SimilarScreen
Affliction

Affliction

Like father like son...?

19986.31h 54m

Overview

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

Directed by Paul Schrader
Written by Russell Banks, Paul Schrader
Produced by Linda Reisman
Box OfficeBudget: $6.0MRevenue: $6.3M

Top Cast

Nick Nolte

Nick Nolte

Wade Whitehouse

Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Margie Fogg

James Coburn

James Coburn

Glen Whitehouse

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

Rolfe Whitehouse

Mary Beth Hurt

Mary Beth Hurt

Lillian

Jim True-Frost

Jim True-Frost

Jack Hewitt

Marian Seldes

Marian Seldes

Alma Pittman

Holmes Osborne

Holmes Osborne

Gordon LaRiviere

B

Brigid Tierney

Jill

Sean McCann

Sean McCann

Evan Twombley

Themes & Keywords

small townbased on novel or bookwinterabusive fatherhalloweennew hampshirehunting accidentalcoholismsnowdomestic violenceattorneyvida rural

About Affliction

Affliction is a crime, drama, mystery, thriller film released in 1998 exploring themes of small town, based on novel or book, winter, abusive father, halloween, new hampshire. Directed by Paul Schrader, it stars Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn. A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

Movies Similar to Affliction

Discover titles like Affliction — ranked by similarity and community votes

We found 15 movies similar to Affliction

If you enjoyed Affliction, you'll love these handpicked recommendations. Each title below shares similar themes, tone, and storytelling style. Our algorithm analyzes genres, keywords, director filmography, and cast connections to find the closest matches. Whether you're looking for the same emotional depth, narrative structure, or visual style, these picks are curated to deliver the best viewing experience for fans of Affliction.

Dolores Claiborne
32% Match

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

Fargo
22% Match

Fargo(1996)

Movie7.8/10

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

Gorky Park
22% Match

Gorky Park(1983)

Movie6.3/10

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.

The Shining
22% Match

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

At Close Range
22% Match

Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.

The Silence of the Lambs
22% Match

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

Insomnia
21% Match

Insomnia(2002)

Movie7.0/10

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

To Die For
21% Match

To Die For(1995)

Movie6.6/10

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

Dark River
21% Match

Dark River(2017)

Movie5.6/10

After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.

A Most Violent Year
20% Match

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Scream
20% Match

Scream(1996)

Movie7.4/10

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Eyes Wide Shut
20% Match

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
20% Match

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Dream House
20% Match

Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.