Films like Ironweed

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1. 1

   Uncle Frank

   Film · 2020 · also drama

   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 unexp...

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   Bringing Out the Dead

   Film · 1999 · also drama

   Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to g...

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3. 3

   Scarecrow

   Film · 1973 · also drama

   Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

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4. 4

   Bunraku

   Film · 2010 · also drama

   In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and de...

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5. 5

   Stuart: A Life Backwards

   Film · 2007 · also drama

   Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity...

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   Requiem for a Dream

   Film · 2000 · also drama

   The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

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   Angela's Ashes

   Film · 1999 · also drama

   An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholis...

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   Being Flynn

   Film · 2012 · also drama

   Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the not...

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   Heaven Knows What

   Film · 2015 · also drama

   A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

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10. 10

    A Bronx Tale

    Film · 1993 · also drama

    Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating ma...

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