20 movies like Seize the Day, ordered by similarity : The Way of All Flesh(1927), Death of a Salesman(1951), The Beaver(2011), Madame X(1929), Men Call It Love(1931), Open Hearts(2002), Secret Superstar(2017), Sorry We Missed You(2019), White God(2014), Guru(2007), Kitty Foyle(1940), Detective Story(1951) ...
6.0/10
Drama
USA
1986
93 Minutes
Robin Williams Richard B. Shull David Bickford Glenne Headly Stephen Strimpell Joseph Wiseman Jayne Heller Katherine Borowitz John Fiedler William Duell
salesman wife father doctor endearing sad brooding melodramatic new york city street loss relationships failing career divorce fall underdog 1950s
Tommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1927
90 Minutes
Emil Jannings Belle Bennett Phyllis Haver Donald Keith Fred Kohler
father wife son moll gangster henchman chilling melodramatic household bank train car street milwaukee family seduction robbery accidental killing poverty desperation
A happy bank clerk loses his identity after a robbery and is then presumed dead.
7.2/10
Drama
USA
1951
115 Minutes
Fredric March Mildred Dunnock Kevin McCarthy Cameron Mitchell Howard Smith Royal Beal Don Keefer Jesse White Claire Carleton David Alpert Elisabeth Fraser
salesman son wife brother endearing sad america household loss financial crisis american dream depression family regret fall transformation 1950s
An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
6.6/10
Drama
USA|United Arab Emirates
2011
91 Minutes
Mel Gibson Jodie Foster Anton Yelchin Jennifer Lawrence Riley Thomas Stewart Cherry Jones Kelly Coffield Michael Rivera
executive husband wife son puppet depressed person uplifting offbeat sad new york city house street office family home toy factory puppetry depression communication reconciliation husband/wife relationship
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.
6.0/10
Drama
USA
1929
95 Minutes
Ruth Chatterton Lewis Stone Raymond Hackett Holmes Herbert Eugenie Besserer Sidney Toler Ullrich Haupt Richard Carle Mitchell Lewis Carroll Nye
wife husband son lover lawyer gambler sad melodramatic brooding touching paris estate courtroom street france city estrangement murder case mother/son relationship unhappy marriage
A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.
5.7/10
Drama
USA
1931
72 Minutes
Adolphe Menjou Leila Hyams Norman Foster Mary Duncan Hedda Hopper Robert Emmett Keane Harry Northrup
wife husband playboy friend socialite butler melodramatic intricate new york city balcony kitchen party beach car divorce infidelity seduction drinking relationships suspicion
A well-off bachelor finds himself at a loss for what to do when a married woman comes on to him while he's thoroughly involved with someone else's wife.
7.5/10
Drama
Denmark
2002
113 Minutes
Sonja Richter Nikolaj Lie Kaas Mads Mikkelsen Paprika Steen Stine Bjerregaard Birthe Neumann Niels Olsen Ulf Pilgaard Anders Nyborg Philip Zandén Ronnie Hiort Lorenzen
fiancé woman paraplegic doctor wife child intense melodramatic hospital denmark car street restaurant relationships secrets infidelity accident recovery responsibility forbidden love
A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.
7.8/10
Drama, Music
India
2017
150 Minutes
Zaira Wasim Meher Vij Raj Arjun Tirth Sharma Farrukh Jaffar Aamir Khan Manuj Sharma Nikita Anand Mona Ambegaonkar
father mother young girl mentor aspiring singer emotional endearing sad disheartening inspiring incredible india city house room street chasing dreams aspirations conservatism domineering father
A talented teenage singer-songwriter living amid domestic abuse becomes a YouTube sensation after a video in which she hides her identity goes viral.
7.6/10
Drama
UK|France|Belgium
2019
100 Minutes
Kris Hitchen Debbie Honeywood Rhys Stone Katie Proctor Mark Birch Alfie Dobson Charlie Richmond
entrepreneur employee father wife husband mother child boss bleak brooding dark disheartening emotional gritty melancholy moving profound raw sad solemn
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
6.9/10
Drama
Hungary|Germany|Sweden
2014
119 Minutes
Zsófia Psotta Sándor Zsótér Szabolcs Thuróczy Lili Monori László Gálffi Lili Horvath János Derzsi Orsolya Tóth
teen girl dog father dog catcher daughter teacher touching tender striking sultry passionate emotional city hungary school street apartment father/daughter relationship love rebellion
Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.
7.7/10
Drama, Romance
India
2007
161 Minutes
Abhishek Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Vidya Balan Mithun Chakraborty
father young man businessman wife intense brooding creative india turkey court factories career marriage corruption tax evasion metamorphosis rivalry rise fall underdog
A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay 1958, and rises from its streets to become the GURU, the biggest tycoon in Indian history.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1940
108 Minutes
Ginger Rogers Dennis Morgan James Craig Edward Ciannelli Ernest Cossart Gladys Cooper
salesgirl doctor wealthy man father wife son melodramatic emotional philadelphia new york city department store family home office marriage divorce love triangle class distinctions love transformation 1930s
A hard-working, white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family.
7.6/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
103 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Eleanor Parker William Bendix Horace MacMahon Lee Grant Craig Hill Cathy O'Donnell Bert Freed George Macready Joseph Wiseman Gladys George
police detective abortionist wife burglar shoplifter colleague tense suspenseful gripping melodramatic police station household hospital new york city street obsession abortion investigation dark secrets death
On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.
7.4/10
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.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1997
93 Minutes
Michael Moriarty Rod Steiger Blake Heron Scott Wilson Bonnie Bartlett Ann Dowd Tori Wright Shira Roth J. Madison Wright Rachel Winfree Montrose Hagins
young boy dog father hunter mother spirited endearing sad woods house shed hunting cabin pets protection human-animal friendship animal abuse father/son relationship animal attack love growing up
Marty Preston, a small-town Southern boy, must rescue a young beagle from abusive owner and recluse Judd Travers.
6.3/10
Drama
USA
2016
109 Minutes
Bryan Cranston Jennifer Garner Jason O'Mara Beverly D'Angelo Ian Anthony Dale Pippa Bennett-Warner Isaac Leyva Victoria Bruno Ellery Sprayberry Frederick Keeve Hal Dion
lawyer wife child doctor ex-boyfriend client brooding emotional intense dark new york city attic courtroom doctor's office restaurant car nervous breakdown abandonment isolation ex-boyfriends
Bryan Cranston gives the performance of a lifetime as Howard Wakefield, a lawyer on the edge of madness who has decided to disassociate himself from his own life.
7.2/10
Drama
India
2011
138 Minutes
Rajit Kapoor Rajeev Khandelwal Kalki Koechlin Pavan Malhotra Shiv Pandit Gulshan Devaiya Neil Bhoopalam Kirti Kulhari Sheetal Menon Sonali Sachdev
young girl father girlfriend mother police officer friend intense brooding raw disturbing melodramatic car police station family home depression extortion accidental death lie fake kidnapping loss
Five substance-abusing friends decide to fake a kidnapping in order to bribe a police constable for covering-up a hit-and-run accident.
7.1/10
Drama
Canada
1988
103 Minutes
rodeo rider mother teenager grandfather banker wife melodramatic sad heartwarming rodeo wilderness family home farm school tragic death inheritance grief responsibility alcoholism father/son relationship
As long as Shane Morgan can remember, he has lived on the road with his mother and father, a rodeo performer. Their dreams of making enough money to settle down happily in one place are ... See full summary »
7.0/10
Drama, Romance
India
1974
153 Minutes
Rajesh Khanna Mumtaz Sanjeev Kumar Rehman Jayshree T. Ranjeet Dina Pathak A. K. Hangal
husband wife best friend father-in-law mother-in-law estranged wife brooding gripping melodramatic striking india house train village marriage suspicion jealousy masculinity pride pregnancy
Rajesh Khanna plays Mumtaz's jealous husband who begins to doubt her fidelity when his best friend Sanjeev Kumar enters their lives. She is unable to convince Rajesh Khanna that she loves ... See full summary »
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1928
75 Minutes
Richard Barthelmess Montagu Love Robert E. O'Connor Jay Eaton Lina Basquette Thelma Todd Ed Brady Fred Warren William B. Davidson Alice Joyce William Walling
blackmailer governor wife mother son father melodramatic shocking tense suspenseful death row city cabaret prison murder capital punishment blackmail father/son relationship crime family
A crook blackmails a governor because of knowing his wife's dark past.
7.0/10
Drama, History
UK
1972
125 Minutes
king henry viii wife ex-wife prince princess widow brooding profound emotional melodramatic passionate patriotic great britain castle london church chapel king henry viii marriage british royal family
On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.
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