Movies like Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy (1969) is a drama movie directed by John Schlesinger. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Mysterious Skin (2005)
★ 7.7 · 1,387 votes · Drama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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2. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
★ 7.0 · 1,281 votes · Drama
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
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3. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
★ 8.4 · 6,269 votes · Drama, Crime
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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