Movies like American Beauty
24 films close to American Beauty (1999) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
gay theme, teenager, suburbia · Drama
Also Sam Mendes · adultery, suburbia · Drama · DreamWorks Pictures
adultery, parent child relationship, extramarital affair · Drama
marijuana, midlife crisis, dark comedy · Drama
suburbia, dysfunctional family · Drama
gay theme, coming out · Drama
adultery, coming of age, dark comedy · Drama
adultery, extramarital affair · Drama
gay theme, loneliness · Drama
extramarital affair · Drama
adultery, extramarital affair · Drama
satire, suburbia, loneliness · Drama
Drama · with Chris Cooper
gay theme · Drama
cheating · Drama
parent child relationship, suburbia · Drama
adultery, loneliness · Drama
coming of age · Drama
parent child relationship, coming of age, dysfunctional family · Drama
parent child relationship, teenager, coming of age · Drama
marijuana, voyeurism · Drama
gay theme · Drama
extramarital affair · Drama
Close on feel, same era · Drama
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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.