Movies that feel like Sunset Boulevard (1950)
If you loved Sunset Boulevard, the closest films we have are Ace in the Hole (1951), The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sweet Smell of Success (1957). All three share Sunset Boulevard's contemplative and atmospheric feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
If Sunset Boulevard hit the spot, these will too
Billy Wilder directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: Missing the melancholy of Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder working the same nerve twice
The difference: None of the melancholy Sunset Boulevard is built on
Common ground in both: film noir and black and white
The same preoccupation in both: film noir
The difference: Sits closer to crime than Sunset Boulevard does
One thread runs through both: black and white
Both are working the same pair: screenwriter, hollywood
Contemplative and atmospheric in the same breath
Both keep coming back to the same thing: loss of sense of reality
Contemplative drama, and it commits to that
Drama built on atmosphere, twice over
Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
Both run atmospheric where it counts
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