20 best movies like Prozac Nation (2001)

List of the best movies like Prozac Nation (2001): Abandon, A Dangerous Method, Kill Your Darlings, Rebel in the Rye, Dorian Blues, A Tale of Love and Darkness, Married Life, On the Road, The Last of Robin Hood, Lolita.

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Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration01:39

    Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

      A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:16

      The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out to his father; he gets kicked out of the house.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military, biography, history
      CountryIsrael, USA

      The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, family, crime, biography
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:31

      A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryFrance, USA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina
      Duration02:20

      Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA

      Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland. The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl's fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother - which only fed Florence's need to stay in the spotlight.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:32

      Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration02:24

      In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:37

      Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:46

        Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration02:07

        Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:47

        A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryFrance, Belgium
        Duration02:19

        Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        Four black students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an “African-American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in 'post-racial' America while weaving a story about forging one's unique path in the world.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:37

        Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:41

        Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. Learning of their partners' infidelity, Terry and Hank engage in their own extramarital affair together. Now, both marriages and friendships are on the brink of collapse.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:28

        Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryCzech Republic, Poland, France, Slovakia
        Duration02:18

        Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver. Although she has female lovers she does not form a bond with any of them; instead she clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioural extremes.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:44

        Revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment. Based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:51

        A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

        Markimdb: 8.3
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:40

        A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:11

        C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:05

        Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, Germany
        Duration01:58

        The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryIndia

        A boy meets a girl named Riya and falls in love. After struggling to convince her to be his girlfriend, she half-heartedly agrees to be his `half-girlfriend'.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:27

        Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:39

        Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctors daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:51

        The Whole Wide World tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp fiction writer of the 1930's.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:54

        A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration02:43

        A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:44

        A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
        Duration01:38

        The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Morgan is the inspiring story of Morgan Oliver, a gay young athlete determined that a bicycle accident that left him paralyzed will not change him. He takes a chance on love when he meets Dean Kagen on a basketball court. Dean helps Morgan train for the same race in which he had his accident. But when he sees that Morgan will risk everything to win, Dean walks out. Left alone to face the race and demons that caused his accident, Morgan teeters between what he needs and what he wants. Can he find the strength to pull himself back up again?

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:41

        It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

          A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands
          Duration02:37

          After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genredrama, music, biography
          CountryIndia

          A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:00

          Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, Gia quickly shoots to the top of the modeling world. When Cooper dies of lung cancer, however, Gia turns to drugs – and both she and her career begin to spiral out of control.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUSA

          Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:39

          A trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university: the dynamic leader Violet Wister, principled Rose and sexy Heather. They welcome transfer student Lily into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
          CountryUSA, Spain
          Duration01:54

          Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.




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