Most Similar Movies to The Designated Mourner (1997)
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Marat/Sade (1967), Shame (1968), Never Let Me Go (2010), Desperate Characters (1971), Waiting for the Barbarians (2019), Woyzeck (1979), The Elementary Particles (2006) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Marat/Sade (1967)
The Marquis de Sade (Patrick Magee) directs the patients of Charenton mental hospital in a play about the life of Jean-Paul Marat (Ian Richardson).
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Shame (1968)
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
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Never Let Me Go (2010)
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
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Desperate Characters (1971)
Marriage of a midlife, middle-class, childless couple is in a rut. Sophie has become depressed, frigid and slightly paranoid and Otto is stuck in optimistic denial. Things escalate at their summer cottage, but no one dares call it quits.
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Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
A local magistrate reevaluates his loyalty to his nation while holed up at a remote outpost.
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Woyzeck (1979)
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.
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The Elementary Particles (2006)
An unhappily married teacher (Moritz Bleibtreu) and his lonely half-brother (Christian Ulmen) have sexual liaisons.
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The Holy Innocents (1984)
Members (Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Terele Pavez) of a poor family obey the whims of the aristocrats they work for in rural 1960s Spain.
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Knife in the Head (1978)
A German scientist (Bruno Ganz) becomes a political tool after a policeman shoots him in the head at a leftist meeting.
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Three Colors: Blue (1993)
A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.
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No End (1985)
The wife of the recently deceased lawyer tries to cope with grief after his loss and to keep his last case going in court.
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Kokoro (1955)
At the end of Meiji era a young student befriend an older man who as a proof of trust but also as a kind of exorcism entrust him his secret, a story about jealousy, betrayal, shame and guilt.
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Uncle Vanya (1971)
The ordinary life of the Russian provincial intellectuals seems to them gray and bleak. Are exceptions possible?
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Matterhorn (2013)
Fred leads a boring life of routine after losing his wife and evicting his son. When a mentally impaired man named Theo arrives, Fred's routine is interrupted, but he enjoys the idea of looking after someone once more.
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The Oyster and the Wind (1997)
A fantasy/mystery about the disappearance of a lighthouse owner and his daughter.
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
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Play It as It Lays (1972)
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
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The Touch (1971)
A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
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