Movies like Bright Lights, Big City

20 movies like Bright Lights, Big City, ordered by similarity : The Lost Weekend(1945), Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot(2018), St. Vincent(2014), Nebraska(2013), The Drop(2014), Thirteen(2003), Scarred Hearts(2016), Le Voyage en Douce(1980), The Crossing Guard(1995), Boy Meets Girl(1984), Two Friends(1986), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter(1968) ...

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Bright Lights, Big City

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

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The Lost Weekend

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

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St. Vincent

A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.

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Nebraska

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.

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The Drop

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.

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Thirteen

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

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Scarred Hearts

Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

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Le Voyage en Douce

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

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The Crossing Guard

Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.

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Boy Meets Girl

Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first ... See full summary »

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Two Friends

Two Australian teenage girls (Emma Coles, Kris Bidenko) go from best friends to ex-friends in a year.

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

John, a deaf and mute man, rents a bedroom in a small town to be closer to his friend, Spiros, who is also deaf. John attempts to strike up a friendship with Mick, the teenage daughter of his disabled landlord, and meets the town drunk.

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11:55

Returning to his hometown, US Marine Nelson Sanchez finds himself trapped by the violent past he had tried to escape.

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Grisbi

An aging racketeer (Jean Gabin) must surrender his gold in order to save his kidnapped friend (René Dary).

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My Foolish Heart

After being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.

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Beats

Two teenage boys in Scotland in 1994, best friends with no control over their lives, risk everything to attend an illegal rave, hoping for the best night of their boring lives.

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Something to Live For

An actress becomes an alcoholic after being jilted. She is aided by an Alcoholics Anonymous member with whom she has an affair; however, he is married.

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I Got Life!

A woman, separated from her husband, loses her job and discovers she's going to be a grandmother. Refusing to be pushed to the outskirts of society, she puts her foot down and decides to start over.

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The Dreamlife of Angels

The lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.

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Boogie Nights

Back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.

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