10 Best Movies Like Downtown '81
If you loved Downtown '81, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Hellzapoppin'
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown '81 for fans of Comedy & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way....
10,000 Saints
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown '81 for fans of Drama & Comedy & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled ...
In the Soup
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown '81 for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film....
CQ
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown '81 for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a n...
CBGB
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown '81 for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A look at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 which launched thousands of ban...
Bill Burr: Walk Your Way Out
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtown '81 for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
No-nonsense comic Bill Burr takes the stage in Nashville and riffs on fast food, overpopulation, dictators and gorilla sign language....