10 Best Movies Like Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
If you loved Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Mank
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane....
Josep
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration c...
One Night in Miami...
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South....
Blow the Man Down
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing vi...
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to ...
Da 5 Bloods
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle for...