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Movies Like A Nice Quiet Life

If you liked A Nice Quiet Life (2018), a drama movie directed by Edgar Michael Bravo, 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.

  1. 1Neverwas

    Neverwas (2005)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Zach 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…

  2. 2Flow

    Flow (1996)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

  3. 3Kiss of the Spider Woman

    Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills…

  4. 4The Saint of Fort Washington

    The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is…

  5. 5Howl

    Howl (2010)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his…

  6. 6The Boys in the Band

    The Boys in the Band (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.

  7. 7Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and…

  8. 8Naked Lunch

    Naked Lunch (1991)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede…

  9. 9An Englishman in New York

    An Englishman in New York (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and…

  10. 10The Boys in the Band

    The Boys in the Band (1970)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, an unexpected guest shows up, the alcohol flows, the knives come out…

  11. 11The Perks of Being a Wallflower

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him…

  12. 12Romper Stomper

    Romper Stomper (1992)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending…

  13. 13Girl, Interrupted

    Girl, Interrupted (1999)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Set 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…

  14. 14The Zero Theorem

    The Zero Theorem (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.

  15. 15The Double

    The Double (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An 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.

  16. 16Shirley

    Shirley (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

  17. 17Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After 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…

  18. 18Memory

    Memory (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will…

  19. 19American Beauty

    American Beauty (1999)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

  20. 20Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

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