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recommend any other movies like this one?

posted 16 years ago by madamehollywoood
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I love love love this movie. Mostly because its underlying outlooks on life and how it makes you think beneath the surface. I love movies that do that. I havnt found very many.

Does anyone have any recommendations of more movies like this?

[–] Jameswalt1 16 years ago

Lost in Translation (2003)

[–] fandangle 16 years ago

American Beauty
But thats pretty obvious i guess.

[–] bollice 16 years ago

maybe eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. also lars and the real girl - another gosling fabo.

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[–] FiveIronFrenzy 16 years ago

i recommend anything with ryan gosling....like half-nelson or lars and the real girl. but thats just me

[–] imdbdk 16 years ago

Yeah like The Believer...

[–] PeterMarkoff 16 years ago

Half Nelson with Gosling has kinda similar atmosphere, but different theme.

But if you really want almost identical film about teenage killer watch Paranoid Park, but I found USL more entertaining, PP was quite boring, maybe it would work as short movie more.

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[–] imdb-20-fcasparx 15 years ago

I really like all those that were already named in this thread, and sort of similar to them (but totally different from each other) are also
Down in the Valley (2005) with Edward Norton, or
Thumbsucker (2005) with Lou Taylor Pucci. There's much more, but my head is hollow.

[–] mithril_19 16 years ago

I would recommend The Lookout with Joseph Gordon Levitt. It was a brilliant film about a young man who causes death and has to live with it. Brilliant movie, just like this one with an equally impressive young actor.

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[–] stargirl_nz 16 years ago

Definitely "Elephant", it leaves you feeling the same way as its based on similar themes.
"Girl Interrupted", thats brilliant when it comes to states of mind.
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[–] onthalookout 16 years ago

The MTV movie "wasted" left me with very similar emotions.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 15 years ago

Wasted is a good call. Also mean creek (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377091/) was somewhat similar. Just re-watched that and was surprised by how much it reminded me of USL (in terms of learning sorrow/similar buddhist belief ideas spread throughout the movie...)

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[–] a_bit_Howard_Hughes 15 years ago

as title

[–] gudzk 15 years ago

Donnie Darko

[–] mikeymac7 15 years ago

what he said...Chumscrubber is one of my fav movies.

[–] LePortail 15 years ago

Ya, I feel this movie and Chubscrubber where made under the heavy heavy influence of Donnie Darko, both of them are good, but Donnie Darko is the best.

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[–] MikeyBabyBooBop 15 years ago

You could add Imaginary Heroes to the mix. I would say Donnie Darko is the most similar, minus the trippy time travel.

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[–] transatlanticd 15 years ago

Boy A

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[–] dryslimjim 15 years ago

I would recommend Ordinary People, as well as the other one's that have been listed in this thread... all solid movies.