Best movies like Clean
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies similar to Clean? Contribute your familiarity to steer others to films and tv shows you've already watched that might appeal to them too. Facilitate broadening the circle of people putting forward videos expertise one another. We encourage your involvement!
Plot Summary:
After losing her husband to a heroin overdose, Emily Wang fights to overcome her own addictions and to be reconciled with her estranged son.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, touching, sincere, serious, contemplative, realistic, crying, independent film, road movie
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Best tv shows and movies like Clean (2004):
Similar in 89%
West of Here (2002)
Plot Summary:
Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car accident. Gil ignores his father's disapproval and takes the family's antique truck for the promised land of California, but on the way a chance encounter reunites him with an old college flame, Genevieve (Fried Green Tomatoes' Mary Stuart Masterson), who joins his journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, touching, emotional, psychological, serious, realistic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 80%
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Plot Summary:
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: mindfuck, atmospheric, twist ending, touching, mumblecore, sentimental, serious, realistic, surprise ending, crying
Similar in 78%
Horsey (1997)
Plot Summary:
Delilah Miller is looking for an anchor in her life. She starts a romance with rock musician Ryland Yale, but soon it shows he can not be such an anchor - he's possessive, undependable and even a heroin addict.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, crying, independent film, sexy
Similar in 75%
A Song for Martin (2001)
Plot Summary:
Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and Barbara tries to help as much as possible although Martin is often angry and violent towards her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, sincere, contemplative, gloomy, crying
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 90%
Domain (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nadia (Béatrice Dalle) is in her 30s and begins a serious relationship with a teen named Pierre (Isaïe Sultan).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Similar in 76%
I Dreamt Under the Water (2008)
Plot Summary:
Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having some familial, financial difficulties. But the girl is a junkie too.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, crying, freeze frame, queer cinema, hot
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 75%
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Plot Summary:
Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young ladies in show business.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: cynical, cult classic, stylized, serious, rough, realistic, erotic, suspense, dark, sad
Similar in 85%
Clara and Me (2004)
Plot Summary:
Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. All his loneliness turns into joy... but then he learns something that makes it all extremely complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sexy, sexual
Similar in 85%
Look at Me (2004)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: stylized, lyrical, sincere, semi serious, humorous, talky, realistic, witty, contemplative, biting
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 81%
A Star Is Born (1976)
Plot Summary:
A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, corny
Similar in 86%
Stoned (2005)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, erotic, retro, psychedelic, deep, freeze frame, flamboyance
Similar in 76%
The Thing Called Love (1993)
Plot Summary:
Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, entertaining, talky, crying, light
Similar in 85%
Roseland (1977)
Plot Summary:
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, anthology, romantic drama, independent film, touching
Similar in 79%
A Heart of Stone (1992)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, heartbreaking, sincere, thought provoking, touching, anthology, art house, serious, realistic, contemplative
Similar in 83%
Funkytown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in Montreal during the disco phenomenon some 35 years ago, Funkytown follows the life of a group of colorful characters. We follow their lives and tribulations as everyone converges on a regular basis at Montreal's hot disco spot: Starlight. Along the way, several events take place that change these characters' lives. As these characters' lives unfold, the Parti Québécois takes power changing the cultural landscape in Quebec while the disco craze slowly fades. While we keep up with these various characters - it is Bastien who is a central part of this story. His drug addiction, dreams to become an actor and womanizing - make him the "bigger than life" typical 70s character around which the whole story revolves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, realistic, sexual, sitcom, crying, independent film, sexy
Similar in 86%
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious, erotic, offbeat, psychological, gloomy, crying
Similar in 89%
Crazy Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an existence playing in the shadow of Tommy, the upstart kid he once mentored?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, depressing, emotional, sincere, sentimental, serious, feel good, cult classic, realistic
Similar in 90%
Down to the Bone (2004)
Plot Summary:
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, scary, bleak, realistic, gloomy, crying
Similar in 88%
Late August, Early September (1998)
Plot Summary:
A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a lover that no longer loves you: a film about grown-ups growing up.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: emotional, talky, melancholic, ironic, meditative, lyrical, psychological, serious, depressing, tense
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 89%
A Slipping-Down Life (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, sincere, captivating, romantic, romantic drama, independent film, sentimental, offbeat, humorous
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 89%
Three Times (2005)
Plot Summary:
There are three stories of women and men: in "A Time for Love" set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom," set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's longing to escape her surroundings; in "A Time for Youth" set in 2005 Taipei, a triangle in which a singer has an affair with a photographer while her partner suffers is dramatized. In the first two stories, letters are crucial to the outcome; in the third, it's cell-phone calls, text messages, and a computer file. Over the years between the tales, as sexual intimacy becomes more likely and words more free, communication recedes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: anthology, sentimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative, sexy, art house, slow cinema
Similar in 80%
Pure (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, crying, independent film, iconic
Similar in 82%
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Plot Summary:
Following their breakout success in England, flagship punk rock band the Sex Pistols venture out on their first U.S. tour. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious takes his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, along for the ride. Along the way, the couple's turbulent relationship strains the patience of bandmate Johnny Rotten and manager Malcolm McLaren, while plunging Sid and Nancy into the depths of drug addiction and co-dependency.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: bloody, cult classic, disturbing, independent film, psychedelic, serious, captivating, gloomy, offbeat, intellectual
Similar in 85%
The Rose (1979)
Plot Summary:
Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: retro, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sentimental, light
Similar in 85%
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Plot Summary:
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, bleak, meditative, clever, independent film, melancholic, harsh, lyrical, contemplative
Similar in 87%
Chinese Box (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, independent film, sentimental, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking
Similar in 86%
Paris 36 (2008)
Plot Summary:
A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum, has been voted into power, and organized labor is feeling its new power by standing up to management.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, inspirational, colorful, period piece, visual, visually stunning, sentimental, touching, serious
Similar in 89%
Close to Leo (2002)
Plot Summary:
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+, his family quickly rallys around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother away to protect him, the love and loyalty of the two brothers is tested.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, crying, queer cinema
Similar in 87%
Kings and Queen (2004)
Plot Summary:
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn. A parallel storyline follows her former lover and second husband, Ismaël Vuillard, a musician, with whom she had lived for seven years. He is given to strange behaviour, and as a result he has been committed to a mental hospital, from which he is planning to escape. Nora learns that her father's digestive problems are actually cancer, and facing her father's death, Nora desperately seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias, but he has mixed feelings about adopting her son. Moreover, he has met Arielle, another patient.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, clever, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy, crying
Similar in 89%
Sound of Metal (2019)
Plot Summary:
Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, melancholic, realistic, philosophical, touching, offbeat, serious