Films like Sunset Boulevard

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   Mank

   Film · 2020 · also drama

   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...

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   Trumbo

   Film · 2015 · also drama

   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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   A Double Life

   Film · 1947 · also drama

   A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

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   The Lost Weekend

   Film · 1945 · also drama

   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 pl...

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   Hitchcock

   Film · 2012 · also drama

   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...

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   Opening Night

   Film · 1977 · also drama

   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 k...

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   Killer's Kiss

   Film · 1955 · also drama

   Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss,...

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   Synecdoche, New York

   Film · 2008 · also drama

   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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   Fat City

   Film · 1972 · also drama

   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 li...

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    Two Weeks in Another Town

    Film · 1962 · also drama

    After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.

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