20 movies like The Conformist, ordered by similarity : Wild Strawberries(1957), Ta Ra Rum Pum(2007), Antonio das Mortes(1969), The Pedestrian(1974), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), Accattone(1961), Paris, Texas(1984), Ashes and Diamonds(1958), Julius Caesar(1953), Unknown(2011), Bigger Than Life(1956), The Sacrifice(1986) ...
Drama
Italy|France|West Germany
1971
115 Minutes
Jean-Louis Trintignant Stefania Sandrelli Dominique Sanda Pierre Clémenti Gastone Moschin Enzo Tarascio José Quaglio
assassin wife professor driver blind person priest dark somber paris rome church family home highway car assassination fascism marriage transformation 1940s
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Drama
1957
90 Minutes
Victor Sjöström Ingrid Thulin Bibi Andersson Gunnar Björnstrand Jullan Kindahl Folke Sundquist Björn Bjelfvenstam Gunnel Brostrom
doctor daughter-in-law husband wife son ingénue brooding emotional highway car sweden family home meaning of life love triangle marriage transformation quest 1950s
An old Swedish professor (Victor Sjöström) sees his life pass by in a series of nightmarish flashbacks.
Action, Drama
USA|India
2007
156 Minutes
Saif Ali Khan Rani Mukherji Javed Jaffrey Ali Haji Angelina Idnani Victor Banerjee
race car driver wife son mechanic emotional engaging touching new york state racetrack forbidden love success car racing family car crash transformation quest rivalry 2000s
Ace car racer RV and his wife have the world at their feet. But he has an accident and his world is turned upside down. Can he reclaim his lost glory?
Drama
France|Brazil|West Germany|USA
1969
105 Minutes
Maurício do Valle Lorival Pariz Othon Bastos Hugo Carvana Odete Lara Jofre Soares Rosa Maria Penna Emmanuel Cavalcanti Vinicius Salvatori Mário Gusmão Santi Scaldaferri
assassin colonel revolutionary professor priest uneasy positive brazil countryside farm assassination change of heart revolution socialism transformation 1960s
In this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.
Drama
Switzerland|West Germany|Israel
1974
92 Minutes
Gustav Rudolf Sellner Peter Hall Maximilian Schell Gila von Weitershausen Elisabeth Bergner Francoise Rosay Lil Dagover Peggy Ashcroft
industrialist son journalist father mistress wife somber dark disheartening germany greece village mediterranean coast family home court war crime suicide guilt trial dark secrets
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
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
West Germany|France|UK
1984
148 Minutes
Harry Dean Stanton Nastassja Kinski Dean Stockwell Aurore Clément Hunter Carson Bernhard Wicki Viva Auder Socorro Valdez Tom Farrell John Lurie
middle-aged man brother wife son brooding emotional paris, texas desert los angeles household amnesia missing persons family reunion traumatic past marriage discovery transformation 1980s
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Drama
1958
103 Minutes
Zbigniew Cybulski Ewa Krzyzewska Waclaw Zastrzezynsky Adam Pawlikowski Bogumil Kobiela Jan Ciecierski Stanislaw Milski Artur Mlodnicki
assassin soldier commanding officer barmaid son hotel desk clerk dark brooding powerful gripping poland warsaw, poland church tavern ruins world war ii war crime communism independence moral dilemma
A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
Drama, History
USA
1953
121 Minutes
Marlon Brando James Mason John Gielgud Louis Calhern Edmond O'Brien Greer Garson Deborah Kerr George Macready Michael Pate Richard Hale Alan Napier
brutus mark antony julius caesar assassin emotional fiery passionate patriotic ancient rome assassination politics war fall revenge ancient rome
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|Germany|France|USA
2011
113 Minutes
Liam Neeson Diane Kruger January Jones Aidan Quinn Bruno Ganz Frank Langella Rainer Bock Sebastian Koch Olivier Schneider Stipe Erceg Mido Hamada
doctor taxi driver impostor professor wife assassin gripping suspenseful gritty berlin germany hospice hotel identity theft mistaken identity assassination conspiracy discovery escape quest
When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.
Drama
USA
1956
95 Minutes
James Mason Barbara Rush Walter Matthau Robert F. Simon Chris Olsen Roland Winters Rusty Lane Rachel Stephens Kipp Hamilton
schoolteacher wife friend son doctor dark gripping intense small town family home hospital school america drug addiction experiments small-town life unusual behavior american dream fall transformation
A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.
Drama
Sweden|France|UK
1986
145 Minutes
Erland Josephson Allan Edwall Susan Fleetwood Valérie Mairesse Gudrún Gisladóttir Sven Wollter Filippa Franzen Tommy Kjellqvist
son wife father mail carrier middle-aged man boy somber dark fascinating solemn island family home countryside party seaside woods post-apocalypse nuclear war world war iii faith
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Romance, Biography, Drama
Sweden|Denmark|Finland|France|Germany|UK|Italy|Norway|Iceland
1992
182 Minutes
Samuel Fröler Pernilla August Max von Sydow Ghita Nørby Lennart Hjulström Mona Malm Lena Endre Keve Hjelm Björn Kjellman Börje Ahlstedt Hans Alfredson
priest wife mother father townsperson brooding emotional sweden rural community family home church failing marriage class distinctions culture clash domestic life illness infidelity forbidden love temptation transformation
In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2019
109 Minutes
Milo Ventimiglia Amanda Seyfried Kathy Baker Martin Donovan Gary Cole Ryan Kiera Armstrong McKinley Belcher III Andres Joseph Ian Lake Al Sapienza Donald Heng
race car driver wife daughter best friend dog inspiring positive charming heartwarming racetrack auto race family home college wedding big city auto racing everyday life career love best friends
Through his bond with his owner, aspiring Formula One race car driver Denny, golden retriever Enzo learns that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life.
Drama
France
1956
113 Minutes
Jean Gabin Danièle Delorme Lucienne Bogaert Robert Arnoux Liliane Bert Gérard Blain Aimé Clariond Gabrielle Fontan Germaine Kerjean Robert Manuel Jean-Paul Roussillon
restaurant owner young woman ex-wife housekeeper mother-in-law employee dark chilling suspenseful emotional paris restaurant apartment bar france street murder plot deception betrayal estrangement
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André... See full summary »
Comedy, Action, Crime, Drama
India
1999
174 Minutes
Shah Rukh Khan Twinkle Khanna Rakhee Amrish Puri Prem Chopra Deepak Tijori Johnny Lever Deepshika Neeraj Vora
detective agent chief minister assassin henchman love interest amusing hilarious fascinating gripping india city house bungalow restaurant street mistaken identity assassination attempt assassination plot confusion
A small time detective is mistaken as a CBI agent and gets embroiled in a deadly mission to save the Chief Minister from an assassination attempt.
Drama
USA
2009
99 Minutes
Morris Chestnut Taraji P. Henson Maeve Quinlan Kevin Hart Wood Harris Eddie Cibrian Jenifer Lewis Niecy Nash Cannon Jay Albert Hall Jeff Krebs
husband wife mother physical therapist teen boy bishop inspiring charming melodramatic baseball field los angeles basketball court bedroom church family home car accident marriage accidental death rekindled romance career vs. family
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Drama, History
France|Germany|Romania
2002
132 Minutes
Ulrich Tukur Mathieu Kassovitz Ulrich Mühe Michel Duchaussoy Ion Caramitru Marcel Iures Friedrich von Thun Antje Schmidt Hanns Zischler
chemist pope pius xii priest nazi diplomat son incredible disheartening somber moving germany vatican concentration camp poland italy holocaust kurt gerstein guilt religion politics
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Drama
USA
1994
110 Minutes
Peter Weller Judy Davis Patrick Bauchau Corbin Bernsen Jonathan Hadary Patricia Heaton Samuel L. Jackson Audra Lindley Paula Marshall Maureen Mueller Tanya Pohlkotte
agent guru husband wife shop owner yuppie brash amusing offbeat dark los angeles shop house desert new age movement self-discovery new life marriage husband/wife relationship open marriage
Episodic story about a yuppie couple who're going broke, and can't decide if they want to stay together - but openly sleep around and experiment with different lifestyles, or not.
Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1995
96 Minutes
Matthew Modine Nancy Travis Eric Stoltz Max Pomeranc Ron Perlman Jon Polito Bill Cobbs Collin Wilcox Paxton
lawyer wife young boy young girl dog co-worker amusing lighthearted uplifting family home car office school dog pound cemetery fatherhood career vs. family car accident reincarnation second chance
After a man dies in a car crash, he is reincarnated as a dog and attempts to reconnect with his family.