IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Drugstore Cowboy runs on grainy 70s grit, bittersweet, and slow unraveling. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Submarino
2010
Toxic Love
1983
Born to Win
1971
So Long, Stooge
1983
Fat City
1972
Low Down
2014
Last Exit to Brooklyn
1989
The Panic in Needle Park
1971
Trees Lounge
1996
Running Out of Time
1994
Women of the Night
1948
The Swindle
1955
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
Poor Cow
1967
Babylon
1980
Destined for Blues
2005
Half Nelson
2006
Mouth to Mouth
2005
Ultras
2020
A Gang Story
2011
Where the Day Takes You
1992
The Noose
1958
Crocodile
1996
The Wrestler
2008