Movies like Revolutionary Road
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
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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, bleak, sad, emotional, thought provoking, serious, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, suburbs, family problems, existentialism, deadend life, character study, cheating wife, sex scene, unhappiness, office, psychology, loneliness, midlife crisis, destiny, unfulfillment, couple relations, love ...
Time:
50s, year 1955, 1940s, 20th century, year 1948, 1950s
Place:
california, usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
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Most similar movies to Revolutionary Road
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, melancholic and psychological films with plots about relationships, storytelling, life philosophy, loneliness, dialogue, couples and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Revolutionary Road: Blue Valentine (2010), The Hours (2002), Little Children (2006), Last Night (2010), The Ice Storm (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
emotional, touching, romantic, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, strong sexual content, melancholy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
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94%
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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:
psychological, intellectual, depressing, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, women, poet, lesbianism ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s, year 2001 ...
Place:
new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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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:
sexual, sexy, disturbing, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, housewife, love affair, small town, sexual pleasure, extramarital affair, cheating wife, dysfunctional family, suburbs, strong sexual content, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, boston, usa
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83%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, temptation, love story, relationships, love and romance, old love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, unfaithful husband, love, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, paris france, france, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style:
sincere, emotional, stylized, sexy, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
racism, gay husband, gay, crumbling marriage, suburbs, friendship, housewife, forbidden love, prejudice, homosexuality, couples, infidelity ...
Time:
50s, year 1957, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, miami, usa, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
thought provoking, melancholic, sexy, sexual, dramatic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
existentialism, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, suburbs, obsession, coming of age, loneliness, age difference, teenager, youth, older man younger woman relationship, older man young girl relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Style:
dark, realistic, sincere, melancholic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, older woman younger man relationship, dull life, mental illness, dysfunctional marriage, suicide, workplace, infidelity, adultery, depression, dark humor, lie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, california, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
meditative, psychological, surreal, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
obsession, couples, suicide attempt, philosophy, loneliness, family relations, love affair, life turned upside down, marriage, crumbling marriage, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1951, 21st century
Place:
new york, paris france, connecticut, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, gloomy ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, betrayal, parenthood, custody, love affair, fall in love, family problems, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
tokyo, paris france, sweden, denmark, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, atmospheric, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
depression, suicide, suburbs, overbearing parent, innocence lost, suicide attempt, dysfunctional family, melancholy, teenager, teenage life, coming of age, friendship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
michigan, yale university
⇓ 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:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, mind bending, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory, surrealism, amnesia, love, existentialism, memory loss, love story, relationships, alternate reality, couples, loneliness, introspection ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves ...
Style:
emotional, erotic, romantic, sexy, bleak ...
Plot:
love, happy ending, erotica, nude, social injustice, family relations, destiny, forbidden love, beautiful scenery, sex, mentor, tragedy ...
Time:
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Place:
england, australia, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Style:
romantic, emotional, sexy, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love, infidelity, love affair, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, judge, suicide attempt, unfulfilled love, depression, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
50s, 1920s, 1930s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, touching, sexy, romantic ...
Plot:
love, infidelity, love story, love triangle, hospital, relationships, adultery, extramarital affair, destructive relationship, car accident, crumbling marriage, life philosophy ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot:
single father, redemption, terminal illness, death, parenthood, immigrants, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, cancer, parents and children, reconciliation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, canada, senegal, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.
Style:
thought provoking, sad, art house, funny, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
divorce, marriage, parent child relationship, infidelity, father son relationship, theatre director, lawyer, troubled marriage, husband wife conflict, actress, relationships, women ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
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:
emotional, philosophical, sentimental, romantic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, relationships, lovers reunited, love and romance, couples, bittersweet, destiny, writers, chance meeting, introspection, lifestyle, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
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sexy, melancholic, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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year 1958, year 1988, year 1966, post world war two, year 1980 ...
Place:
germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 19th century
Place:
china, shanghai, london, england, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
emotional, depressing, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
suicide, depression, writers, mental illness, adultery, death, poet, art, tragic love, writer's life, artist, couple relations ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.
Style:
sentimental, sad, touching, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, secret love, cancer, death, love and romance, dealing with death, parents and children, infidelity, hospital, love story, relationships, life & death ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
Style:
depressing, psychological, romantic, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
touching, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, depressing ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, aging, writers, writer's life, mental illness, love, life & death, women, loneliness, terminal illness, understanding, senior citizen ...
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Place:
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26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with ...
Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
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Time:
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26%
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.
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Plot:
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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 ...
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Place:
new jersey, usa, new york state
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
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romantic, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids, teens ...
Plot:
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50%
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