The Good Heart Similar Movies

Movie | Iceland | 09/11/2009 | Drama | Alcohol

Brian Cox stars as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas (Dano), a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing, schooling him in the male-centric laws of his alcoholic clubhouse: no new customers, no fraternizing with customers and, absolutely no women. Lucas is a quick study, but their friendship is put to the test when the distraught and beautiful April (Isild Le Besco) shows up at the bar seeking shelter, and Lucas insists they help her out.

Starring

Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Stephanie Szostak, Isild Le Besco, Bill Buell, Ed Wheeler, Clark Middleton, Edmund Lyndeck, Daniel Raymont, Damian Young, André De Shields

Directed by

Dagur Kári

Produced by

Sigurjón Sighvatsson

6.9/10

imdb

30%

rotten tomatoes

Another Round

Movie | Denmark | 10/08/2020 | Drama | Alcohol

Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.

7.7/10

15,839

The Rum Diary

Movie | United States | 10/27/2011 | Drama | Alcohol

Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

6.2/10

51%

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Trees Lounge

Movie | United States | 10/11/1996 | Drama | Alcohol

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen year old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.

7.2/10

When a Man Loves a Woman

Movie | United States | 04/29/1994 | Drama | Alcohol

6.5/10

70%

Once Were Warriors

Movie | New Zealand | 09/02/1994 | Drama | Alcohol

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.

7.9/10

93%

Leaving Las Vegas

Movie | France | 10/27/1995 | Drama | Alcohol

7.6/10

90%

Last Call

Movie | United States | 09/18/2020 | Drama | Alcohol

Shot in two true single takes, filmed simultaneously in two different parts of a city, Last Call is a real-time feature presented in split screen, showcasing both ends of a wrong number phone call that has the potential to save a life.

82%

Tažní ptáci

Movie | Czech Republic | 01/29/1984 | Drama | Alcohol

8.0/10

Serpent's Poison

Movie | Czech Republic | 02/01/1982 | Drama | Alcohol

Her mother dead, 18-year-old Vladka travels to a remote village in the dead of winter to find the father she has never met. The happiness of their initial meeting gives way to the daughter’s disappointment and concern over the hardworking man’s alcoholism.

7.0/10

La fortaleza

Movie | Venezuela | 01/26/2020 | Drama | Alcohol

To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, Roque retreats into the Amazon jungle to renovate a cabin he built during happier times. He struggles with feverish visions caused by alcohol abstinence, and his desire for redemption becomes distorted when he joins old friends to work in an illegal gold mine controlled by Colombian guerrillas. The violence required to work in the mine plunges Roque into a cycle of self-destruction that devours his interior. He will need the fortitude to get out and start anew.

329

Volcano

Movie | Iceland | 09/30/2011 | Drama | Family Ties

Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.

7.1/10

Metalhead

Movie | Iceland | 10/11/2013 | Drama

It's the year 1970 and as Black Sabbath record their first album and mark the birth of Heavy Metal, Hera Karlsdottir is born on the cowshed floor at her parents farm in rural Iceland. The years of her youth are carefree until a tragedy strikes. Her older brother is killed in a accident and Hera blames herself for his death. In her grieve she finds solace in the dark music of Heavy Metal and dreams of becoming a rock star. As the years pass on the farm buried under a shroud of snow and a looming ominous mountain Hera practises her guitar and dreams of forming a band. Hera is a rebellious, misunderstood delinquent in her early twenties who can't help but get into trouble. She dreams of escaping out into the world but somehow always ends up at her own doorstep. When her childhood friend returns intent on marrying her and a young priest moves to the farming community the wheels of fate start turning. Hera has to grow up, find her own voice and realize she can't run away her whole life.

7.1/10

91%