Films like American Beauty

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   Faces

   Film · 1968 · also drama

   Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town w...

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   Careful What You Wish For

   Film · 2015 · also drama

   A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy...

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   From Straight A's to XXX

   Film · 2017 · also drama

   When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym B...

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   Addicted

   Film · 2014 · also drama

   A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

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   The Ledge

   Film · 2011 · also drama

   A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist who shares an apartment with a gay friend escalates into a lethal battle of...

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   May December

   Film · 2023 · also drama

   Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about...

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   Mammal

   Film · 2016 · also 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 threatene...

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   Deep Water

   Film · 2022 · also drama

   A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

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   Effie Gray

   Film · 2014 · also drama

   A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

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    The Starling Girl

    Film · 2023 · also drama

    17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to the...

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