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The Last Picture Show
Why this pick
Its dusty Texas town, country-bar melancholy, and intimate focus on young adults fumbling through love and identity closely echo Urban Cowboy’s unvarnished romantic ache.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1980 2h 12m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Urban Cowboy
Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Tender Mercies
Why this pick
A quiet, lived-in Texas character drama with country music in its bones, finding hard-won tenderness and dignity among working people rebuilding their lives.
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Coal Miner's Daughter
Why this pick
Like Urban Cowboy, it grounds romance, ambition, and music in a working-class Southern world, with emotional directness rather than glossy show-business sentiment.
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Country
Why this pick
This plainspoken rural drama shares Urban Cowboy’s sympathy for people whose relationships and dreams are pressured by work, money, and attachment to the land.
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The Thing Called Love
Why this pick
A warm, bittersweet country-music romance centered on ambitious outsiders, messy attraction, and the communal pull of a music scene.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
When Bud Davis moves to Houston for a job in the city's oil refinery industry, he hopes to save enough money to move back to Texas and buy some land, but after befriending coworkers at the plant he works at, Bud starts frequenting a bar where he learns about life and love.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jerry Hall
Sexy Sister
John Travolta
Bud Davis
James Gammon
Steve Strange
Charlie Daniels
Himself
Barry Corbin
Uncle Bob
Bonnie Raitt
Herself
Johnny Lee
Himself
Mickey Gilley
Himself