Movies Similar to Absence of Color.

Manic(2001)

Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile mental institution, where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motley crew—abused, sexually confused, violent, and yet hanging on by their grit and anger—becomes Lyle's last lifeline as he fights to find meaning in a world that seems to defy understanding.

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Beware of Dog(2020)

Alienated in politically-ambiguous Moscow, young woman deals with severe OCD, while her cousin in Berlin tries to build a romantic relationship ignoring her own condition. In a parallel New York City realm, a heartbroken boxer struggles with addiction, self worth and online anxiety, which connects all the heroes from a universal level.

2.0

Cake(2014)

After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.

6.3

A Shallow Perception of Me(2021)

A character study on internet addiction

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Absit(2022)

A lonely priest must find a way to connect with an irreverent teenager after the boy confesses his plans to commit suicide.

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Your Mind Matters(2025)

When Roger Lee slips on his front steps, he has no idea the fall will send him spiralling into the darkest chapter of his life. Injured, and drowning in despair, he hits rock bottom—until he discovers the power of his own words. Through pain, he finds purpose, turning his struggle into wisdom that inspires millions. Now, as a world-renowned speaker, he lifts others the way he once needed lifting. A raw and uplifting story of resilience, reinvention, and the unexpected ways we rise.

0.0

The Savages(2007)

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

6.9

God's Lonely Man(2024)

A guy commits suicide due to severe depression. As his final goodbye, he writes three letters to God to explain his struggles with the world.

0.0

The Woodsman(2004)

After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole officer. He gets a job at a lumber mill and starts seeing a coworker. Then his new world begins to unravel; as his past becomes known, he strikes up a high-risk friendship with a young girl and realizes that a man loitering near a schoolyard is a child molester prowling for his next victim.

6.9

The Quiet(2005)

After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.

6.2

Charlotte(2022)

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

6.3

The Green Impact(2025)

A frustrated young man, who suffers from alcohol addiction finds an abandoned plant on a sidewalk. He starts to take care after the plant and without realising, after himself too.

0.0

Love in the Time of Cholera(2007)

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

6.6

Charlie Bartlett(2008)

Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.

6.7

Outbound(2024)

A bedraggled young wanderer lives in a desolate world in complete isolation until reviewing their past choices forces them to call for help.

0.0

The Heart Is a Dark Forest(2007)

A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.

5.5

Hotel Chevalier(2007)

In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)

6.9

The Ones Who Watch(2024)

Recently released from the psych ward, Allen struggles to cope with his depression which leads him to strange occurrences that quickly spiral into a dire situation.

0.0

Punch-Drunk Love(2002)

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

7.1

Little Women(1994)

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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