Movies like Shame
Shame (2011) is a drama movie directed by Steve McQueen. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Lost Highway (1997)
★ 7.6 · 3,082 votes · Drama, Thriller, Mystery
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
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2. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
★ 6.6 · 857 votes · Drama, Thriller
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
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3. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8.0 · 11,384 votes · Crime, Drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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4. Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
★ 6.7 · 3,283 votes · Drama, Mystery
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
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5. Mysterious Skin (2005)
★ 7.7 · 1,386 votes · Drama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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6. American History X (1998)
★ 8.3 · 13,020 votes · Drama
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
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7. Crash (1996)
★ 6.5 · 1,456 votes · Thriller, Drama
A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
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8. Fight Club (1999)
★ 8.4 · 33,029 votes · Drama, Thriller
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
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9. State of Grace (1990)
★ 6.9 · 445 votes · Drama, Crime, Thriller
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
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10. Swallow (2020)
★ 6.6 · 887 votes · Drama, Thriller
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
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11. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
★ 7.5 · 1,700 votes · Drama
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.
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