20 movies like Secret Ceremony, ordered by similarity : The Cement Garden(1993), One Potato, Two Potato(1964), Carol(2015), L'économie du couple(2016), The Magnificent Ambersons(1942), Woodpeckers(2017), The Escape(2017), Fool for Love(1985), Enter the Void(2009), The Cousin(1997), Just Charlie(2017), David Copperfield(1935) ...
Drama
1968
109 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Mia Farrow Robert Mitchum Peggy Ashcroft Pamela Brown Michael Strong Robert Douglas
prostitute stepfather niece aunt disturbing gritty raw intense mansion london death of a child family dysfunction insanity suicide incest transformation forbidden love temptation 1960s
A girl (Mia Farrow) looks like a London hooker's (Elizabeth Taylor) late daughter, while the hooker looks like the girl's late mother.
Drama
France|Germany|UK
1993
105 Minutes
Andrew Robertson Charlotte Gainsbourg Alice Coulthard Hanns Zischler Ned Birkin Sinead Cusack Jochen Horst
father mother brother sister lover creepy disturbing passionate suspenseful england family home bedroom small town family dysfunction incest siblings death dark secrets sexual taboo forbidden love
Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
Drama
USA
1964
92 Minutes
Barbara Barrie Bernie Hamilton Richard Mulligan Harry Bellaver Marti Mericka Robert Earl Jones Vinnette Carroll Anthony Spinelli
mother man father judge ex-husband child disheartening touching powerful ohio court factory farm race relations family court battles love custody quest forbidden love
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed... See full summary »
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
2016
100 Minutes
Bérénice Bejo Cédric Kahn Marthe Keller Jade Soentjens Margaux Soentjens Catherine Salée Philippe Jeusette Pascal Rogard
wife husband child ex-partner mother father amusing emotional melodramatic heartwarming intense engaging france house relationships love family unhappy marriage money discovery
Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
Drama
USA
1942
88 Minutes
Joseph Cotten Tim Holt Dolores Costello Anne Baxter Agnes Moorehead Richard Bennett Erskine Sanford J. Louis Johnson Don Dillaway Charles R. Phipps Dorothy Vaughan
wife mother son father carmaker aunt fascinating dense intense indiana mansion europe small town indianapolis family wealth aging love jealousy unrequited love
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
Drama
UK
2017
101 Minutes
Gemma Arterton Dominic Cooper Jalil Lespert Frances Barber Marthe Keller
mother father child teacher depressed person friend solemn tense emotional disheartening moving london house train station school yard depression escape marriage family
An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.
Drama
USA
1985
105 Minutes
Sam Shepard Kim Basinger Harry Dean Stanton Randy Quaid Martha Crawford Louise Egolf Sura Cox Jonathan Skinner April Russell Deborah McNaughton Lon Hill
woman man half brother lover ex-boyfriend adult brash dark intense emotional melodramatic gripping united states motel las vegas love relationships incest fighting past loves
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
Drama
France|Germany|Italy|Canada|Japan
2009
162 Minutes
Nathaniel Brown Paz de la Huerta Cyril Roy Emily Alyn Lind Jesse Kuhn Olly Alexander
brother drug addict sister prostitute mother cop dark shocking dreamy raw tokyo strip club underworld united states street haunting death brother/sister relationship family memory
An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
Crime, Drama
Iran
1997
108 Minutes
Alain Chabat Patrick Timsit Samuel Le Bihan Caroline Proust Marie Trintignant Agnès Jaoui
detective police officer informant drug dealer friend father tense gritty emotional paris slum police station street france drug trade double life suicide friendship police corruption family dysfunction
Drama
UK
2017
97 Minutes
Harry Gilby Patricia Potter Scot Williams Joshua Pascoe Karen Bryson Andrea Green Ewan Mitchell Caroline Nash Jeff Alexander John Draycott Jess Collett
soccer player star player teen boy father family emotional endearing gritty intense moving england soccer field soccer game club home gender identity following your heart family relationships soccer father/child relationship
Football star Charlie is a girl trapped in the body of a boy. Rejected by her Father and teammates will she ever play football again?
Drama
USA
1935
130 Minutes
W.C. Fields Freddie Bartholomew Basil Rathbone Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan Madge Evans Edna May Oliver Lewis Stone Elizabeth Allan Roland Young Elsa Lanchester
young boy stepfather father ingénue blackmailer aunt melodramatic london family home office wealth family child abuse blackmail love triangle growing up rescue love 19th century
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
Drama
Mauritania|France|Qatar
2014
97 Minutes
Ibrahim Ahmed Toulou Kiki Abel Jafri Fatoumata Diawara Hichem Yacoubi Kettly Noël Mehdi A.G. Mohamed Layla Walet Mohamed Adel Mahmoud Cherif Salem Dendou
father daughter family militant terrorist community member brutal chilling emotional fascinating gripping gritty intense moving raw sad tense timbuktu, mali rural community desert
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
Drama
2011
90 Minutes
Diane Lane Robert Pulcini Tim Robbins James Gandolfini Patrick Fugit Kathleen Quinlan Lolita Davidovich Shanna Collins Thomas Dekker
family documentarian american father mother child passionate outlandish emotional fiery intense melodramatic family home california new york film set united states documentary filmmaking affair cheating
In the 1970s Bill Loud (Tim Robbins) and his wife, Pat (Diane Lane), allow cameras to film their personal lives for the PBS series "An American Family."
Horror, Romance, Fantasy, Drama
USA|UK
2017
115 Minutes
Rea Lest Jörgen Liik Arvo Kukumägi Katariina Unt Taavi Eelmaa Heino Kalm Meelis Rämmeld Dieter Laser Jette Loona Hermanis Jaan Tooming Klara Eighorn
baron daughter young woman young man villager somber intense brooding suspenseful disturbing village castle cabin dark arts desperation poverty epidemic survival winter mystery
An ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect.
Drama
Poland|Denmark|France|UK
2013
80 Minutes
Agata Trzebuchowska Agata Kulesza Joanna Kulig Dawid Ogrodnik Adam Szyszkowski Jerzy Trela Halina Skoczynska
novice aunt musician judge family emotional intense moving powerful poland convent small town countryside nazi occupation ancestry religion nazi collaboration discovery quest love
A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2019
98 Minutes
Daniel Savage Olivia Colman Kaitlyn Dever Alice Englert Jim Gaffigan Walton Goggins Thomas Mann Lewis Pullman Brooks Roseberry Katherine DeBoer
daughter boyfriend husband father family faith healer pastor brooding dark disturbing emotional fascinating gripping intense melancholy offbeat profound somber thrilling appalachia
Set deep in the wilds of Appalachia, where believers handle death-dealing snakes to prove themselves before God, a pastor's daughter holds a secret that threatens to tear her community apart.
Horror, Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
120 Minutes
Samantha Robinson Gian Keys Laura Waddell Jeff Parise Jared Sanford Robert Seeley Jennifer Ingrum Randy Evans Clive Ashborn Lily Holleman Jennifer Couch
witch man neighbor rival dead person police officer charming cheeky creative house park car club bedroom yard love witchcraft death obsession insanity
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
Romance, Crime, Drama
USA
2018
119 Minutes
Kiki Layne Stephan James Regina King Colman Domingo Teyonah Parris Michael Beach Aunjanue Ellis Dave Franco Diego Luna Pedro Pascal Emily Rios
daughter fiancé wrongly accused mother pregnant woman emotional gritty tense tender powerful harlem, n.y. prison apartment street subway family wrongful conviction love relationships parenthood
A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.
Drama
USA
2019
93 Minutes
Shia LaBeouf Lucas Hedges Noah Jupe Byron Bowers Laura San Giacomo FKA Twigs Natasha Lyonne Maika Monroe Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez Martin Starr
child actor father therapist family confident dark emotional engaging gritty intense melancholy moving powerful profound raw uneasy united states hollywood dysfunctional family dysfunctional relationship
A young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.