Movies like Sunset Boulevard

Key Features:: Hollywood, Film noir, Obsession, Screenwriter, Tragedy, Greed, Betrayal, Deception, Moral decay, Flashback narrative, Cerebral, Cult classic
Tone:: cynical, serious, dramatic
Target Audience:: Classic film enthusiasts, Cinephiles, Drama lovers
Emotional Arc:: Ambition → Entrapment → Despair

Sunset Boulevard

1950-08-10

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Genres

Drama

Cast

William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Franklyn Farnum, Larry J. Blake, Charles Dayton

Crew

Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.

Rating

★8.3(2792 votes)