Movies Like Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business
If you liked Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business (1941), a movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
★ 6.8/10To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.
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Little (2019)
★ 6.8/10Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her…
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
★ 7.3/10Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star…
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The Card (1952)
★ 7/10A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
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The Founder (2016)
★ 7.2/10The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the…
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O Lucky Man! (1973)
★ 6.8/10An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
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The Corporation (2003)
★ 7.6/10Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film…
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Roger & Me (1989)
★ 7.1/10A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
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The Disaster Artist (2017)
★ 7.1/10An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
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I'm All Right Jack (1959)
★ 6.6/10Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a…
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Switch (1991)
★ 5.9/10Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship…
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American Movie (1999)
★ 7.6/10American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie…
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Cemetery Junction (2010)
★ 6.5/10In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy…
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Hancock (2008)
★ 6.4/10Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of…
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Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
★ 7.8/10In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars…
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QT8: The First Eight (2019)
★ 7.2/10A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about…
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Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
★ 7/10The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
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RKO 281 (1999)
★ 6.5/10In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
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Citizen Kane (1941)
★ 8/10Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life…
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Promised Land (2012)
★ 6.3/10A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.