Movies Like Kill Your Darlings
If you liked Kill Your Darlings (2013), a drama and romance movie directed by John Krokidas, 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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Those People (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceOn Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
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A Single Man (2009)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceSet in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of…
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Sea of Love (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceSeen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from…
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Little Ashes (2008)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and romanceAbout the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
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Querelle (1982)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and dramaFrench sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband…
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Nightmare Alley (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and thrillerAn ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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Cracks (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thrillerJealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
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Natural Born Killers (1994)
★ 7/10Also thriller and dramaTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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Apt Pupil (1998)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerOne day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later…
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Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceClaire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.
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My Policeman (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceIn the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when…
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Horns (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerIn the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.
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Asylum (2005)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thrillerA woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
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Total Eclipse (1995)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceYoung, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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Maestro (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic…
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Prozac Nation (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceWhen talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class background and concentrate on her true talent. But what starts out so…
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The Edge of Love (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceWhen the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many…
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Blind (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceA novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
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Trust (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and romanceSet in the glamour of the New York and Paris art scenes, gallery owner Brooke Gatwick and her newscaster husband Owen Shore, face temptation, jealousy, twists and mystery when two seductive newcomers enter their lives.
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Neverwas (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerZach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the…