Movies like Room 2005
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Room (2005)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Julia Barker, an over-worked, middle-aged Texas woman is haunted by psychic visions which drive her to New York in search of the Room.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, enigmatic, captivating, experimental, gloomy, ambiguous ending, contemplative
Plot:
hotel, loneliness, midlife crisis, housewife, journey, family relations, city, room, self discovery, uncertainty, a vision, anxiety, wandering, emptiness, tarot card, nihilism, money, job, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, hotel room, embezzlement, stealing money, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, texas, houston texas
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Most similar movies to Room
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and gloomy films with plots about family relations, self discovery, death, husband wife relationship, friendship, nude and couples mostly in Drama, Mystery and Adventure genres. Some movies like Room: After (2014), About Elly (2009), Caroline and Jackie (2012), The Last Lullaby (2008), Winter in the Blood (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A haunting and powerful psychological thriller. Set in icy upstate New York in the winter of 2002, "After" is about the Valentinos, a middle class clan facing financial hardship--their family stone cutting business is slowly failing--and ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
family relations, family in crisis, family problems, haunted by the past, working class, love, confusion, bankruptcy, secret, notary, sister in law, post office ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
missing person, matchmaking, arranged marriage, family relations, friendship, guilt, journey, parents and children, love and romance, couple relations, couples, teacher ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
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81%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A woman turns her sister's belated birthday celebration into an intervention, but as events unfold, it becomes unclear which sibling needs the most help.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
introspection, addiction, friendship, haunted by the past, drug abuse, life is a bitch, coming of age, self discovery, siblings relations, friends, sister sister conflict, surprise birthday party ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Price, a former hitman, is struggling to cope with retirement. He left the assassination business to live the "easy life." However, retirement arrived with its own agenda. It was not the instant peace and calm that Price expected. Rather, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hitman, moral dilemma, retiring, rivalry, femme fatale, self discovery, going straight, retirement, loner, paranoia, attempted murder, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
native american, obsessive quest, self discovery, introspection, hung over, on the road, indigenous people, indigenous, twilight
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Movies similar to Eyes Wide Shut
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, gloomy, depressing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poverty, missing person, small town, family in crisis, female protagonist, girl, dysfunctional family, realism, down on your luck, bail, life is a bitch, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
missouri, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Style:
bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
death, love, disappearance, obsession, relationships, delusion, tourist, love and romance, coping, haunted by the past, couple relations, mentally unstable ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
45K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, clever, intellectual, enigmatic ...
Plot:
mental illness, mathematics, insanity, science, paranoia, prodigy, life, character study, adaptation, university, depression, manic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, chicago illinois, usa, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot:
uncover truth, life is a bitch, police investigation, introspection, murder, law enforcement, misfit, small town life, redemption, mysterious character, addiction, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.
Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, enigmatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
desert, wilderness, survival, hiking, isolation, wandering, nature, lost, human nature, forces of nature, starvation, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, usa, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Mystery, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) to the Gatsby-like provincial manor presided over by his powerful ...
Style:
mind bending, tense, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
stepmother stepson relationship, stepmother, hotel, mental disorder, murder, estate, couples, family problems, family relations, love and romance, amateur detective, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved ...
Style:
serious, dark, disturbing, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
hotel, suicide, human nature, death, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, confusion, isolation, philosophy, loneliness, suspense, euthanasia ...
Time:
year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, mumblecore, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, midlife crisis, introspection, actor's life, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, aspiring actress, beach house, insomnia, female nudity, global warming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, starting over, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, society, relationships, friends, best friends
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
obsession, self defense, actor's life, couples, showbiz, losing-it hero, rise and fall, ambition, desire for fame, lifestyle, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Movies like Incendies
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, friendship, understanding, family relations, society, gay, best friends, twentysomething life, friend, sex, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Style:
sad, psychological, thought provoking, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, elderly, memory loss, dementia, father daughter relationship, caregiver, destiny, old man, elderly man, alone in the world, aging, terminal illness ...
Time:
year 1937
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
incest, nightmare, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family relations, sexual abuse, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, couples, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God — only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
Style:
disturbing, surreal, thought provoking, psychological, stylized ...
Plot:
end of the world, religion, mother daughter relationship, group sex, religious conversion, murder, faith, christian, apocalypse, religion and supernatural, religions or cults, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of their evil, which she believes to be the cause of their mother's mental illness. ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, atmospheric, controversial ...
Plot:
mental illness, girl, youth, dysfunctional family, coming of age, spirituality, child's point of view, obsession, sister sister relationship, self discovery, mysticism, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Movies similar to Midnight Cowboy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
city life, immigrants, restaurant, friendship, americana, self discovery, diner, workplace romance, workplace, family relations, social misfits, lonely ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
suburbs, murder, relationship vs career, family life, social relations, family relations, friends, couples, suburban life, couple relations, parents and children, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.
Style:
road movie, melancholic, emotional, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
loneliness, travel, midlife crisis, single parent, flowers, illegitimate son, divorce, quest, haunted by the past, anonymous letter, on the road, letter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, tokyo, france, sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, meditative, talky, depressing ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, writers, philosophy, depression, eavesdropping, psychology, psychiatrist, human nature, self discovery, dysfunctional family, infidelity, melancholy ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to pay homage to her father who died in Auschwitz where she was still a little child. In Volterra, Andrew ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot:
brother sister incest, incest, forbidden love, family relations, deportation, erotica, brother and sister, politics, deception, incestuous desire, concentration camp, stepfather ...
Time:
post world war two, 60s, 21st century
Place:
italy, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Films like Glengarry Glen Ross
556
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
self discovery, haunted by the past, homecoming, parents and children, family relations, buddies, redemption, estrangement, hopes, friends, bittersweet, car accident ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychological, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot:
hotel, surrealism, obsession, memory, uncertainty, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, amnesia, haunted by the past, dishonesty, hopes, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on the case of young New Yorker Etan Patz, who disappeared in the early 1980s, this film casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who make her ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
missing person, kidnapping, missing child, parents and children, family life, family problems, death in the family, single parent, life is a bitch, law enforcement, father son relationship, sex crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
teacher, high school, teachers and students, haunted by the past, self discovery, couples, power relations, introspection, couple relations, fear, mental illness, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 70s, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
england, pittsburgh, london, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around ...
Style:
bleak, serious, allegory, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
chaos, surrealism, delusion, musician, philosophy, social relations, small town life, village life, magic realism, circus, small town, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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