20 movies like Down to the Bone, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Beautiful Boy(2018), Cloud 9(2008), L'économie du couple(2016), Tully(2018), Blue Valentine(2010), Woodpeckers(2017), Cruise(2018), Gone to Earth(1950), Song of Love(1947), The Party's Over(2018), Stella's Last Weekend(2018) ...
Drama
USA
2004
101 Minutes
Vera Farmiga Hugh Dillon Clint Jordan Taylor Foxhall
drug addict husband child nurse wife moving raw upstate new york new york city rehabilitation program addiction daunting task marriage new love mother/child relationship love transformation temptation rescue 2000s
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
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.
Biography, Drama
USA
2018
112 Minutes
Steve Carell Timothée Chalamet Maura Tierney Amy Ryan Timothy Hutton Kaitlyn Dever Andre Royo LisaGay Hamilton
father son ex-wife drug addict doctor addict emotional intense melancholy raw tender powerful united states new york city los angeles school home addiction father/son relationship love
Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
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.
Comedy, Drama
USA|Canada
2018
94 Minutes
Charlize Theron Mackenzie Davis Mark Duplass Ron Livingston Emily Haine Elaine Tan Asher Miles Fallica Lia Frankland Gameela Wright Colleen Wheeler Maddie Dixon-Poirier
mother wife husband brother child nanny amusing emotional tense raw touching house school parking lot barbecue concert stage motherhood marriage relationships childcare
A struggling mother of three forms an unexpected bond with the night nanny hired to help with her newborn baby.
Romance, Drama
USA
2010
120 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Michelle Williams Faith Wladyka John Doman Mike Vogel Ben Shenkman Maryann Plunkett Samii Ryan Eileen Rosen Tamara Torres
husband wife nurse painter student daughter bleak tense engaging house new york city pennsylvania love pregnancy high school relationships marriage broken home transformation discovery
The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
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, Romance
USA
2018
90 Minutes
Spencer Boldman Emily Ratajkowski Sebastian Maniscalco Lucas Salvagno Kathrine Narducci Noah Robbins Gino Cafarelli Jen Cohn Grace Wan Peter Gaudio
italian-american jewish woman love interest mother father racer passionate emotional engaging charming intense heartwarming long island, n.y. america new york city road home love star-crossed lovers romance
Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the "wrong side of the tracks" falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island.
Drama
UK|USA
1950
110 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Emeric Pressburger David Farrar Cyril Cusack Sybil Thorndike Edward Chapman Esmond Knight Hugh Griffith George Cole Beatrice Varley Frances Clare
gypsy squire minister love interest husband wife brooding emotional heartwarming passionate spirited wild countryside woods england love desire magic loveless marriage curse
A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
Drama, History
USA
1947
119 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Paul Henreid Robert Walker Henry Daniell Leo G. Carroll Gigi Perreau Tala Birell Henry Stephenson Elsa Janssen Ann Carter Janine Perreau
composer pianist wife child love interest melodramatic somber moving germany asylum house clara wieck robert schumann johannes brahms music love debt love sacrifice temptation
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
Drama
Spain
2018
93 Minutes
Zita Hanrot Clémence Boisnard Marie Denarnaud Christine Citti Pascal Reneric Michel Muller Ines Fehner Noémie Rosset Arnaud Azoulay Philippe Berodot Vincent Berger
drug addict psychologist friend therapist mother rehab patient sad inspiring intense emotional moving raw france drug addiction sobriety friendship rehabilitation freedom independence discovery
Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls.
Romance, Drama
USA
2018
102 Minutes
Nat Wolff Alex Wolff Polly Draper Paulina Singer Nick Sandow Julia Macchio Julia Abueva Leo Heller
young man brother love interest young woman mother father charming cheeky emotional heartwarming moving touching new york united states family home beach arcade party young love love triangle
STELLA'S LAST WEEKEND is the story of two brothers whose relationship is challenged when they find they are in love with the same girl, but it is also about the unshakable bond between them.
Drama
USA
1957
94 Minutes
Eleanor Parker Bill Travers George Sanders Jean-Pierre Aumont Francoise Rosay Ellen Corby
doctor wife husband lover servant emotional moving hong kong house village social standing infidelity love marital problems love triangle difficult decision transformation love rescue discovery
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man. Her husband discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village or face the scandal of a very public divorce.
Comedy, Drama
France
1985
106 Minutes
nurse pilot physical therapist lover child husband charming melodramatic lighthearted paris airport family home double life marriage deception love triangle relationships family love temptation
Alice seems to lead a quiet life: the first three days of the week, she works in Paris and and meets with friend Philip, and his little boy, Simon. The other two days, she works in a thalassotherapy center.
Drama
Israel
2003
95 Minutes
Anat Waxman Eyal Rozales Nthati Moshesh Ido Port Reut Kahlon
wife mother husband nanny lover friend emotional tender moving tel aviv, israel family home homosexuality family racism new life homophobia love discovery transformation love
A divorced Israeli woman hires a single African woman as a nanny, and soon the two women form a passionate friendship that leads to a romantic relationship.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
USA|Canada
2005
134 Minutes
Heath Ledger Jake Gyllenhaal Linda Cardellini Anna Faris Anne Hathaway Michelle Williams Randy Quaid Graham Beckel Scott Michael Campbell David Harbour Kate Mara
cowboy rodeo rider rancher wife husband emotional moving wyoming family home ranch mountain mexico homosexuality cowboys love marriage frustrated desire relationships forbidden love love
Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Israel|Germany
2017
105 Minutes
Sarah Adler Zohar Strauss Tim Kalkhof Sandra Sade Roy Miller Stephanie Stremler Tagel Eliyahu Tamir Ben Yehuda Eliezer Shimon
baker married man widow lover son family member solemn emotional creative moving passionate bakery jerusalem berlin house kitchen love infidelity homosexuality loss
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Drama
USA|UK
1981
89 Minutes
Judy Davis Bryan Brown Cathy Downes Baz Luhrmann Peter Mochrie Mervyn Drake Margie McCrae Mercia Deane-Johns Joy Hruby Kim Deacon Caz Lederman
prostitute drug addict classmate wife husband bookseller shocking melodramatic tense sydney waterfront apartment street bookstore australia reunion suicide drug addiction troubled marriage boredom
When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.
Drama
Spain|France
2019
113 Minutes
Antonio Banderas Asier Etxeandia Penélope Cruz Leonardo Sbaraglia Julieta Serrano Nora Navas Raúl Arévalo Cecilia Roth Pedro Casablanc Susi Sánchez
director first love addict family mother laborer brooding cool creative engaging emotional heartwarming moving passionate profound somber spirited tender touching madrid
A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.