20 movies like 54, ordered by similarity : La môme(2007), Junction 48(2016), Road House(1948), The Lost Weekend(1945), The Blue Angel(1930), Stage Door(1937), Smart Blonde(1936), Shopworn(1932), Bright Lights, Big City(1988), The Thing Called Love(1993), Judy(2019), Factory Girl(2006) ...
5.9/10
Drama
USA
1998
92 Minutes
Ryan Phillippe Salma Hayek Neve Campbell Mike Myers Sela Ward Breckin Meyer Sherry Stringfield Ellen Albertini Dow Heather Matarazzo Skipp Sudduth Aemilia Robinson
celebrity actress bartender busboy aspiring singer nightclub owner melodramatic sultry new york city new jersey nightclub bar basement nightlife fame studio 54 city life aspirations new job adventure
The famous 1970s New York City nightclub seen and told through the eyes of a young employee.
7.6/10
Biography, Drama
France|UK|Czech Republic
2007
140 Minutes
Marion Cotillard Clotilde Courau Jean-Paul Rouve Sylvie Testud Pascal Greggory Jean-Pierre Martins Emmanuelle Seigner Gérard Depardieu Catherine Allégret Caroline Sihol Alban Casterman
friend singer musician grandmother club owner boxer engaging melodramatic incredible spectacular brothel normandy, france street hollywood, calif. city nightclub music edith piaf troubled childhood friendship
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
6.7/10
Drama, Music
Israel|Germany|USA
2016
96 Minutes
Tamer Nafar Samar Qupty Salwa Nakkara Saeed Dassuki Adeeb Safadi Tarik Kopty Michael Moshonov Ayed Fadel
rapper singer girlfriend police officer intense frenetic gripping fiery club apartment building slum city neighborhood middle east aspirations rap music aimless youth discovery love growing up
Set against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden ghetto and Tel Aviv's hip-hop club scene.
7.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
95 Minutes
Ida Lupino Cornel Wilde Richard Widmark Celeste Holm O.Z. Whitehead Robert Karnes George Andre Beranger Ian MacDonald Grandon Rhodes Marion Marshall
manager singer cashier owner bartender best friend dark melodramatic nightclub bowling alley country road border love triangle infatuation framed jealousy schemes pursuit escape 1940s
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
7.9/10
Drama
USA
1945
101 Minutes
Ray Milland Jane Wyman Howard da Silva Phillip Terry Doris Dowling Frank Faylen Mary Young Anita Sharp-Bolster Lillian Fontaine Lewis Russell Frank Orth
writer alcoholic brother girlfriend bartender dark bleak intense new york city bar hotel opera house hospital addiction alcoholism lying self-destruction love wretched excess temptation
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Drama
1930
94 Minutes
Emil Jannings Marlene Dietrich Hans Albers Kurt Gerron Rosa Valetti Eduard von Winterstein Reinhold Bernt Hans Roth Rolf Müller Robert Klein-Lork
teacher singer student lover cabaret performer sultry melodramatic school nightclub germany apartment infatuation infidelity jealousy fall temptation 1930s
Josef von Sternberg's classic tells of a middle-aged professor whose obsession with a young cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
7.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
92 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Ginger Rogers Adolphe Menjou Andrea Leeds Gail Patrick Constance Collier Lucille Ball Eve Arden Ann Miller Ralph Forbes Franklin Pangborn
actress theatrical producer father dancer melodramatic rousing sultry spirited new york city boardinghouse nightclub theater acting friendship class distinctions ambition female bonding love rise fall
A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.
6.5/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1936
57 Minutes
Glenda Farrell Barton MacLane Winifred Shaw Addison Richards Robert Paige Craig Reynolds Charlotte Wynters Jane Wyman Joseph Crehan
reporter police detective businessman nightclub owner singer hatcheck girl witty spirited city train newsroom nightclub murder investigation business deal scam marriage proposal journalism mystery adventure love
Female reporter Torchy Blane teams with her cop boyfriend Lt. Steve McBride to solve the killing of an investor who just bought a popular local nightclub.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1932
72 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Regis Toomey ZaSu Pitts Lucien Littlefield Clara Blandick Oscar Apfel Albert Conti John Elliott Tom London
waitress wealthy man mother uncle aunt judge melodramatic mushy tender touching college town diner labor camp nightclub city unlikely romance false accusations class distinctions mother/son relationship broken engagement
A poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage.
5.7/10
Drama
USA
1988
110 Minutes
Michael J. Fox Kiefer Sutherland Phoebe Cates Swoosie Kurtz Frances Sternhagen Tracy Pollan John Houseman Charlie Schlatter Jason Robards Dianne Wiest William Hickey
fact-checker writer friend ex-wife mother cousin unrestrained brooding powerful spirited manhattan, n.y. office bar nightclub drugs alcohol depression nightlife city life breakup
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.
6.4/10
Drama, Romance, Music
USA
1993
116 Minutes
River Phoenix Samantha Mathis Dermot Mulroney Sandra Bullock K.T. Oslin Anthony Clark Webb Wilder Earl Poole Ball
musician waitress singer-songwriter love interest friend owner amusing emotional spirited passionate nashville, tenn. new york city bar aspirations love triangle country music marriage fame friendship love
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
6.8/10
Music, Biography, Drama, History
UK|France|USA
2019
118 Minutes
Renée Zellweger Jessie Buckley Finn Wittrock Rufus Sewell Gemma-Leah Devereux Michael Gambon Bella Ramsey Andy Nyman Gaia Weiss Philippe Spall Fenella Woolgar
actress singer friend fan musician husband confident emotional dreamy moving film set hotel stage nightclub stardom fame dealing with fame rise love growing up
Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
6.5/10
Biography, Drama
USA
2006
90 Minutes
Sienna Miller Guy Pearce Hayden Christensen Jimmy Fallon Meredith Ostrom Beth Grant Illeana Douglas Shawn Hatosy Edward Herrmann Patrick Wilson Mary-Kate Olsen
debutante artist andy warhol fashion model musician lover engaging melodramatic hedonistic new york city club studio party music stage countryside manipulation fame art fashion drug addiction
Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.
7.2/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1987
100 Minutes
Mickey Rourke Faye Dunaway Alice Krige Jack Nance J.C. Quinn Frank Stallone Sandy Martin Roberta Bassin
writer drunk bartender barfly woman publisher gritty hedonistic cheeky emotional los angeles bar street apartment parking lot alcoholism poetry misfits drinking fighting
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
6.4/10
Biography, Music, Drama, History
USA
2016
96 Minutes
Don Cheadle Ewan McGregor Emayatzy Corinealdi LaKeith Stanfield Michael Stuhlbarg Austin Lyon Morgan Wolk Christina Karis
musician trumpeter journalist lover manager girlfriend muse ex-wife amusing cheeky fascinating gritty hilarious melodramatic new york new york city life life story life's work music
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
6.7/10
Biography, Drama
UK|Germany|USA
2004
121 Minutes
Kevin Spacey Kate Bosworth John Goodman Bob Hoskins Brenda Blethyn Greta Scacchi Caroline Aaron Peter Cincotti William Ullrich Michael Byrne Matt Rippy
singer actress manager grandmother father figure fascinating touching nightclub hollywood, calif. new york city bobby darin sandra dee fame pop music success illness rise fall love 1970s
A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin and specifically his relationship with wife Sandra Dee.
7.7/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
84 Minutes
James Cagney Jean Harlow Mae Clarke Edward Woods Beryl Mercer Donald Cook Joan Blondell
gangster bootlegger police officer veteran friend melodramatic brash gripping suspenseful prison chicago slum nightclub bar organized crime gangs prohibition great depression family dysfunction growing up
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
7.0/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
98 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Lizabeth Scott Kirk Douglas Wendell Corey Kristine Miller Jorge Rigaud Marc Lawrence Mike Mazurki Mickey Knox Roger Neury
bootlegger ex-convict nightclub owner ex-girlfriend partner brooding dark tense melodramatic new york city nightclub prison partnership greed business bootlegging love triangle deception rivalry rise
Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.
7.4/10
Comedy, Drama
France|Germany|USA
2016
118 Minutes
Adam Driver Golshifteh Farahani Barry Shabaka Henley Cliff "Method Man" Smith Chasten Harmon William Jackson Harper Masatoshi Nagase Sterling Jerins Rizwan Manji
bus driver passenger dog bartender wife writer calm emotional heartwarming inspiring profound new jersey bus bar house small-town life writing working class work-life balance discovery
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
7.9/10
Drama
West Germany
1977
108 Minutes
Bruno S. Eva Mattes Clemens Scheitz
busker prostitute pimp neighbor nephew waitress bleak amusing eerie melodramatic berlin prison bar apartment new york city wisconsin immigration displacement loneliness culture shock
In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1933
76 Minutes
Helen Twelvetrees Victor Jory Wallace Ford Claire Dodd Warren Hymer Raymond Brown Hobart Cavanaugh Charles Levison Ralph Freud William Jeffrey Lester Crawford
vaudevillian dancer radio star songwriter wife radio station manager melodramatic spirited tender new york city vaudeville show radio station nightclub panama show business radio performers self-destruction marital problems love triangle fame
Spirited singer and dancer Connie (Helen Twelvetrees) charms a radio station executive, John Bradley (Victor Jory), when he spots her performing in a Panama nightclub. Connie hits it off ... See full summary »
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