancholic, disturbing ...
Plot: surfing, love affair, love and romance, contests and competitions, ambition, father son relationship, competition, night, beach, island, skater, sex ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.2
 4K
Chinese Box (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Style: atmospheric, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: unrequited love, love, colonialism, culture clash, death, photography, couples, politics, journalism, basement, white man asian woman relationship, barmaid ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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