Movies Like The Hanging Garden (1997)

The Hanging Garden is a 1997 drama film from Thom Fitzgerald with a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Your Friends & Neighbors and Maudie.

Drama

Your Friends & Neighbors

1998

Restless and unhappy, two couples get caught up in infidelity and deception. Barry is a sullen businessman married to Mary, a writer who is unsatisfied with their relationship. Mary begins an affair with Jerry, a smug theater professor and husband of her friend, Terri, who is also a writer. Adding to the adulterous mix are Cary, a callous doctor, and Cheri, an art-gallery assistant.

5.8

MagicScore

Maudie

2016

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

7.7

MagicScore

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie

2006

The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail, upon release they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty", a plan to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.

6.5

MagicScore

C.R.A.Z.Y.

2005

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

7.5

MagicScore

It's Only the End of the World

2016

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

7.2

MagicScore

Other People

2016

David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”

6.3

MagicScore

A Holy Mess

2015

A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.

4.9

MagicScore

The Fighter

2010

Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

7.4

MagicScore

Happiness

1998

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

7.4

MagicScore

#10

Weirdos

2016

It's July 1976, and two Nova Scotian teens, Kit and Alice, are hitting the road with their sights on Sydney and their minds on the future. With them is Kit's new imaginary friend, who looks conspicuously like Andy Warhol, but who assures Kit that he is a spirit animal. Kit and Alice have big dreams, but do they really want the same things?

6.8

MagicScore

#11

Prayers for Bobby

2009

Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.

8.1

MagicScore

#12

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

7.8

MagicScore

#13

Cloudburst

2011

When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.

6.4

MagicScore

#14

Uncle Frank

2020

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.

7.3

MagicScore

#15

Suicide Room

2011

Moody, dark and handsome Dominik is tormented by his classmates after video footage of his drunken kiss with bully Alex is spread across the Internet. Grappling with the public humiliation Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based “suicide room” where the pink-haired rebel Sylvia consoles him.

7.3

MagicScore

#16

Saltburn

2023

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

7.0

MagicScore

#17

Those People

2015

On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.

6.9

MagicScore

#18

Nowhere

1997

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.

6.8

MagicScore

#19

Joe Bell

2020

The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.

6.5

MagicScore

#20

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

1987

A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.

6.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Hanging Garden?

The top films similar to The Hanging Garden by MovieMagicScore are Your Friends & Neighbors (5.8), Maudie (7.7), Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (6.5). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Hanging Garden worth watching?

The Hanging Garden holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10 from 31 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Hanging Garden?

The Hanging Garden (1997) is a drama film directed by Thom Fitzgerald, starring Peter MacNeill, Chris Leavins, Kerry Fox.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Hanging Garden?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Hanging Garden

This ranked list pairs The Hanging Garden (1997), a drama film from Thom Fitzgerald, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Peter MacNeill take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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