Movies like Postmortem
If Postmortem's mix of ex-boyfriend, reunion and cafe stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Postmortem's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Secrets & Lies
1996 · Directed by Mike Leigh · 142 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: reunion
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 · Directed by Héctor Babenco · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: 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 Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019 · Directed by Xavier Dolan · 123 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
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The Boys in the Band
2020 · Directed by Joe Mantello · 122 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
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The Human Voice
2020 · Directed by Pedro Almodóvar · 30 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: short film
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
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The Deep End of the Ocean
1999 · Directed by Ulu Grosbard · 106 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: reunion
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.