20 movies like True Colors, ordered by similarity : Some Girls(1998), Trainspotting(1996), Career Girls(1997), The Promised Land(1975), Kai Po Che!(2013), People Will Talk(1951), Fat City(1972), Hera Pheri(1975), Chimes at Midnight(1965), Is Anybody There?(2008), Reprise(2006), Bodies, Rest & Motion(1993) ...
Drama
USA
1991
112 Minutes
John Cusack James Spader Imogen Stubbs Mandy Patinkin Richard Widmark Dina Merrill Philip Bosco Paul Guilfoyle
friend roommate girlfriend senator candidate college student powerful rousing melodramatic university virginia ski resort friendship betrayal political intrigue infidelity blackmail class distinctions rivalry discovery
Best friends from law school to election night, their friendship is sorely tested when one learns of another's betrayal.
Drama
USA
1998
95 Minutes
Marissa Ribisi Juliette Lewis Giovanni Ribisi Jeremy Sisto Pamela Adlon Kristin Dattilo Michael Rapaport David Gail
boyfriend actor brother sister girlfriend friend emotional quirky amusing los angeles household southern california city love triangle infidelity relationships betrayal friendship brother/sister relationship discovery
Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1996
94 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner Jonny Lee Miller Kevin McKidd Robert Carlyle Kelly Macdonald Peter Mullan James Cosmo Eileen Nicholas Susan Vidler Pauline Lynch
drug addict friend student girlfriend drug dealer sociopath amusing dark gritty edinburgh london household apartment pub hotel addiction abandonment friendship crime death
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Comedy, Drama
UK|France
1997
87 Minutes
Katrin Cartlidge Lynda Steadman Kate Byers Mark Benton Andy Serkis Joe Tucker Margo Stanley Michael Healy
young woman friend landlord young man ex-boyfriend witty quirky england apartment restaurant college reunion the past friendship class distinctions adventure growing up discovery 1990s
2 young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Drama
Poland
1975
138 Minutes
Daniel Olbrychski Wojciech Pszoniak Andrzej Seweryn Kalina Jedrusik
businessman friend partner rival wife mistress emotional melodramatic poland lodz, poland factory ambition deception romance infidelity friendship business rivalry temptation rise
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a ... See full summary »
Drama
India
2013
126 Minutes
young man friend childhood friend neighbor girlfriend sister emotional gripping engaging heartwarming intense powerful india city house cricket match violence friendship chasing dreams community
Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
Comedy, Drama
1951
110 Minutes
Cary Grant Jeanne Crain Finlay Currie Walter Slezak Hume Cronyn Sidney Blackmer Basil Ruysdael Katherine Locke
physician student friend professor father dean offbeat quirky striking university hospital small town illegitimate child medicine morality friendship jealousy discovery love sacrifice
A doctor's unconventional theories of medicine and relationship with a young student place his reputation in jeopardy.
Drama
USA
1972
96 Minutes
Stacy Keach Jeff Bridges Susan Tyrrell Candy Clark Nicholas Colasanto Art Aragon Curtis Cokes Sixto Rodriguez Billy Walker Wayne Mahan Ruben Navarro
boxer trainer friend girlfriend gritty dark bleak california gym bar comeback boxing redemption alcoholism friendship aging pursuit rivalry underdog fall
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
India
1975
164 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Saira Banu Kimi Katkar Vinod Khanna Sulakshana Pandit Deepa Sahi Shilpa Shirodkar
young man young woman friend best friend father girlfriend amusing gripping thrilling intense emotional moving india city house bungalow restaurant street friendship best friends
Two friends Ajay and Vijay gets separated from each other when they discover secrets about their past in their own ways.
Drama, History
1965
115 Minutes
Orson Welles Jeanne Moreau John Gielgud Margaret Rutherford Marina Vlady Keith Baxter Norman Rodway
friend girlfriend prince henry iv hostess wife brash cheeky amusing sad england battlefield castle pub inn royal life father/son relationship friendship loyalty war
Welles' adaptation of "Falstaff" and other Shakespearean works, chronicling the nobleman's relationship with Henry V.
Drama
2008
92 Minutes
Michael Caine Bill Milner Anne-Marie Duff David Morrissey Rosemary Harris Elizabeth Spriggs Leslie Phillips Peter Vaughan Linzey Cocker Sylvia Syms Ralph Ineson
young boy magician magician's assistant best friend friend teenager charming playful engaging suspenseful witty friendship best friends relationships unlikely friendship magic adventure discovery growing up mystery
A death-obsessed youth (Bill Milner) befriends an aging magician (Michael Caine) who longs to join his wife in the afterlife.
Drama
Norway
2006
105 Minutes
Anders Danielsen Lie Espen Klouman Høiner Viktoria Winge Henrik Elvestad Christian Rubeck Odd-Magnus Williamson Pal Stokka Henrik Mestad
friend girlfriend writer author disheartening melodramatic amusing city apartment party ocean norway stage success friendship writing rejection jealousy mental breakdown quest
Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.
Drama
USA
1993
93 Minutes
Phoebe Cates Bridget Fonda Tim Roth Eric Stoltz Alicia Witt Rich Wheeler Scott Johnson
salesman painter best friend girlfriend ex-girlfriend boyfriend quirky witty endearing arizona small town house desert small-town life self-discovery moving friendship love abandonment adventure
Nick is a feckless television salesman who gets fired and impulsively decides that he and his girlfriend, Beth, will move to Butte, MT, which he's read is "the city of the future." "I read ... See full summary »
Drama
France
1998
111 Minutes
Mathieu Amalric Virginie Ledoyen François Cluzet Jeanne Balibar Alex Descas Mia Hansen-Løve Arsinée Khanjian Nathalie Richard
dying person friend girlfriend lover editor emotional sad touching sultry france paris hospital countryside city mortality love triangle dying young friendship sex writing
A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in ... See full summary »
Drama
France
1999
98 Minutes
Maud Forget Lou Doillon Micheline Presle Ariane Ascaride Robinson Stévenin Maxime Mansion Delphine Rich François Berléand Cyril Cagnat Dan Martin
high-school student friend boyfriend girlfriend teen girl teen boy emotional dark melodramatic hedonistic school party france nightclub sexual awakening friendship relationships first love loss of innocence prostitution
Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
Drama
USA
1986
107 Minutes
Jeff Goldblum Tim Pigott-Smith Alan Howard Juliet Stevenson Betsy Brantley Yves Aubert Anthony Benson Clive Panto Rupert Massey Geoffrey Chater Nicholas Fry
scientist biologist friend rival engaging spirited england cambridge university laboratory dna jim watson francis crick science competition friendship discovery quest rivalry 1950s
In a dystopian America, a falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their freedom.
Drama
USA
1997
126 Minutes
Matt Damon Robin Williams Ben Affleck Minnie Driver Stellan Skarsgård Casey Affleck Cole Hauser Rachel Majorowski
genius professor therapist friend thug romantic interest cheeky emotional heartwarming boston massachusetts bar mit abuse aspirations college friendship growing up discovery rise
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Drama
USA
1941
95 Minutes
Martha Scott William Gargan Edmund Gwenn Sterling Holloway Sidney Blackmer Mary Anderson Dorothy Peterson
teacher suitor friend student emotional melodramatic small town college nebraska teaching romance friendship aspirations transformation love discovery sacrifice 1930s
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Comedy, Drama
Ireland|UK|USA
2018
120 Minutes
Olivia Colman Rachel Weisz Emma Stone Nicholas Hoult Joe Alwyn James Smith Mark Gatiss Jenny Rainsford Liam Fleming Carolyn Saint-Pé John Locke
queen friend servant amusing spirited melodramatic emotional uneasy tense mansion england castle parlor dining room royalty royal life leadership rivalry quantrill's raiders rise
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1998
94 Minutes
Paul Newman Susan Sarandon Gene Hackman Reese Witherspoon Stockard Channing James Garner Giancarlo Esposito Liev Schreiber Margo Martindale John Spencer M. Emmet Walsh
private detective movie star friend daughter police officer chauffeur uneasy brooding cool intricate mexico los angeles california mansion malibu, calif. apartment aging friendship infidelity murder
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.