Movies like Winner Take All
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Winner Take All (1975)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
Style:
nostalgic
Plot:
housewife, gambling addiction, obsession, female protagonist, suburban life, character study, domestic drama, secret life, financial ruin, gender roles, loneliness, midlife crisis, small town, moral ambiguity, social realism, women's issues, woman in danger, finance, troubled marriage, domineering mother, gambling, compulsive gambler, overbearing mother
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Most similar movies to Winner Take All
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, tense and psychological films with plots about character study, female protagonist, obsession, moral ambiguity, loneliness, small town and midlife crisis mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Winner Take All: Those Secrets (1992), Pale Moon (2014), Fools (1970), Twenty-Five Five (2018), Going for Broke (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Style:
noir, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
call girl, prostitution, secret life, double life, female protagonist, domestic drama, mature, motherhood, character study, taboo, family conflict, shame ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things change when office gossip about affairs and ...
Style:
period piece, atmospheric
Plot:
embezzlement, character study, housewife, midlife crisis, female protagonist, ethical dilemma, secret life, adultery, bank clerk, moral ambiguity, loneliness, identity crisis ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
76%
175
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, detective, independent film
Plot:
love triangle, character study, midlife crisis, forbidden romance, jealousy, infidelity, adultery, unrequited love, bittersweet, loneliness, mature, obsession ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Allison Morgan, a hairdresser in a small Washington town learns she's won millions playing the lottery. Distracted by her precocious three year old while buying her mother's weekly lottery tickets Allison buys an extra ticket for herself ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
small town, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, lottery, obsession, loss, domestic drama, personal growth, identity, single mother, working class ...
Place:
washington state
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
With the innocent dropping of a few coins into a video poker machine, Laura Bancroft's world is about to change forever. Inspired by true events, Going for Broke is the compelling, hard-hitting story of one woman's overwhelming addiction ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, captivating, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
gambling, female protagonist, deception, gambling addiction, casino, stolen money, compulsive gambler, gambler, financial problem, money problems, needing money, relationship problems ...
Place:
las vegas, reno nevada
Similarity:
59%
173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motherhood, domestic drama, character study, identity, female protagonist, gender roles, intimate, realism, family secret, trauma, friendship, intimacy ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, political drama
Plot:
female protagonist, marriage, everyday life, slice of life, character study, moral ambiguity, gender roles, political activism, social realism, resilience, personal growth, beautician ...
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
isolation, loneliness, parent child relationship, female protagonist, family conflict, domestic drama, character study, hiding place, identity crisis, social realism, compassion, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Making a living from selling cheap wedding supplies doesn't free Fong from pressure to marry. She's been pushed beyond limits by unaffordable housing, archaic customs, and intrusive in-laws since engagement. More worrying is the comeback ...
Style:
tense, captivating, romantic drama, melancholic
Plot:
fake marriage, marriage crisis, marriage, wedding planning, female protagonist, loveless marriage, marriage of convenience, dysfunctional marriage, relationship problems, troubled marriage, wedding, unhappy marriage ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her infant daughter.
Style:
sad, tense, suspenseful, grindhouse, period piece ...
Plot:
child abuse, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, family drama, trauma, emotional abuse, child neglect, female protagonist, social issues, character study, domestic violence, social realism ...
Time:
year 1970
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The people of this remote village in the Black Forest don't talk much, but when they do, it's in the Alemannic dialect. Hanna, 21 has traveled far to work here. She shovels manure, milks cows and tries to cope with the farmer, Uwe Kiefer, ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, independent film, bleak ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, character study, intimate, isolation, social realism, alienation, male protagonist, moral dilemma, secrets, financial ruin, mistrust ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, psychological, dark, tension ...
Plot:
suburban life, insecurity, shyness, virginity, loneliness, female protagonist, character study, love story, manipulation, seduction, cohabitation, intimate ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
45%
143
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after ...
Style:
erotic drama, erotic
Plot:
midlife crisis, love triangle, sexual jealousy, adultery, infidelity, jealous husband, sexual awakening, domestic drama, character study, seduction, psychological manipulation, manipulation ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Religion changes a woman's attitude towards alcohol.
Style:
reflective, serious, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
faith, alcoholism, female protagonist, religious conversion, abstinence, religion, redemption, character study, spiritual awakening, religious community, crisis of conscience, drug addiction ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Drama - Vic's days are filled with selling sci-fi collectibles, harassing his fellow antique dealers, and trying to communicate with extraterrestrials. - Charles Brin, Alex Cole, Paul Cram
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
obsession, small town, danger, alien encounter, death, tragedy, delusion, manipulation, emotional manipulation, exploitation, character study, female victim ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One afternoon, a man brings his dog into ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, relationships, veterinarian, midlife crisis, character study, secrets, husband wife relationship, animal, dog, problem, family relations, pets ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A therapist spirals into obsession as evidence points that a troubled teen could be her own child surrendered 17 years ago.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, adoption, regret, therapy, identity, motherhood, lifestyle, destiny, troubled past, pursuit, uncover truth, psychologist ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the ...
Style:
tragic ending, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, jealousy, manipulation, gender roles, betrayal, love triangle, literary, power struggle, obsession, social satire, moral ambiguity, small town ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover at any cost something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma must spend her nights taking care of Clemente, ...
Style:
emotional, psychological thriller, melancholic, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
fear of death, obsession, female protagonist, compassion, character study, loneliness, moral ambiguity, redemption, domestic drama, manipulation, isolation, slow burn ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
41%
143
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Serbia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Divorced father Marko is hardly ever alone: he is surrounded on all sides by family, friends, co-workers and neighborhood fixers. Yet he is driven to the brink by limited contact with the one person he loves more than anyone – his daughter, who ...
Style:
realistic, heartbreaking, intense, melancholic, tense
Plot:
custody battle, family conflict, divorced father, bureaucracy, child custody, domestic drama, social services, character study, single parent, loneliness, bittersweet, intimate ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
40%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for a summer in her rural home in the Catskill mountains.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, sentimental, light, disturbing ...
Plot:
friendship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, adultery, father daughter relationship, marital separation, domestic drama, character study, infidelity, loss, grief, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, sinister, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, domestic drama, betrayal, infidelity, moral ambiguity, character study, symbolism, jealousy, guilt, midlife crisis, mature ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Story:
After a chance decision sends her home in a taxicab, Dorinda, a widowed judge, strikes up a friendship with the young and charming driver, Noah, who's overcome with respect for her profession. But soon enough, their fondness for each other ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, intense
Plot:
pregnancy, judge, taxi driver, loneliness, forbidden love, midlife crisis, class differences, scandal, social commentary, gender roles, independent woman, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Marijana's life revolves around her family, whether she likes it or not. They live on top of one another in a tiny apartment, driving one another crazy. Then her controlling father has a stroke and is left completely bedridden, and Marijana ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
sexual relations, sex, father daughter relationship, family problems, female protagonist, family drama, dysfunctional family, family relations, claustrophobia, character study, self discovery, desperation ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
grief, loss, character study, loneliness, identity, intimate, country house, memory, minimalism, friendship, impostor, gardener ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A suburban housewife uses a hidden camera to compulsively record everyone around her.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
self discovery, voyeurism, love affair, dysfunctional family, dishonesty, estrangement, dull life, love and romance, single parent, crumbling marriage, obsessive quest, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drama - It's 1982, and Midwestern housewife Joyce Jackson (Roseanne) is obsessed with Elvis Presley; she's even used the King of Rock and Roll's inspiration to turn her house into a wacky shrine. Convinced Presley's still alive, ...
Style:
comedy drama, heartfelt, sentimental, road movie, period piece ...
Plot:
obsession, elvis presley, shrine, nostalgia, female protagonist, bittersweet, grief, suburban life, estranged couple, character study, midlife crisis, road trip ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
37%
506
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in the newest resident at the Shady Plains Trailer Park.
Style:
independent film, tense, emotional, realistic, dark ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, coming of age, trailer park, female protagonist, child protagonist, character study, family drama, moral ambiguity, jealousy, manipulation, sabotage, absent father ...
Similarity:
36%
21
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with ...
Style:
bleak, art house, ambiguous ending
Plot:
seaside, gambling, loneliness, desolation, character study, obsession, moral ambiguity, criminal, hooker, rural setting, prostitute, brother sister relationship ...
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
36%
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