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Hotel Room (1998)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The coincidence cross fates of five characters in a hotel room in New York. A newlyweds couples discussing, a touring magician requesting the services of a prostitute, a voyeur photographer that is silent witness to the fight of a couple on the street and a journalist who is going to kill himself because he made public his penchant for crossdressing.
Style:
anthology, tense, melancholic, existential, realistic, noir, ambiguous ending, underground film, independent film, amateur film ...
Plot:
hotel room, loneliness, urban, cross dressing, character study, prostitution, suicide, sexuality, identity crisis, voyeurism, intimate, journalism, mature, isolation, regret, single, moral ambiguity, slice of life, claustrophobia, infidelity, photography, redemption, slow burn, magician, sex ...
Time:
90s, 1990s, contemporary
Place:
new york
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Most similar movies to Hotel Room
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, psychological and independent film films with plots about character study, slice of life, intimate, urban, dialogue driven, loneliness and isolation mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Hotel Room: Weakness (2010), Split Gas (2014), Fear, Love, and Agoraphobia (2018), Mediterranean Fever (2022), CXL (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three short stories about women & men relationship.
Style:
anthology, romantic drama, realistic, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
mature, addiction, alcoholism, domestic drama, character study, bittersweet, thoughtful, urban, loneliness, separation, intimate, gender roles ...
Place:
new york, paris france
Similarity:
95%
251
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, society, love and romance, high school, suburban life, couples, suburbs, male teacher female student affair, older man younger woman romance, grief, loneliness, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jack, an easygoing grad student, posts on a campus bulletin board: 'Driving to San Francisco for Spring Break. Anyone Want a Ride? Split Gas.' The ad is answered by Oliver, a suicidal freshman, who secretly just wants a ride to the cliffs ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, indie film, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, suicide, mental health, college student, isolation, loneliness, character study, driving, confession, self discovery, intimate, redemption ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An agoraphobic man and a female Marine become emotionally entangled as they struggle to escape from their personal prisons.
Style:
light, entertaining, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
agoraphobia, coping, phobia, overcoming, relationships, lifestyle, ex soldier, life, character study, abandonment, mental illness, loneliness ...
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Cyprus, Qatar
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Waleed (40) lives in Haifa with his wife and children and dreams of a writing career while suffering from chronic depression. He develops a close relationship with his neighbor (a small-time crook) with an ulterior plot in mind. While the scheme ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
depression, friendship, dream, character study, loneliness, writer's life, relationship problems, satire, depressed man, friends, social problems, writers ...
Place:
israel
Similarity:
81%
28
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
This poignant and darkly comedic debut feature from Sean Gillane focuses on Nolan, an aspiring writer who feels stuck. He is frustrated with his career, his relationships, the world and ultimately with himself. Unable to keep from displaying his ...
Style:
existential, dark comedy, psychological, melancholic
Plot:
character study, self discovery, identity crisis, loneliness, alienation, obsession, isolation, bittersweet, mental breakdown, modern life, personal growth, realism ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it's good to go because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other – all of them on the verge of a breakdown – or perhaps a ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, contemplative, existential, art house ...
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, breakdown, character study, rain, trauma, single, transformation, isolation, slow burn, intimate, minimalism ...
Similarity:
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220
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A story of friendship, love, marriage, secrets, lies that unfolds between two couples in one apartment during a Sunday brunch that will affect their lives forever.
Style:
disturbing, semi serious, captivating, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, couples, marriage, male female relationship, love story, husband wife relationship, love and romance, friends, family life, family relations, love affair, satire ...
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A night. Dozens of stories. A city. Lică, a taxi driver, is an all knowing guy, while Liviu, his friend, also a taxi driver keeps a lot to himself. They are completely different and their ideas about life and people only meet when they are eating ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, satirical, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
taxi driver, driver, taxi, driving, night, satire, multiple storylines, loneliness, working class, self discovery, friendship, city life ...
Place:
bucharest
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Crossword about seven interconnected stories of love, friendship, affection, guns, Balkan, stupidity and people caught in the moment.
Style:
emotional, anthology, reflective, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
multiple perspectives, mature, bittersweet, slice of life, intimate, urban, social commentary, pop culture, violence, sex, dialogue driven, gun
Time:
2010s
Place:
balkan, serbia
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Chronicles the life of Curtis Clemins, who is torn between the love of his life and accomplishing his dream. When hitting rock bottom during the Sundance Film Festival, Clemins' calls upon his old college chum, Kevin Prouse, giving the now ...
Style:
independent film, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
problem, dream, filmmaker, satire, character study, midlife crisis, personal growth, struggling artist, alcoholism, divorce, friendship, mature ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Purgatory Comics tells the story of a young woman named Cola who runs from her adult responsibilities and hides in a failing comic book store. This leaves Cola to question how long she can hide from her complicated past.
Style:
emotional, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
comic book, self discovery, identity crisis, female protagonist, intimate, coming of age, runaway, isolation, personal growth, slice of life, everyday life, escape ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Two couples. Two cars. What had to be a romantic night, little by little takes on a bittersweet flavor, and we discover that couples are not what they appear to be ...
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, twisted
Plot:
couples, character study, bittersweet, troubled marriage, moral ambiguity, intimate, deception, regret, slow burn, infidelity, betrayal, sexual tension ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The siblings Hannah and Andrew haven't seen each other in three years. While Hannah is going through a prolonged episode where she can't leave her house, her brother has just landed back in LA and sets off to Pasadena on foot. He goes on a ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, existential
Plot:
isolation, anxiety, loneliness, character study, sibling relationship, mental health, intimacy, intimate, slice of life, minimalism, awkwardness, trauma ...
Place:
los angeles, pasadena california
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two Chicago couples struggle to keep their love alive when secrets and long-simmering resentments rise to the surface.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, character study, secrets, realism, husband wife relationship, marital problem, satire, lifestyle, secret, relationship problems, couple relations, relationships ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Cliff Raines is an up-and-coming actor who struggles with living a lonely life in Los Angeles. In his time between roles, he finds comfort in alcohol and his new found relationship with a young woman with similar baggage to his.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, realistic, existential
Plot:
character study, isolation, loneliness, intimate, slice of life, alcoholism, showbiz, self destructing, identity crisis, bittersweet, urban, personal growth ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Beth is a helpline volunteer – part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, hopeless. Over the last year the tide has become a tsunami. As Beth goes ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
social issues, volunteer, telephone call, social problems, empathy, social worker, loneliness, compassion, mental health, relationship problems, trust, character study ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
During a global pandemic, Laszlo isolates himself in his apartment. He avoids any kind of human contact. Until one evening the new neighbor Zoe rings at his doorbell with unforeseen consequences for both of them.
Style:
psychological, contemplative, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
pandemic, isolation, loneliness, character study, quarantine, introspection, urban, intimate, mental health, claustrophobia, single, slow burn ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
64%
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105
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an individual teen prostitute as seen from the lens of her Buddhist neighbor.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
compassion, prostitution, character study, poverty, loss, empathy, social realism, loneliness, urban, slice of life, street life, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, sociological
Plot:
loneliness, aging, character study, nostalgia, slice of life, memory, journey, friendship, isolation, regret, daily life, drifting ...
Time:
90s
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Story:
An anthology series set inside a single suite of a fictional Los Angeles hotel. Each episode tells a standalone story from a different genre, writer and director that focuses on the relationship between two characters.
Style:
anthology, emotional, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
hotel, divorced couple, hotel room, couples, newlywed, character study, intimate, relationship problems, relationships, couple relations, love affair, male female relationship ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
63%
152
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tom and Perri are the happy ideal New York couple until Tom's beloved Golden Retriever is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Tom blames Perri for the accident and their relationship becomes strained as Tom's fixation with finding and ...
Style:
independent film, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, loss of loved one, dog, death, grief, hit and run, obsession, bereavement, vengeance, character study, moral ambiguity, guilt ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of MedellÃn in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, existential
Plot:
character study, poetry, creativity, aging, intimate, obscurity, isolation, regret, mishap, slice of life, identity, obsession ...
Similarity:
61%
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310
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
On his 25th birthday, following the death of his brother, Max and his best friend Peter wander the wintry streets of Manhattan, contemplating life, livelihood, and what it means to be adult.
Style:
witty, entertaining, humorous, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, house, grownups, suicidal, friend, loss of brother, adulthood, brothers, brother, friends, life, suicide ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what he had expected.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
getting home, homecoming, father son relationship, family drama, conflict, realism, identity crisis, regret, small town life, slice of life, personal growth, isolation ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, melancholic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity crisis, urban, character study, social commentary, escape, murder, social realism, loneliness, isolation, suspicion, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Follows Ingrid, Ian and Ivy, three unique strangers who find each other in an uninhabited condominium. They discover they actually have a lot in common, and start wondering where they might be each other's salvation.
Style:
independent film, tense, melancholic, modern fairy tale
Plot:
female pubic hair, male nudity, isolation, intimacy, intimate, character study, redemption, moral ambiguity, urban, confined, minimalism, male pubic hair ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A sixteen-year-old, bipolar, runaway named Jay breaks into the house of a retired former cop named Bill, just as Bill reaches rock bottom due to his own issues. These two move from distrust to understanding and come to realize that even though they ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film
Plot:
mental illness, character study, bipolar disorder, retired cop, runaway teen, self discovery, loneliness, healing, redemption, coming of age, bonding, empathy ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Emotionless hitman Michael meets Jessy, awakening unfamiliar feelings. A mission gone awry forces him to reevaluate his entire existence, challenging his beliefs and way of life.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, intense, dark, noir ...
Plot:
hitman, gangster, urban, moral dilemma, identity crisis, assassin, violence, organized crime, moral ambiguity, underworld, forbidden romance, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
59%
119
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On a hot summer night in Brooklyn, singles and couples converge in a brownstone apartment to flirt, fight, hook up and break up. A dreamy comedy-drama about sex, love and freedom, "Home" packs a lot of stories into just two floors.
Style:
independent film, realistic, melancholic, wistful
Plot:
apartment building, intimacy, urban, character study, slice of life, flirting, bittersweet, self discovery, friendship, breakup, infidelity, jealousy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
59%
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