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Movies like Sunset Boulevard (1950)
10 films to watch after Sunset Boulevard, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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1Mank (2020)
Fit 78%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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2Opening Night (1977)
Fit 76%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
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3Trumbo (2015)
Fit 73%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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4The Lost Weekend (1945)
Fit 68%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
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5A Single Man (2009)
Fit 65%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately lead him to decide if there is a meaning to life after the death of his long time partner, Jim.
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6Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Fit 65%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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7Fat City (1972)
Fit 64%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
The story of two men, a veteran boxer who is down and out, and a young man who is just starting his life and boxing career. Their fighting careers cross paths as their lives and fortunes head in opposite directions.
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8Hitchcock (2012)
Fit 62%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.
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9Gertrud (1964)
Fit 60%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.
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10Burnt (2015)
Fit 46%Shares Drama with Sunset Boulevard.
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
