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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
144K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Style:
depressing, sexual, disturbing, melancholic, sad, heartbreaking, erotic, cult classic, philosophical, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, loneliness, casino, alcoholism, prostitute, alcohol abuse, prostitution, depression, self destructing, tragedy, alcoholic, medical, social misfits, sexualized violence, relationships, suicide, sex, infidelity, doomed love, rape, passion, drug, drug addiction, drinking, redemption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995, 1990s
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, nevada
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Most similar movies to Leaving Las Vegas
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, intense and talky films with plots about storytelling, loneliness, relationships, dialogue, life philosophy, drinking and drinking alcohol mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Leaving Las Vegas: When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), Blue Valentine (2010), Magnolia (1999), The Cooler (2003), Barfly (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Style:
sentimental, romantic, intense, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot:
alcoholic, family in crisis, family values, rehabilitation, alcoholism, addiction, alcohol abuse, love story, husband wife relationship, recovery, tragedy, single father ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, denver colorado, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, depression, dysfunctional family, couple relations, lust, husband wife relationship, passion, crumbling marriage, sexual content, lovers, love story, sex ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, brooklyn new york city, florida
Similarity:
100%
348K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
cerebral, clever, depressing, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, social problems, human nature, child prodigy, coincidence, depression, sex, cancer, fictional game show, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, terminal illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
(William H. Macy) works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, neo noir, intense, serious ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, card playing, fall in love, sex, gambler, bad luck, character study, public nudity, love and romance, down on your luck, female pubic hair ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, black comedy, depressing, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
addiction, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, bartender, drinking, poet, misfit, biopic, drinking alcohol, dark hero, mentally unstable, loser ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, texas
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82%
250K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, cynical, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, lovers, passion, marriage, sex, stripper, couples, photographer, desire ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, drug, junkie, loneliness, mental illness, depression, dream, subculture ...
Time:
year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
britain, america, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style:
bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, sad, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, abortion, adultery, depression, passion, death of wife, destiny, under the surface, dysfunctional family, deadend life, mental illness, existentialism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, connecticut, california
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
54K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, ...
Style:
erotic, melancholic, psychological, sexy, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
lesbian, fashion, addiction, aids, drug abuse, drug addiction, lgbtq, supermodel, model, lgbt, heroin, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.
Style:
compassionate, melancholic, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
bipolar disorder, hospital, psychology, forbidden love, destiny, mental health, addiction, loneliness, adaptation, doctors and patients, rehabilitation, destructive relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sex, erotica, threesome, male female relationship, women, strip club, coitus, sexual fantasy, nude painting, erotic dance, lifestyle, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
las vegas, usa, california, iowa, nevada ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. When Eddie returns and finds his wife bruised, he goes ballistic, shoots a paramedic and ...
Style:
melancholic, serious, psychological, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
obsession, mental institution, dysfunctional family, passion, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, couple relations, love triangle, family problems, love and romance, mentally unstable, infidelity ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Similarity:
100%
25K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous ...
Style:
touching, reflective, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
depression, fall in love, older man younger woman relationship, love, age difference, love story, artist, salesman, older man younger woman romance, dating, slacker, honest ...
Time:
year 2005, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
love affair, adultery, infidelity, passion, housewife, child abuse, small town, unfaithful wife, dysfunctional family, perversion, temptation, sexual pleasure ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, california
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, melancholic, light, intense ...
Plot:
one night stand, male female relationship, female orgasm, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, interracial romance, couples, adultery, justice, adaptation, dialogue ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, california, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
3K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of ...
Style:
erotic, melancholic, intense, psychological, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex, infidelity, threesome, friendship, love triangle, college, passion, betrayal, loneliness, complex characters, haunted by the past, buddies ...
Time:
year 1993, 2000s, year 2002, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
new york, london, england, europe, usa
Similarity:
100%
60K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style:
depressing, sexy, breathtaking, harsh, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suicide attempt, ethnicity, marriage, sex, immigrant, love story, relationships, culture clash, passion, extramarital affair, marriage of convenience, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
Similarity:
67%
Movie in collections
6K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, slang, contemplative ...
Plot:
small town, food, loneliness, restaurant, workplace, self discovery, bittersweet, hospital, drinking, unfaithfulness, rain, hallucination ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york state, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
330K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, sexy, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
wrestling, loneliness, redemption, father daughter relationship, fame, aging, self destructing, professional wrestling, fighter, midlife crisis, life is a bitch, stripper ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, bolivia, iran, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.
Style:
erotic, sexy, controversial, art house, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, tango, erotica, sex scene, strong sexual content, hotel, suicide, voyeurism, older man younger woman relationship, lust, widower, tragedy ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, near future, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, romantic, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
musician, country music, loneliness, character study, music, happy ending, addiction, redemption, country singer, love and romance, alcoholism, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, texas, austin texas, usa, nashville tennessee ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sexy, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, lovers, love affair, marriage, unrequited love, newspaper, true love, love story, relationships ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
216K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Style:
road movie, sentimental, dark comedy, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
road trip, wine, couples, vineyard, on the road, vacation, divorce, infidelity, food, affair, midlife crisis, wedding ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, bay area, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot:
drug addiction, redemption, addiction, introspection, alcoholics anonymous, drug abuse, recovery, yuppie, rehabilitation, drug, drinking, recovering drug addict ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, philadelphia, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, fall in love, college, tragedy, death, true love, ice hockey, love story, dying young, graduation, cancer, tragic love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, paris france, boston, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, melancholic, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, amnesia, relationships, surrealism, loneliness, existentialism, melancholy, love, love story, dream, memory loss, couples ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
persia, america, usa, north america, new york
Similarity:
75%
312K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, independent film ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, drug addiction, photography, addiction, photographer, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, lgbtq, sexuality, lesbian love, drug ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style:
romantic, sexy, poignant, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, lovers, happy ending, forceful separation, couple relations, lovers apart, bittersweet, relationships, love and romance, immigration ...
Time:
year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, usa, los angeles, london, england ...
Similarity:
100%
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