Movies like Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
The best movies like Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) are Fool for Love (1985), Vincent & Theo (1990) and Oleanna (1994). If Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 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 ratedBohemian Rhapsody (2018)7.9/10 from 18,225 votes
- NewestBohemian Rhapsody (2018)Released 2018
Fool for Love (1985)
A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisVincent & Theo (1990)
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOleanna (1994)
Carol, a college student, comes to John's office, her professor, to discuss the grade she has received for one of her papers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThat Cold Day in the Park (1969)
Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives. Despite her best efforts, their lack of communication only increases her sense of loneliness, as her possessiveness spirals into frightening new realms.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Streams (1984)
Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNuts (1987)
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Boys in the Band (1970)
Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, an unexpected guest shows up, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and dormant and unspoken emotions are unleashed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChinese Coffee (2000)
When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer, is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeath of a Salesman (1985)
Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOrphans (1987)
Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Carny (1980)
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional triangle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTotal Eclipse (1995)
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBetrayal (1983)
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife, unfolding in reverse-chronological order.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Breezy (1973)
A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRaggedy Man (1981)
A divorced mother of two boys is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town during World War II. Her friendship with a Navy sailor on shore leave causes gossip in town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Winslow Boy (1999)
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCalifornia Split (1974)
Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAcross the Tracks (1991)
When Billy returns from reform school he has to attend a different high school at the other side of town. He tries to start with a clean slate but his old rival doesn't make it easy on him and his buddy Louie tries to make him go astray again. His brother Joe, quite the opposite of Billy, is a good runner and determined to win a track scholarship. He suggests Billy to join his school's track team, which pits the two brothers against each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisOpening Night (1977)
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Music of Chance (1993)
Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.
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The Rain People (1969)
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPlenty (1985)
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Great Santini (1979)
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoonlight and Valentino (1995)
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dresser (1983)
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGypsy 83 (2001)
Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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What are the best movies like Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean?
The closest matches to Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean are Fool for Love (1985), Vincent & Theo (1990) and Oleanna (1994). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean?
People who watched Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean most often go on to Fool for Love (1985), Vincent & Theo (1990) and Oleanna (1994).
What is the highest-rated movie like Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean?
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), rated 7.9/10 by 18,225 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean?
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean?
Yes: Fool for Love (1985), Vincent & Theo (1990) and Oleanna (1994).
How are movies similar to Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.