20 movies like Sunset Blvd., ordered by similarity : The Love Witch(2016), Leaving Las Vegas(1995), Last Tango in Paris(1972), Finding Your Feet(2017), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers(1946), Heat(1972), Obey(2018), L.A. Confidential(1997), Ikiru(1952), In a Lonely Place(1950), Tristana(1970), The Artist(2011) ...
Drama
USA
1950
110 Minutes
William Holden Gloria Swanson Erich von Stroheim Nancy Olson Fred Clark Jack Webb
writer actress lover butler police officer chilling dark creepy mansion hollywood madness insanity death romance silent movies suicide fall wretched excess 1950s
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Horror, Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
120 Minutes
Samantha Robinson Gian Keys Laura Waddell Jeff Parise Jared Sanford Robert Seeley Jennifer Ingrum Randy Evans Clive Ashborn Lily Holleman Jennifer Couch
witch man neighbor rival dead person police officer charming cheeky creative house park car club bedroom yard love witchcraft death obsession insanity
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
Drama
France|UK|USA
1995
111 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Elisabeth Shue Julian Sands Richard Lewis Valeria Golino Graham Beckel R. Lee Ermey Laurie Metcalf David Brisbin Xander Berkeley Lou Rawls
alcoholic screenwriter prostitute pimp bleak emotional las vegas motel apartment alcoholism self-destruction prostitution writers romance love wretched excess fall love 1990s
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Drama
France|Italy
1972
130 Minutes
Marlon Brando Maria Schneider Jean-Pierre Léaud Darling Legitimus Catherine Sola Mauro Marchetti Dan Diament Giovanna Galletti
man woman lover fiancé dark hedonistic paris apartment church nightclub sex abandonment suicide marriage anonymity wretched excess transformation fall 1970s
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
UK
2017
111 Minutes
Joanna Lumley Celia Imrie Timothy Spall Imelda Staunton David Hayman John Sessions Josie Lawrence Indra Ové Victoria Wicks Marianne Oldham Sian Thomas
jilted lover husband best friend sister man amusing charming emotional touching mansion apartment dance hall park rome divorce starting over romance dancing family dysfunction family relationships
On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
Drama
USA
1946
116 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Van Heflin Kirk Douglas Lizabeth Scott Judith Anderson Darryl Hickman Roman Bohnen Ann Doran
wealthy woman district attorney childhood friend aunt convict bleak tense iverstown, pa. mansion office dark secrets love triangle marriage of convenience cover-up accidental death forbidden love fall wretched excess rivalry 1920s
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Comedy, Drama
1972
100 Minutes
Sylvia Miles Joe Dallesandro Andrea Feldman Pat Ast Ray Vestal
actor actress agent lesbian hotel manager girlfriend outlandish shocking melodramatic hollywood, calif. motel mansion sex ambition acting may-december romance lesbianism mother/daughter relationship wretched excess love
An out-of-work actor (Joe Dallesandro) moves in with an ex-Hollywood star (Sylvia Miles) having daughter troubles.
Drama
UK
2018
96 Minutes
Marcus Rutherford Sophie Kennedy Clark Sam Gittins T'Nia Miller James Atwell Wil Coban Taurean Steele Jasmine Jobson Joshua Blisset Daniel Akilimali Christine Taetz
love interest man boxer trainer friend police officer brash brutal raw emotional unrestrained apartment boxing ring london street party jealousy obsession riots boxing
As London slides towards a time of violent social unrest, on the estates of East London, a young man's life is torn apart by a love for a girl from a different place.
Crime, Drama
USA
1997
136 Minutes
Kevin Spacey Russell Crowe Guy Pearce James Cromwell David Strathairn Kim Basinger Danny DeVito Graham Beckel Simon Baker-Denny Matt McCoy John Mahon
police officer detective journalist mobster prostitute actor dark chilling suspenseful emotional coffee shop police station los angeles government building street big city corruption murder prostitution organized crime
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
1952
143 Minutes
Takashi Shimura Miki Odagiri Kyôko Seki
bureaucrat co-worker writer mayor prostitute sad emotional dark office japan illness politics death alcoholism loneliness meaning of life transformation fall 1950s
A rigid clerk (Takashi Shimura) resolves to do something of lasting importance after learning that he is dying of cancer.
Drama
USA
1950
91 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Gloria Grahame Frank Lovejoy Carl Benton Reid Art Smith Jeff Donnell Martha Stewart Robert Warwick Morris Ankrum William Ching Steven Geray
lover screenwriter dead person detective agent engaging dark gripping hollywood, calif. police station nightclub love unusual behavior murder investigation fall mystery 1940s
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
Drama
Spain|Italy|France
1970
98 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Fernando Rey Franco Nero Jesus Fernandez Lola Gaos Vicente Soler
orphan nobleman artist guardian dark emotional household city toledo, spain may-december romance love exploitation illness amputation death love growing up fall revenge 1890s
Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
Romance, Drama
France|Belgium|USA
2011
100 Minutes
Jean Dujardin Bérénice Bejo John Goodman James Cromwell Penelope Ann Miller Missi Pyle Beth Grant Ed Lauter Joel Murray Bitsie Tulloch Ken Davitian
movie star actress wife dog driver studio head charming emotional hollywood movie theater film set mansion silent movies marital problems stardom financial troubles talking pictures romance love rise
An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era.
Drama, History
Germany|France
2006
137 Minutes
Martina Gedeck Ulrich Mühe Sebastian Koch Ulrich Tukur Thomas Thieme Hans-Uwe Bauer Herbert Knaup Volkmar Kleinert Matthias Brenner Charly Hübner
spy playwright actress lover officer dark tense emotional east berlin apartment communism espionage loyalty love sympathy surveillance quest rivalry love 1980s
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Drama
USA
1987
92 Minutes
Rob Nilsson Consuelo Faust Don Bajema
photojournalist dancer lover choreographer ex-girlfriend dark intense raw gritty san francisco africa war zone airport obsession failed romance post-traumatic stress disorder war love jealousy love
Over 16 hours, in February, 1987, a man confronts jealously and rage as a love affair falters. Photojournalist Mel Hurley returns home to San Francisco on the eve of his birthday, expecting... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Drama
USA
1952
118 Minutes
Lana Turner Kirk Douglas Walter Pidgeon Dick Powell Barry Sullivan Gloria Grahame Gilbert Roland Leo G. Carroll Vanessa Brown Paul Stewart Sammy White
movie star writer director producer brooding cool spirited tense engaging hollywood, calif. manipulation cheating hollywood ambition betrayal underdog fall rise wretched excess 1950s
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Drama
West Germany
1982
105 Minutes
Rosel Zech Hilmar Thate Annemarie Düringer Cornelia Froboess Doris Schade Erik Schumann Peter Berling Günther Kaufmann
actress sports reporter girlfriend neurologist ex-husband director dark offbeat munich film set newsroom apartment building woods drug addiction filmmaking world war ii investigation love triangle fame love
Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
Drama
USA
1985
105 Minutes
Sam Shepard Kim Basinger Harry Dean Stanton Randy Quaid Martha Crawford Louise Egolf Sura Cox Jonathan Skinner April Russell Deborah McNaughton Lon Hill
woman man half brother lover ex-boyfriend adult brash dark intense emotional melodramatic gripping united states motel las vegas love relationships incest fighting past loves
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
Drama
UK|USA
1999
76 Minutes
Jo Vukelich Jeffrey Golden Marilyn White John Schneider
narrator german immigrant outlaw arsonist mentally ill person dreamy eerie chilling fascinating wisconsin small town black river falls small-town life epidemic financial troubles murder insanity suicide wretched excess
A series of grisly events that took place in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, between 1890 and 1900 are dramatized.
Drama
USA
1996
101 Minutes
Luke Perry Ashley Judd Bruce A. Young Jim True-Frost Dawn Maxey Penelope Milford Tom Towles Scott Cummins
police officer security guard drug addict alcoholic wife bank robber dark tense bleak bank illinois addiction robbery romance crooked cops crime fall love wretched excess 1990s
Chris is young idealistic cop who falls in love and gets married to Pam, a beautiful but emotionally unstable woman who suffers from alcoholism and drug addiction. While Chris is trying ... See full summary »