Films like The Tender Bar
JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to h...
10 to watch next
-
We the Animals
Film · 2018 · also dramaManny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dr...
Films like We the Animals → -
Uncle Frank
Film · 2020 · also dramaIn 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...
Films like Uncle Frank → -
Bunraku
Film · 2010 · also dramaIn 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...
Films like Bunraku → -
This Boy's Life
Film · 1993 · also dramaWhen a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangeri...
Films like This Boy's Life → -
Sweet Smell of Success
Film · 1957 · also dramaNew York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sis...
Films like Sweet Smell of Success → -
You Can Count on Me
Film · 2000 · also dramaA single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
Films like You Can Count on Me → -
Love Streams
Film · 1984 · also dramaTwo closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
Films like Love Streams → -
Joe the King
Film · 1999 · also dramaA destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his sl...
Films like Joe the King → -
Shame
Film · 2011 · also dramaBrandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister t...
Films like Shame → -
The Chamber
Film · 1996 · also dramaIdealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
Films like The Chamber →