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10 Best Movies Like I'll Cry Tomorrow

If you loved I'll Cry Tomorrow, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1954★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I'll Cry Tomorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral....

#2
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1937★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I'll Cry Tomorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a ...

#3
Merrily We Go to Hell

Merrily We Go to Hell

1932★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I'll Cry Tomorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses b...

#4
Opening Night

Opening Night

1977★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I'll Cry Tomorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one o...

#5
Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

1945★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I'll Cry Tomorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter....

#6
The Country Girl

The Country Girl

1954★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I'll Cry Tomorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening....

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