Movies like The Goldfinch
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The Goldfinch (2019)
30K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
Style:
atmospheric, non-linear, period piece, psychological, enigmatic, entertaining, sad, independent film, exciting, weird ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
tragic event, friendship, teenager, teenage boy, painting, adaptation, museum, art, brother brother relationship, parent child relationship, lgbt, coming of age, drug, antique shop, bombing, foster home, gay, forgery, bare chested male, guilt, friend, shootout, youth, robbery, inspiration ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s
Place:
amsterdam, manhattan new york city, new york
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Most similar movies to The Goldfinch
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, melancholic, realistic and weird films with plots about friendship, teenager, father son relationship, murder, teenage boy, family relations and drink mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Goldfinch: Close (2022), George Washington (2000), The UnMiracle (2017), The Outsiders (1983), That Was Then... This Is Now (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
47K
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two thirteen year-olds have always been incredibly close but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates. An emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and ...
Style:
sad, dramatic, disturbing, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
boyhood, friendship between boys, intimacy, childhood, best friend, friendship, suicide, coming of age, teen suicide, ice hockey, friend, loss of son ...
Place:
belgium, france
Similarity:
100%
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, teen, sincere, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, teenage love, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 1991, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, meditative, lyrical, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, boy, adolescence, father son relationship, friendship, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, death, social relations, society, hopes ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A suburban town is torn apart in the aftermath of an accidental teen drug overdose in this ensemble film exploring the mysteries of modern faith.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative ...
Plot:
christian, faith, teenage girl, junkie, father daughter reunion, overdose, underage drinking, drug use, high school, heroin, brother brother relationship, teenage boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
xian
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100%
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108K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Style:
teen, homoerotic, melancholic, intense, hood ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, gang, teen angst, dysfunctional family, street gang, teenager, book, brother brother relationship, small town, friendship, juvenile delinquent, rebellious teenager ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, 1900s, 1950s, future ...
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A delinquent teenager's only link to society is the attachment he feels towards an older brother-figure. When the older boy starts spending time with a new girlfriend, the teenager begins to feel even more alienated, and gets involved with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, retro, f word
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, punk rock, punk, street gang, street punk, alienation, juvenile delinquent, coming of age, youth, family relations, friendship, partner ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Style:
visually stunning, thought provoking, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
bookstore, deafness, friendship, boy, deaf, father son relationship, chase, pursuit, multiple storylines, twists and turns, sign language, deaf girl ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1977, 1920s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, minnesota
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Addison Schacht investigates the murder of his friend Kevin, with the help of Phoebe, and they discover the truth is darker than they ever imagined.
Style:
touching, cynical, suspenseful, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, death of mother, murder, investigation, girlfriend, friendship, father son relationship, confrontation, police, drug dealer, family relations, ambition ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, independent film, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, prank, kids in trouble, friendship, vengeance, small town, childhood, bully, teenager, brother brother relationship, revenge, bullying ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style:
erotic drama, erotic, stylized, art house, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
drug addiction, drug addict, male nudity, friendship, male prostitution, male prostitute, hedonism, addiction, drug, drug abuse, homosexuality, love triangle ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, palm springs california ...
Similarity:
23%
40K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style:
depressing, heartbreaking, sentimental, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
loneliness, sex, drug addiction, obsession, depression, mental health, suicide, friendship, mental disorder, dead child, loss of wife, suicide attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, mexico, tijuana mexico
Similarity:
67%
102K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style:
inspirational, touching, depressing, sincere, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, grief, 9/11, mental disorder, dealing with death, mental health, trauma, character study, therapy, mental illness, tragic event, friends ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of ...
Style:
emotional, surreal, depressing, teen, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
skateboarder, coming of age, childhood, teenager, skateboard, cheerleader, depression, paranoia, violent, high school, death, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
portland oregon, oregon, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Echo must deal with the regular dramas of high school, in addition to grappling with the murder of her older sister, Zoë. But when Echo receives a diary from Zoë's boyfriend, she begins to untangle the secret life her sister lived.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
murder mystery, murder, high school, damsel in distress, secret life, life is a bitch, brutality, investigation, friendship, danger, disorder, youth ...
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend — a mystery that carries him from the gin-soaked jazz clubs of Harlem to the slums of Brooklyn to the gilded halls of New ...
Style:
neo noir, enigmatic, period piece, crime drama, detective ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
private detective, murder investigation, interracial romance, politics, conspiracy, social injustice, homicide detective, private investigation, crime investigation, investigation, organized crime, racial segregation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2019, future, 20th century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, harlem, usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, harsh, rough, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, foul language, street kid, swimming pool, gangster, loss of friend, depression, anger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2006, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, california, america, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
21%
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark, social ...
Plot:
rape, high school, underage drinking, teenage girl, memory lapse, one night stand, social problems, friend, investigation, police, party, friendship ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent ...
Style:
sexy, gothic, erotic, atmospheric, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
reporter, prison, small town, paperboy, journalism, dangerous attraction, american south, violent sex, injustice, police investigation, newspaper man, deep south ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1969, 21st century
Place:
florida, everglades, usa, miami
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a ...
Style:
meditative, thought provoking, rough, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
gay, murder, man boy relationship, poverty, vengeance, gang, lgbt, homosexual, drug dealing, teenage life, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colombia, los angeles, south america, usa, tokyo ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their ...
Style:
neo noir, emotional, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, murder, gay club, gay son, homosexual, murder mystery, lgbt, danger, life is a bitch, teenage boy, lake tahoe ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, reno nevada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A teen winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner and chasing the young man's enigmatic sister during the summer of 1991 that he spends in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Style:
sexy, captivating, exciting, light, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
summer, friendship, coming of age, drug dealer, teenage protagonist, brother sister relationship, teenager, criminal, violence, cape cod massachusetts, drug dealing, party ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
massachusetts, new york, boston, wyoming, nevada ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style:
independent film, creepy, retro, cult classic, dark ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, murder, strong sexual content, teenager, drug abuse, violence, death, marijuana, drug, serial killer, small town ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
oregon, california, usa, portland oregon
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is ...
Style:
road movie, suspense, rough, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot:
motel, man boy relationship, male masturbation, sexual attraction, gay, pedophile, teenage boy, on the run, investigation, road trip, sibling relationship, hiding place ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Style:
suspense, melancholic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, murder, accidental death, adaptation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder investigation, courtroom drama, investigation, parents and children, teenage life, lawyer, family problems ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome ...
Style:
detective, captivating, costume drama, non-linear, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, whodunit, investigator, murder, honeymoon, murder investigation, private detective, boat, police inspector, justice, investigation, unrequited love ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two, year 1937, 1910s, 2020s ...
Place:
egypt, belgium, london
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, intense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sex, stripper, private investigator, farm, brutality, psychiatry, murder of family, murder of mother, disappearance, female protagonist, police investigation, justice ...
Time:
year 2015, year 1968, 80s, year 1999, year 1985 ...
Place:
kansas, amarillo texas, chicago, california, oklahoma ...
Similarity:
18%
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he ...
Style:
sexy, disturbing, controversial, brutal, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, pedophile, teenage boy, male prostitution, sexual abuse, lgbt teen, juvenile delinquent, childhood, pedophilia, mentor, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
long island, new york, new jersey, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.
Style:
ambiguous ending, enigmatic, cynical, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, father son relationship, teenager, violence, brother brother relationship, arson, politician, husband wife relationship, flashback, anger, dinner ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
Style:
suspense, melancholic, stylized, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
radio, aids, amateur detective, listener, storytelling, book, adaptation, pedophile, mental illness, snow, illness, hospital ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, wisconsin
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, South Africa, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
Style:
suspense, teen, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, coma, afterlife, invisibility, out of body experience, ghost, regret, friendship, existentialism, family relations, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Similarity:
18%
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