A Woman Under the Influence
Why this pick
Cassavetes again turns volatile intimacy into something funny, bruising and startlingly immediate, with raw performances and relationships that feel discovered moment by moment.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Cassavetes again turns volatile intimacy into something funny, bruising and startlingly immediate, with raw performances and relationships that feel discovered moment by moment.
Why this pick
Its loose, actor-led scenes and painfully comic nightlife give the same unvarnished charge: romance as a messy collision between longing, performance and loneliness.
Why this pick
For the preference for emotional risk over polish, this is another fiercely lived-in Cassavetes drama, balancing abrasive behavior, vulnerability and a restless, intimate camera.
Why this pick
A ragged, darkly funny study of friends fleeing grief through impulsive nights out, driven by the same improvisatory energy and uncomfortable emotional honesty.
Why this pick
Elaine May brings a similarly loose, combustible realism to a night-long friendship under pressure, where banter, tenderness and menace continually trade places.
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01 / THE STORY
Following a break-up, Minnie Moore, a museum curator, becomes disillusioned by love and meaningful relationships. But after a chance encounter, she meets Seymour Moskowitz, a parking-lot attendant. After this event, Moskowitz falls in love with Minnie, trying desperately to get her to love him back.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Minnie Moore

Seymour Moskowitz
Morgan Morgan

Zelmo Swift