Movies like Of Mice and Men

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Of Mice and Men (1992)
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Of Mice and Men (1992)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
Style: sad, touching, emotional, depressing, social, mind twisting, independent film, tense, sincere, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: great depression, friendship, death, disability, social commentary, loneliness, literary, drifter, mental disorder, tragedy, medicine, obsession, summer, economics, wrestling, autism, philosophy, psychiatry, homeless, village life, disabled person, labor, christian, mouse, inspiration ...
Time: year 1992, 1900s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 20s
Place: california, usa
Keyword: reboot, americana, dreams

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Most similar movies to Of Mice and Men

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and sincere films with plots about society, friendship, hopes, family relations, misfit, human nature and coming of age mostly in Drama, Western and Romance genres. Some movies like Of Mice and Men: Forrest Gump (1994), Left Luggage (1998), Sling Blade (1996), Places in the Heart (1984), Scarecrow (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: life & death, philosophy, life philosophy, mentally challenged, destiny, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, storytelling, life, journey ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., vietnam, china, alabama ...
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89%
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Left Luggage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, compassionate ...
Plot: judaism, holocaust survivor, racism, life, nazi, tragedy, justice, mentor, depression, dysfunctional family, friendship, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, year 1972
Place: europe, israel, antwerp, belgium
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100%
 8.0
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Sling Blade (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside ...
Style: independent film, southern gothic, neo noir, serious, bleak ...
Audience: manly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, friendship, murder, mental institution, redneck, redemption, death threat, father figure, disability, mental illness, domestic violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Places in the Heart (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1930s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Style: uplifting, christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, family outing
Plot: great depression, farm, blindness, racism, small town, ku klux klan, survival, friendship, mother, blind character, bittersweet, redemption ...
Time: 1930s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1935
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Scarecrow (1973)
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: drifter, road trip, on the road, friendship, prison, attempted rape, character study, self discovery, violence, introspection, mental breakdown, car wash ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, california, denver colorado, detroit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Of Mice and Men (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to ...
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy, touching
Plot: man child, great depression, labor, homeless, strike, union, drifter, friendship, human nature, society, misfit, social relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.7
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Ironweed (1987)
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: alcohol abuse, homeless, mental illness, redemption, alcoholism, halloween, couple relations, best friend, parents and children, rich and poor, buddies, human nature ...
Time: 1900s, 1930s, year 1987, 1910s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small ...
Style: southern gothic, thought provoking, gothic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: deaf, loneliness, racism, grief, coming of age, disability, suicide, deaf mute, heartache, deep south, literary, angst ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, alabama, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
Style: depressing, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak, talky ...
Plot: depression, dancing, great depression, social commentary, competition, contest, survival, mental breakdown, cynicism, exhaustion, culture clash, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1969, 1920s
Place: california, usa, los angeles, chicago, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Dominick and Eugene (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical school. Their relationship becomes strained when Eugene must ...
Style: serious, uplifting, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: medical student, twins, family relations, misfit, life is a bitch, family problems, intern, family life, brother brother relationship, intellectual disability, mental retardation, brother ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: youth, labor, korean war, migration, quarantine, strike, union, immigrant, coming of age, family relations, bittersweet, innocence lost ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: minnesota, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.8
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Convicts (1991)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Texas writer Horton Foote's touching story set in 1902 features Robert Duvall as Sol, the hardened boss of a sugar plantation who unwittingly becomes a mentor to a young boy named Horace (Lukas Haas), who comes to Sol looking for a way to earn ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: youth, farm, family relations, civil war veteran, hound dog, swamp, social relations, friends, obsessive quest, hopes, master and servant, society ...
Time: year 1991, 1900s
Place: austin texas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying ...
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot: fishing, coming of age, self discovery, father son relationship, beautiful scenery, brother brother relationship, childhood, river, wilderness, brothers, tragedy, secrets ...
Time: 1900s, year 1992, 1920s, 1910s, 1930s ...
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style: melancholic, touching, emotional, depressing, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, disability, self discovery, mental illness, small town, mentally challenged, responsibility, life philosophy, brothers, coming of age, family drama, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993, 60s, 70s
Place: iowa, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 120K
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
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, realistic, depressing, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, dream, prostitution, fish out of water, gay, cripple, homosexual, gay slur, prostitute, cowboy, female nudity, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, texas, florida, manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.8
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Hud (1963)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and ...
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, black and white, thought provoking ...
Audience: manly
Plot: rancher, dysfunctional family, redemption, ranch, human nature, parents and children, family life, rodeo cowboy, family problems, irresponsible, father son relationship, small town ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 1950s, 50s
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 20K
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested ...
Style: touching, sad, road movie, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dog, depression, owner dog relationship, small town, friendship, solitude, life philosophy, on the road, character study, dysfunctional family, travel, social problems ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: oregon, alaska, portland oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.0
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Rain Man (1988)
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 ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: autism, road trip, redemption, disability, runaway, brother brother relationship, mentally challenged, siblings relations, family relations, casino, mental illness, mathematics ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: las vegas, california, ohio, cincinnati ohio, missouri ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, cynical, breathtaking, visual ...
Plot: prostitution, snow, prostitute, mining town, old west, wild west, gambling, winter, female nudity, small town, gambler, brothel ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century, 1890s, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place: washington state, usa, washington d.c., seattle, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Death of a Salesman (1985)
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: sincere, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: elderly, dysfunctional family, family relations, american dream, mental illness, estrangement, parents and children, american football, parent child relationship, family problems, down on your luck, family in crisis ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
To Save a Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jake Taylor has everything. He has a beautiful girl, he's the champion in basketball and beer pong, and everyone loves him. Then, an old childhood friend, whom Jake used to be friends with, commits suicide. Jake begins to think. He wonders what ...
Style: christian film, contemplative, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: religious, christian, suicide, faith, high school, friendship, bittersweet, social relations, social differences, self discovery, friends, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Long Road Home (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: family relations, labor union, life is a bitch, survival, society, farm, against the odds, family life, down on your luck, workplace situations, farm hand, great depression ...
Time: 1930s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (1995)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young ranger in the Montana wilderness discovers the great forces of nature while learning the importance of honor, trust and integrity. Legendary veteran ranger Bill Bell educates the young man and guides him toward manhood. The year is 1919-a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: woods, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, wilderness, old west, cowboy, friends, starting over, mind game, youth ...
Time: 1910s
Place: usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Detachment (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, human relationship, teen angst, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: marriage of convenience, arranged marriage, world war two, love and romance, pregnancy, soldier, society, unhappy marriage, hopes, fall in love, life is a bitch, pretend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s, year 1944
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.6
 155K
I Am Sam (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, tear jerker, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lawyer, father daughter relationship, mentally challenged, disability, single father, social services, custody, custody battle, child custody, parents and children, parenthood, mental illness ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.2
 124K
Pay It Forward (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, childhood, single parent, teachers and students, alcoholic, life philosophy, good deed, disfigurement, death, boy, alcoholism, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: tibet, nevada, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.6
 27K
The Shootist (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and ...
Style: suspense, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gunfight, cancer, wild west, widow, self defense, small town, haunted by the past, cowboy, retirement, danger, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, year 1976, 1880s, 1870s ...
Place: tucson arizona, el paso texas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, dramatic, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, blindness, mentor, blind character, thanksgiving, tango, human spirit, human nature, loneliness, coming of age, disability, preparatory school ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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