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10 Best Movies Like The Big Streets

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#3
The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time

2008★ 6.3

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

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician ...

#4
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#5
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.1

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

#6
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

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....

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