20 movies like Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave, ordered by similarity : Half Moon(2006), Round Midnight(1986), Dial 1119(1950), Barracuda(2017), Get On Up(2014), Green Book(2018), Big Fish(2003), Morning Raga(2004), The Drop(2014), The Sacrifice(1986), Loving Vincent(2017), Still Alice(2014) ...
Drama
Canada
1981
86 Minutes
Sneezy Waters Dixie Seatle Sean McCann Sean Hewitt Jackie Washington Philip Craig Kay Hawtrey Bart Bedford
country singer doctor janitor audience cowboy beer drinker moving dark eerie creative fascinating somber bar ohio hank williams, sr. power of music country music reflection fantasy vs. reality personal revelation
On the final night of his life, Dec. 31, 1952, country music legend Hank Williams imagines himself giving a New Year's Eve performance in a small bar, with his comments to the audience reflecting upon his life.
Comedy, Drama
Austria|France|Iran|Iraq
2006
114 Minutes
Golshifteh Farahani Ismail Ghaffari Hedye Tehrani Allah-Morad Rashtian Farzin Sabooni Kambiz Arshi Mohamad Nahid Sadiq Behzadpoor Ali Ashraf Rezai
kurd singer son daughter woman police chief moving powerful sad iran bus village turkey iraq border politics performance music family travel
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he... See full summary »
Drama
1986
130 Minutes
Dexter Gordon François Cluzet Gabrielle Haker Sandra Reaves-Phillips Lonette McKee Christine Pascal Herbie Hancock Martin Scorsese Philippe Noiret Alain Sarde Palle Mikkelborg
saxophonist musician fan daughter uplifting dark emotional inspiring new york city paris bar jazz club addiction alcoholism jazz friendship aging music transformation fall
A jazz saxophonist (Dexter Gordon) from New York has a friend (François Cluzet) on the Left Bank of 1959 Paris.
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
75 Minutes
Marshall Thompson Virginia Field Andrea King Sam Levene Leon Ames Keefe Brasselle Richard Rober James Bell William Conrad Dick Simmons Hal Baylor
mental patient reporter bartender barfly used car salesman doctor dark intense mental institution bus bar doctor's office street terminal city mental illness hostage situation murder television police pursuit fugitives
An escaped mental patient causes havoc.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|Poland
2017
100 Minutes
Allison Tolman Julia Halperin Sophie Reid JoBeth Williams Luis Bordonada Larry Jack Dotson Angelo Dylen Tanner Beard Monique Straw
sister father singer husband mother boy brooding eerie dark creepy disturbing thrilling texas house yard lake cemetery bar long-lost relatives sister relationship
A strange woman comes to Texas to meet her half-sister and stake a claim to the family music legacy-one way or another.
Biography, Drama
UK|USA
2014
138 Minutes
Chadwick Boseman Nelsan Ellis Dan Aykroyd Viola Davis Lennie James Fred Melamed Craig Robinson Jill Scott Octavia Spencer Josh Hopkins Brandon Smith
james brown singer entertainer musician audience mother brash confident creative jail house stage recording studio car hotel music singing entertainment abandonment prison
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Comedy, Drama
USA|China
2018
130 Minutes
Viggo Mortensen Mahershala Ali Linda Cardellini Sebastian Maniscalco Dimiter D. Marinov Mike Hatton P.J. Byrne Joe Cortese Maggie Nixon Von Lewis Jon Sortland
pianist driver bodyguard bouncer musician emotional touching amusing creative moving stage club car jail bar racism unlikely friendship unlikely allies travel music
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Drama
USA
2003
125 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Albert Finney Billy Crudup Jessica Lange Helena Bonham Carter Alison Lohman Robert Guillaume Marion Cotillard Matthew McGrory David Denman Missi Pyle
father son wife doctor circus performer giant emotional creative winsome alabama hospital the south father/son relationship aging fable family feud fantasy witchcraft discovery love
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Drama
India
2004
93 Minutes
Shabana Azmi Prakash Rao Perizaad Zorabian Lillete Dubey Shaleen Sharma Vivek Mashru Joseph Vijay Ranjani Ramakrishnan Sanjay Swaroop
singer best friend son teen boy teen girl mother touching moving india countryside mansion music culture clash loss tragic death healing mentorship rise discovery 2000s
A violinist and a vocal singer, their children; a businessman, his wife and their daughter accidentally meet on a bridge spanning the banks of the Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh, India. ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
2014
107 Minutes
Tom Hardy Noomi Rapace James Gandolfini Matthias Schoenaerts John Ortiz Ann Dowd Michael Aronov James Frecheville Elizabeth Rodriguez Tobias Segal Michael Esper
bartender mobster neighbor puppy abusive husband friend brooding dark intense new york city bar apartment alley car office mobsters money laundering animal rescue abuse love
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Drama
Sweden|France|UK
1986
145 Minutes
Erland Josephson Allan Edwall Susan Fleetwood Valérie Mairesse Gudrún Gisladóttir Sven Wollter Filippa Franzen Tommy Kjellqvist
son wife father mail carrier middle-aged man boy somber dark fascinating solemn island family home countryside party seaside woods post-apocalypse nuclear war world war iii faith
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Animation, Biography, Drama, History
Poland|UK|USA|Switzerland|Netherlands
2017
95 Minutes
Hugh Welchman
postal worker artist son brother daughter painter fascinating moving melancholy old city village inn france painting darkness life story art imitating life following your heart investigation personal tragedy
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk) to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Drama
USA|UK|France
2014
97 Minutes
Julianne Moore Richard Glatzer Alec Baldwin Kristen Stewart Kate Bosworth Hunter Parrish Erin Darke Victoria Cartagena Shane McRae Stephen Kunken Seth Gilliam
professor linguist daughter son doctor somber brooding emotional doctor's office family home office college alzheimer's disease illness dementia mother/child relationship discovery transformation fall 2010s
A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
Drama
2009
84 Minutes
Edward Hogg Carrie Fisher Muse Watson Owen Campbell Clay Steakley Wallace Merck Kirk Bovill Raymond Waring Stephanie Astalos-Jones Damian Samuels
dancer father son mental patient emotional fascinating west virginia demons violence madness music discovery
Dancer Jesco White (Edward Hogg) struggles with poverty, drug abuse and other ills as he strives to follow in his famous father's footsteps.
Drama
China|Japan|Hong Kong
2005
107 Minutes
Ken Takakura Shinobu Terajima Kiichi Nakai Qiu Lin Yang Zhenbo Ken Nakamoto
fisherman son wife singer father moving dark tokyo mountain village hospital family illness father/son relationship friendship movie making redemption discovery sacrifice quest
A Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer.
Biography, Drama
UK|Canada
2009
97 Minutes
Aaron Taylor-Johnson Kristin Scott Thomas Anne-Marie Duff David Threlfall Thomas Brodie-Sangster David Morrissey Sam Bell Ophelia Lovibond Jack McElhone Josh Bolt James Johnson
musician teen boy aunt uncle mother paul mccartney emotional amusing cheeky fascinating liverpool, england funeral stage park house family estrangement john lennon music mother/son relationship
A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.
Comedy, Drama
2006
123 Minutes
Sabine Azéma Pierre Arditi Laura Morante Lambert Wilson Isabelle Carré André Dussollier Françoise Gillard
real estate agent co-worker old man bartender soldier sister dark emotional fascinating paris apartment restaurant bar love deception romance loneliness death seduction love
Six Parisians, including a real estate agent (Isabelle Carré) and his religious co-worker (André Dussollier), face a sad search for real love.
Drama
France
1956
113 Minutes
Jean Gabin Danièle Delorme Lucienne Bogaert Robert Arnoux Liliane Bert Gérard Blain Aimé Clariond Gabrielle Fontan Germaine Kerjean Robert Manuel Jean-Paul Roussillon
restaurant owner young woman ex-wife housekeeper mother-in-law employee dark chilling suspenseful emotional paris restaurant apartment bar france street murder plot deception betrayal estrangement
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1945
77 Minutes
Laird Cregar Linda Darnell George Sanders Glenn Langan Faye Marlowe Alan Napier Frederick Worlock J.W. Austin Leland Hodgson Clifford Brooke John Goldsworthy
composer friend father doctor singer love interest dark suspenseful london apartment music hall mental illness violence jealousy blackouts music transformation fall 1890s
A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.
Drama
USA
1942
94 Minutes
Jean Gabin Ida Lupino Thomas Mitchell Claude Rains Helene Reynolds Ralph Byrd Chester Gan Arthur Aylesworth Arthur Hohl William Halligan Victor Sen Yung
longshoreman waitress friend doctor reverend bartender dark brooding gripping barge bar san pablo, calif. betrayal jealousy murder accident suicide attempt alcoholism mystery love
In California, Bobo and his mooching 'pal' Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery.
Drama
France
1970
86 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Cargol François Truffaut Jean Dasté Françoise Seigner Annie Miller Claude Miller Paul Ville Nathan Miller
doctor hunter boy deaf person confident fascinating forest paris school education isolation unusual behavior behavioral disorder discovery transformation 1790s
In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.