Movies like The Party's Over

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The Party's Over (1965)
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The Party's Over (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish "beatniks". Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
Plot: swing, jazz, beatnik, music and dance, train, party, businessman, death, alcohol abuse, suicide, missing person, fiancee, necrophilia, shakespeare, group of friends, drunkenness, class differences, daughter, accidental death, female singer, partying, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, train station, engagement, staircase ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: london

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Most similar movies to The Party's Over

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and touching films with plots about drunkenness, death, drinking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drink, friendship and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Party's Over: Goodbye Trainmen (1992), Poids léger (2004), I Dream of My Friends (1993), The Dresser (1983), Dogs' Feast (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Goodbye Trainmen (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Veturimiehet heiluttaa on 4. syyskuuta 1992 ensi-iltansa saanut suomalainen elokuva. Elokuva on kuvattu suurimmaksi osaksi Porissa. Veturimiehet heiluttaa sai ensi-iltansa Ruotsissa 26. maaliskuuta 1993.
Plot: train, male female relationship, self destructing, childhood friend, teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rain, friendship, drinking, friend, death, flashback ...
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95%
 6.1
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Poids léger (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man tries his way in boxing, supported by a coach. He meets a girl, falls in love and she becomes pregnant.
Style: crying, sensitive
Plot: boxer, brother sister relationship, boxing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mentor protege relationship, interracial romance, fall in love, interracial relations, emotionally unstable, self destructing, funeral, death ...
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68%
I Dream of My Friends (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Four episodes, four instances from a man’s life covering 25 years, from 1965 in Germany to 1990 in Athens. The episodes seem to be irrelevant to one another, yet they all focus on male powerplay, reveal the self-consciousness and moderation of the ...
Plot: journey, greek, bartender, hotel owner, scam, marijuana, frustration, jazz, wedding, death, truck driver, drinking ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, year 1973 ...
Place: berlin germany, greece, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Dresser (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. ...
Style: talky, realistic, psychological, gloomy, touching ...
Plot: gay lead character, lgbt, unrequited love, gay, backstage, world war two, friendship, shakespeare, actor, makeover, aging, railway ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, post world war two, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Dogs' Feast (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 112 min.
Story: On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two ...
Plot: social injustice, woman, female nudity, alcoholism, train station, small town, single mother, train, drunkenness, neighbor, loss of family, winter ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
Style: erotic, sensual, avant garde, eros, non-linear ...
Audience: adult
Plot: innocence lost, dog sex, elderly lovers, woman peeing, forbidden love, erotica, desert, sex, sexuality, age difference, passion, fetish ...
Time: year 1999, 1950s, 50s, 20th century, stone age
Place: africa, england, tunisia, usa, london ...
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55%
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Kings (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot: friends, introspection, friendship, society, alcohol abuse, buddies, dealing with death, friend, drunkenness, death, migration, conquering ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Lamb (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: youth, school, on the run, kidnapping, adoption, teacher student relationship, surrogate father, neurology, epilepsy, epileptic seizure, murder by drowning, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ireland, england, london, dublin ireland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Living (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A veteran civil servant and bureaucratic cog in the rebuilding of Britain post-WWII, Williams expertly pushes paperwork around a government office only to reckon with his existence when he’s diagnosed with a fatal illness.
Style: thrilling, visually stunning, existential, period piece, independent film ...
Plot: terminal illness, bureaucrat, bureaucracy, changing lives, first day on the job, older man younger woman relationship, repression, petition, cancer, father son relationship, new job, rain ...
Time: 1950s, future, year 1953, post world war two, 20th century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Servant (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A decadent London aristocrat hires a man-servant to attend to his needs. However, the balance of power starts to shift...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, sexy, surreal, thought provoking ...
Plot: servant, decadence, manipulation, master and servant, gay subtext, homosexual subtext, sadomasochism, sexual repression, lgbt, alcoholism, surrealism, obsession ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place: england, london, america, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.8
 5K
Accident (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These ...
Style: slasher, deep, contemplative, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: professor, flashback, college, obsession, car accident, torment, seduction, college life, swing, family relations, love triangle, teacher student relationship ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: oxford university, england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
What Richard Did (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.
Style: captivating, serious, suspense, disturbing, indie film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: life turned upside down, lifestyle, coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, summer, danger, beautiful scenery, high school, school, bare chested male, sex scene ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Up the Junction (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea.
Style: independent film
Plot: kitchen sink realism, swing, working class, british pub, post war, swinger, railway, abortion, bare chested male, wealth, class differences
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Rather English Marriage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: senior citizen, widower, friendship, family relations, odd couple, gay interest, bittersweet, parents and children, singleness, working class, social differences, social worker ...
Time: 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Chance Meeting (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Wandering around wine bars and pubs drinking, thirty-year old worker Oldrich (Petr Kostka), who is celebrating the birth of his son, meets a seventeen-year old lad called Yellow T-shirt Boy (Vladimír Pucholt). Yellow T-shirt Boy is a problematic ...
Plot: swimming pool, drunkenness, pub, factory worker, fight, baby born, childbirth, adolescence, one day, alcohol
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Permissive (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But ...
Style: offbeat, independent film
Plot: lesbian, groupie, sexploitation, swing, female nudity, exploitation, rock music, lesbian sex, suicide attempt, sex scene, suicide, nudity ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Another Round (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style: dark comedy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, teacher, friendship, drunkenness, group of friends, alcohol abuse, midlife crisis, drinking, teacher student relationship, marriage, dancing, existential loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, year 2011, year 2013, 21st century
Place: copenhagen, denmark, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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My Zoe (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, touching, sincere
Plot: little girl, ex husband ex wife relationship, hospital, mother daughter relationship, loss of daughter, father daughter relationship, death of daughter, illness, family drama, dysfunctional family, woman, coma ...
Place: berlin germany, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until ...
Plot: christmas, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, jealousy, coming of age, grownups, teenage sexuality, new year's eve, friends, daughter, female nudity, friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Style: sexy, poignant, realistic, depressing, black and white ...
Plot: addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcoholics anonymous, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, recovery, love, drinking, drunk, drug addiction, secretary ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco, usa, texas, california, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Nil by Mouth (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, heroin, drug addict, drug addiction, drug abuse, working class, addiction, drug, profanity, brutality, violence, alcoholism ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Ale, a deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures, benignly decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
Style: art house, psychological thriller, disturbing, atmospheric, black and white ...
Plot: epilepsy, brother sister relationship, catholicism, death of mother, matricide, blindness, prostitute, dysfunctional family, suicidal tendency, death, reckless driving, alienation ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Stone Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Drawing more on the heightened realism of indigenous folk ritual and storytelling traditions than on the Socialist Realist intentions of the state, this almost wordless cine-poem, operating with the most slender of plots but the oldest of ...
Style: anthology
Plot: gypsy, wedding, street musician, death, homicide, loss of daughter, grave, swing, deserter, vendetta, banquet, horse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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An Old Fashioned Christmas (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving continues. Isabella and Tilly pay a visit to Ireland, hoping Isabella's long-ago suitor, the Earl of Shannon, can assist Tilly in getting her writing published.
Style: thought provoking, sincere, suspenseful, disturbing, period drama
Plot: christmas, grandfather granddaughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, jealousy, conspiracy, american abroad, fiance fiancee relationship, cheating fiancee, christian, holiday, deception, drunkenness ...
Time: victorian era
Place: dublin ireland, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Wind of Change (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 64 min.
Story: Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decolonisation in Africa, The Wind of Change showed the other side of the coin: the impact of colonial immigration at 'home'. The film ...
Style: noir, independent film, vintage
Plot: race riot, racist, brother sister relationship, racial violence, generation gap, dysfunctional family, racism, working class family, knife fight, working class, prejudice, juvenile delinquency ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Dragonard (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the ...
Style: period drama
Plot: corporal punishment, sugarcane, human exploitation, adultery, slavery, punishment, sex scene, female nudity, caribbean sea, beefcake, sexploitation, death sentence ...
Time: 18th century
Place: caribbean, fictional island, jamaica, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Ellen (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A tearaway teenage girl, at war with her mum, and trying to take control of her life, forms an amazing and unbreakable bond with a new friend. They raise hell, stick two fingers up at the world, and laugh like they never have before... but can Ellen ...
Style: captivating, touching, rough, melancholic, disturbing
Plot: teenage girl, sex with a minor, underage sex, friendship, party, single mother, mother daughter relationship, female friendship, friend, drunkenness, female protagonist, dancing ...
Time: 2010s
Place: scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
So Evil, So Young (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A teenage girl is wrongfully accused of theft and is sent away to a harsh reform school.
Style: noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious
Plot: prison, women's prison, juvenile delinquent, tough heroes, gays and lesbians, dishonesty, youth, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency, confined, fugitives ...
Time: 60s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Promised Land (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style: serious, realistic, biting, epic, crying
Plot: revolution, friendship, capitalist, renaissance, literary, identity, time machine, revolt, railway, artist, fire, adultery ...
Time: victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, berlin germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Secrets of the Heart (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: dog sex, coming of age, youth, boy, friends, village life, boyhood, trippy, friendship, village, aunt nephew relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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