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Faces (1968)
13K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style:
independent film, intense, art house, black and white, talky, biting, existential, visually stunning, aesthetic, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sex, divorce, prostitute, feminism, feminist, depression, male nudity, drinking, extramarital affair, marriage, love, time travel, women, alcoholic, adultery, minimalism, cheating, hipster, social outcast, thoughtful, infidelity, suburbs, marriage crisis, friendship ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo
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Most similar movies to Faces
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, talky and psychological films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Faces: A Woman Under the Influence (1974), She's So Lovely (1997), Shoot the Moon (1982), The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
independent film, art house, psychological, depressing, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
marriage, mental illness, dysfunctional family, working class, construction worker, housewife, mental health, visceral, illness, illicit affair, psychiatry, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. When Eddie returns and finds his wife bruised, he goes ballistic, shoots a paramedic and ...
Style:
melancholic, serious, psychological, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
obsession, mental institution, dysfunctional family, passion, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, couple relations, love triangle, family problems, love and romance, mentally unstable, infidelity ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Style:
realistic, emotional, offbeat, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, writers, marriage, infidelity, husband, wife, adultery, violence, marital crisis, mistress, youth ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 70s
Place:
bay area, san francisco, california
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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:
psychological, emotional, talky, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
adultery, couple relations, imaginary friend, dysfunctional family, character study, human nature, jealous spouse, lifestyle, dishonesty, family problems, couples, society ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
100%
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:
grim, tense, depressing, talky, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, redemption, actor, family life, alcohol abuse, human nature, actor's life, lifestyle, morphine, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1912, year 1962, 60s ...
Place:
connecticut, ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Mike Nichols’ film from Edward Albee's play brought new themes to the film industry. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have never been more brilliant together as they portray an experienced married couple who love each other yet verbally ...
Style:
cerebral, psychological, black and white, black comedy, retro ...
Plot:
battle of the sexes, guest, humiliation, conversation, couples, adultery, dysfunctional marriage, night, love hate relationship, childlessness, alcoholism, drinking ...
Time:
20th century, year 1966, 60s, 1930s
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Drama while a tour bus driver shows church ladies around Mexico. Helped establish Puerto Vallarta as tourist destination.
Style:
black and white, sexual, talky, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
priest, church, mental illness, hotel, iguana, clergy, redemption, baptist, bishop, tour guide, self discovery, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
mexico, usa, virginia, tennessee, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this ...
Style:
sexy, disturbing, independent film, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
sex, dinner, prostitute, adultery, dark humor, flashback, mirror, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, social decay, unlikely criminals, family problems ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
Style:
independent film, sexy, black comedy, controversial, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, voyeurism, infidelity, husband wife relationship, therapist, dysfunctional marriage, sister sister relationship, adultery, voyeur, sibling rivalry, impotence, sex scene ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place:
louisiana, usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho"s depression becomes ...
Style:
bleak, psychological, serious, existential, realistic ...
Plot:
suicide, destiny, haunted by the past, politics, martial law, regret, society, boat, businessman, alienation, murder mystery, yacht ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1994, year 1980, year 1987 ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, independent film, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
road trip, psychiatry, housewife, nudity, unhappy wife, brain damage, pregnant wife, bare breasts, missing wife, depressed woman, swing, loneliness ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
nebraska
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
Style:
independent film, serious, art house, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Plot:
aging, actor, actress, theater, thoughtful, strong female lead, existentialism, art, beat generation, filmmaking, time travel, recovery ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Two closely bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
Style:
art film, existential, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film ...
Plot:
crazy love, alcoholic, writers, drug addiction, addiction, couple relations, therapist, art, social outcast, destiny, mother child relationship, literary ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, las vegas
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, couples, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, love and romance, unsupportive spouse, crumbling marriage, couple relations, impossible love, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, year 1969
Place:
bahamas, denver colorado, colorado
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
Style:
independent film, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
ghetto, african american, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, human nature, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, couple relations, family problems, slaughterhouse ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
los angeles, africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, meditative, clever, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, destiny, infidelity, philosophy, couples, adultery, attorney, happiness, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greece
Similarity:
20%
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:
semi serious, realistic, touching, emotional, talky
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, lifestyle, social decay, couple relations, society, human nature, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings, family life ...
Similarity:
20%
497
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, talky, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, unlikely couple, hopes, family relations, family problems, teenage life, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, single parent ...
Similarity:
20%
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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, eavesdropping, philosophy, depression, psychology, human nature, self discovery, melancholy, psychoanalysis, dysfunctional family, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, making love, lovers reunited, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, family problems, couples, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with ...
Style:
emotional, dark comedy, stylized, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, dysfunctional family, coming of age, family problems, family secret, loneliness, family drama, parenthood, youth, society, lifestyle, loss of son ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, seattle
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, gender, love and romance, elderly, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california, los angeles, miami
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for mentally retarded children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
teaching, school, teachers and students, mentally challenged, human spirit, dedicated educator, hopes, psychiatry, youth, medical, american football, adoption ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s, year 1959
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, grief, road trip, memory, life, family relations, male friendship, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, london, australia, california
Similarity:
18%
348K
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:
cerebral, clever, depressing, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, social problems, human nature, child prodigy, coincidence, depression, sex, cancer, fictional game show, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, terminal illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, reno nevada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, black comedy ...
Plot:
aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, writers, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, writer's life, parents and children, extramarital affair ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
Style:
contemplative, independent film, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, hotel, friends, marriage, grief, machismo, womanizer, casino, time travel, dream, divorce ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
new york, london, long island, england, europe ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style:
psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, working class, loneliness, oral sex, character study, single parent, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Noe he's returned to ...
Style:
erotic, independent film, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
making love, alcoholic mother, ku klux klan, sex scene, infidelity, neo nazism, family problems, family relations, psychopath, couples, crumbling marriage, obsession ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
virginia, west virginia, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style:
sentimental, independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot:
female nudity, threesome, brothel, stoner, infidelity, working class, erection, midlife crisis, friendship, hopes, buddies, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
okinawa japan, san francisco
Similarity:
17%
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