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10 Best Movies Like Footlights

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

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#1
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#2
All Together Now

All Together Now

2020★ 6.7

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

An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?...

#3
Being Flynn

Being Flynn

2012★ 6.2

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

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of rea...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#6
Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

1949★ 6.2

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

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court....

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