Movies like Central Bazaar (1976)
The best movies like Central Bazaar (1976) are Wavelength (1967), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) and Privilege (1967). If Central Bazaar hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedMidnight Cowboy (1969)7.5/10 from 1,716 votes
- NewestNot Without Hope (2025)Released 2025
Wavelength (1967)
In a Lower Manhattan industrial loft, a camera very slowly zooms into a photograph on a wall while various people occasionally enter and exit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the well-connected and volatile artist assimilates Dyer into his circle of eccentric friends, as Dyer's struggle with addiction strains their bond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrivilege (1967)
Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter, receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever agenda they see fit. When a beautiful artist, Vanessa Ritchie, is commissioned to paint his portrait, she pushes Shorter to question his obedience to his manipulative handlers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChelsea Girls (1966)
Follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Rite (1969)
Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKings of the Road (1976)
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVixen! (1968)
In a Canadian mountain resort, Vixen Palmer resides with her naive pilot husband Tom. While he's away flying in tourists, she sleeps with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. However, the only one she won't bed is her brother's friend... who is Black.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Trip (1967)
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNaked (1993)
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Movie (1971)
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisU.S. Go Home (1995)
In the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Identical twin zoologists lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. They become obsessed with the death and decay of animals, and develop a strange and unusual relationship with the driver of the car, a woman who is now an amputee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLooking for Langston (1989)
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Fruits of Passion (1981)
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him in a Chinese brothel. A poor boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he takes part in rebellious acts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrash (1970)
The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers on Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend. During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisLorna (1964)
Lorna and Jim have been married for a year but Lorna remains sexually unsatisfied. While he's at work, she is raped by an escaped convict, then becomes lustfully involved with him.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisVitalina Varela (2019)
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Falls (1982)
Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange occurrence. A documentarian analyses the lives of all the survivors whose surnames begin with FALL to uncover the truth behind the event.
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Downtown '81 (2001)
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Not Without Hope (2025)
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Dinner with Hervé (2018)
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRogue Agent (2022)
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEleanor the Great (2025)
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSalomé (2013)
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Neighbor (2022)
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Day and a Night (2020)
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTalhotBlond (2012)
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Central Bazaar?
The closest matches to Central Bazaar are Wavelength (1967), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) and Privilege (1967). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Central Bazaar?
People who watched Central Bazaar most often go on to Wavelength (1967), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) and Privilege (1967).
What is the highest-rated movie like Central Bazaar?
Midnight Cowboy (1969), rated 7.5/10 by 1,716 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Central Bazaar?
Not Without Hope (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Central Bazaar?
Yes: Wavelength (1967), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) and Privilege (1967).
How are movies similar to Central Bazaar chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Central Bazaar, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.