Movies like Tender Is the Night
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Tender Is the Night (1962)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Director Henry King's 1962 film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel stars Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards Jr., Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell, Paul Lukas and Jill St. John.
Style:
retro
Plot:
psychology, mental disorder, mental illness, drug addiction, mental health, love, incest, rape, train, wedding, police, forbidden love, divorce, beach, hotel, mental institution, mental patient, jealousy, alcohol abuse, wealth, psychiatrist, high society, mansion, composer, psychoanalysis ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
france, zurich switzerland, french riviera
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and gloomy films with plots about mental illness, family relations, husband wife relationship, mental institution, flashback, psychology and doctor mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Tender Is the Night: Like Normal People (1979), David and Lisa (1962), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), Lilith (1964), Two Weeks in Another Town (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mentally-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and friends. Based on a true story.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, romantic
Plot:
false accusation, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, independence, marriage, true love, love and romance, mentally unstable woman, society, mentally unstable, dishonesty, forbidden love ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.
Style:
psychological, psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, angst, psychology, mental disorder, insanity, teenage love, mental institution, coming of age, dissociation, relationships, children, psychopath ...
Time:
50s, 60s
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90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style:
tense, depressing, talky, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, family relations, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, redemption, actor, lifestyle, actor's life, human nature, family life, morphine ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
ireland, connecticut
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80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. As time passes, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, surreal, sexual ...
Plot:
mental illness, hospital, schizophrenia, sex addict, couples, mentally unstable, fall in love, incest, love and romance, femme fatale, obsession, doctors and patients ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Style:
sincere, stylized, serious, realistic, retro
Plot:
filmmaking, infidelity, alcohol abuse, sanitarium, drug addiction, isolation, ambition, missing person, airport, recording studio, heart attack, casino ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, usa, connecticut, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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 ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Style:
factual, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, political ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, writers, friendship, politics, childhood, jewish, nazi, fascism, culture clash, adaptation, character study, fighting the system ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1934, pre world war two, 1920s ...
Place:
germany, vienna, england, europe, berlin germany ...
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, escapades, tragedy, society, mentally unstable, doctor, religious, religion, psychotherapist, mental patient, nightclub ...
Time:
year 1959
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, power relations, doctors and patients, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, psychiatrist, dishonesty, friendship, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
mental institution, mental breakdown, mental illness, family relations, filmmaking, hollywood, infidelity, alienation, drug abuse, forced abortion, fame, lgbt ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, beverly hills, las vegas, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, child illness, hopes, hidden identity, unfulfillment ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
kentucky, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.
Plot:
mental illness, schizophrenia, mind control, mental institution, hallucination, love, engagement, female protagonist, therapy, train, mentally unstable woman, panic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, retro
Plot:
amnesia, memory loss, amnesiac, disorder, couples, life is a bitch, mysterious character, uncover truth, couple relations, car chase, riddles and clues, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another ...
Style:
art house
Plot:
mental disorder, mental illness, theater, attempted murder, mental patient, stepmother, filmmaking, clown, mental institution, death, marriage, family relations ...
Time:
1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
fashion, photographer, mental illness, modeling, cult, drug addiction, character study, sex crime, paranoia, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental breakdown ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, usa, jamaica, paris france
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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, captivating ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, freedom, insanity, human spirit, nurse, society, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, escaped mental patient, psychopath ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
oregon
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45%
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:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Style:
slasher, campy, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
murder, teenage daughter, betrayal, courtroom, lawyer, court, cult, drug addiction, marriage, investigation, family relations, custody ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, realistic, depressing, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, depression, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, suicide, father son relationship, grief, therapy, coming of age, loss of son, alienation, mental illness ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, houston texas, texas, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, ...
Plot:
wedding, husband wife relationship, dancing, divorce, marriage, dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, adultery, engagement
Time:
50s, 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
fashion show, marriage, infidelity, fashion designer, extramarital affair, department store, fashion industry, love and romance, unfulfillment, couple relations, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, paris france, rome italy, france
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
Style:
psychological, realistic, captivating, sentimental
Plot:
drug addiction, rehabilitation, addiction, drugs, male nudity, alcohol abuse, fall in love, self destructing, clinic, introspection, downfall, society ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, minneapolis minnesota
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
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Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
europe, new york, london, spain, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
17-year-old Sami has an accident which resulted in him reluctantly sent to closed psychiatric hospital. Sami refuses to speak or show his feelings, even when the nurse Taneli is trying everything in order to understand how the crash really happened. ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, touching, suspenseful, sexy
Plot:
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38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, romantic, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, first love, youth, adolescence, mental illness, suicide, teenage life, depression, shyness ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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 ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
alcohol abuse, humiliation, alcoholic, guest, adultery, love hate relationship, crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, night, drunkenness, suspense, marriage ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new england, usa
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33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, touching, sincere, philosophical ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
russia
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33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria, Chile, Switzerland, Portugal
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness.
Plot:
female nudity, marriage, husband wife relationship, paranoia, jealousy, mansion, female full frontal nudity
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32%
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