Movies like The Tender Bar
The Tender Bar (2021) is a drama movie directed by George Clooney. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Zodiac (2007)
★ 7.5 · 12,006 votes · Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Police conduct a manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers.
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2. You Can Count on Me (2000)
★ 6.9 · 370 votes · Drama
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
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3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
★ 7.8 · 11,530 votes · Drama
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
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4. Uncle Frank (2020)
★ 7.3 · 465 votes · Drama
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
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5. This Boy's Life (1993)
★ 7.1 · 1,123 votes · Drama
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
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6. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
★ 7.6 · 609 votes · Drama
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
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7. Shame (2011)
★ 6.9 · 3,545 votes · Drama
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
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8. May December (2023)
★ 6.6 · 1,096 votes · Drama
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
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9. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
★ 7.5 · 1,700 votes · Drama
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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10. 25th Hour (2002)
★ 7.3 · 2,677 votes · Crime, Drama
On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.
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11. The Ice Storm (1997)
★ 6.9 · 774 votes · Drama
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
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12. 20th Century Women (2016)
★ 7.3 · 1,268 votes · Drama
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
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