Movies Like The Beatniks

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The Outsiders

1983·1h 31m·★ 7.0·Francis Ford Coppola

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West Side Story

1961·2h 33m·★ 7.6·Jerome Robbins

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Girltrash: All Night Long

2014·1h 25m·★ 6.3·Alexandra Kondracke

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A Clockwork Orange

1971·2h 17m·★ 8.2·Stanley Kubrick

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Us Again

2021·7m·★ 7.8·Zach Parrish

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The Young Girls of Rochefort

1967·2h 6m·★ 7.7·Jacques Demy

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The Unforgivable

2021·1h 52m·★ 7.2·Nora Fingscheidt

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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

1994·1h 43m·★ 7.5·Stephan Elliott

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942·2h 6m·★ 7.6·Michael Curtiz

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Above the Rim

1994·1h 36m·★ 6.6·Jeff Pollack

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The Damned Don't Cry

1950·1h 43m·★ 7.1·Vincent Sherman

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42nd Street

1933·1h 29m·★ 7.3·Lloyd Bacon

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Each Dawn I Die

1939·1h 32m·★ 7.2·William Keighley

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Violent Saturday

1955·1h 30m·★ 6.9·Richard Fleischer

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Siberian Education

2013·1h 50m·★ 6.3·Gabriele Salvatores

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Hairspray

2007·1h 57m·★ 6.7·Adam Shankman

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Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema

2008·2h·★ 7.3·Ralph Ziman

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King Creole

1958·1h 56m·★ 7.0·Michael Curtiz

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Defendor

2009·1h 41m·★ 6.7·Peter Stebbings

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Mob Town

2019·1h 30m·★ 4.7·Danny A. Abeckaser

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How Good Is The Beatniks?

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