Movies like The Good Girls 2018
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The Good Girls (2018)
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Original name: Las niñas bien
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
Style:
social, psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, art house, art film, period drama
Plot:
economic crisis, husband wife relationship, husband, high society, glamour, family in crisis, marital argument, lifestyle change, social satire, socialite, drastic change of life, social commentary, crumbling marriage, luxury, satire, materialism, social climbing, fashion, marriage, vanity, domestic drama, female friendship, melancholy, gossip, peer pressure ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
mexico, mexico city
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Most similar movies to The Good Girls
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, disturbing and emotional films with plots about husband wife relationship, family relations, marriage, family problems, female nudity, relationships and character study mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Good Girls: Souvenir (2019), Sentimental Education (1998), Malibu (1983), The Chambermaid (2018), Close Quarters (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, motherhood, pregnancy, parenthood, single parent, pregnant woman, unsettling, family problems, parents and children, social problems, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, France, UK
Story:
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollowness of his glamorous lifestyle, leading to self discovery and ultimately a personal catharsis (and ...
Style:
art house, psychological, poetic, neo noir, moody
Plot:
fashion industry, death, self discovery, fashion, shallowness, glamour, literary, alienation, tragedy, character study, luxury, introspection ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
79%
117
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
infidelity, scandal, young couple, relationships, high society, social climbing, glamour, secrets, domestic drama, aspiration, gossip, social satire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
malibu california, california, los angeles
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, art film ...
Plot:
chambermaid, maid, female protagonist, cleaning, workplace, everyday life, workplace situations, society, hotel room, bare breasts, female nudity, latina ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico city, mexico
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Manuel and Lupe want to have a baby. When Manuel discovers he is infertile, he starts to fall apart both physically and emotionally. After exploring several options, Manuel turns to Rubén, his new friend, to act as their donor.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, tension, suspense
Plot:
infertility, wife pregnant by another man, sperm donor, sex with friend's wife, cheating wife, wanting a baby, cuckolded husband, sexless marriage, pregnant wife, marriage, cuckold husband, machismo ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, art film, hispanic, period drama
Plot:
biopic, social relations, society, relationships, lifestyle change, life is a bitch, male female relationship, female protagonist, social problems, family relations, changing lives, writer's life ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
The film offers a dramatized look at the lives of two women who married into the Windsor family in the late 20th century: Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.
Style:
emotional, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
royalty, princess, duchess, family drama, british monarchy, biopic, scandal, glamour, tabloid journalism, family conflict, celebrity, fashion ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
london, buckingham palace, britain, house of windsor
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
political intrigue, student protest, student, protest, tragic love, love story, rich and poor, relationships, couple relations, political protest, society, political conspiracy ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, year 1968
Place:
mexico, mexico city
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Patricia is a successful couples therapist. Your marriage is going through a bad time. But when she meets a student, Pablo will transform her own beliefs about sex.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
cheating on husband, female nudity, adultery, teacher student romance, husband wife relationship, second chance, family relations, unspoken love, marriage counselor, guilty conscience, secret meeting, pillow talk ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, satirical
Plot:
unhappy marriage, pregnant woman, marital problem, pregnancy, relationship problems, money problems, changing lives, lifestyle change, family problems, fired from the job, loss of job, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
43%
720
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Follow rideshare driver Leonard on a voyage through LA's late-night, temptation-filled party scene, where you never know who's going to get into your car next.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, comedy drama, independent film ...
Plot:
taxi driver, middle aged, midlife crisis, driving, family in crisis, money problems, life is a bitch, family problems, marital problem, social problems, marital crisis, male female relationship ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
42%
269
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As the country explodes under racial tensions after the assassination of Martin Luther King, writer Romain Gary, humanist and animal lover, and his wife, star Jean Seberg, civil rights activist, welcome an abandoned dog into their home, trained to ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, thrilling, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
dog, racism, race, social commentary, racial tension, civil rights, husband wife relationship, murder, murderer, problem, male female relationship, writers ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, paris france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, talky, sincere ...
Plot:
couples, introspection, working class, social differences, family problems, human nature, society, gender, unfulfillment, loneliness, blackmail, marital problem ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy ...
Plot:
dance, life is a bitch, social misfits, working class, family in crisis, social differences, down on your luck, society, couple relations, betrayal, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
50s, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Style:
art house, dread, philosophical, depressing, realistic ...
Plot:
pharmacist, dysfunctional couple, depression, pregnancy, psychic, pharmacy, husband wife relationship, anxiety, mental breakdown, mental disorder, drunk, mental health ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
germany, west germany
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Alicia and Enrique are a young married couple somewhat distanced from each other. Their relationship is threatened when Carlota, a friend of Alicia's from long ago, comes to visit and stays with them for a while.
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
marital infidelity, female nudity, love triangle, relationship problems, marriage, marriage crisis, infidelity, troubled marriage, male female relationship, love story, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The sudden death of Michael Jackson sends a former King of Pop devotee — now a young imam — into a tailspin, in this tender and comedic film from Egyptian filmmaker Amr Salama.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, comedy drama, religious drama ...
Plot:
crisis of faith, islam, identity crisis, character study, pop culture, priest, identity, historical figure, crisis, bereavement, lifestyle change, religious community ...
Place:
middle east, cairo egypt, egypt
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.
Style:
art house, poetic, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
memory, relationships, life, women, female protagonist, symbolism, intimate, magic realism, introspection, subconscious, female friendship, biopic ...
Place:
mexico, costa rica
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A sudden tragedy hits a wealthy middle-class family from North-East Italy. Tensions, hidden secrets and small hypocrisies emerge.
Style:
suspense, tension, noir, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
tragedy, secrets, uninvited guest, mansion, husband wife relationship, wealthy family, family secret, secret, tragic event, family relations, family problems, family tragedy ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, entertaining, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
lawyer, satire, wealth, materialism, high society, changing lives, money problems, social misfits, financial problem, betrayal, lifestyle change, relationship problems ...
Place:
milan italy
Similarity:
36%
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
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot:
marriage, couples, family relations, family problems, male female relationship, marital crisis, relationship problems, marriage crisis, marital problem, husband wife relationship, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
33%
376
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, art house
Plot:
domestic drama, family drama, relationships, character study, children, isolation, alienation, summer vacation, family secret, intimate, repression, bittersweet ...
Place:
east germany
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Martina gets pregnant from her selfish boyfriend. Without knowing exactly what to do, she travels to Berlin to find her own father, the one she never met.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, self discovery, female protagonist, identity, pregnant woman, lifestyle change, changing lives, unplanned pregnancy, introspection, life is a bitch, motherhood, journey ...
Place:
mexico city, berlin germany
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Director Thomas J. Tobin's 1977 drama about college freshmen subjected to fraternity hazing stars Gregory Harrison, Peter Fox, Scott Newman, Nancy Morgan and Wendy Phillips.
Style:
serious, tense, grim, dark drama, realistic ...
Plot:
campus, fraternity, college, mockery, social commentary, abuse of power, bullying, loss of innocence, peer pressure, sorority, reform, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1950s, year 1954, 50s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
painter, artist, marriage, dementia, marital problem, marriage crisis, illness, changing lives, family in crisis, family relations, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The true story of a judge who lives a double life, and stays married to two women for more than 15 years. While one knows nothing of the other, his second wife doesn't care that he is married already as long as he comes home to her as well. ...
Style:
tragic ending, intense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
bigamy, infidelity, love triangle, betrayal, double life, marriage, lie, family drama, duplicity, tragedy, secrets, judge ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrel over dinner, garbage, neighbours, elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an ...
Style:
existential, cynical, bleak, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
character study, neighbor, resentment, marital strife, midlife crisis, domestic drama, alienation, routine, slice of life, awkwardness, sexual frustration, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Larisa is 16 and lives in a city by the sea. It's a small city, where gossip and news spread fast. It's a city where your image and influence, "manelele", money and power are all that matters. And Larisa… wants it all. And even ...
Style:
sexy, disturbing, captivating, serious
Plot:
ambition, group of friends, teenager, teenage girl, party, rape, angst, friendship, friendship between girls, coming of age, female protagonist, fall in love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
romania
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Polish Psychological Drama
Style:
reflective, existential, philosophical, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, mortality, character study, memory, mountain, friendship, fear of death, male friendship, crisis of faith, nostalgia, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
29%
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