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Similar movies to see. Recommend!!!

posted 17 years ago by nahuil
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Well, there has been some other comparisons on this board, like Good Will Hunting and I don't know what else. Anyway, when I saw Five Easy Pieces, the character reminded me of Cool Hand Luke. Both youngsters, fairly brilliant (i.e. they're outsiders not for lack of capacity; unlike Midnight Cowboy which other poster has compared FEP to), disillusioned about their social environment, and without a clue as to what to do with their lives (of course, Paul Newman is lovable, and Nicholson's character is not). I could say the same about the same Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
What other movies would you say has the same kind of character and problematic situation?

[–] Breakingbaddest 12 years ago

i love movies like this.

you should watch Hud, the scarecrow, and lenny.

[–] Mrpinkeye 12 years ago

while they dont have much to do with upper/lower class divide i like factotum and barfly for the whole drunk guy abusing women thing

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (30498379) 12 years ago

The Passenger
Easy Rider
The Last Detail

All starring Nicholson.

[–] armensog 11 years ago

La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2 , GWH, Punch Drunk Love in a way (much less), Broken Flowers.. probly many of them around really. About Schmidt also a terrific movie, though not the same age and intensity but still Nicholson is there! :) Check 'em out:)

[–] amitch64-156-510576 11 years ago

Someone already beat me to it, but I'd really like to second the suggestions of John Huston's "Wise Blood" and Monte Hellman's "Two-Lane Blacktop." Also, like it or hate it, doesn't matter, but PTA's "The Master" is certainly a direct descendant of the 1970's era stories of the alienated man on an existential journey and very much has that American New Wave feel to it.

[–] armensog 11 years ago

The Master, another one that came to mind.

[–] shalise-begum 11 years ago

Interesting how somebody on here recommended HUD. I kept thinking of Patricia Neal in that movie while watching this one for some reason. Another movie like this is the WINTER PASSING with Will Ferrell and Zoeye Deschanel.

[–] MelancholyPonyAndTheCircusBoy 11 years ago

The Fugitive Kind starring Marlon Brando is a great drifter film with screenplay by Tennessee Williams.

Not a movie, but I recommend reading books by Carson McCullers (in fact some of her novels have been filmed, like The Heart is a Lonely Hunter). She wrote about eccentrics, who are sort of estranged from the world, and are often terribly lonely. In my opinion she is one of the great 20th century novelists.

[–] Degree7 11 years ago

Rebel Without a Cause
Drugstore Cowboy
Good Will Hunting
You Can Count on Me

Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.