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The Lost Weekend (1945) is a drama movie directed by Billy Wilder. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

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  1. A Star Is Born

    1. A Star Is Born (2018)

    ★ 7.5 · 12,438 votes · Music, Drama, Romance

    Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.

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  2. The Shining

    2. The Shining (1980)

    ★ 8.2 · 19,521 votes · Horror, Thriller

    Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

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  3. Secret Window

    3. Secret Window (2004)

    ★ 6.6 · 4,055 votes · Mystery, Thriller

    Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

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  4. Raging Bull

    4. Raging Bull (1980)

    ★ 7.9 · 4,932 votes · Drama, History

    The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

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  5. Coffee and Cigarettes

    5. Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

    ★ 6.9 · 1,096 votes · Comedy, Drama

    An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.

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  6. The World's End

    6. The World's End (2013)

    ★ 6.8 · 6,114 votes · Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi

    Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

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  7. Hancock

    7. Hancock (2008)

    ★ 6.4 · 10,554 votes · Fantasy, Action

    Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?

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  8. A Street Cat Named Bob

    8. A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)

    ★ 7.9 · 1,598 votes · Family, Drama

    James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.

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  9. Another Round

    9. Another Round (2020)

    ★ 7.6 · 3,969 votes · Drama

    Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

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  10. The Nice Guys

    10. The Nice Guys (2016)

    ★ 7.1 · 9,010 votes · Comedy, Crime, Action

    A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

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  11. Babylon

    11. Babylon (2022)

    ★ 7.3 · 3,982 votes · Drama, Comedy

    A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

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  12. Oldboy

    12. Oldboy (2003)

    ★ 8.2 · 10,300 votes · Thriller, Mystery

    With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

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  13. Saving Mr. Banks

    13. Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

    ★ 7.3 · 3,580 votes · Comedy, Drama, History

    Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

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  14. The Girl on the Train

    14. The Girl on the Train (2016)

    ★ 6.4 · 6,201 votes · Crime, Mystery, Thriller

    Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

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  15. Nocturnal Animals

    15. Nocturnal Animals (2016)

    ★ 7.4 · 8,526 votes · Drama, Thriller

    Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

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  16. Twelve Monkeys

    16. Twelve Monkeys (1995)

    ★ 7.6 · 9,468 votes · Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery

    In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

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  17. Casablanca

    17. Casablanca (1943)

    ★ 8.1 · 6,281 votes · Drama, Romance

    In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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  18. Insomnia

    18. Insomnia (2002)

    ★ 7.0 · 5,588 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama

    Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

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  19. It

    19. It (2017)

    ★ 7.2 · 20,770 votes · Horror, Thriller, Drama

    In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

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  20. The Night of the Hunter

    20. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    ★ 7.9 · 1,922 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller

    In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

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