IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like On the Waterfront (1954)
On the Waterfront runs on working class realism, operatic emotion, and rise and fall tragedy. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
Fort Apache Napoli
2009
Body and Soul
1947
Cairo Station
1958
Edge of the City
1957
Let Him Have It
1991
Champion
1949
Paths of Glory
1957
The Killers
1946
The Informer
1935
The Harder They Fall
1956
Kill the Irishman
2011
The Verdict
1982
Gangs of New York
2002
The Hurricane
1999
I Want to Live!
1958
General Della Rovere
1959
Cop Land
1997
We the Poor
1948
The Hustler
1961
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1962
Anarchist from Colony
2017
Army of Crime
2009
Sacco & Vanzetti
1971