Movies Similar to American Loser

Change of Heart(1934)

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

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Central Station(1998)

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Manhattan(1979)

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Together(2000)

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The Last Samurai(2003)

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Gone Baby Gone(2007)

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Salvador(1986)

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1984)

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The Country Girl(1954)

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Babylon(2022)

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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Midnight Run(1988)

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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion(1997)

Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.

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Manhattan Murder Mystery(1993)

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

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When a Man Loves a Woman(1994)

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.

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Factotum(2005)

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Earthquake(1974)

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

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New York Minute(2004)

Top student Jane Ryan heads to Manhattan for a college-scholarship competition. Her rebellious twin Roxy Ryan goes along to crash a video shoot. But anything can happen - and does - in a romp involving a pursuing truant officer, a smuggler, hunkalicious guys and the girls' realization that when the chips are down, a sister can be the best friend of all.

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Brewster's Millions(1985)

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!

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Just My Luck(2006)

Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.

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Ken Park(2003)

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

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