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Movies like American Beauty
If you liked American Beauty (1999), these 24 movies have a similar feel, best Lantern Score first.
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Faces8.5 - 2
Magnolia8.3 - 3
May December8.3 - 4
The Starling Girl8.1 - 5
Nightmare Alley7.6 - 6
Nocturnal Animals7.2 - 7
Mammal6.8 - 8
Butterfly on a Wheel6.6 - 9
Max6.3 - 10
Crash6.1 - 11
Dream Lover6.0 - 12
Effie Gray5.4 - 13
From Straight A's to XXX5.2 - 14
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden5.2 - 15
Blonde5.1 - 16
Adulterers5.1 - 17
Deep Water5.0 - 18
Heatwave5.0 - 19
The Babysitters4.4 - 20
The Only Living Boy in New York4.3 - 21
The Crush4.0 - 22
The Ledge4.0 - 23
Careful What You Wish For3.7 - 24
Addicted3.2
About this list
These movies come from TMDB's recommendations for American Beauty, a drama film by Sam Mendes. Each carries its Lantern Score, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic in one 10-point number, so the strongest matches rise to the top. The best of them right now: Faces (8.5), Magnolia (8.3), May December (8.3). Open any title for its full score breakdown, cast, and where to stream, rent or buy it.