
Movies that feel like A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
If you loved A Streetcar Named Desire, the closest films we have are Winter Light (1963), The Last Laugh (1924) and A Man Escaped (1956). All three share A Streetcar Named Desire's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
If A Streetcar Named Desire hit the spot, these will too

Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath
The difference: Not nearly as tense as A Streetcar Named Desire

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white
The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1920s show

Common ground: black and white

Elia Kazan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

One thread runs through both: loss of sense of reality
The difference: Leans harder into mystery than A Streetcar Named Desire does

The same preoccupation in both: loss of sense of reality

Both are built on the same subject: rape
The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Tense drama, and it commits to that

Thriller with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Drama built on melancholy, twice over

The same two preoccupations: brothers and sisters, and brother-in-law
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The same preoccupation in both: family relationships
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