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Movies that feel like Salesman (1969)
This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.
If you loved Salesman, the closest films we have are Marjoe (1972), Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) and Gates of Heaven (1978). All three share Salesman's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Dog (2013).
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If Salesman hit the spot, these will too
Contemplative documentary in both cases
Documentary with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
Both lean on stillness more than on documentary
The documentary is handled with the same confidence
Documentary approached the same way
Cut from the same documentary cloth
Both working the same documentary territory
Documentary of the same temperament
The same documentary instincts
Both play documentary straight
Both know what they want from documentary
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The best-reviewed films that share Salesman’s defining feeling.
