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Good Will Hunting
1997 • Drama
Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who…
Why matched: genres Drama
Dead Man's Wire
2026 • Drama • Crime
In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Milk
2008 • Drama • History
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and ins…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Elephant
2003 • Drama • Crime
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
My Own Private Idaho
1991 • Drama
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel…
Why matched: genres Drama
To Die For
1995 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determinat…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Psycho
1998 • Thriller • Mystery • Horror
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Promised Land
2012 • Drama
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
Why matched: genres Drama
Drugstore Cowboy
1989 • Drama • Crime
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from dr…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Finding Forrester
2000 • Drama • History
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old wri…
Matched on: Van, Sant
Gerry
2002 • Drama • Mystery • Adventure
Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 • Drama • Comedy
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controver…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Sea of Trees
2016 • Drama
In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
Why matched: genres Drama
Paranoid Park
2007 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Restless
2011 • Drama • Romance
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Last Days
2005 • Drama
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired b…
Why matched: genres Drama
Mala Noche
1987 • Drama • Romance
Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections —…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Discipline of D.E.
1982 • Drama • Comedy
"The Discipline of D.E." is a short 16mm film directed by Gus Van Sant. It’s based on a story in “Exterminator!” by William Burroughs that at times reads like Buddhist noir: "D…
Matched on: Van, Sant