Movies Like An Unlikely Romance
If you liked An Unlikely Romance (2013), a drama movie directed by Ivan Vojnár, 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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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaSet in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the…
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Neverwas (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaZach 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…
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
★ 8.4/10Also dramaA petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
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Fathers and Daughters (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
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Shutter Island (2010)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaWorld War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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The Double (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAn awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
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The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10Also dramaA jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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The Professor and the Madman (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaProfessor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum…
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
★ 7/10Also dramaA psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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Awakenings (1990)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaDr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled…
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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Richard Jewell (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaRichard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime…
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
★ 7/10Also dramaDr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who…
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The Snake Pit (1948)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaVirginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by…
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Stay (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaPsychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…
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Home Run (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
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The Sound of Silence (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
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Shirley (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.