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10 Best Movies Like Avenues

If you loved Avenues, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

1945‱★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Avenues for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by h...

#2
Shotgun Stories

Shotgun Stories

2007‱★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Avenues for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas,...

#3
The Insider

The Insider

1999‱★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Avenues for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco....

#4
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

1972‱★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Avenues for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....

#5
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

1939‱★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Avenues for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting ...

#6
Blue Ruin

Blue Ruin

2014‱★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Avenues for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds ...