Movies Similar to Waking Up in Reno

The Misfits(1961)

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

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Desert Hearts(1985)

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a carefree, spirited young woman named Cay.

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Melvin and Howard(1980)

The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

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Pink Cadillac(1989)

A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.

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The Women(1939)

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

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The Ranch(2004)

A comedy drama about a few days in the lives of a group of "working girls" in Reno, Nevada. “The Ranch” is a legally operated brothel that operates under the careful watch of state health inspectors (who insist on weekly medical check-ups) and the semi-benevolent leadership of Mary, the manager. While the women on staff don't have to dodge the law like their comrades elsewhere, that doesn't mean they don't have their problems.

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Edie & Pen(1996)

In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman who neglected her.

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Maisie Goes to Reno(1944)

A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.

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King of the Lumberjacks(1940)

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

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Vacation in Reno(1946)

A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.

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WHITEOUT(2022)

Reno suffers from bouts of "white-outs" - moments in which he loses all agency and awareness. After coming to in a series of escalating environments, he wakes up to find a surgeon affixing a medical device to his face.

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The Heist(2025)

One cold and fateful schoolnight, friends Kasey, Lyn, Ry, Zane, & AJ attempt to steal Kasey’s stuff back from her ex, Kyle. What could possibly go wrong?

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Skeeno H.C. Rules(1991)

Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, & Guts" EP. The town was known as Skeeno. Audio recorded especially for the film by Society's Ills, a band consisting of Mike Watt (bass), Thurston (vocals), Dez Cadena (guitar), & David Markey (drums), who cover said EP.

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