20 movies like A Streetcar Named Desire, ordered by similarity : Eyes Wide Shut(1999), Golden Exits(2017), The Tarnished Angels(1957), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958), Mahanagar(1963), The Country Girl(1954), Ben Is Back(2018), Harriet Craig(1950), The Wizard of Lies(2017), No Down Payment(1957), They Were Sisters(1945), A Delicate Balance(1973) ...
Drama
USA
1951
122 Minutes
Marlon Brando Vivien Leigh Kim Hunter Karl Malden Rudy Bond Nick Dennis Peg Hillias Wright King Richard Garrick Mickey Kuhn Charles Wagenheim
sister husband wife emotional tense sultry new orleans city apartment abuse disillusionment family marriage mental illness fall rivalry 1950s
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Drama
UK|USA
1999
159 Minutes
Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman Sydney Pollack Marie Richardson Rade Serbedzija Todd Field Vinessa Shaw Alan Cumming Sky Dumont Fay Masterson Leelee Sobieski
doctor curator husband wife sexy man sexy woman chilling sultry tense shocking new york city apartment mansion city apartment bedroom street husband/wife relationship sex cult sadomasochism
A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.
Drama
USA|Greece
2017
94 Minutes
Emily Browning Adam Horovitz Mary-Louise Parker Lily Rabe Jason Schwartzman Chloë Sevigny Analeigh Tipton Craig Butta Keith Poulson Jake Perlin Kate Lyn Sheil
assistant wife boss sister-in-law father-in-law music producer emotional intricate sultry tense bleak brooklyn new york city office apartment family affair infatuation marriage infidelity
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
Drama
USA
1957
87 Minutes
Rock Hudson Robert Stack Dorothy Malone Jack Carson Robert Middleton Alan Reed Alexander Lockwood Chris Olsen Robert Wilke Troy Donahue William Schallert
journalist stunt pilot wife mechanic son showman melodramatic thrilling passionate striking new orleans carnival air show party family home airplane obsession aviation love triangle unhappy marriage
Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.
Drama
USA
1958
108 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Paul Newman Burl Ives Jack Carson Judith Anderson Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood Larry Gates Vaughn Taylor Patty Ann Gerrity Robert "Rusty" Stevens Brian Corcoran
alcoholic wife father brother mother sister-in-law sultry melodramatic mississippi family home marriage family love money rivalry quest 1950s
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Comedy, Drama
1963
131 Minutes
Anil Chatterjee Madhabi Mukherjee Jaya Bhaduri Haren Chatterjee Sefalika Devi Prasenjit Sarkar Haradhan Bannerjee Vicky Redwood
wife husband friend boss father-in-law sister-in-law confident emotional family home calcutta, india office family tradition feminism marriage transformation 1950s
An Indian woman (Madhabi Mukherjee) becomes the breadwinner when her husband (Anil Chatterjee) loses his banking job.
Drama
1954
104 Minutes
Bing Crosby Grace Kelly William Holden Anthony Ross Gene Reynolds Jacqueline Fontaine Eddie Ryder Robert Kent John W. Reynolds Frank Scannell Ida Moore
actor wife alcoholic director theatrical producer bleak intense emotional new york city apartment stage alcoholism marriage failing career theater new love discovery fall forbidden love 1950s
An alcoholic stage actor (Bing Crosby) leans on his wife (Grace Kelly) as he tries to make a comeback.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2018
103 Minutes
Julia Roberts Lucas Hedges Courtney B. Vance Kathryn Newton Rachel Bay Jones David Zaldivar Alexandra Park Michael Esper Tim Guinee Myra Lucretia Taylor Mia Fowler
young man mother sister friend addict drug smuggler intense gripping emotional rousing brooding sad family home suburbia neighborhood small town substance abuse drug addiction family dysfunction family ties
A drug addicted teenage boy shows up unexpectedly at his family's home on Christmas Eve.
Drama
USA
1950
94 Minutes
housewife husband assistant cousin widow tense fiery disturbing emotional city family home office united states domestic life manipulation sabotage jealousy rivalry fall 1920s
Harriet Craig enjoys the married life but constantly tries to control those around her. She does not trust her husband, Walter, without checking up on him.
Crime, Drama
France|Israel
2017
133 Minutes
Robert De Niro Michelle Pfeiffer Alessandro Nivola Nathan Darrow Kristen Connolly Lily Rabe Hank Azaria Kathrine Narducci Michael Goorjian Kelly AuCoin Geoffrey Cantor
patriarch husband wife criminal family partner financier engaging intense shocking tense united states fraud schemes financial troubles deception crime family investigation biography
A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by the charismatic, funny yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 is starting to lose his... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1957
105 Minutes
Joanne Woodward Tony Randall Sheree North Jeffrey Hunter Cameron Mitchell Patricia Owens Barbara Rush Pat Hingle
housewife used car salesman sexpot veteran alcoholic husband dark melodramatic tense sultry southern california suburbia apartment building bedroom suburban life marriage alcoholism sexual abuse dysfunction communal living
In California, four couples who have bought homes and are neighbors face money problems, alcoholism, racism, promiscuity, and discrimination against lack of education, until a tragic event forces them to reassess their lives.
Drama
UK
1945
110 Minutes
sibling abused wife abusive husband husband wife sith lord disturbing melodramatic emotional small town house hotel unhappy marriage relationships love infidelity father/daughter relationship adultery fall discovery
The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. One sister (Phyllis Calvert) is happily married but ... See full summary »
Drama
UK|Canada|USA
1973
132 Minutes
husband wife sister daughter friend bleak emotional intense sad connecticut family home small town bedroom family divorce marriage alcoholism grief anxiety love
A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide to come live with them.
Drama
USA
1955
95 Minutes
Joan Crawford Barry Sullivan Betsy Palmer John Ireland Lucy Marlow
business owner wife sister-in-law ex-lover cousin husband uneasy chilling dark georgia mansion unhappy marriage alcoholism engagement manipulation family self-destruction forbidden love rivalry fall
A young woman arrives at the home of her socialite cousin, and soon finds herself sucked into the woman's complex web of deceit.
Drama
UK|France
1997
128 Minutes
Ray Winstone Kathy Burke Charlie Creed-Miles Laila Morse Edna Doré Chrissie Cotterill Jon Morrison Jamie Foreman Steve Sweeney Terry Rowley Sam Miller
husband drug addict wife pregnant woman alcoholic factory worker gritty emotional intense london pub flat hospital family home drug addiction abuse marriage petty crime family dysfunction hard times
A rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working class family has his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.
Drama
France|Canada
1999
89 Minutes
Romane Bohringer Laurent Lucas Charlotte Laurier David DiSalvio Stephen J. Smith Simon Hetu Richard Notkin Robert Warren Mourad Mimouni
priest husband wife son sick child father tender amusing emotional montreal, quebec canada family home city church infidelity marital problems boredom family love triangle illness
Paul and Marguerite have loved each other for 5 years, their love is organic, visceral and strong, constantly shifting from the real to the absolute and from the absolute to the tragic.
Drama
USA
1938
60 Minutes
Herbert Marshall Virginia Bruce Mary Astor Janet Beecher Marjorie Rambeau Juanita Quigley Zeffie Tilbury Sarah Padden Dorothy Christy Morgan Wallace Joseph Crehan
lawyer wife daughter second wife mother husband melodramatic intense household washington, d.c. party country club inn small town divorce jealousy remarriage family duplicity social standing
Cynthia is married to Steve and is a selfish hard woman. She decides where they will live, who they will see and even gets rid of Dora, the nanny who raised Steve and is now raising their ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA|Switzerland
2004
81 Minutes
Robert Margolis Kelli Barnett Frank Krias Derek Johnson Bruce Levy Jonas Mekas John Greiner
actor husband wife son father mother spirited emotional new york city apartment aspirations acting marriage family disillusionment underdog 2000s
Robert is an actor who may or may not be himself in this film about acting, aging and the dark side of ambition. Filmed over the course of 18 months, as a documentary crew follows Robert ... See full summary »
Drama
1951
124 Minutes
Setsuko Hara Chishu Ryu Kuniko Miyake Chikage Awashima Chieko Higashiyama Kuniko Igawa Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
career woman daughter brother mother father businessman emotional moving tokyo family home office city japan marriage tradition independence family working woman love triangle love
Drama, History
France
1982
122 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Nathalie Baye Roger Planchon André Chaumeau Maurice Barrier Stéphane Pean Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu Sylvie Meda
wife husband villager magistrate veteran impostor fascinating gripping emotional suspenseful france countryside village courtroom family home impersonation court battles husband/wife relationship con game war aftermath
In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
2017
94 Minutes
Denis Menochet Léa Drucker Thomas Gioria Mathilde Auneveux Mathieu Saïkaly Florence Janas Saadia Bentaïeb Sophie Pincemaille Émilie Incerti-Formentini Jérome Care-Aulanier Coralie Russier
divorce divorce lawyer son mother father family member emotional intense tense disheartening office party bus house car apartment custody battle divorce family feud growing up
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.