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The Brutalist (2024)

  • Drama
  • 215 min
  • 16 age guide
  • ★ 6.9/10 from 1,808 ratings

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.

Directed byBrady Corbet

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    Shame

    Strong story similarity

    2011 · 102 min · Drama

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    Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared production studio: Lipsync Productions
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  2. 02

    Train Dreams

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    2025 · 102 min · Drama

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    A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a principal cast member
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  3. 03

    Hillbilly Elegy

    Strong story similarity

    2020 · 117 min · Drama

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    An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: american dream and drug addiction
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    The Banker

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    2020 · 120 min · Drama

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    In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    Cabrini

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    2024 · 142 min · Drama · History

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    Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared themes: immigrant and new york city
    • substantial genre overlap
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    Mudbound

    Strong story similarity

    2017 · 135 min · Drama

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    In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  7. 07

    The Irishman

    Shared themes

    2019 · 209 min · Crime · Drama · History

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    Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

    Why it connects

    • strong shared themes: 1950s and pennsylvania, usa
    • similar audience response
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    Marty Supreme

    Strong story similarity

    2025 · 150 min · Drama · Thriller

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    Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: 1950s and capitalism
    • substantial genre overlap
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    Causeway

    Strong story similarity

    2022 · 94 min · Drama

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    A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    The Thing with Feathers

    Strong story similarity

    2025 · 99 min · Drama

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    Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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