Movies Like Knight of Cups
If you liked Knight of Cups (2015), a drama and romance movie directed by Terrence Malick, 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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Revolutionary Road (2008)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceA young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceBen Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact…
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceA violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and romanceJoel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and…
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceTold in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star…
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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceWhen college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic…
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Trust (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and dramaSet 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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Lonely Planet (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and dramaAt an idyllic writers retreat in Morocco, a newly single novelist finds an unexpected connection with a younger man who's reevaluating his life choices.
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All of Us Strangers (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also romance and dramaOne night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
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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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Candy (2006)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceA poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of…
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Gia (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also romance and dramaGia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.
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Third Person (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceAn acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
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Darling (1965)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceDiana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.
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My Fault: London (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an…
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Malcolm & Marie (2021)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceAs a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning.
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceMonroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
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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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Endless (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and dramaWhen madly in love high school graduates Riley and Chris are separated by a tragic car accident, Riley blames herself for her boyfriend's death while Chris is stranded in limbo. Miraculously, the two find a way to…