Movies like Death of a Salesman
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Death of a Salesman (1985)
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.
Style:
emotional, psychological, atmospheric, philosophical, family saga, art house, tense, clever, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
elderly, american football, dysfunctional family, family relations, american dream, mental illness, parents and children, estrangement, parent child relationship, life is a bitch, family problems, down on your luck, family in crisis, siblings relations, human nature, profession, salesman, traveling salesman, high school football, business, gambling, finance, economics, social problems, mishap ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
new england, usa
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Most similar movies to Death of a Salesman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and gloomy films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, life is a bitch and human nature mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Death of a Salesman: The Glass Menagerie (1987), A Delicate Balance (1973), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), September (1987), Sacrifices of the Heart (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, domineering mother, adaptation, aging, family in crisis, parents and children, family life, family problems, unfulfillment, cripple, mother ...
Time:
year 1987, 1930s, 20th century, future, 70s ...
Place:
tennessee, usa, california
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate ...
Style:
independent film, tense, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, alcohol abuse, dysfunctional family, introspection, guest, family relations, best friend, family secret, family home, existential crisis, father daughter conflict, infidelity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
connecticut, usa, new england
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
Style:
poignant, bleak, emotional, intense, sincere
Plot:
mental breakdown, frustration, family drama, unemployment, father son conflict, character study, tragedy, midlife crisis, adaptation, tragic hero, literary, realism ...
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86%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style:
grim, tense, depressing, talky, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, redemption, actor, family life, alcohol abuse, human nature, actor's life, lifestyle, morphine, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1912, year 1962, 60s ...
Place:
connecticut, ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.
Style:
talky, independent film, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, adultery, friendship, couples, depression, unrequited love, dialogue, mother daughter relationship, love triangle, family relations, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
usa, vermont
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Katelyn 'Kate' Weston, a country girl who became a lawyer and joined an L.A. law firm years ago, specializes in defending minors having committed violent crimes who nobody else takes on. She gradually got estranged from her family, but ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, serious
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, parents and children, mental illness, unfulfillment, aging, family problems, lawyer, getting home, love, village, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, holocaust, life is a bitch, memory loss, estrangement, parents and children, deportation, uncover truth, jew persecution, past, world war two, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
asthma, parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
74%
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426
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Living in rural New South Wales, working-class single mother Rhia is struggling to evade debt collectors and raise three young daughters. The eldest, and hardened beyond her years, Lou blames Rhia for the departure of her father, who walked out 10 ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, family relations, mental illness, parents and children, aging, unfulfillment, estrangement, family in crisis, youth, forgetfulness, abandonment, debt collector ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, new south wales
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, family problems, dysfunctional family, aging, family relations, estrangement, memory loss, parents and children, elderly, father son relationship, love, brothers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...
Style:
touching, psychological, realistic, sentimental, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, coming of age, cheerleading, teacher, dysfunctional family, single father, family problems, family life, parents and children, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, mental illness ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, california
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, father son relationship, professor, introspection, aging, elderly, dysfunctional family, father, aged person, domineering father, widower, loss of wife ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
california, new york
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, hopes, society, working class, domestic disturbance, sex ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, ireland, new york
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, meditative, talky, depressing ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, writers, eavesdropping, philosophy, depression, psychology, human nature, self discovery, melancholy, psychoanalysis, dysfunctional family, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
One summer morning, 12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene wake at dawn to pick peas and perhaps shoot a wild duck on their family's Montana farm. In a nearby pasture, Arnold's gun fires accidentally. His brother ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
farm, coming of age, boy, youth, little boy, grief, hunting, depression, death of brother, guilt, family relations, death in the family ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, parents and children, domestic disturbance, family in crisis, life is a bitch, hopes, family problems, redemption, estrangement, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
courtroom, divorce, lawyer, marriage, custody battle, father son relationship, single father, family drama, courtroom drama, legal, family relations, court ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, california, usa, persia, new york state ...
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Style:
southern gothic, talky, tense, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
estate, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, alcoholic, plantation, frigidity, male homosexuality, estrangement, couples, sexual dysfunction, family problems, family relations ...
Place:
new orleans, usa, mississippi
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina ...
Style:
serious, realistic, talky, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
single parent, parents and children, working class, family problems, idealism, aging, starting over, unfulfillment, estrangement, father son relationship, business, beer ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
69%
22K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, bleak, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, depression, father daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, divorce, mother daughter relationship, suicide, attempted rape, three sisters, psychology, character study ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, southern gothic, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, downfall, siblings relations, family life, family problems, family in crisis, life is a bitch, male nudity, siblings, mental retardation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, elderly, hopes, family problems, countryside, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, black comedy ...
Plot:
aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, writers, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, writer's life, parents and children, extramarital affair ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
france
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a school bus driving woman (Tyne Daly) has a heart attack, she makes one request of her three daughters (Ally Sheedy, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugo) - she wants them to find their long lost brother, who was taken away by their father (Jack ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, autumn, estrangement, parent child relationship, rich and poor, siblings relations, parents and children, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, family life, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston, europe, england, usa, harvard university
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, single mother, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, youth, family problems, couples, estrangement, terminal illness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
georgia, new york, usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
Style:
independent film, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
ghetto, african american, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, human nature, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, couple relations, family problems, slaughterhouse ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
los angeles, africa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, rough, informative ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, family relations, human nature, society, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, africa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation center, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, addiction, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, young lovers, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
66%
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