Movies like Mainstream
If Mainstream's mix of suicide, love triangle and satire stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Mainstream's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Happiness
1998 · Directed by Todd Solondz · 140 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: suicide, satire · Also comedy and drama
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
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Deep End
1971 · Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski · 92 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and comedy
London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.
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Barney's Version
2010 · Directed by Richard J. Lewis · 134 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: suicide · Also comedy and drama
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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Saltburn
2023 · Directed by Emerald Fennell · 131 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: suicide · Also drama and comedy · From the same decade (2020s)
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling…
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A King in New York
1957 · Directed by Charlie Chaplin · 104 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: satire · Also comedy and drama
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
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Heathers
1989 · Directed by Michael Lehmann · 103 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: suicide
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
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Heaven Knows What
2015 · Directed by Benny Safdie · 97 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: suicide
A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.