Movies like Eric
If Eric's mix of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), motel room and hookup stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Eric's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Mysterious Skin
2005 · Directed by Gregg Araki · 105 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), 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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Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 · Directed by Drew Goddard · 141 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), motel room · From the same decade (2010s)
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 · Directed by Bryan Singer · 135 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: 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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Aftersun
2022 · Directed by Charlotte Wells · 101 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with…
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Cherry
2021 · Directed by Joe Russo · 142 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq—anchored only by his one true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in…
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The Master
2012 · Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · 137 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) · From the same decade (2010s)
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"…
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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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Leave No Trace
2018 · Directed by Debra Granik · 109 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) · From the same decade (2010s)
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world.
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Rolling Thunder
1977 · Directed by John Flynn · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
A recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible.
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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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You Were Never Really Here
2017 · Directed by Lynne Ramsay · 89 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) · From the same decade (2010s)
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or…
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Causeway
2022 · Directed by Lila Neugebauer · 94 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.