Movies Like Chinese Roulette
If you liked Chinese Roulette (1977), a drama movie directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 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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Antares (2004)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
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Addicted (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
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The Edge of Heaven (2007)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother…
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Blonde Venus (1932)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaIn an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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Flesh + Blood (1985)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a…
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In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaElvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her…
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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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The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaIn 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in…
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaRyevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at…
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The Boys from Brazil (1978)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaNazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Brooklyn's Finest (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaEnforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes…
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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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Cheaters (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaIn the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
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The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaIn 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the…
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaWhen churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by…
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I Walk the Line (1970)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaHenry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the…
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Paradise: Faith (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFor Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers…
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Crash (1996)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
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Polar (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaWhen a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
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Auto Focus (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters…