Movies Like Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

Two Weeks in Another Town is a 1962 drama film from Vincente Minnelli with a MovieMagicScore of 5.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Cannibal Holocaust and An Open Secret.

Drama

Cannibal Holocaust

1980

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

6.3

MagicScore

An Open Secret

2014

An investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry.

6.9

MagicScore

A Star Is Born

1937

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

7.2

MagicScore

What Price Hollywood?

1932

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.

6.8

MagicScore

Snuff

1976

The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.

3.0

MagicScore

Babylon

2022

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

7.4

MagicScore

Sunset Boulevard

1950

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

8.3

MagicScore

I Love You, Daddy

2017

When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.

5.7

MagicScore

The Hero

2017

Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

6.1

MagicScore

#10

The Day of the Locust

1975

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

Magical Nights

2018

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.

6.1

MagicScore

#12

Jigarthanda DoubleX

2023

A notorious gangster is incited to transform into a film hero and opts for a filmmaker and their project descends into a scenario they had never anticipated.

7.6

MagicScore

#13

Through the Olive Trees

1994

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

7.4

MagicScore

#14

Cantinflas

2014

Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggling to get some respect, and he manages to become a star. A twist of faith makes them partners. Together they won the Oscar for Best Picture.

6.6

MagicScore

#15

Making Of

2024

Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But nothing goes as planned... His producer Viviane wants to rewrite the ending and is threatening to cut the budget; his own crew goes on strike; his personal life is in shambles; and to make things worse, his lead actor Alain is an egocentric jerk. Joseph, an extra who wants to get into the film industry, agrees to direct the making of and shoot the behind-the-scenes. He takes his role very seriously and starts following around the crew, capturing all this mess... What follows is proof that the making of can sometimes be far better than the film itself!

5.7

MagicScore

#16

Liz & Dick

2012

On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.

3.7

MagicScore

#17

Deadline

1980

A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.

5.1

MagicScore

#18

Spielberg

2017

A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

7.6

MagicScore

#19

QT8: The First Eight

2019

A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.

7.2

MagicScore

#20

Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth

2020

After 40 years, Tom Cruise continues to push the envelope in film. Exposing one's heart to the world through their work is not only risky business, as far as Cruise is concerned, it is the only way to achieve an end that feels complete.

6.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Two Weeks in Another Town?

The top films similar to Two Weeks in Another Town by MovieMagicScore are Cannibal Holocaust (6.3), An Open Secret (6.9), A Star Is Born (7.2). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Two Weeks in Another Town worth watching?

Two Weeks in Another Town holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.9/10 from 57 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Two Weeks in Another Town?

Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) is a drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse.

Where can I find more recommendations like Two Weeks in Another Town?

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

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About movies like Two Weeks in Another Town

This ranked list pairs Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), a drama film from Vincente Minnelli, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Kirk Douglas take note). 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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