Movies like Peppermint Candy
If Peppermint Candy's mix of suicide, martial law and reunion stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Peppermint Candy's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Memories of Murder
2003 · Directed by Bong Joon Ho · 131 min8.1
Why you'll like itWith Go Seo-hee · Also a Korean drama · From the same decade (2000s)
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to…
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The Deer Hunter
1978 · Directed by Michael Cimino · 183 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: suicide, friends
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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Uncle Frank
2020 · Directed by Alan Ball · 95 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: suicide
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
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Disconnect
2013 · Directed by Henry Alex Rubin · 116 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: suicide
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage.
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Light Sleeper
1992 · Directed by Paul Schrader · 103 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: suicide
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business.
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River's Edge
1986 · Directed by Tim Hunter · 100 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: friends
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to…
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020 · Directed by Charlie Kaufman · 135 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: suicide
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.
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The Double
2014 · Directed by Richard Ayoade · 93 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: suicide
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
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Joe Bell
2020 · Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green · 93 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: suicide
The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.