Movies like Scent of a Woman
Scent of a Woman (1992) is a drama movie directed by Martin Brest. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Don't Breathe (2016)
★ 7.0 · 8,201 votes · Horror, Thriller
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
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2. School Ties (1992)
★ 6.5 · 450 votes · Drama
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
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3. Dead Poets Society (1989)
★ 8.3 · 13,056 votes · Drama
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
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4. The Witch (2016)
★ 7.0 · 7,947 votes · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
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5. In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
★ 7.2 · 2,030 votes · Horror, Mystery
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
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6. Blind Fury (1989)
★ 6.5 · 527 votes · Action, Thriller, Drama
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
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7. The Holdovers (2023)
★ 7.6 · 2,721 votes · Drama, Comedy
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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8. Seven Pounds (2008)
★ 7.6 · 7,428 votes · Drama
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
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9. The Deer Hunter (1978)
★ 8.0 · 4,423 votes · Drama, War
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
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10. Dead Presidents (1995)
★ 6.7 · 348 votes · Crime, Drama, Action
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
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11. Gran Torino (2008)
★ 8.0 · 11,899 votes · Drama
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
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12. A Good Person (2023)
★ 7.0 · 465 votes · Drama
Allison's life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. The unlikely relationship she forms with her would-be father-in-law helps her live a life worth living.
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13. Birdy (1984)
★ 7.1 · 602 votes · Drama, War
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
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14. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
★ 8.3 · 3,057 votes · Drama
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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15. The Master (2012)
★ 7.1 · 3,443 votes · Drama
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
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16. Black Snake Moan (2006)
★ 6.8 · 1,016 votes · Drama
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.
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