The Hours
2002 Drama"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Movies like The Hours
Discover a curated list of captivating movies similar to The Hours. Explore films such as The Way We Were, Giant, and The Lost City of Z, around the themes of depression, mental illness, mental breakdown. Other notable keywords include borderline personality disorder and nonlinear timeline.
#1
The Way We Were
Synopsis:
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Starring:
Robert Redford,
Murray Hamilton,
Bradford Dillman
#2
Giant
Synopsis:
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedic…
Starring:
Rod Taylor,
Dennis Hopper,
Elizabeth Taylor
Plot:
rancher,
epic,
texas,
oil,
rivalry,
racism,
nouveaux riches,
mexican american,
cattle ranch,
national film registry
...
#3
The Lost City of Z
Synopsis:
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Starring:
Sienna Miller,
Tom Holland,
Angus Macfadyen
Plot:
jungle,
based on true story,
based on book,
explorer,
journey,
raft,
archaeology,
husband wife relationship,
travel,
tribe
...
#4
Rebecca
Synopsis:
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistr…
Starring:
George Sanders,
C. Aubrey Smith,
Judith Anderson
Plot:
widower,
castle,
shipwreck,
costume party,
house fire,
marriage proposal,
haunted by the past,
unhappy marriage,
bride,
shyness
...
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#5
Sliding Doors
Synopsis:
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.
Starring:
John Lynch,
Gwyneth Paltrow,
John Hannah
#6
Silver Linings Playbook
Synopsis:
After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Starring:
John Ortiz,
Bradley Cooper,
Robert De Niro
#7
Monster
Synopsis:
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes the United States' first female serial killer.
Starring:
Christina Ricci,
Charlize Theron,
Pruitt Taylor Vince
#8
Lolita
Synopsis:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Starring:
Jeremy Irons,
Dominique Swain,
Melanie Griffith
#9
Gone Girl
Synopsis:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Starring:
Rosamund Pike,
Ben Affleck,
Boyd Holbrook
#10
Citizen Kane
Synopsis:
Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Starring:
Ray Collins,
Agnes Moorehead,
Orson Welles
Plot:
newspaper publisher,
rosebud,
new york,
narcissism,
materialism,
suicide attempt,
adultery,
new york city,
marriage,
journalist
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#11
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Synopsis:
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Starring:
Bob Hoskins,
Bob Geldof,
Christine Hargreaves
#12
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Synopsis:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the …
Starring:
Jacki Weaver,
Rachel Roberts,
Vivean Gray
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#13
Midnight Cowboy
Synopsis:
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Starring:
Jon Voight,
Dustin Hoffman,
Brenda Vaccaro
Plot:
new york city,
hustler,
gigolo,
cowboy,
homosexual,
winter,
friendship,
male prostitution,
urban setting,
manhattan new york city
...
#14
Knives Out
Synopsis:
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
Starring:
Michael Shannon,
Christopher Plummer,
Chris Evans
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#15
Garden State
Synopsis:
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
Starring:
Ian Holm,
Natalie Portman,
Peter Sarsgaard
Plot:
funeral,
cat,
home,
actor,
pills,
implied sex,
sex scene,
voyeur,
sitting in a bathtub,
wet clothes
...
#16
Angel Heart
Synopsis:
Down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered by the mysterious Louis Cyphre to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself, as he goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
Charlotte Rampling,
Mickey Rourke
#17
The Ring
Synopsis:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better …
Starring:
Naomi Watts,
Martin Henderson,
Daveigh Chase
#18
Thelma & Louise
Synopsis:
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
Starring:
Brad Pitt,
Christopher McDonald,
Geena Davis
#19
The Godfather: Part II
Synopsis:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
Diane Keaton,
Al Pacino
Plot:
revenge,
1950s,
corrupt politician,
mafia,
fratricide,
new year's eve,
suicide,
neo noir,
anti hero,
american dream
...
#20
The Devil Wears Prada
Synopsis:
Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.
Starring:
Anne Hathaway,
Emily Blunt,
Stanley Tucci