Movies like Howl
If Howl's mix of freedom, poetry and literature stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Howl's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Gods and Monsters
1998 · Directed by Bill Condon · 105 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: male homosexuality, 1950s, gay theme
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him.
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Dead Poets Society
1989 · Directed by Peter Weir · 129 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: poetry, literature, 1950s
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…
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Shutter Island
2010 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 138 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: psychiatric hospital, 1950s · From the same decade (2010s)
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Mysterious Skin
2005 · Directed by Gregg Araki · 105 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: male homosexuality, gay theme
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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Moonlight
2016 · Directed by Barry Jenkins · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: male homosexuality, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his…
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 · Directed by Héctor Babenco · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: male homosexuality, gay theme
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs.
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The Imitation Game
2014 · Directed by Morten Tyldum · 113 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: male homosexuality, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and…
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Love, Simon
2018 · Directed by Greg Berlanti · 110 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: male homosexuality, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate…
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Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 · Directed by Bryan Singer · 135 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: male homosexuality, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics.
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The Doors
1991 · Directed by Oliver Stone · 140 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: poetry
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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Naked Lunch
1991 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020 · Directed by Charlie Kaufman · 135 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: poetry
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.