Movies Like Broadway by Light (1958)

Broadway by Light is a 1958 documentary film from William Klein with a MovieMagicScore of 6.7/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and Goldman v Silverman.

Documentary

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

7.5

MagicScore

Goldman v Silverman

2020

Rod Goldman and Al Silverman are street performers who work the tourist scene of Times Square. Goldman gets no respect and Silverman is the first one to make sure of that.

6.2

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Man with a Movie Camera

1929

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

7.8

MagicScore

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

1927

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

7.5

MagicScore

Angel Heart

1987

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

7.1

MagicScore

La Cocina

2024

In the sweltering back kitchen of a Times Square restaurant, undocumented cook Pedro is caught between mounting pressures at work and a complicated romance with waitress Julia. When money goes missing, suspicion spreads, igniting tensions that threaten to upend the fragile hopes of the staff.

6.9

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Closer

2004

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

6.8

MagicScore

Who Killed Teddy Bear?

1965

A grim police detective embarks on a one-man crusade to track down a depraved sex maniac when a nightclub deejay receives a disturbing series of obscene phone calls. Finding himself getting far too close to the victim for comfort, the hard-boiled cop must track down the unbalanced pervert before he can carry out his sick threats...

6.2

MagicScore

Survivor

2015

A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

5.7

MagicScore

#10

Fear City

1984

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.

5.3

MagicScore

#11

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

1989

Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.

5.0

MagicScore

#12

Screamtime

1983

Compilation of three short horror films: "That's The Way To Do It", "Dreamhouse" and "Do You Believe In Fairies?" plus some new linking material.

3.7

MagicScore

#13

Lumière!

2016

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

8.0

MagicScore

#14

The Beaches of Agnès

2008

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.

7.6

MagicScore

#15

It's Not Me

2024

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.

7.0

MagicScore

#16

The Image Book

2018

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.

6.4

MagicScore

#17

Universal Language

2024

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.

7.5

MagicScore

#18

Six by Sondheim

2013

This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

7.1

MagicScore

#19

A Woman Is a Woman

1961

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

7.3

MagicScore

#20

House

1977

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

7.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Broadway by Light?

The top films similar to Broadway by Light by MovieMagicScore are Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (7.5), Goldman v Silverman (6.2), Man with a Movie Camera (7.8). Each shares documentary themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Broadway by Light worth watching?

Broadway by Light holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.7/10 from 25 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Broadway by Light?

Broadway by Light (1958) is a documentary film directed by William Klein.

Where can I find more recommendations like Broadway by Light?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more documentary recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Broadway by Light

This ranked list pairs Broadway by Light (1958), a documentary film from William Klein, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap. Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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