Movies like Midnight Cowboy
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Midnight Cowboy (1969)
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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:
disturbing, controversial, realistic, depressing, poignant, sexy, psychological, rough, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, fish out of water, gigolo, prostitution, hustler, male prostitute, friendship between men, cripple, homosexual, gay, homosexuality, prostitute, loneliness, gay slur, male prostitution, cowboy, sex, drugs, dancer, winter, poverty, tuberculosis, death of friend, urban setting, society ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s, 70s, 1960s, 1950s
Place:
new york, texas, usa, manhattan new york city, florida, grand central station manhattan new york city, dallas texas ...
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Most similar movies to Midnight Cowboy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, talky, harsh and melancholic films with plots about loneliness, dialogue, redemption, depression, brutality, relationships and storytelling mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Midnight Cowboy: My Own Private Idaho (1991), Rain Man (1988), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Requiem for a Dream (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style:
road movie, surreal, art house, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
gay, homosexual, homosexuality, friendship, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, friendship between men, love, gays and lesbians, prostitution, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
idaho, portland oregon, rome italy, seattle, italy ...
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522K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style:
road movie, sincere, uplifting, touching, inspirational ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, redemption, mentally challenged, runaway, disability, brother brother relationship, siblings relations, family relations, mental illness, self discovery, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
california, los angeles, las vegas, texas, missouri ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they ...
Style:
road movie, meditative, atmospheric, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
car chase, car, road trip, cult, character study, on the road, life philosophy, mechanic, hitchhiker, existentialism, bet, obsessive quest ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., santa fe new mexico, tokyo
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
Style:
depressing, atmospheric, disturbing, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
depression, great depression, dancing, culture clash, suicide, social decay, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, ambition, competition, contest, reward ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, new york, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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, drugs, heroin, insanity, drug addiction, mental illness, junkie, hallucination, drug abuse, depression, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic ...
Style:
talky, sexy, dramatic, intellectual, light ...
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, redemption, violence, catholicism, morality, mentor, revenge, relationships, justice, multiple storylines, secrets ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, europe, italy, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ...
Plot:
addiction, loneliness, alcohol abuse, prostitute, prostitution, casino, love, depression, alcoholic, tragedy, self destructing, suicide ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a ...
Style:
depressing, talky, emotional, serious, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, drugs, teachers and students, student, friendship, addiction, drug addiction, ghetto, loneliness, school, mentor, existentialism ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, california, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Style:
neorealism, realistic, serious, disturbing, talky ...
Plot:
poverty, unemployment, prostitution, prostitute, robbery, family relations, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, couple relations, dishonesty, downfall, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, post world war two, 50s, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, tokyo, japan, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug addict, drugs, death of pet, heroin, heroin addict, drug use, loneliness, life philosophy, redemption ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Drama while a tour bus driver shows church ladies around Mexico. Helped establish Puerto Vallarta as tourist destination.
Style:
atmospheric, talky, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
church, mental illness, bus, hotel, redemption, iguana, clergy, bishop, priest, self discovery, tour guide, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
mexico, usa, virginia, texas, tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, controversial, depressing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, virginity, innocence lost, drugs, aids, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, teenager, sexual promiscuity, street kid ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
Style:
emotional, realistic, bleak, heartbreaking, depressing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish, holocaust survivor, survival, concentration camp, life philosophy, redemption, haunted by the past, nazi, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, usa, germany, poland, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
199K
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, sexy, erotic, thought provoking, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, sex, sex addict, sexuality, sexual dysfunction, sexual relations, suicide attempt, masturbation, threesome, lifestyle, brother sister relationship, erotica ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
Style:
erotic, sexy, disturbing, satirical, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, loneliness, sexual promiscuity, adultery, sex scene, depression, sexual abuse, one night stand, sexual relations, looking for love, self discovery, sexual humiliation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1975, year 1976
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, bleak, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
abortion, sexual abuse, rape, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, communism, depression, illegal abortion, doctor, realism, hotel, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
romania, california, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
270K
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, sexy, sexual, erotic, talky ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
sex, porn industry, drugs, cocaine, disco, addiction, multiple storylines, drug addiction, voyeurism, drug abuse, showbiz, adultery ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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:
emotional, touching, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, homeless, mental illness, redemption, halloween, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, life is a bitch, human nature, buddies, best friends ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate ...
Style:
intense, realistic, witty, sexy, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, homosexual, homosexuality, gay lead character, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay slur, lgbtq, friendship, gender, birthday party ...
Time:
70s, year 1968, 20th century, 60s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, london, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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:
thought provoking, gloomy, road movie, compassionate, disturbing ...
Plot:
drugs, addiction, drug abuse, drug addiction, existentialism, dark humor, heroin, redemption, writers, hospital, drug addict, apocalypse ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, chicago illinois, phoenix arizona, iowa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Charlie takes an odyssey through grief during a fall weekend in New York City. His encounters are planned and chance: with a homeless man who sleeps by his building, with a friend who's dying, with the couple who lives (and noisily loves) in ...
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, psychological, talky, sexy ...
Plot:
gay, urban legend, gender, gay bashing, murder, depression, character study, lgbt, mentor, gangsters, twists and turns, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
18K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Style:
road movie, atmospheric, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, drifter, road trip, buddies, prison, on the road, attempted rape, character study, self discovery, violence, introspection, car wash ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, texas, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
Style:
reflective, sad, art house, controversial, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
aids, transvestism, lesbian, transsexual, prostitute, friendship, lgbt, women, grief, gay, redemption, drug addiction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, madrid, argentina, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
Style:
disturbing, harsh, sincere, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
pedophilia, friendship, sexual perversion, starting over, ex convict, police officer, psychology, factory worker, suspicion, warden, anger, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
317K
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:
realistic, philosophical, sincere, depressing, surprise ending ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
depression, human nature, social problems, multiple storylines, child prodigy, introspection, dysfunctional family, loneliness, coincidence, drugs, drug addiction, death ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s, 50s, 1910s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
Style:
talky, bleak, stylized, thought provoking, visually appealing ...
Plot:
betrayal, heist, revenge, robbery, rainstorm, trust, poker game, loyalty, antique dealer, paranoia, mental illness, adaptation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, USA, Taiwan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, sexy, erotic, allegory ...
Plot:
underage sex, prostitute, loss of innocence, revolution, innocence lost, coming of age, corruption, death, loneliness, communism, nude, adaptation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
china, tokyo, tibet, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
695K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
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, captivating, stylized, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drugs, existentialism, dark humor, british, junkie, drug abuse, counterculture, life is a bitch, surrealism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, divorce, marriage, custody battle, single father, father son relationship, court, family relations, abandonment, legal, justice ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, california, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: 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:
realistic, depressing, sexy, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, swinger, thanksgiving, extramarital affair, coming of age, mate swapping, adultery, suburbs, snow, infidelity, sexual awakening, family relations ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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