Movies like Lost in Translation?

leeclark

Hi,

I am looking for movies that leave an ache in your soul similar to this movie. I am looking for movies like this one in regards to the characters isolation and loneliness that sets the tone for the movie. It is just breathtakingly beautiful and I was wondering is there similar movies to Lost in Translation.

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards

Sebastian Dangerfield

Try Igby Goes Down or 500 Days Of Summer

QikBax

Sad Professor

Last Life in the Universe, 35 Shots of Rum, Cafe Lumiere, In the Mood for Love, Like Someone in Love. All have the same kind of lonely, moody quality as LiT without necessarily being romances.

All foreign language, sorry if that's a problem. I can't think of any English language films that really remind me of LiT. Some would recommend the Before films, but there's something about the talkiness of them which find the antithesis of LiT.

Oh, and anything by Ozu.

Not The Real Scarecrow

If you're looking for movies that will leave an ache on your soul, give A Serbian Movie a spin.....just don't watch it with any one else in the room:)

FunLover18

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »

Try Igby Goes Down or 500 Days Of Summer

500 Days definitely left me with an ache in my soul ... for the 2 hours I'd wasted watching it.

OP - Try other films from Sofia Coppola. Bling Ring I believe is her most recent film and received very mixed reviews

duckworth

In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express and Happy Together - 3 great movies from Wong Kar-Wai with a similar tone. They were a big influence on Lost in Translation.

Also Annie Hall leaves me with a similar feeling too.

krudler

The Station Agent, absolutely charming little movie, Peter Dinklage inherits a small train depot out in the middle of nowhere and moves there to get away from everything.

dutopia

Not sure if all of these match your credentials but I find them all to be powerful, evoking films:

Oldboy
Before Sunrise
Grave of the Fireflies
Blade Runner
Into the Wild
Donnie Darko

Adamantium

Serpendipity starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, I'm ashamed to say as a straight male this warmed my stone cold, Hollywood romance allergic cynical heart. Loved it, when I ran cross it at 2am one night on RTE a few years ago. Just a real cute movie, great performances. Has subtle humour like LIT too. Halfway through it My brother turned me and said "is it OK to like this?" I replied "Kate Beckinsale?" "Both", said he.

Unlike LIT it won't leave you with existential concerns! My favourite movie of all time all the same, you'd do hard to a movie as close to "perfect" as LIT. I don't think Coppola knew what she was doing or had on her hands at the time, as she can't seem to replicate the magic in her subsequent films. Its probably going to haunt her.

Check out 'Drive', similar isolated quiet main character that slowly builds a relationship with an mistreated neighbor.

Done in an 80s style with great shots, colours & music throughout. Its a Nicolas Winding Refn film, who im a big fan of. Its violent in parts but i think you may enjoy it.

JohnFalstaff

You could try some of Sofia Coppola's other films. Her first feature The Virgin Suicides shares much of Lost in Translation's sense of ennui.

Or if you want to try a classic go for Mike Nichols' The Graduate - very similar in terms of themes and also shares the May/December romantic pairing, although with the genders reversed (which is also interesting in terms of how it is presented and how the relationship plays out).

If you want to keep Bill Murray front and centre you could watch Rushmore. Lots of Wes Anderson's work has that same sense of wistful longing that you are looking for and Rushmore has it in spades. Unrequited love between young Max Fischer and his teacher... actually if you haven't seen Rushmore just go watch it. Great movie.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

the characters isolation and loneliness that sets the tone for the movie

I would suggest Garage based on that description alone. It did leave an ache in my soul.

LuckyLloyd

You Can Count on Me
All the Real Girls
Two Lovers
The Savages

ButtersSuki

Not The Real Scarecrow wrote: »

If you're looking for movies that will leave an ache on your soul, give A Serbian Movie a spin.....just don't watch it with any one else in the room:)

Not sure that's the kind of ache the OP was looking for!

Perfect Christmas Day movie for all the family!