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A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
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 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: disturbing, psychological, touching, serious, emotional, atmospheric, realistic
Plot: sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family relations, family problems, rape, obsession, love and romance, couples, infidelity, redemption, unfulfillment, haunted by the past, human nature, dishonesty, bullying, southern belle, rape victim, parents and children, vengeance, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, battle of the sexes, couple relations, mental disorder, childbirth ...
Time: 50s
Place: new orleans, usa, mississippi

Most similar movies to A Streetcar Named Desire

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and psychological films with plots about family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance and parents and children mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like A Streetcar Named Desire: Signs & Wonders (2000), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984), A Quiet Little Marriage (2008), Daybreak (2003), Open Window (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Signs & Wonders (2000)
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, independent film ...
Plot: infidelity, introspection, love affair, life turned upside down, love triangle, couple relations, crumbling marriage, betrayal, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, germany, greece, athens greece
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100%
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
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, teen ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: adultery, black, family problems, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, dysfunctional family, life turned upside down, disorder, unfulfillment, human nature, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
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 ...
Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: rape, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, mental illness, family problems, couples, family relations, haunted by the past, down on your luck, siblings relations, infidelity, human nature ...
Time: 50s
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)
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.
Style: talky, tense, sincere, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: estate, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, plantation, frigidity, alcoholic, male homosexuality, estrangement, sexual dysfunction, family relations, family problems, couples ...
Place: usa, new orleans, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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25%
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Daybreak (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 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: realistic, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, family problems, vengeance, crumbling marriage, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, redemption, introspection ...
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Open Window (2006)
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, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, introspection, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Glass Menagerie (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adaptation, brother sister relationship, aging, family in crisis, parents and children, family life, family problems, unfulfillment, domineering mother, cripple, mother ...
Time: year 1987, 1930s, 20th century, future
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Thousand Acres (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Style: psychological, touching, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot: farm, child molester, dysfunctional family, shakespeare, incest rape, incest, women, tragedy, domineering father, jealousy, betrayal, sex crime ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, ...
Style: melancholic, sincere, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot: infidelity, couples, marriage, crumbling marriage, adultery, pregnancy, family relations, family life, love and romance, siblings relations, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: vietnam, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.9
 410
Bereft (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style: touching, psychological, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: haunted by the past, parents and children, friendship, family problems, estrangement, family life, impossible love, couples, solace, life is a bitch, love and romance, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.4
 695
Constellation (2005)
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: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: interracial relations, family relations, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, hopes, unfulfillment, society, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, interracial romance ...
Time: 1950s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to ...
Style: southern gothic, romantic drama, technicolor, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, railroad, dysfunctional family, boarding house, deep south, sad ending, mental disorder, mother and daughter, jazz, swing, revenge, railway ...
Time: 1920s, year 1966, 1930s
Place: mississippi, tennessee, australia, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Particles of Truth (2003)
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: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, mental illness, human nature, introspection, haunted by the past, family life, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 125
Automatic (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style: contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: family problems, couples, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, destiny, sexual relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
What Girls Learn (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, human nature, love and romance, youth, estrangement, couples, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
 475
Morlang (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, a chilling psychological drama. A couple's secret pact takes an unexpected, sinister turn.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: betrayal, art, couple relations, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, vengeance, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, family problems, infidelity, unfulfillment ...
Place: ireland, europe, netherlands, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 7.0
 302
Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Grief of Others (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, death in the family, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, reconciliation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.5
 209
Morning (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, starting over, redemption, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, family in crisis, death in the family, death of child, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.4
 660
Hunger Point (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Meet the Hunters your typical all-American family: two committed parents and two lovely daughters. However, looks can be deceiving because this family is plagued by the nit-picking comments of an overzealous mother determined to keep her daughters ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot: eating disorder, mental illness, dysfunctional family, family relations, anorexia, mental institution, obsession, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, physical appearance, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Night for Dying Tigers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, parents and children, conflict, rapist, couples, siblings relations, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 706
Drunkboat (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sad
Plot: family relations, single parent, haunted by the past, social relations, youth, parents and children, self discovery, coming of age, teenage life, suburbs, teenager, drinking alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy ...
Plot: down syndrome, disability, haunted by the past, child illness, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, hopes, hidden identity, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s, 80s, 70s
Place: kentucky, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.4
 147
All You Need (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, touching, talky
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, human nature, couple relations, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.3
 16
Scorn (2011)
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: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: family problems, introspection, couples, human nature, destructive relationship, couple relations, bittersweet, unfulfillment, love, abuse, urban, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
We Were the Mulvaneys (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, loneliness, fear, trouble ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The New Year Parade (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, family life, family in crisis, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, breakup, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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God's Army (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot: missionary, couples, working class, terminal illness, redemption, self discovery, life is a bitch, youth, family relations, disorder, culture clash, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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