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10 Best Movies Like The Bowery

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

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#1
California Split

California Split

1974★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bowery for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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 s...

#2
A Futile and Stupid Gesture

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

2018★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bowery for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s....

#3
Bookies

Bookies

2003★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bowery for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime....

#4
Dinner Rush

Dinner Rush

2000★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bowery for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food c...

#5
Husbands

Husbands

1970★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bowery for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained fr...

#6
The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson

2015★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bowery for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the gr...

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