Movies like The Virgin Suicides (2000)

Name: The Virgin Suicides
Released: 2000

10 films to watch after The Virgin Suicides, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

1

Inventing the Abbotts (1997)

Fit 68%

Shares Drama and Romance with The Virgin Suicides.

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.
2

Snow Angels (2007)

Fit 66%

Shares Drama and Romance with The Virgin Suicides.

Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's restaurant, growing closer to a new kid in town, Lila, after class. When Glenn and Annie's daughter goes missing, the whole town searches for her, as he increasingly spirals out of control.
3

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Fit 64%

Shares Drama with The Virgin Suicides.

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.
4

Cracks (2009)

Fit 62%

Shares Drama with The Virgin Suicides.

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
5

The Prince of Tides (1991)

Fit 59%

Shares Drama and Romance with The Virgin Suicides.

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.
6

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

Fit 59%

Shares Drama with The Virgin Suicides.

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.
7

The Crush (1993)

Fit 55%

Shares Drama with The Virgin Suicides.

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
8

Ordinary People (1980)

Fit 53%

Shares Drama with The Virgin Suicides.

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
9

Blonde (2022)

Fit 52%

Shares Drama with The Virgin Suicides.

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.
10

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

Fit 50%

Shares Drama and Romance with The Virgin Suicides.

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.