Movies like American beauty (movies similar to American beauty)

[Kevingracy]

American beauty is a great movie. And, if you enjoyed the movie, you are sure gonna love these. Lets make a list of movies that are similar or suited for same audience.

[sylvia]

The Ice Storm 1997

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife Elena is reading self help books and losing patience with her ...

The Ice Storm features bleak, sexy, sexual, emotional and realistic style.

[TravisFanna]

The Squid and the Whale 2005

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980039s.

The Squid and the Whale features talky, sincere, depressing, absurd and humorous style.

[jessie]

Blue Car 2002

Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her ...

Blue Car features touching, realistic, emotional, serious and sincere style.

[carl]

Magnolia 1999

An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Magnolia features realistic, bleak, sincere, meditative and non-linear style.

[tammy]

Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989

A sexually repressed woman039s husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape features sexual, sexy, talky, witty and psychological style.

[caroline]

Network 1976

A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor039s ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.

Network features cynical, dark humor, talky, witty and realistic style.

[elmer]

Blue Jasmine 2013

Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ...

Blue Jasmine features psychological, realistic, cynical, tragicomedy and semi serious style.

[amber]

The Graduate 1967

Benjamin a recent college graduate is very worried about his future he then finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.

The Graduate features witty, sexual, sexy, melancholic and atmospheric style.

[willard]

Little Children 2006

The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages a registered sex offender and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.

Little Children features sexual, sincere, thought provoking, psychological and disturbing style.

[oscar]

Mysterious Skin 2004

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths together discovering a horrible liberating truth.

Mysterious Skin features disturbing, psychological, serious, rough and realistic style.

[kolosnob]

Babel 2006

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

Babel features atmospheric, thought provoking, rough, disturbing and emotional style.

[oscar]

Happiness 1998

The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness often from sources usually considered dark or evil.

Happiness features banned film, cynical, dark humor, disturbing and bleak style.

[cinephile]

Life as a House 2001

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son for whom quality time means getting high engaging in small-time prostitution and avoiding his father.

Life as a House features sentimental, touching, emotional, sincere and gothic style.

[ahmedsfriend]

Pretty Baby 1978

Hattie Susan Sarandon a New Orleans hooker meets a photographer named Bellocq Keith Carradine at her brothel one night and after he photographs her he befriends her 12-year-old daughter Violet Brooke Shields. When Violet is brought on as ...

Pretty Baby features thought provoking, sentimental, melancholic, atmospheric and sexy style.

[Mai Lan]

The Chumscrubber 2005

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend Troy. He doesnt bother telling any of the adults because he knows they wont care. ...

The Chumscrubber features surreal, dark humor, bleak, semi serious and humorous style.

[violet]

Fight Club 1999

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on with underground quotfight clubsquot forming in every town until an eccentric gets in the ...

Fight Club features twists and turns, surprise ending, thought provoking, mind bending and twist ending style.

[TravisFanna]

Revolutionary Road 2008

A 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.

Revolutionary Road features bad ending, serious, bleak, heartbreaking and depressing style.

[Covavaft]

Little Lips 1978

A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide but recovers after becoming interested in his caretakers 12 ...

Little Lips features disturbing, erotic, atmospheric, serious and melancholic

[bessie]

The Babysitters 2007

Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael a father Shirley works for confesses hes unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael and seizes this ...

The Babysitters features disturbing, sexual, bleak, suspenseful and suspense style.