20 movies like La Collectionneuse, ordered by similarity : Glass(2019), A Streetcar Named Desire(1951), Rebel Without a Cause(1955), Two Weeks in Another Town(1962), Chinese Coffee(2000), It's Kind of a Funny Story(2010), Girl, Interrupted(1999), The Snake Pit(1948), Moonlighting(1982), The Return of Martin Guerre(1982), Aquarius(2016), Sweet Sixteen(2002) ...
Drama
1967
90 Minutes
Patrick Bauchau Haydée Politoff Daniel Pommereulle Alain Jouffroy Mijanou Bardot Seymour Hertzberg Annik Morice Dennis Berry Patrice de Bailliencourt Brian Belshaw Franklin Brauner
collector teenager art dealer emotional villa the south time men seduction rivalry
A young man (Patrick Bauchau) tells himself high ideals are what kept him from sleeping with a temptress (Haydée Politoff) staying at the same St. Tropez boarding house.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|China
2019
129 Minutes
Bruce Willis James McAvoy Samuel L. Jackson Sarah Paulson Anya Taylor-Joy Spencer Treat Clark Charlayne Woodard Adam David Thompson Luke Kirby
vigilante psychiatrist superhero villain paraplegic dark thrilling suspenseful emotional uneasy tense mental institution cell hospital room mental illness heroism rivalry good versus evil superhuman abilities rivalry
Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.
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
USA
1955
111 Minutes
James Dean Natalie Wood Sal Mineo Jim Backus Ann Doran Corey Allen William Hopper Rochelle Hudson Virginia Brissac Nick Adams Jack Simmons
teenager girlfriend friend rival mother father dark emotional los angeles police station household abandoned building observatory teenage rebellion teen angst generation gap alienation family dysfunction accidental death growing up
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
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.
Drama
USA
2000
99 Minutes
writer photographer friend girlfriend doorman engaging emotional passionate tense greenwich village apartment restaurant friendship jealousy regret aging unemployment writing rivalry rise
Harry and Jake, two unsuccessful writers, spend a cathartic evening arguing about money, aesthetics, their friendship, and Harry's new manuscript.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2010
100 Minutes
Ryan Fleck Keir Gilchrist Zach Galifianakis Emma Roberts Viola Davis Lauren Graham Jim Gaffigan Zoë Kravitz Aasif Mandvi Jeremy Davies Karen Chilton
teen boy mental patient teen girl doctor mentor endearing emotional amusing mental institution prep school suicide mental illness friendship meaning of life self-discovery therapy fall transformation rise 2010s
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Drama
Germany|USA
1999
127 Minutes
Winona Ryder Angelina Jolie Clea DuVall Brittany Murphy Elisabeth Moss Jared Leto Jeffrey Tambor Vanessa Redgrave Whoopi Goldberg Mary Kay Place Jillian Armenante
young woman psychologist friend rival parent troubled youth brooding dark raw engaging tense bleak mental institution tunnel home mental breakdown mental illness medicine psychosis suicide
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.
Drama
USA
1948
108 Minutes
mental patient husband psychiatrist disturbing emotional gripping mental institution united states household mental illness marriage romance childhood psychoanalysis fall love transformation 1940s
A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.
Drama
UK
1982
95 Minutes
Jeremy Irons Eugene Lipinski Jirí Stanislav Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz Edward Arthur Denis Holmes Renu Setna David Calder
construction worker government official girl foreman amusing uneasy london warsaw apartment grocery store polish solidarity movement immigration employment escape 1980s
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as ... See full summary »
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.
Drama
Brazil|France
2016
145 Minutes
Sonia Braga Maeve Jinkings Humberto Carrão Carla Ribas Zoraide Coleto Irandhir Santos Allan Souza Lima Buda Lira Pedro Queiroz Germano Melo Fernando Teixeira
resident woman saber-toothed cat survivor developer maid intense engaging heartwarming melodramatic emotional moving brazil apartment apartment building cancer refuse bullying real estate money
Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
Drama
UK|Germany|Spain
2002
106 Minutes
Martin Compston William Ruane Annmarie Fulton Michelle Abercromby Michelle Coulter Gary McCormack Tommy McKee
teen boy stepfather mother grandfather prisoner drug dealer tense gutsy emotional greenock, scotland port city prison street house apartment imprisonment drugs ambition theft teenage rebellion
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Drama, Romance, History
India
2001
223 Minutes
Aamir Khan Gracy Singh Rachel Shelley Paul Blackthorne Suhasini Mulay Kulbhushan Kharbanda Raghubir Yadav Rajendra Gupta Rajesh Vivek Vallabh Vyas Javed Khan
young man indian british government official villager cricket player governor inspiring spectacular melodramatic amusing india village estate cricket match woods sports colonialism taxes teamwork wager
The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Drama
USA
2020
117 Minutes
John Alberto Leguizamo Rachel Bay Jones Michael Kenneth Williams Corwin C. Tuggles Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Angel Bismark Curiel Will Hochman Zora Casebere
teacher student friend drug dealer parent african-american confident emotional passionate uplifting intense moving school chess tournament family home inner city united states city apartment chess inner-city life
The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the first inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship.
Drama
USA
1975
133 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher Brad Dourif William Redfield Michael Berryman Peter Brocco Dean R. Brooks Alonzo Brown Scatman Crothers Danny DeVito Christopher Lloyd
anti-hero nurse native american mentally challenged patient bleak gutsy powerful mental institution oregon boat abuse rebellion conformity mental illness rivalry transformation 1960s
A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
Drama
USA
1963
102 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Judy Garland Gena Rowlands Steven Hill Bruce Ritchey Gloria McGehee Paul Stewart Lawrence Tierney Elizabeth Wilson Barbara Pepper John Marley
teacher principal mentally challenged son mother father melodramatic emotional mental institution family home mental retardation parenthood education growing up transformation 1960s
Psychologist Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of the Crawthorne State Training Institute, one of the first boarding schools for developmentally challenged children. Dr. Clark is sympathetic ... See full summary »
Drama
1967
115 Minutes
Ian Richardson Patrick Magee Glenda Jackson Clifford Rose Michael Williams Freddie Jones Hugh Sullivan Jonathan Burn
crazy person writer mental patient director marquis de sade disturbing emotional tense unrestrained mental institution france mental illness social change performance theater production discovery underdog 1800s
The Marquis de Sade (Patrick Magee) directs the patients of Charenton mental hospital in a play about the life of Jean-Paul Marat (Ian Richardson).
Drama
USA
2013
98 Minutes
Alec Baldwin Cate Blanchett Louis C.K. Bobby Cannavale Andrew Dice Clay Sally Hawkins Peter Sarsgaard Michael Stuhlbarg Tammy Blanchard Max Casella Alden Ehrenreich
socialite divorcée boyfriend dentist love interest profound emotional dark san francisco apartment dentist's office sister relationship romance divorce new life sibling rivalry love transformation rivalry 2010s
A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love...
Gay & Lesbian, Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2014
113 Minutes
Benedict Cumberbatch Keira Knightley Matthew Goode Rory Kinnear Allen Leech Matthew Beard Charles Dance Mark Strong Alex Lawther
scientist mathematician gay man military official government official emotional powerful moving united kingdom laboratory government building london apartment computers world war ii espionage homosexuality homophobia blackmail forbidden love
During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.