Movies Like Anomaly
If you liked Anomaly (1992), a drama movie directed by Gennadiy Bazarov, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Jet Boy (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA coming-of-age story of a reluctant 13-year-old hustler named Nathan who will do whatever it takes to feel loved.
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Faces (1968)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaMiddle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man. As the…
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Pure (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
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Trash (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaSet in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
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Gardens of the Night (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAfter being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
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Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaYears after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t…
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Permanent Midnight (1998)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaJuggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
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Harsh Times (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaJim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim…
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Small Engine Repair (2021)
★ 6/10Also dramaThe seemingly casual reunion of three old friends at an out-of-the-way repair shop masks a hidden agenda fuelled by the arrival of a privileged young yuppie.
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Three on a Match (1932)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAlthough Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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Mean Dreams (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaWhen two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who is also the sheriff of the town.
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The Baker (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back…
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L.I.E. (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaWith his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing their neighbors' homes — until they make the mistake of robbing the…
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Bad Lieutenant (1992)
★ 7/10Also dramaWhile investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
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Mammal (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAfter Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…
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Fractured (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaDriving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally…
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Night Always Comes (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaFacing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
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The Poker House (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAgnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
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Taxi Driver (1976)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaSuffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
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Kids (1995)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.