Movies like A Love Song for Bobby Long: 20 to watch next
If you loved A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) — a drama film directed by Shainee Gabel — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of A Love Song for Bobby Long most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like friendship, alcohol and new orleans, louisiana. 3 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Walk on the Wild Side 1962★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the normal and triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young woman he travelled with, who is now the Doll House's newest employee.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Hounddog 2008★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Truth About Emanuel 2013★ 6.0
Shares: Drama
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Fish Tank 2009★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Trials of Cate McCall 2013★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Causeway 2022★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.
Stream in India on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
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Mammal 2016★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Safety of Objects 2002★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Pretty Baby 1978★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Poker House 2008★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004★ 5.8
Shares: Drama
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 2001★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Short History of the Long Road 2019★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Scarecrow 1973★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle 1994★ 5.9
Shares: Drama
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Luckiest Girl Alive 2022★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Valley of the Dolls 1967★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black 2024★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
Ava, a young bank professional is devastated when her husband Dallas abandons a marriage she is determined to fight for until fate intervenes, revealing Dallas' wicked deeds that have trashed their marriage, and once upon a time sabotaged Ava's destiny to be loved by her true soulmate.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Starling Girl 2023★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Strange Weather 2016★ 5.9
Shares: Drama
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now