Movies like The Last Supper 1994
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The Last Supper (1994)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Chris is a dancer dying of AIDS. He has chosen euthanasia to end his suffering. With the assistance of his lover Val and his doctor, he surrounds himself in his last hours with everything that made his life special and creates his ultimate work of art by choreographing his own death.
Style:
melancholic, poignant, art house, reflective, compassionate, existential, indie film, aesthetic, independent film, tragic
Plot:
aids, euthanasia, terminal illness, dance, illness, choreography, lgbtq, mortality, caregiver, grief, acceptance, loss, gay romance, bittersweet, intimate, doctor patient relationship, urban, homosexual, homosexuality, disease, gay interest, farewell, deathbed
Time:
90s, contemporary, 1990s
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Most similar movies to The Last Supper
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, existential and poignant films with plots about intimate, bittersweet, grief, loss, terminal illness, mortality and urban mostly in Drama and Musical genres. Some movies like The Last Supper: She Lives! (1973), All of Us (2019), Salut Victor (1989), The Leap (2005), Peaceful (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Style:
emotional, poignant, romantic drama, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, illness, hopes, love story, relationships, mortality, young couple, youth, loss, desperation, resilience ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a self-help group of 4 people with a terminal illness, led by a therapist without experience.
Style:
emotional, sincere, poignant, touching, existential ...
Plot:
mortality, support group, terminal illness, acceptance, personal growth, humanism, bittersweet, intimate, therapy, friendship, therapist, loss ...
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94%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, sentimental
Plot:
lgbtq, lgbt, gay, retirement home, aging, mortality, gay romance, companionship, tenderness, intimacy, acceptance, loneliness ...
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88%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tobias Jacobsen is 42. When the doctors tell him he is fatally ill, the earth opens up beneath him and he finds himself plunging into the abyss. It makes him think of the time he was 13 and his girlfriend got him to jump off the balcony of her ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, existential, poignant, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
illness, dark humor, life & death, terminal illness, coming of age, midlife crisis, memory, bittersweet, flashback, intimate, tragedy, nostalgia ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
acceptance, mother son relationship, terminal illness, medical examination, cancer, hospital, family conflict, life & death, family drama, fighting illness, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Style:
emotional, poignant, sensitive, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, mortality, reflection, intimate, grief, bereavement, compassion, humanism, realism, bittersweet, acceptance ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
grief, coming of age, self discovery, mourning, loss, family drama, realism, male protagonist, bittersweet, chance meeting, intimate, memory ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Spain, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After receiving the diagnosis of an incurable brain tumor, Claudia decides to undertake her last trip to Switzerland. There she can decide how and when to end her life thanks to the help of an assisted suicide association.
Style:
existential, philosophical, emotional, reflective, sensitive ...
Plot:
terminal illness, mortality, ethical dilemma, euthanasia, female protagonist, intimate, road trip, grief, cathartic, middle aged, support group, mountain ...
Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Middle aged housewife Kim In-Hee's mother-in-law has Alzheimer's disease, her physician husband is always tired and indifferent to her needs and her children has become wayward. For her family, Kim In-Hee has devoted her life as a ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
illness, family drama, terminal illness, male female relationship, family life, kids and family, relationships, family relations, living together, family problems, nursing, parents and children ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, realistic, tragic
Plot:
aids, terminal illness, reconciliation, family drama, illness, gay, mother daughter relationship, grandmother, family conflict, lgbtq, gay lead character, grief ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The appetizer is an introduction, the dessert is a farewell in this story of an indelible bond forged between a promising young filmmaker and an iconic actress.
Style:
reflective, emotional, contemplative, art house, life affirming ...
Plot:
friendship, chemistry, intimate, healing, grief, personal growth, film industry, bittersweet, mature, loss, aging, creativity ...
Similarity:
68%
258
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An actress (Natalia Sayko) is faced with the job of dubbing her voice after the final version of her movie is wrapped. (All actors dub their lines for the master copy of a film.) But she is overcome by her own life-crisis that alters her plans -- ...
Style:
dramatic, existential, melancholic, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
character study, illness, mortality, terminal illness, identity crisis, transformation, actor's life, humanism, bittersweet, intimate, showbiz, resilience ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
65%
919
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
TUCKED is a raw and tender drama about an aging 80 year old drag queen who forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortality. As they discover more about each other, they ...
Style:
compassionate, emotional, feel good, reflective, independent film ...
Plot:
lgbtq, drag queen, desire for fame, friendship, mortality, slice of life, gay, self discovery, terminal illness, identity, aging, acceptance ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Die Tomorrow entails six short segments about the impermanence of life, all inspired by deaths reported in Thai daily newspapers.
Style:
anthology, realistic, sad, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
death, newspaper, mortality, social problems, near death experience, life, ordinary people, slice of life, realism, intimate, social realism, urban ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, dramatic, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, aids, israeli, sexuality, family drama, lgbt, humanism, identity, illness, empathy, gay, grief ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35-year-old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. And Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, sad, contemplative ...
Plot:
cancer, drug addict, terminal illness, death, dying, mortality, family relations, empathy, child protagonist, character study, grief, addiction ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, existential, bleak ...
Plot:
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62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Terminally ill Anna returns to Oregon to reconnect with her estranged brother while simultaneously making the heart-wrenching choice to end her life putting to use the Death with Dignity Act.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, existential, realistic, independent film
Plot:
sibling relationship, terminal illness, euthanasia, ethical dilemma, family drama, loss, grief, brother sister relationship, reconciliation, acceptance, bittersweet, intimate ...
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
corsica
Similarity:
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2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An apotheosis of loyalty and love. A tale of lost happiness and dreams, fears and transience, supremacy of fate and laws of nature, gratitude and cruelty of nature, inability of man to change that and influence the course of his own life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, contemplative, meditative ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of encounters in which the doctor is the guide and the writer, his passenger, led to confront his own fears and ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, existential, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, reflective, existential, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, personal growth, spiritual journey, transformation, second chance, acceptance, mortality, terminal illness, intimate, regret, isolation ...
Place:
central america, guatemala
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, poignant, life affirming, romantic drama, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, love story, relationships, assistant, personal growth, bittersweet, loss, cancer, healing, writer's life, introspection, writers ...
Time:
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Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, romantic drama, multicultural, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, hiv, aids, nude beach, naked in public, homosexuality, illness, community, lgbtq, gay interest, desperation, loss ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
east berlin
Similarity:
50%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved one.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, loneliness, solitude, mourning, minimal dialogue, empathy, bereavement, memory, healing, intimate, soul searching ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and his charming house with a garden, where they soon plan to hold their beloved granddaughter’s ...
Style:
emotional, existential, melancholic, tragic
Plot:
old age, mortality, family drama, dignity, elderly man, father son relationship, trauma, grief, mourning, accident, retirement, intimate ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, poignant, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, bittersweet, dying, mortality, love story, tragic romance, campus, relationships, intimate, introspection, mature ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
46%
298
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, uplifting, sincere, life affirming ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, cabaret singer, older woman younger man relationship, musician, terminal illness, mortality, empathy, bittersweet, life & death, bonding, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman, and her last memories of the five people who loved her most, recalled while experiencing a catastrophic event.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
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