Movies like Deeper (2024)

Paperhouse (1988)

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Anna (2013)

A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story (2023)

After a particularly challenging day, Miles experiences a panic attack that forces him to confront the manifestations of his anxiety and learn that reaching out for help can be just as brave an act as protecting his city from evil.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Strange Weather (2016)

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)

Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Here (2024)

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Manic (2002)

In lieu of prison, Lyle, a violent adolescent, is placed in a juvenile mental institution where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motley crew—abused, sexually confused, violent, and yet hanging on by their grit and anger—becomes Lyle's last lifeline as he fights to find meaning in a world that seems to defy understanding.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

The Tender Bar (2021)

JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Spider (2002)

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Mysterious Skin (2005)

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Lila & Eve (2015)

Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Miss Violence (2013)

On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep insisting that it was an accident. What is the secret that young Angeliki took with her? Why does her family persist in trying to "forget" her and to move on with its life?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Alex of Venice (2015)

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

A Mouthful of Air (2021)

Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Goodbye June (2025)

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Frankie & Alice (2010)

A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Helen (2009)

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Shanghai Kiss (2007)

Liam Liu unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. He's not very appreciative of his Chinese roots, and at first, only wants to sell the house and get back to the U.S. as fast as possible. He gets a taste of the Chinese culture and ends up having some big decisions to make.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Alice, Darling (2022)

Pushed to the breaking point by Simon, her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Alice becomes an unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends while on vacation. As she rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective, she slowly starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. However, Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering, and once unleashed, it tests her strength, her courage, and the bonds of deep-rooted friendships.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Ghost Town (2008)

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Deciso (2025)

Plastic artist Leo invites young Dante to his art studio and proposes a peculiar game to leave all tension behind.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

The Elephant Man (1980)

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

An Entire Future Together (2014)

Two men at the bar. They work in banking and have sold preferred securities in an undetermined amount. One of them, the general manager, is being harassed at his home. After several days of harassment, he finally has a revelation.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

The Singers (2026)

An impromptu singing contest at a dive bar turns a lonely night into a soul-baring moment of shared harmony.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

The Groomsmen (2006)

Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his pals fill the reunion with drinking, boys-will-be-boys antics and a few unexpected personal confessions. But, when the bonding devolves into accusations and regret, Paulie has to decide whether he's ready to tie the knot and take this big step into adulthood.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

They May Still Be Alive Today (2021)

Tired of waiting for love to happen to her, Clara decides to make it happen. She chooses Vlad for her love project. But she wants The One; he wants anyone. She wants a prince, and he is only a man.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Suspiro de paz (2023)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama