Movies like Affliction
24 films close to Affliction (1998) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
alcoholism, abusive father, based on novel or book · Drama, Mystery, Crime
Also Paul Schrader · Drama, Thriller, Crime · with Willem Dafoe
based on novel or book · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
snow · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
based on novel or book, father son relationship · Drama, Thriller, Crime
winter, alcoholism, based on novel or book · Thriller, Crime
Also Paul Schrader · Drama, Crime · with Mary Beth Hurt and Willem Dafoe
based on novel or book · Drama, Mystery, Crime
based on novel or book · Mystery, Thriller, Crime
snow, winter, based on novel or book · Mystery, Crime
abusive father, father son relationship · Drama, Mystery
based on novel or book, halloween · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Drama, Mystery, Thriller · with Mary Beth Hurt
alcoholism, based on novel or book, small town · Drama, Thriller, Crime
Close on feel, same era · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
based on novel or book · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
based on novel or book · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Close on feel, same era · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
based on novel or book · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Close on feel, same era · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Close on feel · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
alcoholism, based on novel or book · Drama, Thriller
based on novel or book · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
based on novel or book · Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.