Films like Honkytonk Man
During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry.
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I Saw the Light
Film · 2016 · also drama and musicSinger and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Will...
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Bound for Glory
Film · 1976 · also drama and musicA biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and stre...
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Mank
Film · 2020 · also drama1930s 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...
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Don't Come Knocking
Film · 2005 · also dramaHoward Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he we...
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The Outsiders
Film · 1983 · also dramaIn 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy...
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The Parts You Lose
Film · 2019 · also dramaAn unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Film · 2002 · also dramaNicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
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Cradle Will Rock
Film · 1999 · also dramaA true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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The Night of the Hunter
Film · 1955 · also dramaIn Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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Come Sunday
Film · 2018 · also dramaEvangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
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