If you loved There Will Be Blood, try Boogie Nights

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and they both carry the raw mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to There Will Be Blood, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Boogie Nights is

San Fernando Valley, 1977, a film camera rolls. A nightclub busboy becomes a porn star, surrounded by misfits and eccentives. Anderson directs a cautionary tale of fleeting fame.

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