Movies like Magnolia

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Magnolia (1999)
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Magnolia (1999)
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: philosophical, cerebral, sincere, depressing, mind bending, clever, non-linear, meditative, mind blowing, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: social problems, multiple storylines, depression, human nature, child prodigy, dysfunctional family, introspection, cancer, terminal illness, loneliness, alienation, coincidence, addiction, father son relationship, fictional game show, human relationship, drug addiction, life is a bitch, family problems, suffering, tragic event, dishonesty, couple relations, serendipity, forgiveness ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1910s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: los angeles, california, reno nevada
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Most similar movies to Magnolia

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, depressing, masterpiece and philosophical films with plots about psychology, depression, family relations, dream, female nudity, death and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Magnolia: Short Cuts (1993), 21 Grams (2003), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Happiness (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Short Cuts (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Multi-storied, fish-eyed look at American culture with some 22 characters intersecting--profoundly or fleetingly--through each other's lives. Running the emotional gamut from disturbing to humorous, Altman's portrait of the contemporary ...
Style: philosophical, talky, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: multiple storylines, infidelity, suicide, marriage crisis, bare butt, destruction of property, waitress, loss of loved one, life philosophy, character study, fishing, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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21 Grams (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style: mind bending, emotional, bleak, gloomy, depressing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, guilt, tragedy, grief, drug addiction, multiple storylines, drug addict, drug, loneliness, loss, mathematician, hit and run ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, persia
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100%
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style: psychological, depressing, surreal, independent film, confusing ...
Plot: depression, existentialism, death, theater, magic realism, schizophrenic, obsession, writers, twists and turns, philosophy, writer's life, loneliness ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, berlin germany, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
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, emotional ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Happiness (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Style: black comedy, cynical, independent film, dark comedy, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, pedophilia, rape, unhappiness, depression, therapist, obsession, relationships, loneliness, alienation, pedophile, sexual abuse ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa
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 7.5
 316K
Babel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style: non-linear, bleak, sincere, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: multiple storylines, redemption, desert, woman urinating, deaf girl, mexican border, society, guilt, parenthood, depression, tragic event, immigrant ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
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 7.5
 138K
The Hours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style: depressing, psychological, intellectual, touching, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, introspection, poet, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 90s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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American Beauty (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style: melancholic, thought provoking, dark comedy, sexual, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place: usa, america, los angeles, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 7.1
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The Master (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style: art house, stylized, atmospheric, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: right hand man, psychiatry, drifter, scientology, religion, mentor, religions or cults, brainwashing, bare breasts, male orgasm, society, mentor protege relationship ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: usa, san francisco, phoenix arizona, philadelphia, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.9
 319K
The Wrestler (2008)
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, bleak, touching, serious ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: wrestling, loneliness, aging, life is a bitch, fame, father daughter relationship, self destructing, professional wrestling, stripper, ambition, character study, father daughter estrangement ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, iran, bolivia, usa, north america
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100%
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A beleaguered small-business owner gets a harmonium and embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman.
Style: surreal, romantic, dark comedy, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: true love, depression, shyness, asperger's syndrome, brother sister relationship, mental illness, love and romance, insanity, eccentricity, complex characters, love story, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, los angeles, california, utah, usa
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100%
 7.2
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Shame (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life ...
Style: sexual, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, sensual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: addiction, sex, sex addict, sexuality, sexual dysfunction, nudity, sexual relations, masturbation, suicide attempt, sex scene, lifestyle, erotica ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city
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100%
 7.7
 448K
Crash (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style: bleak, touching, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: racism, police, prejudice, racial tension, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, racist, social injustice, redemption, interracial relations, class differences, city life ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, persia, santa monica california ...
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86%
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
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, disturbing, melancholic, sexual, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: addiction, loneliness, alcoholism, prostitute, prostitution, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, depression, self destructing, tragedy, medical, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa, nevada
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100%
 7.1
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Melancholia (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, psychological, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: depression, end of the world, wedding, human nature, sister sister relationship, apocalypse, nihilism, collision, disaster, dysfunctional family, suicide, trippy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
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80%
The United States of Leland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, murder, teacher, coming of age, dysfunctional family, writers, prison life, family relations, unlikely friendships, investigation, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, italy, paris france, california ...
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100%
The Shipping News (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Style: melancholic, emotional, stylized, serious, captivating ...
Plot: small town, adultery, single parent, incest, depression, isolation, kidnapping, reporter, starting over, haunted by the past, adaptation, loneliness ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: canada, newfoundland, nova scotia, atlantic ocean
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, psychological, disturbing, experimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock, rock and roll, music, teacher, surrealism, loss of father, musician, rock music, visceral, drug addiction, trippy, childhood ...
Time: year 1982, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: england, europe, london, los angeles
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100%
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The Ice Storm (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her ...
Style: depressing, realistic, existential, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, snow, thanksgiving, extramarital affair, coming of age, mate swapping, swinger, adultery, sexual exploration, infidelity, sexual awakening, family relations ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1973
Place: new york, connecticut, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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75%
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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100%
 7.4
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Biutiful (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story: This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style: depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: single father, cancer, terminal illness, death, parenthood, immigrant, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, reconciliation, parents and children ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, iran, senegal, mexico
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67%
 7.7
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Mr. Nobody (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style: psychological, surreal, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: time, philosophy, destiny, alternate reality, surrealism, butterfly effect, depression, choice, utopia, twists and turns, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 2011, distant future, 2010s ...
Place: canada
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100%
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
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, meditative, bleak, depressing, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: philosophy, infidelity, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
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100%
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Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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100%
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: alchemist, enlightenment, male nudity, hermaphrodite, trippy, surrealism, crucifix, symbolism, bird, mountain, spiritual journey, castration ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, peru
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100%
 7.6
 314K
Seven Pounds (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style: touching, sad, emotional, depressing, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, life changing experience, true love, existentialism, life & death, suicide, philosophy, sadness, tragic event ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, surreal, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Plot: factory worker, life is a bitch, blindness, death sentence, immigrant, destiny, murder, tragedy, secret, hanging, tragic hero, dancing ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1964, 2000s
Place: nebraska, usa, washington d.c., washington state
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100%
 7.2
 87K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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100%
 7.9
 281K
Boogie Nights (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a ...
Style: stylized, erotic, sexy, talky, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: sex, drug abuse, rise and fall, porn industry, addiction, multiple storylines, disco, drug, cocaine, character study, drug addiction, adult filmmaking ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. ...
Style: serious, suspense, disturbing, cerebral, epic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: oil, greed, character study, ambition, capitalism, money, rise to the top, rivalry, visceral, psychopath, religion, business ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 19th century ...
Place: california, texas, los angeles, america, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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