20 movies like The Blot, ordered by similarity : Burning Sands(2017), Brad's Status(2017), Killer of Sheep(1977), Gadar: Ek Prem Katha(2001), The Light Between Oceans(2016), The Wife(2017), Submission(2017), What Lies Beneath(2000), The Great Debaters(2007), Descent(2007), The Holy Innocents(1984), I Never Sang for My Father(1970) ...
Drama
USA
1921
78 Minutes
Philip Hubbard Margaret McWade Claire Windsor Louis Calhern Marie Walcamp
professor wife librarian student reverend neighbor bleak inspiring touching house college poverty illness theft young love class struggle sacrifice underdog escape 1920s
The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
2017
96 Minutes
Trevor Jackson Alfre Woodard Steve Harris Tosin Cole DeRon Horton Trevante Rhodes Serayah Imani Hakim Octavius J. Johnson Rotimi Nafessa Williams
black student college student frat boy college dean professor bleak chilling dark gripping fast food restaurant car apartment college fraternity house oppression fraternity college humiliation escape fall
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
102 Minutes
Ben Stiller Michael Sheen Jenna Fischer Luke Wilson Jemaine Clement Austin Abrams Shazi Raja Mike White Kenny Wong
father high-school student wife college buddy dean emotional endearing heartwarming inspiring house car college harvard university restaurant hotel room midlife crisis college admission family ties career vs. family growing up
A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.
Drama
USA
1977
80 Minutes
Henry Sanders Kaycee Moore Charles Bracy Angela Burnett Eugene Cherry Jack Drummond
patriarch wife child friend bleak moving solemn los angeles slaughterhouse house street poverty inner-city life family unusual occupations underdog sacrifice love 1970s
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
Drama, Romance
India
2001
190 Minutes
young man young woman driver muslim music teacher bleak brutal disheartening emotional heartwarming patriotic india pakistan bungalow house college love family patriotism riots
Set during the Partition of India in 1947, a Sikh truck driver falls in love with a Muslim girl belonging to an aristocratic family.
Romance, Drama
UK|New Zealand|USA|India|Australia
2016
133 Minutes
Michael Fassbender Alicia Vikander Rachel Weisz Bryan Brown Jack Thompson Emily Barclay Caren Pistorius Florence Clery Thomas Unger Jane Menelaus Garry McDonald
lighthouse keeper wife dead person baby friend family member brooding emotional intense lighthouse house boat bedroom yard island love miscarriage loss second chance secrets
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.
Drama
UK|Sweden|USA
2017
100 Minutes
Glenn Close Jonathan Pryce Christian Slater Annie Starke Harry Lloyd Max Irons Alix Wilton Regan Karin Franz Körlof Michael Benz Twinnie-Lee Moore
wife husband writer emotional brooding solemn rousing house party college lecture hall sacrifice talent dreams deferred career writing compromising situation love rise underdog
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Stanley Tucci Addison Timlin Kyra Sedgwick Janeane Garofalo Ritchie Coster Colby Minifie Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly Malika Samuel David Pittu Juan Castano Wali Collins
college professor college student colleague wife literary agent mother brooding engaging intense passionate sultry melodramatic houston college student-teacher relationship ethics college life writing obsession infidelity
A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2000
126 Minutes
Harrison Ford Michelle Pfeiffer Diana Scarwid Miranda Otto James Remar Joe Morton Amber Valletta Victoria Bidewell Katharine Towne Rachel Singer Mark Patrick Costello
husband wife scientist friend college student girl chilling tense bleak thrilling frightening vermont house college bedroom neighborhood murder affair moving neighbors
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
Drama
USA
2007
127 Minutes
Denzel Washington Forest Whitaker Nate Parker Jurnee Smollett-Bell Denzel Whitaker Jermaine Williams Gina Ravera John Heard Kimberly Elise Devyn Tyler Trenton McClain Boyd
professor scholar college student child prodigy uplifting inspiring positive texas college harvard university college racism discrimination debate student-teacher relationship rise quest 1930s
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
100 Minutes
Rosario Dawson Chad Faust Marcus Patrick Scott Bailey Alexie Gilmore Spencer Grammer Wilson Jermaine Heredia James O'Toole Scott Porter
college student graduate student rapist retail manager professor accomplice bleak brooding emotional apartment fraternity house college clothing store classroom college life rape rape aftermath change of lifestyle mental breakdown retribution
A college co-ed is brutally raped and struggles alone to rebuild her life.
Drama
1984
105 Minutes
Alfredo Landa Francisco Rabal Terele Pavez Ágata Lys Agustín González Juan Diego
aristocrat peasant father son daughter wife powerful brooding spain estate plantation household family poverty pride class struggle sacrifice underdog wretched excess rivalry
Members (Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Terele Pavez) of a poor family obey the whims of the aristocrats they work for in rural 1960s Spain.
Drama
1970
90 Minutes
Melvyn Douglas Gene Hackman Dorothy Stickney Estelle Parsons Elizabeth Hubbard Lovelady Powell Daniel Keyes Conrad Bain Jon Richards James Karen
father son mother fiancée sister college professor moving tender emotional bleak touching brooding new york city parents' house diner hospital father/son relationship independence family grief
A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out to his bitter father (Melvyn Douglas).
Drama
USA
2007
92 Minutes
Robert Redford Meryl Streep Tom Cruise Derek Luke Michael Peña Andrew Garfield Peter Berg Kevin Dunn
college student college professor journalist senator lieutenant soldier gripping emotional fascinating college fraternity house government offices household military base afghanistan education military service inspiration politics war in afghanistan
Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor.
Comedy, Drama
France|Germany|USA
2016
118 Minutes
Adam Driver Golshifteh Farahani Barry Shabaka Henley Cliff "Method Man" Smith Chasten Harmon William Jackson Harper Masatoshi Nagase Sterling Jerins Rizwan Manji
bus driver passenger dog bartender wife writer calm emotional heartwarming inspiring profound new jersey bus bar house small-town life writing working class work-life balance discovery
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2001
92 Minutes
Lili Taylor Courtney Love Spalding Gray Noah Emmerich Mischa Barton Gideon Jacobs Patrick Fitzgerald Kelley Hill
housewife husband son daughter best friend lesbian amusing gutsy inspiring emotional new jersey hoboken, n.j. community college house domestic life self-discovery family dysfunction lesbianism sexual awakening triumph over adversity
A woman attempts to realize the dreams she never knew she had.
Drama
USA
1942
117 Minutes
Bette Davis Claude Rains Paul Henreid Gladys Cooper Bonita Granville John Loder Ilka Chase Lee Patrick Mary Wickes Janis Wilson
heiress mother architect wife child widower melodramatic emotional inspiring boston house sanatorium ship rio de janeiro mental illness rehabilitation romance travel mother/daughter relationship love
A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK
2018
93 Minutes
Robert Redford Casey Affleck Sissy Spacek Danny Glover Tom Waits Tika Sumpter Ari Elizabeth Johnson Teagan Johnson Gene Jones John David Washington Barlow Jacobs
prisoner prison guard bank robber wife detective escape artist amusing gutsy bleak suspenseful tense california san quentin penitentiary prison bank car escape bank heist life story prison
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
Comedy, Drama
Sweden
2015
116 Minutes
Rolf Lassgård Bahar Pars Zozan Akgün Tobias Almborg Filip Berg Ida Engvoll Klas Wiljergård Chatarina Larsson Börje Lundberg Stefan Gödicke Johan Widerberg
old man neighbor friend government official senior citizen widower confident endearing heartwarming sad touching amusing neighborhood house cemetery suburb sweden living room solitude neighbors
Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
88 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Robert Young Ralph Bellamy Martha Sleeper Sara Haden Sidney Toler
poor woman neighbor engineer partner father wife emotional bleak moving passionate ozark mountains farm river house wilderness town poverty city vs. country modernization dams
Mountain girl Trigger Hicks, a fierce loner equally handy with a rock or a prayer, is in danger of having her faith-healing mistaken for witchcraft by the neighbors. She shows a vulnerable ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1931
108 Minutes
Ronald Colman Helen Hayes Richard Bennett A.E. Anson Clarence Brooks Alec B. Francis Claude King Bert Roach Myrna Loy Russell Hopton
doctor nurse husband wife professor inspiring intricate melodramatic minnesota new york city west indies medicine scientific experiments prestige city vs. country work vs. family love sacrifice transformation 1920s
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.