20 movies like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, ordered by similarity : Burning Sands(2017), Submission(2017), The Fall of the Krays(2016), Term of Trial(1962), Charming Billy(1999), The Homecoming(1973), Accattone(1961), The Subject Was Roses(1968), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958), Two Weeks in Another Town(1962), Educating Rita(1983), The Browning Version(1994) ...
Drama
USA
1966
129 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton George Segal Sandy Dennis Agnes Flanagan Frank Flanagan
professor wife teacher alcoholic bleak brash disturbing new england family home college nightclub abuse alcoholism marriage infidelity parenthood rivalry wretched excess 1960s
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
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.
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.
Crime, Drama
UK
2016
116 Minutes
George Webster Simon Cotton Kevin Leslie Josh Myers Adrian Bouchet Clare McGlinn Alexa Morden Paul Blackwell
brother wife gangster criminal police officer rival bleak brutal dark disturbing emotional gritty london street home office big city nightclub empire brother relationship
Simon Cotton as Ronnie Kray and Kevin Leslie as Reggie Kray, picks up the story of the infamous Firm as the sanity of the two brothers bring uncertainties to their business plans . now with... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1962
113 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Simone Signoret Sarah Miles Roland Culver Frank Pettingell Thora Hird Dudley Foster Norman Bird Newton Blick Allan Cuthbertson Nicholas Hannen
teacher wife student bleak somber school england household student-teacher relationship alcoholism guilt marital problems seduction revenge temptation 1960s
In Britain, a high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher but, after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.
Drama
USA
1999
79 Minutes
Michael Hayden Sally Murphy Tony Mockus Chelcie Ross Bernadette O'Malley Adam Tanguay Oksana Fedunyszyn Tim Decker
father grandfather husband wife sniper bleak chilling disturbing intense small town midwest video store family home water tower emotional abuse insanity mass murder failed marriage dead-end jobs nervous breakdown
Billy Starkman is a seemingly ordinary man living in a small Midwestern town who one day wakes up, murders his family, climbs a rural water tower with a high-powered hunting rifle and ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1973
111 Minutes
professor wife brother father uncle bleak playful witty england london apartment absence blue collar father/son relationship family rivalry growing up 1970s
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
Drama
1961
120 Minutes
Franco Citti Franca Pasut Silvana Corsini Paola Guidi Adele Cambria Mario Cipriani
pimp prostitute ex-wife son virgin police officer bleak disheartening rome slum family home police station river street crime poverty prostitution marriage ambition wretched excess
In the slums of Rome, Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi (Franco Citti) supports himself as a pimp for his longtime girlfriend, Maddalena (Silvana Corsini), but when she goes to jail after being assaulted, Accattone struggles to survive.
Drama
1968
107 Minutes
Patricia Neal Jack Albertson Martin Sheen Don Saxon Elaine Williams Grant Gordon
son father mother bleak sad family home cottage nightclub manhattan marital problems family dysfunction infidelity alcoholism homecoming rivalry temptation sacrifice 1940s
A World War II veteran (Martin Sheen) comes home to his bickering parents (Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson).
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.
Drama
1962
106 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Edward G. Robinson Cyd Charisse George Hamilton Claire Trevor Daliah Lavi Rosanna Schiaffino
director wife actor woman leading man doctor emotional frenetic inspiring amusing mental institution hollywood, calif. new england rome movie set apartment alcoholism mental breakdown failing career hollywood
An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1983
110 Minutes
Michael Caine Julie Walters Michael Williams Maureen Lipman Jeananne Crowley Malcolm Douglas Pat Daly Godfrey Quigley Dearbhla Molloy Kim Fortune Philip Hurd-Wood
hairdresser wife husband professor blue-collar worker alcoholic witty endearing touching amusing charming england the open university office great britain hair salon college campus student-teacher relationship self-esteem adult education
An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
Drama
UK
1994
97 Minutes
Albert Finney Greta Scacchi Matthew Modine Julian Sands Michael Gambon Ben Silverstone Maryam d'Abo Jim Sturgess
husband wife teacher lover student schoolboy schoolteacher gripping engaging school england boarding school marriage career failed marriage affair education retirement transformation discovery
On the verge of forced resignation, a strict old-fashioned teacher rethinks his life.
Drama
Hong Kong
2002
103 Minutes
Jacky Cheung Anita Mui Karena Lam Tou Chung Hua Eric Kot Jin Hui
high-school student teacher husband wife lover friend sad mellow emotional hong kong high school apartment nightclub hotel shenzhen, china infidelity marriage teaching jealousy chinese poetry
Yiu-Kwok is a high school teacher, having a perfect family. Good times don't last long, when a student, Choy-Nam, falls in love with him. For dealing with a relationship with Mr. Seng, a ... 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
1968
137 Minutes
Beryl Reid Susannah York Coral Browne Ronald Fraser Patricia Medina Hugh Paddick Cyril Delevanti
actress older woman television producer executive lesbian lover disheartening dark melodramatic television studio london england club apartment acting lesbianism nervous breakdown abuse alcoholism fame
The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.
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
USA
1948
88 Minutes
Robert Montgomery Susan Hayward John Payne Audrey Totter Harry Morgan Harry von Zell Cara Williams Chill Wills Heather Angel
writer wife theatrical producer singer ex-wife intense uneasy brash new york city hospital apartment nightclub beach hollywood, calif. show business egoism writing marriage singing drinking
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
Comedy, Drama
France|UK
1954
85 Minutes
Gérard Philipe Natasha Parry Valerie Hobson Joan Greenwood Margaret Johnson Germaine Montero Julie Anslow Mae Bacon
husband wife boss best friend young woman wealthy woman witty amusing emotional london apartment household bus office england infidelity marriage romance deception sexual conquests
A philanderer fakes suicide with unexpected consequences.