Movies like A Streetcar Named Desire 1984
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, talky
Plot:
rape, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, mental illness, obsession, family relations, love and romance, couples, infidelity, family problems, down on your luck, redemption, introspection, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, haunted by the past, battle of the sexes, human nature, dishonesty, unfulfillment, golden years, mental disorder, birthday, domestic violence, deception ...
Time:
50s
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and emotional films with plots about family problems, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, love and romance and couple relations mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like A Streetcar Named Desire: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984), Open Window (2006), Signs & Wonders (2000), Particles of Truth (2003), Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family relations, family problems, rape, redemption, unfulfillment, obsession, love and romance, infidelity, couples, human nature ...
Time:
50s
Place:
new orleans, usa, mississippi
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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tense, psychological, clever, captivating, rough ...
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Time:
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Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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sexy, sincere, emotional, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot:
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Place:
usa, new orleans, mississippi
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, introspection, family problems, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style:
serious, realistic, clever, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, introspection, love affair, life turned upside down, love triangle, obsession, crumbling marriage, betrayal, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations, journalism ...
Time:
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Place:
france, sweden, greece, germany, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, family life, haunted by the past, mental illness, human nature, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, couples, estrangement, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?
Style:
serious, psychological, talky, clever, sexy ...
Plot:
mental illness, depression, family problems, starting over, family relations, mentally unstable, dysfunctional family, real world, human nature, love and romance, dishonesty, mental institution ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, captivating, gloomy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
california, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing, rough
Plot:
couples, family problems, couple relations, musician's life, human nature, introspection, love and romance, crumbling marriage, down on your luck, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction, guitarist ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his ...
Style:
talky, psychological, realistic, serious, clever ...
Plot:
couples, working class, social differences, introspection, family problems, human nature, unfulfillment, society, gender, loneliness, christmas, women ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
interracial relations, family relations, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, unfulfillment, hopes, society, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, interracial romance ...
Time:
50s, 21st century
Place:
usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style:
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Plot:
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25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Scorn takes a look into the trials and tribulations of a group of people dealing with relationships, love, pain and friendship during the course of one year.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative
Plot:
family problems, introspection, couples, human nature, couple relations, destructive relationship, bittersweet, unfulfillment, love, abuse, family relations, urban setting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession — and a dark ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, cynical, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
suspense, destructive relationship, sexual relations, couples, twists and turns, quibbling, age difference, rape victim, infidelity, extramarital affair, rape, coitus ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, cerebral ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
mental illness, schizophrenia, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental disorder, psychology, strong female presence, hopes, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Style:
serious, talky, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, sentimental
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
physical appearance, family relations, mysterious character, isolation, couple relations, losing-it hero, human nature, obsession, love and romance, family problems, wilderness, forest ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
experimental, realistic, serious, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental disorder, alienation, family relations, small town, family problems, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, domestic disturbance, introspection, human nature, small town life ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, family reunited, parents and children, aging, redemption, estrangement, family feud, unfulfillment, hopes, retirement, marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
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