Movies like The King of Marvin Gardens
If you like "The King of Marvin Gardens" you are looking for cult classic, sexual and tense movies about / with monopoly, depression, death, hotel, radio, radio station and storytelling themes of Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
6K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer, who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.
Style:
cult classic, sexual, tense, clever, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, neo noir, light ...
Plot:
monopoly, depression, death, hotel, radio, radio station, storytelling, drinking, mental disorder, sexuality, daydreamer, jail, woman with a gun, island, family relations, embezzlement, sibling relationship, mobster, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, human nature, dishonesty, cons and scams, dog ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
philadelphia, hawaii, new jersey, usa, tokyo, new orleans, atlanta georgia ...
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to The King of Marvin Gardens
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and crying films with plots about drinking alcohol, drinking, husband wife relationship, family relations, cigarette smoking, drink and nude mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The King of Marvin Gardens: Five Easy Pieces (1970), Around the Bend (2004), Sherrybaby (2006), Mrs. Harris (2005), The Spitfire Grill (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, character study, alienation, dysfunctional family, drifter, piano, pianist, father son relationship, hitchhiker, oil field, diner ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
california, usa, washington state, oregon, northern california ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, road movie, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, father son relationship, road trip, death, dysfunctional family, aging ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a ...
Style:
independent film, bleak, cult classic, sexual, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parole officer, drug abuse, fondling, prison, drug addict, orgasm, mother daughter relationship, support group, addiction, oral sex, starting over, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2006, 70s, 21st century
Place:
delaware, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
Style:
clever, serious, realistic, biting, witty ...
Plot:
crimes of passion, murder, destructive relationship, vengeance, obsession, addiction, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s, year 1976, year 1980
Place:
philadelphia, new york, florida, virginia
Similarity:
58%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style:
christian film, emotional, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, friendship, food, self discovery, bittersweet, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, businessman, hound dog ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Style:
independent film, grim, cult classic, dark comedy, psychedelic ...
Plot:
addiction, drug, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, dialogue, recovery, dark humor, heroin, redemption, drug addict, apocalypse ...
Time:
70s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, chicago, phoenix arizona, iowa, mexico
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic, spooky ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
curse, all black cast, witchcraft, coming of age, dysfunctional family, african american, black, blaxploitation, deep south, american south, doctor, incest ...
Time:
year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, new orleans, indiana, usa ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances (Emma Thompson) has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law), travels to Frances' house to reconnect ...
Style:
independent film, talky, touching, bleak, scenic ...
Plot:
winter, mother daughter relationship, small town, photography, children, grief, male stripper, cold weather, fishing village, aging, ship, landscape ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
scotland, europe, australia
Similarity:
54%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, welder, pregnancy, vietnam war, brothers, melancholy, murder, family problems, suicide, violence, blood, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1991
Place:
nebraska, usa, america, ohio, vietnam ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy, crying ...
Plot:
billiards, gambling, hopes, family relations, kidnapping, family problems, addiction, parents and children, dysfunctional family, introspection, going straight, starting over ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
canada, new york, usa
Similarity:
51%
13K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style:
independent film, intense, art house, black and white, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sex, divorce, prostitute, feminism, feminist, drinking, male nudity, depression, marriage, extramarital affair, cheating ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Style:
controversial, realistic, cult classic, depressing, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, fish out of water, dream, loneliness, friendship between men, marijuana, flashback, sex, sexuality, homosexuality, homelessness, prostitute ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 1969, 50s ...
Place:
texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, florida ...
Similarity:
50%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery ...
Style:
touching, intense, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
homeless, alcohol abuse, redemption, halloween, mental disorder, female nudity, alcoholic, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1930s, 1900s, year 1987, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style:
talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, family saga ...
Plot:
lawyer, culture clash, cancan dance, family problems, human nature, society, introspection, parents and children, sorority, family relations, dysfunctional family, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
usa, kansas city, missouri, kansas, cleveland ohio ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, meditative, clever, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, destiny, infidelity, philosophy, couples, adultery, attorney, happiness, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greece
Similarity:
46%
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:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the Ioss of her baby.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
couples, loss of child, midwife, home birth, birth, grief, pregnancy, dog, grieving, extramarital affair, marriage, illicit affair ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
August is a 2008 drama film directed by Austin Chick and produced by 57th & Irving. The screenplay by Howard A. Rodman focuses on two brothers, ambitious dot-com entrepreneurs attempting to keep their company afloat as the stock market ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, suspense, touching
Plot:
brother brother relationship, wall street, family relations, siblings relations, rise and fall, workplace, down on your luck, parents and children, life is a bitch, interracial couple, finance, father son relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
42%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
friendship, writers, storytelling, eccentricity, alone in the world, character study, writer's life, human nature, buddies, secret, reporter, philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north carolina ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style:
sentimental, independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot:
female nudity, threesome, brothel, stoner, infidelity, working class, erection, midlife crisis, friendship, hopes, buddies, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
okinawa japan, san francisco
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The Yosemite Valley Railroad, which runs through the breathtaking scenery and stunning vistas of Yosemite National Park, is on the brink of failure. The grandson of a Chinese railroad laborer embarks on a romantic, but ultimately doomed, quest to ...
Style:
black and white, independent film, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
railway, racism, train, friends, escapades, society, obsessive quest, ambition, obsession, self discovery, against the odds, train station ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
usa, california, san francisco, new york, pasadena california ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, sincere, realistic
Plot:
aids, family relations, photographer, secret, self discovery, love and romance, estrangement, family life, terminal illness, haunted by the past, siblings relations, parents and children ...
Place:
newfoundland, boston, america, canada, new york
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
Style:
sexual, cult classic, historical drama, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot:
rape, prostitution, poverty, erection, male nudity, sex crime, call girl, dutch history, family relations, prostitute, sexual abuse, teenage prostitution ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
amsterdam, europe, holland, netherlands
Similarity:
38%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, postmodern ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male nudity, sexually dissatisfied wife, erotica, nudity, art, obsession, temptation, world war two, infidelity, lesbian sex, poetry, threesome ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
paris france, england, france, europe, new york ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, single parent, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, redemption, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, germany, italy, berlin germany, milan italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the ...
Style:
melancholic, talky, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
writer's life, single father, family bonds, writers, book, family problems, introspection, love and romance, dealing with death, parents and children, family life, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, london
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
chess, peasant, terrorism, mafia, death, funeral, family relations, hopes, farm, social worker, estrangement, family problems ...
Time:
year 1981, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy, germany, southern italy ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose ...
Style:
grindhouse, psychedelic, sad, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
hippie, counterculture, lsd, deaf, drug, summer of love, female nudity, rock band, runaway, marijuana, commune, stoner ...
Time:
60s
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, california
Similarity:
38%
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 ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, atmospheric, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
elderly, american football, dysfunctional family, family relations, mental illness, american dream, estrangement, parents and children, parent child relationship, family problems, family in crisis, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, grief, road trip, memory, life, family relations, male friendship, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, london, australia, california
Similarity:
34%
Related movie lists
